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Re:James Webb is fully deployed by bsder on Saturday January 08, 2022 @10:01PM (#29859527)
People (including me!) really don't have a feel for just how far some of these instruments push things.

The Hubble Deep Field was a surprise to quite a few established astronomers. LIGO is measuring things way smaller than nucleons. The JWST can see so far back in time hat you can measure deltas from the beginning of the visible universe.

I know that I just don't have an appreciation for just how hard these things are to do.

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Re:James Webb is fully deployed by rkuykendall-com on Sunday January 09, 2022 @01:31PM (#29865988)
In a comment above someone said it "might be high enough to image [...] alien megastructures if they exist"[0] and that was a clear sign I had absolutely no idea how powerful this thing was. I guess I was just expecting Deep Field but like... again? I don't know.

[0] https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/telescopes/a19346/jam...

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