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Re:James Webb is fully deployed by z3t4 on Sunday January 09, 2022 @07:16AM (#29862604)
If it could see a bumblebee on the moon could it detect a while on Jupiters moons ? Can anyone do the calculations ?
Re:James Webb is fully deployed by bigiain on Sunday January 09, 2022 @04:41PM (#29867585)
It’s designed to see things very very far away, which are all severely redshifted. It’s mostly an infrared camera. In the human visual range of light frequencies, is camera sensors only go up to orange.

So no, it can’t detect a blue whale… ;-)

Re:James Webb is fully deployed by moffkalast on Sunday January 09, 2022 @07:47AM (#29862768)
Well it can allegedly make photos of Jupiter that would be comparable of doing them during a close flyby, but that's likely not good enough for something of that sort. You'd have to see things through kilometers of ice.