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Re:James Webb telescope reaches its final destination in spa... by readthenotes1 on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @08:00AM (#30071278)
The human is not to scale if that's the Webb telescope.
Re:James Webb telescope reaches its final destination in spa... by anon_123g987 on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @08:57AM (#30071800)
A human standing next to a full-size replica: https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...

It looks the same to me.

Re:James Webb telescope reaches its final destination in spa... by readthenotes1 on Friday February 04, 2022 @09:40PM (#30216536)
6.5 m across 5 hexes. The human is maybe 1.25 hexes tall.

About 1.6m or 5'3". That's a dry short adult human.

Re:James Webb telescope reaches its final destination in spa... by pseudolus on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @09:12AM (#30071955)
Where is this replica located? Is it open to the public?
Re:James Webb telescope reaches its final destination in spa... by asoneth on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @11:24AM (#30073717)
I recall seeing a full-sized mockup of the James Webb at the South by Southwest about ten years ago. It was accompanied by a small traveling exhibit about the mission and some folks from a NASA (or Northrup?) education team to answer questions. They had been taking it to cities and museums across the country.

Not sure where it is now or if there are multiple full-sized mockups, but I wouldn't be surprised if one ends up in the public collection at Udvar-Hazy Smithsonian Annex where many big NASA toys end up.

Re:James Webb telescope reaches its final destination in spa... by anon_123g987 on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @09:23AM (#30072061)
I don't know where it is currently, but according to this 2008 article it was on a world tour at that time.

https://phys.org/news/2008-07-james-webb-space-telescope-ful...

Re:James Webb telescope reaches its final destination in spa... by danbruc on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @08:27AM (#30071509)
I measured the mirror - top to bottom - as 304 pixels and the human as 86 pixels. This makes the human 1.83 meters given a mirror diameter of 6.5 meters. So it is to scale.
Re:James Webb telescope reaches its final destination in spa... by sandworm101 on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @08:40AM (#30071638)
I think the height is there, but the human seems otherwise out of proportion. He seems to wide, which gives the illusion that he is shorter. And his head is too big, which again makes him look younger/smaller, more cartoonish. I think this is from a stock cartoon character rather than a real person.
Re:James Webb telescope reaches its final destination in spa... by _joel on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @09:03AM (#30071855)
It definitely is. 6.5m diameter of the mirror only on JSWT and 2.4 of Hubble.