James Webb first images – complete set of high resolution shots now live

Re:James Webb first images – complete set of high resolution... by yvoschaap on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @02:21PM (#32073831)

7.3 arcminutes = 16 light-years

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Re:James Webb first images – complete set of high resolution... by mwint on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @02:26PM (#32073895)

Wait, but it’s a ~cone, right? So it must be 16ly across at some specific distance from us?

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Re:James Webb first images – complete set of high resolution... by agrajag on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @02:33PM (#32073973)

That's the distance of an object away that has a parallax of 7.3 arcminutes and a baseline of 1AU. The 7.3 arcminutes referenced here is the width of the image on the celestial sphere.

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