Biden to unveil first Webb science image today
This should be entertaining: NASA today announced that the unveiling of the first science image from the James Webb Space Telescope has been moved up to later today, so that President Joe Biden can do the unveiling from the White House. From the NASA tweet:
We can’t contain the excitement for @NASAWebb’s first full-color images!
On Monday, July 11 at 5pm ET (21:00 UTC), President Biden will unveil one of the space telescope’s first images of deep space as a preview of what’s ahead.
It appears that the picture Biden will use in this photo op will be the only deep field cosmological picture scheduled for release:
SMACS 0723: Massive foreground galaxy clusters magnify and distort the light of objects behind them, permitting a deep field view into both the extremely distant and intrinsically faint galaxy populations.
The remaining four images will still be released on July 12, 2022, as originally planned.
The live stream of this event will be broadcast on NASA TV.
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This should be entertaining: NASA today announced that the unveiling of the first science image from the James Webb Space Telescope has been moved up to later today, so that President Joe Biden can do the unveiling from the White House. From the NASA tweet:
We can’t contain the excitement for @NASAWebb’s first full-color images!
On Monday, July 11 at 5pm ET (21:00 UTC), President Biden will unveil one of the space telescope’s first images of deep space as a preview of what’s ahead.
It appears that the picture Biden will use in this photo op will be the only deep field cosmological picture scheduled for release:
SMACS 0723: Massive foreground galaxy clusters magnify and distort the light of objects behind them, permitting a deep field view into both the extremely distant and intrinsically faint galaxy populations.
The remaining four images will still be released on July 12, 2022, as originally planned.
The live stream of this event will be broadcast on NASA TV.
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In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
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Biden Administration is really clutching at straws here to find *something*, ANYTHING, that might be positive and MIGHT also then help their poll numbers. Sheesh. I can’t wait to see what they have written for President Drooler and how he handles reading it.
I assume the images will be colorized and brightened for dramatic effect. Which is why I discount the spectacular images take by Hubble. Is that wrong?
Ron Bergundy with dementia showing us an IR telescope image. Truly an interesting time to be alive.
Hey look, other presidents have tried and failed to get this project off the ground, but it took Biden to get this thing in the air. (Said with tongue firmly planted in cheek)
Do you think Biden will know which way to look or what he is looking at?
Reminds me of the NASA stunt Bubba pulled…
Steve Richter: Though you are correct that the images are manipulated to bring out details and make them look great, you are wrong to discount them, especially the Hubble photos.
Hubble’s images are mostly optical, so the colors correspond roughly to what the eye sees. They also provide a wealth of information not previously seen.
Webb’s images will be infrared, so all the colors are false, chosen likely to correspond to different infrared wavelengths. However, the resolution and details will still be magnificent and unprecedented, revealing knowledge never known before.
I have been a long time critic of the Webb project, for many reasons. I however celebrate the telescope’s successful launch and use, because it still will show us things behind the black we have never seen before. The images to come take us where no one has gone before.
Watching tody’s White House’s initial image reveal, it looked like ‘just’ another Hubble deep field.
What bothered me the most was that Nelson appeared to be as topically clueless as Biden/Harris.
“SLS, all the way!”
Spectacular JWT image. Brandon did that.!
It’s wholly fitting that the person occupying the office during the largest increase of our debt in history reveals the output from one of the most overrun (and late) projects in NASA’s history. The difference is that all will be forgiven with JWST.