A thread for all your questions related to the JWST, the recent images released, and probably some space-related questions as well.
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Images from within our galaxy are bound to be clearer due to objects being closer to us. Why are we so interested in seeing so far away/old objects at the edge of the visible universe when our own Milky Way is so huge and there has to be more “accessible” discoveries more close to us?
Eli5, how does NASA receive the images from the JWST? As it’s 1 million miles away.
How does the James Webb telescope work differently to a commercial telescope?
How can a telescope see that far? How does it work?
What is with the smeared/smudged galaxies that are seen in the deep field picture?
I’m confused about how we have comparison photos from the jwst and hubble. How do the people at Nasa know where to aim the jwst the same direction the hubble was pointed? And are the two telescopes capturing the same moment but at different times or have the planets and galaxies not moved much since the hubble took photos. I don’t really understand how light and how it travels works with all of this
How do they assign colors in the photos? For example, the Cosmic Cliffs photo. To the naked eye, is it really that colorful? If not, how do they decide that one’s orange, that one’s blue?
So is there a possibility that we could see something that moved, in different locations in space, at the same time? If it was move on an axis that was toward us. We could see it at point A, 7500 years ago. Then we move the crazy camera left and zoom out, now we see that same rock at point B. But it was only 500 years ago. Or am I just too tired?
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