#JWST is often cited for its amazing work with galaxies, BUT LOOK AT IT DISSECTING UP THE CRAB NEBULA AND SHOWING US STAR GUTS FROM A 1000-YEAR OLD STELLAR DETONATION.
Wow! Look at the pulsar!
So epic that we can see this detail, the different structures, elements, velocities, energies, etc. from an event that Chinese and Japanese astronomers witnessed and documented 1000 years back.
We're connected through time with this event to them!
I finally got a chance to interview fellow PhD'er Sarah Caddy from our faculty about this excellent new research and looking at stars and satellites (like the ISS) DURING DAYLIGHT HOURS!
THey're using a telescope called 'The Huntsman' and look how many eyes it has 🕷️🔭
@mattkenworthy omg, this! Finding someone with SPIE access is always such a pain! (And also there is a high chance I'll never find out about your paper if it's not on arxiv...)
Did you know that it's actually NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope? Even though it is often referred to as "NASA" only.
European Space Agency #ESA has contributed the NIRSpec instrument, half of the MIRI instrument, and the launch (including the payload adapter & launch site services) and has 15 scientists working at the science and operations center. #CSA, the Canadian Space Agency, has contributed the NIRISS instrument.
@vicgrinberg the big eclipse in the US lately, there have been reports about NASA teams visiting schools about a year prior to the event, educating and preparing people and did a great job at the actual event...
if ESA does something similar,... its something I never really heard of
Fun things that can happen at a conference: tomorrow there will be a heated discussion about the correct way to remove a foreground from an extragalactic observation - the sort of life and death fights you have in astronomy 😅
But guess how many experts in the actual observation and foreground modelling are present at this conference:
ZERO.
So chairs are likely going to be thrown for nothing...
Cool to have the same colleagues arguing about a question they already debated a year ago (conference I organised back then) , getting to the same standstill, as if they had no chance of exchanging mails in a year 🙄 #astrodon#astronomy
@Pepijn no no, I think they really thing it's the most important issue in the world then they ask, but somehow then the talk time is over, they forget about it until next year 😅