Current Events > James Webb Space Telescope Launch Topic *LIVE*

(+) Yeah! (+)

It launches in about 1.5 hours at 7:20 AM EST.

Live stream NASA link

https://youtu.be/21X5lGlDOfg

More information

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope

Bye bye, Hubble
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Aloha, Webb

Xethuminra posted...

Bye bye, Hubble
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Aloha, Webb

Which translates to about 100x more powerful than the Hubble.

This is gonna give us so much more information about the galaxy and universe. Been hearing about it since the 00s and it's finally here.

Apparently all it takes to get me up before the kids on Christmas morning is the launch of a new space telescope.

All weather issues clear.

T minus 8 minutes.

googs19 posted...

Apparently all it takes to get me up before the kids on Christmas morning is the launch of a new space telescope.

That will be a good conversation piece with your kids in the future.

Feels so weird that we've been building up to this for 25 years, and its operational lifetime will only be like 10 years.

Unless we can find a way to refuel it.

And LAUNCH!!!!!!!!

Xavier_On_High posted...

Feels so weird that we've been building up to this for 25 years, and its operational lifetime will only be like 10 years.

Unless we can find a way to refuel it.

Yeah, that's the sad part, but it's a set mission I guess.

Crazy how fast that rocket launched.

It cost $10 billion. It better find aliens.

Technology has advanced exponentially and theyve been putting off this launch for so long.

Its supposed to be so much more powerful than the Hubble telescope. Imagine how even more powerful the next one they start constructing will be compared to this one.

It's not going to help people understand the universe better, maybe with scientists as an exception

MedeaLysistrata posted...

It's not going to help people understand the universe better, maybe with scientists as an exception

Why do you say that? It will allow us to see further back in time than ever before, and will give us at least 10x more information about exoplanets in other star systems.

So did the launch go ok?

Xavier_On_High posted...

Why do you say that? It will allow us to see further back in time than ever before, and will give us at least 10x more information about exoplanets in other star systems.

I mean at a representational level in the sense that instruments and their developments comstitute human capabilities more generally

Testimony doesn't confer that same advantage since the information needs to be interpreted

So basically, scientists will see further but lay people will just have to get by with "what you're seeing is..."

Can't wait for flat earth videos claiming this is fake.

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Coincidentally enough, I just learned about Lagrange points just yesterday, completely independent of this launch.

With that said, while I understand how L1, L4 & L5 work, L2 & L3 sorta confuse me. Such as with L2 I get that it is at a spot where the Sun & Earth exert an equal gravitational force, but how does this help keep an item in place there? I would think that the Sun & Earth are both pulling on an object in the same direction, towards both objects at once. L1 uses countering gravitational forces, but L2 does not appear that way. How does it work?

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The Popo posted...

I get that it is at a spot where the Sun & Earth exert an equal gravitational force, but how does this help keep an item in place there? I would think that the Sun & Earth are both pulling on an object in the same direction, towards both objects at once. L1 uses countering gravitational forces, but L2 does not appear that way. How does it work?

Basically, something at L2 has to be moving quickly enough to stop itself from falling into the Sun-Earth gravity well, but once it's going at that speed, it's a stable orbit.

For great justice! Take off every zig!