Latest JWST find on video

[bomberbaz]

Short video of new stars, star formation and clusters etc discoveries in the Tarantula Nebula (LMC) courtesy of NASA. Inspiring stuff.

 

Edited September 6, 2022 by bomberbaz

[cajen2]

Superb images, even if, of course, the colours are all made up.

[vlaiv]

9 minutes ago, cajen2 said:

Superb images, even if, of course, the colours are all made up.

Not necessarily

[Gfamily]

19 minutes ago, cajen2 said:

Superb images, even if, of course, the colours are all made up.

I'm not really sure what you would be expecting  In optical wavelengths, the images would look like this... 

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

1 hour ago, cajen2 said:

Superb images, even if, of course, the colours are all made up.

All colours are made up by the brain. Colours you perceive are not even a really accurate mapping of spectral information into a tri-stimulus colour space, they vary depending on context, observer, etc. The colours in these images are just yet another mapping  of spectral information to some tri-stimulus colour space

[vlaiv]

8 minutes ago, michael.h.f.wilkinson said:

All colours are made up by the brain. Colours you perceive are not even a really accurate mapping of spectral information into a tri-stimulus colour space, they vary depending on context, observer, etc. The colours in these images are just yet another mapping  of spectral information to some tri-stimulus colour space

Not only that - they can be quite accurate as far as color matching goes.

With a bit of science - very good reconstruction is possible.

Stars shine continuous spectra - and curve largely depends on temperature. This can be used to reconstruct accurate color from any 3 filters (or even 2 filters).

Emission lines also come in multiples because electrons can jump from more energy states. This means that Ha, OIII,  SII and other element also shine in IR part of spectrum with very distinct signature.

http://astronomy.nmsu.edu/drewski/tableofemissionlines.html

 

[Guest]

Who cares.... Its freaking beautiful.  

[vlaiv]

2 minutes ago, Mike Q said:

Who cares.... Its freaking beautiful.  

As long as JWST is fulfilling its primary role - to make freaking beautiful images

 

[cajen2]

1 hour ago, cajen2 said:

Superb images, even if, of course, the colours are all made up.

Perhaps I should have put a smiley emoji on the post - I was making a gentle jest as JWST images in IR.

[Zermelo]

... and the audio mapped version will be along shortly.

[Alien 13]

11 minutes ago, Zermelo said:

... and the audio mapped version will be along shortly.

Why not, some parts of the universe must be full of sound but not as we know it..

Alan

[Paul M]

Just as my own imaging was catching up with Hubble, those pesky pro's raise the bar... 🤪 🤣

But sersiously, that densely populated star forming region featured in the video is an image to behold. 

I'm gonna hold my hand up and admit that I was less than excited about JWST pre launch. Just another narrow spectrum orbital observatory with blurred, highly interpreted imagery I thought... 😳

[City9Town0]

13 hours ago, Zermelo said:

... and the audio mapped version will be along shortly.

Sounds like the pianist is already there!!!

[Elp]

Should be renamed to the King/Donkey Kong nebula. Can't unsee it.