"Now Witness the Firepower of this fully Armed and Operational Telescope." - Astronomer Palpatine. 🙂
"Alignment of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is now complete. After full review, the observatory has been confirmed to be capable of capturing crisp, well-focused images with each of its four powerful onboard science instruments."
blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/04/28…
#Telescopes #Astronomy #Space #JWST
One of the best lectures: Fred Hoyle’s IFS Lecture December 1982. He talks about the relationship of comets, viruses, cosmic dust, and more.
Lecture by Sir Fred Hoyle to the Sri Lanka Institute of Fundamental Studies, December 1982, "From Virus to Cosmology", on the theory of cometary panspermiaYouTube
Wow very neat! Amazing what we can extract from data sets like this. #astronomy #space #science
Excited to announce paper 3 in our Mapping Stellar Surfaces series, this time on Doppler imaging!Paper link: arxiv.org/abs/2110.06271
Github: github.com/rodluger/papar…
Code: github.com/rodluger/starry🧵 (1/10)
