James Webb Telescope

...is now fully deployed.  I can't wait until we get the first data.

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It is designed to provide improved infrared resolution and sensitivity over Hubble, viewing objects up to 100 times fainter[12] and will enable a broad range of investigations across the fields of astronomy and cosmology, including observations up to redshift z≈20 of some of the oldest, most distant, events and objects in the Universe such as the first stars and formation of the first galaxies, and allowing detailed atmospheric characterization of potentially habitable exoplanets.

https://briankoberlein.com/blog/deeper-sky

Coming July 12.
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/first-images-from-nasa-s-webb-space-telescope-coming-soon

NoCoPilot expects great things.

NoCoPilot wrote:

NoCoPilot expects great things.

Including (but not limited to) solving the mystery of why the universe appears to be completely flat, neither so dense it'll collapse in on itself again nor so open it'll be expanding forever.  This delicate balance goes out to something like five or six decimal points.

And the mystery of why the universe apparently experienced a moment of faster-than-light expansion in the milliseconds after the Big Bang.

Or why viewing the most-distant galaxies, they appear to be traveling away from us at a significant percentage of the speed of light.

Or why the universe seems so uniform.

Or why we appear to be in the exact geographic center of the whole thing.

NoCoPilot expects all these observable phenomena to be related, and NoCoPilot expects solving these riddles will change our understanding of the universe fundamentally.  NoCo speculates that:

1. The universe is NOT expanding
   
2. Time itself is speeding up
   

Therefore there was no "Big Bang," just a "Big Wind of the Cosmic Stopwatch."  Before time there was no "before time." If you run the clock backwards it's like a Black Hole -- you get closer and closer to the event horizon but you never fall in.  In fact, Black Holes are probably part of the same puzzle.

The Steady State model does not account for a non-moving universe, nor does it account for a variable rate of the passage of time.  If my speculation gains any traction, it'll lead to a whole new conception of the nature of the universe.

First image released. More tomorrow.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/united-states-sci-nasa-space-telescope_n_62cc650ae4b06e3d9bb8ee35

Let the scientific debate begin.

Questions:

• If the oldest stars in this image are 13.7 billion years old, why are they so far away? I thought our galaxy was in the proximate center of the observable universe?
  
• If we can see every star within this field of vision, why isn't the night sky lighter than daytime?
  
• If stars get older the farther away they are, we must be seeing a lot of stars that aren't even there anymore.
  
• If the universe is expanding, looking back 13.7 billion years, shouldn't all these faint stars be clustered together?

Wow.

I wish they wouldn't use the "star filter" though, which gives the brighter stars six points.  Not needed.  Not accurate.

And then they have to spoil it all by saying something stupid like "Scientists hope Webb will be the first step in identifying signs of life in space."

Or, here’s a thought. The universe isn’t flat, on a galaxial scale. No matter where you sit in the universe, as you look far away in any direction, space and time curve away from you. Time curves by slowing down (creating red shift) and space curves by making the galaxies dimmer and farther away. We are each of us in a huge gravity well, each in our own center, and our perception of the universe around us is limited to the walls in our part of the well in the universe.

Another astonishing photo.

More evidence NoCo's pet theory is correct, the universe isn't expanding, the Big Bang didn't happen, and the red shift is caused by tired light or a change in the speed of time.
https://mashable.com/article/james-webb-space-telescope-massive-galaxies-discovery