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If anything, NASA would likely prefer a way to eliminate the spectral contamination.
 
equiprx said:
I'm still disappointed
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disap-POINTED! That's what NASA would prefer those images to be... lacking those points. But a refracting telescope with the same magnification would be an impossible mass to lift to terminal V. By a LOT. The largest refractor is a 40" main lens and weighs tons. Less powerful than Hubble, too.
 
equiprx said:
I'm going to call BS, since the same effect has been used on the Hubble.
What the artical is saying, is it's caused by the unique construction of the mirrors and struts.
I'm not a telescope optics expert but not convinced.
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If you read far enough in the article, it's not caused by the struts because there are only 4 struts. But, it sometimes happens with struts. It also happens with a segmented shutter aperture. Webb has 6 segments to its aperture, hence 6 spikes.
 
YakkoWarner said:
Is this similar to the "ray" effect you sometimes get if you take a photo of a bright pinpoint light source with the lens aperature closed down a bit?
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Similar. Number of "points" depending on the number of blades in the aperture.
 
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Well this is bad.
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Oh and of course

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mikephillips said:
And yet if T-Rex had that Iphone it would be incapable of using it since with those little tiny arms it wouldn't be able to hold it out far enough to see what it was typing...
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That’s what Siri is for :D
 
mikephillips said:
And yet if T-Rex had that Iphone it would be incapable of using it since with those little tiny arms it wouldn't be able to hold it out far enough to see what it was typing...
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May be an image of sky


"The Cosmic Bat"
Located in Ophiuchus and rarely imaged, LDN 43 is a dark nebula consisting of very dense material blocking light from the background stars. Two cometary nebulae (GN 16.31.3 and GN 16.31.7) are found inside the dark nebula area, which certainly looks like a flying bat. The nebula spans 12 light-years at its estimated distance, about 1,400 light-years from planet Earth.
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Imaged in LRGB on RiDK 500 at Observatorio El Sauce, Chile.
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Processing: Mark Hanson and Mike Selby, Mark Hanson Astrophotography
 
1400 light years from Earth. 1400 * 5.88 trillion miles, give or take. wow

I *still* can just barely conceive of such distances.
 
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