The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) sends back initial images that reveal a universe of “wonders beyond human imaginings.” What does this ‘first light’ tells us about our past and our future?
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18 replies on “Webb Telescope First Light: Wonders Beyond Human Imaginings, New View of Human Significance”
Spectacular show! First time you guys caused me to choke up. I’m a former NASA contractor and had a professor who worked the Apollo missions. Bill, if ever we meet face to face, I’ll have to tell you some of the stories my professor told me about his time at NASA.
Did you guys here the latest about the telescope? They are blaming the crappy images on a micrometeoroid strike. lol. Those lens flares are a sign of poor focal control. They were present before the so-called ‘micrometeoroid strike’.
Often, when I simply gaze at Hubble deep field images and now Webb deep field, I find myself beginning to weep. It’s a worshipful weeping as I consider not just the objects and their size, but the distances involved between them…. all in a little speck of sky. Then to realize that all I am looking at is still just the creation. I try to imagine what that says about the creator…. more tears. The Word says the heavens are the work of his hands and that they will wear out like a garment, and like a garment they will be changed. What is unimaginable to us is like a robe to Him that he simply rolls up. We do not have the mental capacity to understand what we are seeing in these images.
Scott, you’ve barely begun to geeze.
Thank you, Amen
If I were a betting man I’d put money on scientists discovering stars that are more than 13.8 billion light years away.
You didn’t mention that another big reason why it can see so far, is that infrared pierces through the obscuring dust.
Awe inspiring… to say the least… and something which invokes a deep gratitude for the blessings of this universe of misfits…
amen
Regarding refueling satellites and telescopes. You guys probably think of images of tanks at the Ukraine Border when you hear the word “Maxar” but there is a small contingent of us in SoCal that build robot arms for space. A spacecraft with robot arms can correct an orbit, unfold that stuck solar array and yes, refuel the xenon tank. Much of our work is to demonstrate this capability and I don’t care if we get up there on a NASA rocket or one of Elon’s.
Judge Elihu Smails would beg to differ about breaking the champaagne bottle being the best part of launching a new ship
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Oh, Lord, My God
When I, in awesome wonder,
Consider all the worlds thy hands have made.
I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder,
Thy power throughout the Universe displayed.
Then sings my soul, my Savior, God, to thee!
How great Thou art.
How Great Thou art!
Love that song! I love singing it with all the feeling I can muster with my near bass voice. Have heard George Beverly Shea sing it twice at two Billy Graham Crusades. Have been told I get close to Mr Shea’s power and quality when I do.
What a compliment!
This is the one I think I sound like in my head: Josh Turner at the Gaither Studios
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpyRCB7uy0o
At my best I get close to this:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1ujca6uNIH4
I was at the Billy Graham crusade in Cincinnati in the choir in 1977. It was then that someone said I was close to Mr Shea in singing that song. In the choir again in 2012. Mr Shea’s age was showing then. His volume and quality was not what it was that day. Still impressive though.
That is fabulous!
I have been singing in the choir with our local Symphony for the last 6 years. It has been incredible and very uplifting.
Psalm 19:1-4 “The heavens declare the glory of God;
the skies proclaim the work of his hands.
2 Day after day they pour forth speech;
night after night they reveal knowledge.
3 They have no speech, they use no words;
no sound is heard from them.
4 Yet their voice goes out into all the earth,
their words to the ends of the world.