The most significant event ever witnessed?
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I somehow missed post 18 in this thread but you are correct, we do seem share the excitement. The documentary "Telescope" was just amazing and very exciting. I am nervous about where they intend to situate it. Nothing mechanical can be repaired if it fails until we advance a bit further with robotics. But if all goes as planned, we are in for awe.hey tink..see post 18. great minds think alike!
within 20 years we are gonna find 'ET" with the Webb. a planet, in the "Goldilocks" zone (distance from its sun where water can exist as a liquid on planet's surface) - with an oxygen spectra.
gotta be "something" else out there - the math suggests it must be true.
there's a billion planets in THIS galaxy alone, and there are 100 billion galaxies like this one JUST in the universe we can still SEE (which may be 1/4 of ALL there is really out there but the LIGHT coming from them will NEVER get here).
maybe its just "us" -- maybe not?
yup. million miles out in orbit? there's no going up to fix the Webb if its 'nearsighted" like Hubble was. I'm rootin' for that team big time.
btw.. i have TONS of Hubble images saved. i have even made four art prints (21x36) out of them.
Started with Pillars of Creation (nebulae where new stars are firing up, 4 light years tall, 7,000 light years away from Earth. one light year is a diststance of 10 Trillion Kilometers).
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That image is iconic. Each time I view it, I thank the Hubble team and the shuttle team and to a very large degree, the internet. Remember when we had to purchase books and magazines to view images like that? When the Webb comes online, we should be able to see a HAB on Mars and read the nametags.
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