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    NASA Telescope more powerful than Hubble launching Dec 24

    Can't wait to see some photos from this.
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    It'll be able to see objects that are 10 to 100 times fainter than what the Hubble Space Telescope can see, and it'll be capable of seeing things in 10 times better detail. It will gather light from stars and galaxies located up to 13.6 billion light-years away — light that has taken 13.6 billion years to reach the telescope's mirrors. Since the Universe is thought to be roughly 13.8 billion years old, the galaxies that JWST will be observing likely formed just 100 to 250 million years after the Big Bang. Our Universe was in its infancy then, and JWST will be providing us with the baby photos...

    How astronomers decided where to point NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope - The Verge

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    Quote Originally Posted by FireBrand View Post
    Wow.
    This is my all time favorite Hubble photo. They pointed it to deep space and darkness, and some complained they were wasting the time on the telescope. It comes back with this. Those aren't stars, those are galaxies.


    NASA Telescope more powerful than Hubble launching Dec 24-galaxy-jpg

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    New NASA Telescope Will Boost the God Hypothesis
    David Klinghoffer
    December 22, 2021, 1:10 PM
    New NASA Telescope Will Boost the God Hypothesis | Evolution News


    Stephen Meyer writes at The Federalist about a boost that the God Hypothesis is set to receive from NASA and its new James Webb Space Telescope. There is a beautiful connection to the time of year. In fact, I see that owing to the weather, the launch has been delayed (fittingly?) to Christmas Day.


    From, "NASA to Launch Telescope Stronger than Hubble That Can See Back in Time":

    During the winter holidays, Jews celebrate a miraculous, unquenchable light and Christians celebrate the incarnation of God revealed by the light of a star. It's fitting, therefore, that on December 22 NASA will launch a new satellite capable of seeing the first starlight from just after the Big Bang — a light, and an event, that tell us about the creation of the universe and, in their own ways, reveal God to the world.

    NASA's new James Webb Space Telescope will be carried into space this week from French Guiana on the back of an Ariane 5 rocket. The $10 billion, 21-foot telescope features a massive umbrella-like sun shield. It also boasts 15 times the range of motion and six times the light-gathering capability of the Hubble Space Telescope — NASA's next best instrument for peering deep into space and far back in time....

    The light that NASA's new telescope seeks to detect comes ... from the first stars and galaxies that formed an estimated several hundred thousand years later. Detecting that light will ... provide further confirmation of an expanding universe.

    Since the new telescope can detect infrared light — invisible light with extremely long wave-lengths — it can establish whether the most distant galaxies exhibit the amount of red shift that astronomers expect given the Big Bang. As space plasma physicist and long-time NASA contractor Rob Sheldon has explained, "The light coming from these ancient, extremely distant galaxies, should be 'ultra red-shifted' into the infra-red range that the Webb telescope is designed to detect."

    This additional evidence of an expanding universe would further deepen the mystery associated with the Big Bang and add weight to a growing science-based "God hypothesis." If the physical universe of matter, energy, space, and time had a beginning — as observational astronomy and theoretical physics increasingly suggest — it becomes extremely difficult to conceive of any physical or materialistic cause for the origin of the universe. After all, it was matter and energy that first came into existence at the Big Bang. Before that, no matter or energy — no physics — would have yet existed that could have caused the universe to begin....














    This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity (futility) of their mind, having the understanding darkened...
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    Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly...
    (Psalm 1)

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    This additional evidence of an expanding universe would further deepen the mystery associated with the Big Bang and add weight to a growing science-based "God hypothesis." If the physical universe of matter, energy, space, and time had a beginning — as observational astronomy and theoretical physics increasingly suggest — it becomes extremely difficult to conceive of any physical or materialistic cause for the origin of the universe. After all, it was matter and energy that first came into existence at the Big Bang. Before that, no matter or energy — no physics — would have yet existed that could have caused the universe to begin....
    Yep. Something had to cause the bang.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fuego View Post
    This is my all time favorite Hubble photo. They pointed it to deep space and darkness, and some complained they were wasting the time on the telescope. It comes back with this. Those aren't stars, those are galaxies.


    NASA Telescope more powerful than Hubble launching Dec 24-galaxy-jpg

    The 1995 Hubble photo that changed astronomy

    If you hold a pin at arm's length up in the air, the head of the pin covers approximately the amount of sky that appears in the Hubble Deep Field. The iconic 1995 image is crowded, not because it's a broad swath of sky but because it's a broad swath of time. The Hubble Deep Field is more than 12 billion light-years deep.

    Robert Williams was the director of the Hubble's science institute back in 1995, and it was his decision to attempt a deep field observation with the telescope. Previous calculations had indicated that Hubble would not be able to detect very distant galaxies, but Williams figured they'd never know unless they tried.

    His team chose a completely dark part of the sky, in order to see beyond the stars of the Milky Way, and programmed Hubble to stare at that spot for 10 days. It was unusual to use precious observing time to point the telescope at nothing in particular, but that's what they did.

    "We didn't know what was there, and that was the whole purpose of the observation, basically — to get a core sample of the universe," Williams said, borrowing the concept of the "core sample" from the earth sciences. "You do the same thing if you're trying to understand the geology of the Earth: Pick some typical spot to drill down to try to understand exactly what the various layers of the Earth are and what they mean in terms of its geologic history."

    What makes the Hubble Deep Field an atypical core sample is that rather than observing the material as it is now, the telescope collected images of galaxies as they appeared millions and billions of years ago. Since light can only travel so fast, the telescope is a peephole into the history of the universe.



    The 1995 Hubble photo that changed astronomy - Vox

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    Even at the depth of view that Hubble gives, how can anyone remain a staunch atheist?

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    Quote Originally Posted by FireBrand View Post
    Even at the depth of view that Hubble gives, how can anyone remain a staunch atheist?
    Yep. All this order out of chaos? And order on that grand of a scale?

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    I'm very excited about this new project!

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