Both Hubble and Spitzer took wonderful images, even into the infrared, as well -- for their day. But the Webb, or JWST as I refer to it. . . is like using binoculars for the first time, after hunting down hummingbirds, with your bare eyes. . . for decades. These are the same star forming region inside our own Milky Way, in a spot called Herbig-Haro 49/50 (HH 49/50), or the “Cosmic Tornado”.
It is very nearby -- right in the neighborhood, when we are speaking in galaxy-scales.
I'll offer more on the interstellar science about it all -- and a nice new masthead. . . likely over the coming weekend.
But I wanted to pause here a moment -- to note the geometric leap we've made in imaging, in under one crop of undergrads. These are things to smile about, even as a Secretary of Defense lies to our faces. Onward.
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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/hhs-study-vaccines-autism-david-geier_l_67e42a1ae4b05205243a5c98
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I am completely... appalled -- by all of this. It literally is like this administration wants a return to the Nineteenth Century -- on science and pandemic abatement. Damnation!
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