@[email protected] to [email protected] • 1 year agoThis is Titan, Saturn's largest Moon captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.programming.devimagemessage-square65fedilinkarrow-up1326cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1326imageThis is Titan, Saturn's largest Moon captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.programming.dev@[email protected] to [email protected] • 1 year agomessage-square65fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish18•1 year agoremember that JWST doesn’t do visible spectrum and, regardless, it’s specialized for faint distant objects. From JWST’s perspective, Titan emits a lot of light. It’s kind of like using a telephoto lens to take a picture of your foot.
minus-squareMeanEYElinkfedilink2•1 year agoPeople in general don’t understand focal length and spectrums. It’s just oooh 400x zoom, fancy, let’s see atoms.
remember that JWST doesn’t do visible spectrum and, regardless, it’s specialized for faint distant objects. From JWST’s perspective, Titan emits a lot of light. It’s kind of like using a telephoto lens to take a picture of your foot.
People in general don’t understand focal length and spectrums. It’s just oooh 400x zoom, fancy, let’s see atoms.