Saturday, September 3, 2022

Astronomy or ... just looking?

 

The article starts out innocently enough.

Scientists Puzzled Because James Webb Is Seeing Stuff That Shouldn't Be There


This quote from the article starts out somewhat scientifically, but then the quote goes in a direction that probably wasn't intentional.

"We thought the early universe was this chaotic place where there's all these clumps of star formation, and things are all a-jumble," the Space Telescope Science Institute's Dan Coe told WaPo [Washington Post], adding later that, before the JWST was launched into orbit, Hubble's imagery was "missing all the colder stars and the older stars. ...

We were really only seeing the hot young ones."

Well, that's understandable.  Hot young ones are hard to overlook.

Demi Rose Mawby makes observing more interesting




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