James Webb telescope...

[Bob McC]

Yep

 

[Hook]

Just like a McDLT

And the Obscure Culinary Throwback award for 2022 goes to….

 

[Yank]

Do I read that distance correctly at 1/2 million miles? Isn't that double the distance of the moon?

The lagrange point will be 1.5 million miles from earth.

 

[Joe P]

My homemade frozen veggie chilli after three minutes in the microwave has a similar temp gradient — tectonic plates of chilli ice floating in volcanic chilli magma.

Joe

 

[ian123running]

The lagrange point will be 1.5 million miles from earth.

km (hopefully Nasa got that right!)

 

[Nic Robinson]

They weren’t wrong when they said it’s on its own!

 

[ian123running]

https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/01/03/second-and-third-layers-of-sunshield-fully-tightened/ This seems to be going well.

 

[matthewr]

For the curious, here is a picture of the La Grange point:

 

[Nic Robinson]

Just been educating myself about Lagrange points. Fascinating stuff.

 

[Tony L]

Sunshield successfully deployed (NASA)! \o/

 

[Space is the Place]

Thank you CHE, Martin and Dimitry for answering my questions, that clock looks fascinating CHE.

Brilliant that the shield has successfully been deployed! It's hard enough to put a tent up on earth!

Arm and Mirror next then!

 

[matthewr]

Dr Becky with a JWST update.

Dr Becky is great both for her lay person explanations of astrophysics and because hearing someone talk about relativity in the same accent as my extended family makes it all the more awesome.

 

[martin clark]

For the curious, here is a picture of the La Grange point:

I hear it's tight
Most every night
But now, I might be mistaken



(no doubt the JWT has proprietary onboard damping for the defining pinch-harmonics...)

 

[Tony L]

Dr Becky is great both for her lay person explanations of astrophysics and because hearing someone talk about relativity in the same accent as my extended family makes it all the more awesome.

Just watched it, she’s great! Subscribed.

 

[cutting42]

Just watched it, she’s great! Subscribed.

She is, I've been watching her for the past couple of years on and off. Love her style and knowledge and above all her passion for science.

 

[matthewr]

Just watched it, she’s great! Subscribed.

She does a once a month thing which is a round up of space science news and a 'what you can see in the night sky right now' thing which is well worth catching if you have any interest in looking up.

Although since I have moved back to the Lancashire coast it seems I am basically living in a permanent low lying rain cloud and have given up ever seeing the stars again

 

[Tony L]

Although since I have moved back to the Lancashire coast it seems I am basically living in a permanent low lying rain cloud and have given up ever seeing the stars again

Everything is in monochrome up here for at least 280 days a year. Now and again in summer we get days in colour. Maybe four or five in proper Kodachrome. I’m not exaggerating. The daylight up here is just broken compared with That London.

PS Really liking Sabine Hossenfelder too, another of your links.

 

[matthewr]

Sabine's refreshing "I've had enough of your bullshit" approach to science is great.

 

[david ellwood]

A friend has a place in the Howardian hills that’s relatively remote, the night sky’s amazing.

 

[Tony L]

It’s mirror time (NASA livestream)!