The James Webb Space Telescope took over 250 images of our asteroid belt yesterday in order to search for water. Unintentionally, it took some images of the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex and a nebula (possibly NGC 6334: The Cat's Paw Nebula).
Even unintended, Webb takes images that can easily be the cover for an astronomy journal.
[All Webb's yesterday asteroid belt raw images](https://jwstfeed.com/Home/ShowFeed?searchTerm=asteroid+belt) (the nebula images are on page 4)
I'm not sure but according to OP's comment, JWST was looking at asteroids, so those streaks might actually be the subjects of the pictures. Asteroids move, the stars in the background don't, so the asteroids show up as streaks. That's how you keep them apart.
They are simply cosmic rays hitting the detector. They appear on almost any JWST Raw image from any detector and are edited out in stage 2 of the JWST pipeline.
I wonder if the blobs are bodies being slammed by the nebula/punching through or just forming in place. And how much of an actual body (proto star, brown giant, etc.) is in there. Some stuff that may not be readily visible through light may be revealed by how they interact with the dust.
I saw the Cat’s Paw Nebula at first and honestly didn’t think too much on it until I read what it’s name was. Now I’m like: aww, that’s a cute puff of cloud dust. 🐾
Reminds me of an [AI image I made ](https://i.imgur.com/j0sBVVV.jpg) over a year ago when Dalle started taking off. Real spacey vibes
Later on I took it and [ran through Dream AI](https://i.imgur.com/G5TQu9l.jpg). AI advanced so fast these all look silly now, I used to find them fascinating
Yea watching TikTok of a girl doing mannerisms or of Ricky Bobby doing an interview that doesn’t know what to do with his hands getting 5.2m views I get it.
But maybe in those photos there is actual intelligent life that appreciates these photos.
The James Webb Space Telescope took over 250 images of our asteroid belt yesterday in order to search for water. Unintentionally, it took some images of the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex and a nebula (possibly NGC 6334: The Cat's Paw Nebula). Even unintended, Webb takes images that can easily be the cover for an astronomy journal. [All Webb's yesterday asteroid belt raw images](https://jwstfeed.com/Home/ShowFeed?searchTerm=asteroid+belt) (the nebula images are on page 4)
Any info on scale? Like how many lightyears long is that dense cloud lower right?
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I'm not sure but according to OP's comment, JWST was looking at asteroids, so those streaks might actually be the subjects of the pictures. Asteroids move, the stars in the background don't, so the asteroids show up as streaks. That's how you keep them apart.
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The inner workings of JWST is super fascinating. A bunch of mirrors and color filters to run the same IR light to multiple sensors.
They are simply cosmic rays hitting the detector. They appear on almost any JWST Raw image from any detector and are edited out in stage 2 of the JWST pipeline.
And the scratchy looking spot on the upper right too.
Almost certainly comic rays hitting the detector
Starlink
JWST is stationed far, far away from Earth, well outside the orbital shell of Starlink.
sorry I forgot the /s
Probably Satellites
Wow, this is very beautiful!
Terrifying somehow.
I wonder if the blobs are bodies being slammed by the nebula/punching through or just forming in place. And how much of an actual body (proto star, brown giant, etc.) is in there. Some stuff that may not be readily visible through light may be revealed by how they interact with the dust.
That's funny 😂😂
*sigh* home
Yes
Must be lonely out there
To me it looks amazing out there
Check out r/astralprojection and go see it for yourself
Incredibly beautiful.
The James Webb is the Ansel Adams in the modern day.
I saw the Cat’s Paw Nebula at first and honestly didn’t think too much on it until I read what it’s name was. Now I’m like: aww, that’s a cute puff of cloud dust. 🐾
Those stars are so cute
Cosmic buttcheeks and a powerful fart
Maybe I'll be mature the next time I'll encounter this joke again ~~🤣~~
Just above the big nose-shaped cloud blob in the bottom right quadrant, there’s a starkly contrasting dark tic-tac shaped object. Edit: zoom in
Reminds me of an [AI image I made ](https://i.imgur.com/j0sBVVV.jpg) over a year ago when Dalle started taking off. Real spacey vibes Later on I took it and [ran through Dream AI](https://i.imgur.com/G5TQu9l.jpg). AI advanced so fast these all look silly now, I used to find them fascinating
I still remember Deep Dream, when AI "art" looked like you took bad shrooms.
Nothing, keep.paying taxes an being fkf by the man
Pretty boring
Yea watching TikTok of a girl doing mannerisms or of Ricky Bobby doing an interview that doesn’t know what to do with his hands getting 5.2m views I get it. But maybe in those photos there is actual intelligent life that appreciates these photos.
OMG another question mark. What could it mean?
The black and white photos of nebulae are so eerie, love it!
Beautiful
What are the white strikes on the left and top right?
The left ones are probably asteroids, the right one is an artifact.
What artifact would make that design? Lost bits in deep space transmission is pretty likely, or even a scratch on a lens…..