But the EMALS!

Exactly.

If you don’t believe in abortion; then don’t get one. It’s that simple. This is not about people’s personal beliefs; it’s about people’s obsessive desire to control all women; particularly their bodies. That is why she supports an “abstinence only” sex education program. This program doesn’t prevent abortion the…

There is a distinct difference between being open to other opinions and letting people publish terrible, incorrect information. The NY Times seems to be struggling with this lately. There are two or more sides to many arguments. That doesn’t mean they are all correct, or factually supported, or deserving of attention.…

“Hi, I’d like to report several Ferengi who have take over the White House.”

Some of those tiny little dots may be among the first galaxies ever formed. As for the bigger ‘scope, agreed, and one is already on the wishlist. There’re also a few truly monstrous ground based scopes on the horizon which will put dear old Hubble to shame. Adaptive optics is a helluva thing.

But all it does is let us see even more tiny little dots just beyond its resolution.

Here’s another.

You may also be interested in this pic from STScI comparing Hubble’s famous Ultra Deep Field to a simulated image from JWST.

That was a spectacular answer.

It’ll be an ESA Ariane 5 ECA flown out of Kourou in French Guyana. The ECA is the most powerful version of the Ariane 5 using improved cryogenic engines and has flown successfully 59 times out of 60 launches so far.

Terrific explanation.

I haven’t seen it yet! It’s on my short watch list though.

I’m nerding out about the complicated orbit this thing will maintain. A halo orbit around L2 is a very complicated math problem. It’s essentially orbiting an empty point in space that happens to be at equilibrium. The halo orbit will also allow it to avoid Earth and the Moon’s shadows, which means more stable and…

“Webbwill have an angular resolution of somewhat better than 0.1 arc-seconds at a wavelength of 2 micrometers (one degree = 60 arc-minutes = 3600 arc-seconds). Seeing at a resolution of 0.1 arc-second means that Webb could see details the size of a US penny at a distance of about 24 miles (40 km), or a regulation…

So the idea isn’t necessarily that we will have higher resolution, it’s that we will have comparable or better resolution at a different (region of the) spectrum

Do you want space vikings?! Because that how you get...hey wait, I want space vikings. Carry on.

So how long before Google gets itself slapped with an antitrust violation?

I love your comment!!

I still look young (according to some people, I’m pretty sure I look like I’m in my late thirties) so I get dismissive comments like, you’ll change your mind.