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kibwen
on April 29, 2024
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Webb captures iconic Horsehead Nebula in unprecede...
The zoom-in video at the end is utterly unbelievable, don't miss it. What an engineering and scientific triumph.
p1mrx
on April 29, 2024
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And it's in glorious 432p resolution!
Edit: Here is the 2160p version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdHnF9Go_DQ
arbuge
on April 29, 2024
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Particularly if you notice all the galaxies above the top of the gas cloud in the final frame.
mckn1ght
on April 29, 2024
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I wonder how fast an observer would need to be traveling for it to look like that!
p1mrx
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99.x% the speed of light, but the image would be blueshifted and highly distorted.
coder543
on April 29, 2024
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Since the images in the article are from infrared cameras, blue-shifting the light might just land the view from those IR images into the visible spectrum for the observer! Just need to tune the speed correctly.
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