Recent content by BlairJ

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    City-size comet regrows 'horns' after massive volcanic eruption

    Hoo boy. The wackos are going to get spun up over this headline!
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    NASA returns Hubble Space Telescope back to full science operations

    Would it be possible for Hubble to image Webb once it arrives at L2? I understand that Hubble cannot point toward the sun or earth, and that Webb must keep its sunshield toward the earth, moon and sun. Would reflection off the sunshield be too bright for Hubble? Would Webb ever be pointed at an...
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    What will the Webb telescope see?

    Peter, JWST will be able to see stars billions of lightyears away, so it will be seeing some things as they were billions of years ago. Since Webb's mirror is so much larger than Hubble's mirror, it will be able to resolve images from objects even farther away than what Hubble can. Webb will...
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    It's truly Christmas' James Webb Space Telescope's yuletide launch has NASA overjoyed

    Worth getting up WAY too early and watching. When the JWST moved out of the 2nd stage camera frame, the NASA announcer said that would be our last view of the observatory. That made me wonder, would it be possible for Hubble to capture an image of the fully deployed Webb when it reaches L2?