Mastodawn

Víctor R. Ruiz Oct 2, 2023

@markmccaughrean Gift link ;-) https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/02/science/orion-nebula-webb-planets.html?unlocked_article_code=RTNSUJIp5nGUog9oNJHGd21pO9P-bzGKmfnVdMerJ_6hy5KfJC8D7K8rvh7LX5o5YdQ2o-GbjsLG0GSc_o3WcO0HI2S2whCIvFaEm9DfK-Qn5JxnIDkji-55bXN3U0JtrB3YfyWZeVTDvFuCkwbctidwfgD9ZqZyKb8kZAMx3P5Onl8TZYli-04fMFpwWhID7UGIRUQVZpgWH8xX3eeGr5Bl73_gyjynDyS4PdTBQs0yvfqulNhrhf21vdMM1XJJscEaeGK1njwYLiURhXtuS-rEFK5L0VaX7MHYydgVS0sVEcAyC0jkdHCmhexCjMxWVSuw5iQsmvuSyj8DyWFUif0YTA&smid=url-share

James Webb Telescope Discovers Orion Nebula Enigmas That ‘Shouldn’t Exist’

In new, high-resolution imagery of the star-forming region, scientists spotted worlds that defied explanation, naming them Jupiter Mass Binary Objects.

The New York Times

Jonathan O'Callaghan Oct 4, 2023

@markmccaughrean Hello!

Mark McCaughrean Oct 4, 2023

@astrojonny Aloha 🤙 How excellent to see you in this part of the world 🙂

Jonathan O'Callaghan Oct 4, 2023

@markmccaughrean 👋

Julien Girard Oct 6, 2023

@markmccaughrean Judy @spacegeck, haven't you worked with Mark before? I wonder what your take on this data would be like, it's such a right field. I am super excited by these new results!

@juliengirard @markmccaughrean Yes, I'd love to work with it and also combine it with an HST mosaic I already made a while back: https://www.flickr.com/photos/geckzilla/49325834001/in/dateposted/

Orion Mosaic

Flickr

@juliengirard @markmccaughrean I dunno if Mark wants to release his cleaned up data, or if I'd have to go ahead and use whatever is up in the archive... ugh I'm afraid of the pipeline generated mosaic 😅

@juliengirard @spacegeck We’re not making the cleaned individual wavelength images available at the moment, at least not generally: it cost a huge amount of time & effort to get to those from the L2 data (3 months of my life this summer, 7 days a week, zero breaks), & it’s the only real advantage we have over the much bigger teams who will doubtless be looking to download the data & do science.

@markmccaughrean @juliengirard Right, I figured. I'm probably not going to make my own version anytime soon, then.

@spacegeck @juliengirard Part of me is also a little (naively) hopeful that the two versions we released this week will have a chance to bed in before people start feeling the need to make remixes. But then I'm an old fuddy duddy, I know 🙂

@juliengirard @spacegeck To be honest, I’m not sure you’d really want to combine them – the JWST data cover those wavelengths already & are so much more detailed. HST doesn’t have particularly good resolution in the IR – it’s too small 🤪

@markmccaughrean @juliengirard Oh, you definitely want to combine them. This is where you get to find all the things that moved.

@spacegeck @juliengirard That's a good thought, although to zeroth order you can do that already with the respective colour images, no? We have already been blinking between HST visible and JWST near-IR & there's a lot of moving nebulosity (jets & outflows), but those have much more similar spatial resolution.

@markmccaughrean @juliengirard Maybe it's pointless, maybe you see something cool. I've found that nearly every time, I find something cool. It's rarely scientifically "interesting" but it's always fun and I love showing little blink animations to people. I have no stakes in the game and am content to wait until astronomers have long discarded their data to start messing with it. I swear, though, some people would rather it get deleted than ever be open with it. Sigh.