Mark McCaughreanAnd here's one from Jonathan O'Callaghan at the New York Times (paywalled, but hopefully some of you will have access 😼)
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/02/science/orion-nebula-webb-planets.html
Julien Girard@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!
Judy Schmidt@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
@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.
@spacegeck @juliengirard Oh, it's certainly not pointless – as I say, we see stuff moving when we compare the HST visible & JWST IR.
We did make the full-res PNG colour images available on Monday, fully downloadable. They are "only" 8-bit versions, but that was just to keep the size down – the 16-bit versions are very similar.
I won't let the 12 cleaned filter images rot: I just need a little time to do some science with them before making them public. And the L2 data are in MAST.