Sneak preview 👀
Some of our #JWST data will become publicly available in the archives tomorrow, for the galactic star-forming region, Sharpless 305, & the nearby massive protostar, RAFGL5232.
The data are tricky & need more work on saturation, noise, & banding problems, plus colour compositing 😬
But as others will be quick to publish images as usual, I thought I'd share our snapshot with you first 😉
More to come as we continue pixel-bashing 👾🔨👍
This is a much reduced version of the original data set in terms of size, plus it only includes three (F182M, F300M, F360M) of the eight JWST NIRCam filters / wavelengths that we have.
The short-wavelength data are pretty noisy though, & that's where most of our work is currently going, both to get good photometry for the stars, but also prettier pictures spanning a wider wavelength range.
@MisterMaker Ha – nice. That said, anyone looking back from there would themselves be a star-formation tourist like us, except in person rather than remote.
That is, the region is only a few million years old at best, so not long enough for life to have evolved there. But certainly it’s pretty enough to entice visitors in the meantime 🙂
Mark McCaughrean
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