I've been slowly working on some of these Orion filters. Haven't had a lot of time recently, but here is an unfinished JWST composite aligned over an older HST composite I made a while back.
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Blink animation.
Here's another proplyd. In this animation you can also see parts of the nebula have moved in the years that have passed since HST took its observations. That's quite a bit of movement.
Pulled up the JWST Orion early release data last night. Interestingly, one of the filters used is very similar to one that Hubble already used. Check out that extra detail!
Left: HST F139M; Right: JWST F140M
https://www.stsci.edu/cgi-bin/get-proposal-info?id=1288&observatory=JWST
Here's a bonus galaxy called Draco II. It's sparse so it's hard to see the stars in it at all.
Science proceeds regardless of aesthetics, so there are a few gaps... just a few. Here's two separate squares instead of a combined image. There is a cross-shaped gap in the middle of each filled with only 1 filter (grayscale) instead of 4 (color!).
There's a galaxy out there called the WLM (Wolf–Lundmark–Melotte, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf%E2%80%93Lundmark%E2%80%93Melotte). Definitely a weird name for a galaxy. It won't fit on JWST's detector, so we're seeing just a small piece of it here. This is from data for @[email protected]
After the "squircles" (@[email protected]'s funny word for the highly unbelievable rings around WR140) debacle where I was wrong, and you were probably wrong, and everyone was wrong multiple times, it's time to return to this planetary nebula. Progress being made.
Nope, I don't know what this is. Some kind of spiral nebula around WR140. I'm sure we'll find out more later.
h/t to @[email protected] & @[email protected]
Working on an extra-chromatic version of NGC 3132 that utilizes all of the available filters from the near-infrared of NIRCam to the mid-infrared of MIRI. Needs much work, but I can see a worthy composite underneath all the bad.
