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[thepastisalreadywritten]

WASHINGTON, Jan 29 (Reuters) — A batch of newly released images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope show in remarkable detail 19 spiral galaxies residing relatively near our Milky Way, offering new clues on star formation as well as galactic structure and evolution.

The images were made public on Monday by a team of scientists involved in a project called Physics at High Angular resolution in Nearby GalaxieS (PHANGS) that operates across several major astronomical observatories.

The closest of the 19 galaxies is called NGC5068, about 15 million light years from Earth, and the most distant of them is NGC1365, about 60 million light years from Earth.

A light year is the distance light travels in a year, 5.9 trillion miles (9.5 trillion km).

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was launched in 2021 and began collecting data in 2022, reshaping the understanding of the early universe while taking wondrous pictures of the cosmos.

The orbiting observatory looks at the universe mainly in the infrared.

The Hubble Space Telescope, launched in 1990 and still operational, has examined it primarily at optical and ultraviolet wavelengths.

Spiral galaxies, resembling enormous pinwheels, are a common galaxy type. Our Milky Way is one.

The new observations came from Webb's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI).

They show roughly 100,000 star clusters and millions or perhaps billions of individual stars.

"These data are important as they give us a new view on the earliest phase of star formation," said University of Oxford astronomer Thomas Williams, who led the team's data processing on the images.

"Stars are born deep within dusty clouds that completely block out the light at visible wavelengths - what the Hubble Space Telescope is sensitive to - but these clouds light up at the JWST wavelengths.

We don't know a lot about this phase, not even really how long it lasts, and so these data will be vital for understanding how stars in galaxies start their lives," Williams added.

About half of spiral galaxies have a straight structure, called a bar, coming out from the galactic center to which the spiral arms are attached.

"The commonly held thought is that galaxies form from the inside-out, and so get bigger and bigger over their lifetimes.

The spiral arms act to sweep up the gas that will form into stars, and the bars act to funnel that same gas in towards the central black hole of the galaxy," Williams said.

The images let scientists for the first time resolve the structure of the clouds of dust and gas from which stars and planets form at a high level of detail in galaxies beyond the Large Magellanic Cloud and Small Magellanic Cloud, two galaxies considered galactic satellites of the sprawling Milky Way.

"The images are not only aesthetically stunning, they also tell a story about the cycle of star formation and feedback, which is the energy and momentum released by young stars into the space between stars," said astronomer Janice Lee of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, principal investigator for the new data.

"It actually looks like there was explosive activity and clearing of the dust and gas on both cluster and kiloparsec (roughly 3,000 light years) scales.

The dynamic process of the overall star formation cycle becomes obvious and qualitatively accessible, even for the public, which makes the images compelling on many different levels," Lee added.

Webb's observations build on Hubble's.

"Using Hubble, we would see the starlight from galaxies, but some of the light was blocked by the dust of galaxies," University of Alberta astronomer Erik Rosolowsky said.

"This limitation made it hard to understand parts of how a galaxy operates as a system. With Webb's view in the infrared, we can see through this dust to see stars behind and within the enshrouding dust."

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[olliebjorkstrand]

these were taken on a toaster but THEY'RE BACK 🥰🥰🥰🥰

#admin can i please suggest the team invests on a good high resolution camera please #just realized trevor has the tag on his hat 😭😭😭 #mason mctavish #trevor zegras #jamie drysdale

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[tatmanblue]

Perspective view of Mars’s Tharsis volcanoes by European Space Agency Via Flickr: This oblique perspective view shows a slice of Mars imaged to mark a milestone for ESA’s Mars Express: its 25 000th orbit around the Red Planet. It was generated from a digital terrain model and the nadir (downward-pointing) and colour channels of Mars Express’s High Resolution Stereo Camera. The vertical scale is exaggerated by a factor of approximately three, making the volcanoes look three times higher than they are in real life. Three of Mars’s famously colossal volcanoes are shown here: from left to right, Arsia, Pavonis and Ascraeus Mons. The mound of Mars’s largest volcano, Olympus Mons, can be spied further away at the top of the frame, while the fractured terrain of Noctis Labyrinthus, Mars’s ‘labyrinth of night’, can be seen in the foreground. Read more [Image description: This image shows a tan-coloured portion of Mars, with the curvature of the planet visible to the top left the frame. Four of Mars’s volcanoes can be seen in relief against the dark background, shown as darker mounds stretching away from the viewer.] Credits: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO

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[masonsystem]

found some super old kgpr fanart i drew back in like high school or smth HURHURHUR

#so cuties #also my old phone's camera was stupidly high resolution i miss her

[leatherbookmark]

wishing photo services had a FOR IDIOTS price list, or like used a system that lets you input what you want and then gives you a price for that

#like im paying ~60pln for physical photos + a cd with scanned photos + an index #BUT the photos are 1536x1024 which is not particularly high? or at least doesnt seem so with my p&s camera #maybe the zenit will surprise me #and a bunch of lomoraphy people have their stuff more in the 2000x3000 area which seems lovely! i want in! #but they dont really give you a set price for a physical+cd(2000x3000)+index order! i guess I'd have to ask #OR wait for the zenit pics. maybe they're sharper and look better even in this Moderately Good resolution #shrimp thoughts

[creeseworks]

Got to play with a demo unit of the new Sony Alpha 7R V today and this thing is NICE.

Love the flexibility of the new screen.

#photography #sony alpha #Sony a7rv #high resolution #cameras #tech

[delicatetaylorsversion]

I took 1.4 GB of duck photos today

#my phone camera definitely has a too high resolution #off topic

[amazingspider-boy]

FUCK apple for removing the headphone jack and fuck them for causing every android company to follow suit

#fucking assholes #AUDIO SOUNDS BETTER WHEN IT HAS A WIRED CONNECTION #THERE'S NO RISK OF SUDDENLY DISCONNECTING #YOUR HEADPHONES WILL NEVER RUN OUT OF BATTERY #and because of FUCKING APPLE now you CAN'T CHARGE YOUR PHONE AT THE SAME TIME AS (WIRED) LISTENING TO MUSIC #god FUCKING DAMNIT #I will genuinely stay mad about this my entire life idc #I'm not done yet #I JUST want a flagship phone that still has a headphone jack #I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO SETTLE FOR CHEAPER AND WORSE BUDGET PHONES #I want a high resolution screen a high quality camera a large amount of storage good speakers top functioning software and A HEADPHONE JACK #I want to PUNCH every person at apple who came up with this #IT IS NOT MORE CONVENIENT TO NOT HAVE A HEADPHONE JACK #it also DOES NOT take away from other flagship features goddamnit

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[geekceptiontech]

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[jcmarchi]

Camouflage That Doesn't Work - Russians Started Drawing Their Ships on Concrete - Technology Org

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Camouflage That Doesn't Work - Russians Started Drawing Their Ships on Concrete - Technology Org

Good camouflage is one of those military arts that doesn’t lose relevance through ages. Hiding your assets from the eyes of the enemy is very important. Especially nowadays, when the opposing forces have their eyes everywhere. But Russian camouflage tactics are less than efficient.

KILO class submarine. Russians started drawing them on docks. Image credit: Colby Drake, U.S. Navy via Wikimedia

After numerous long-range drone attacks, Russia is trying to improve the camouflage of its warships and planes to reduce losses suffered by its Black Sea fleet and air force for the past two years. While the Russians are paying close attention to camouflage, it is not helping to reduce losses, according to the report of the UK’s Ministry of Defence intelligence. Ukrainian drones find hidden targets and do not succumb to deception.

Deception, by the way, is one of the more interesting types of camouflage, because it doesn’t just hide the potential target, but utilizes dummies and painted images to trick the enemy surveillance. Ukraine is also using various dummy weapon systems to distract Russian invaders and force them to waste their ammo.

“At Russian air bases, maskirovka applications include decoy dummy models of aircraft and tyres on wings of planes. According to reports there are also painted silhouettes of airframes at nine Russian air bases. In the maritime domain, vessels of the Black Sea Fleet have black paint on the bow and stern, likely to make their warships appear smaller and a less appealing target. Silhouettes of vessels have also been painted on the side of quays, probably to confuse Ukrainian uncrewed aerial vehicle operators,” UK intelligence noted.

Latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine – 20 March 2024.

Find out more about Defence Intelligence’s use of language: https://t.co/aCbSXPVpTt #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦 pic.twitter.com/DmWPWyqVUk

— Ministry of Defence 🇬🇧 (@DefenceHQ) March 20, 2024

It is believed that in this way the Russian forces seek to reduce the drone-inflicted losses suffered by the Black Sea Fleet and military aviation. Ukraine doesn’t have an actual navy fleet and the Russian Black Sea Fleet has suffered major losses thanks to repeated marine drone attacks.

“Despite these attempts at concealment, Russian aircraft are still vulnerable to conventional shootdowns while in the air and Russian vessels are still vulnerable whilst on operations in the Black Sea. It is unlikely that the use of maskirovka techniques will lead to any significant reduction in losses.,” says UK intelligence.

They also noted that the lack of effective camouflage was one of the main reasons for Russia’s operational failures at the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine. While camouflage in theory could help, the way Russians are doing it seems inefficient. Those paintings on concrete would’ve been believable over a decade ago, but now drones have very good high-resolution cameras and can easily tell a real ship from a fake one.

Meanwhile, missiles have really good homing systems. On the other hand, the defenders of Ukraine do use dummy vehicles, which do work, so the camouflage practices in this war are a trial-and-error situation.

Written by Povilas M.

Source: Ministry of Defence Twitter

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#Troll face #hipster #Indie Sleaze #tattoo #weird #odd #random #strange #sticker #digital camera #meme #old meme #nerdy #geek #low resolution #high exposure #blogger

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[cessnati]

Sep 26, 2023

#How is this so high resolution? How on earth did I get my camera that close without it flying away? #Dragonflies are so difficult in that respect.