Science!

[dogmeat]

@taniwharugby you're Chinese?

[taniwharugby]

@dogmeat yeah, yeah, lets go with that....

[booboo]

[Donsteppa]

First deep field image from James Webb has just been released!

This first image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date. Known as Webb’s First Deep Field, this image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 is overflowing with detail. Thousands of galaxies – including the faintest objects ever observed in the infrared – have appeared in Webb’s view for the first time. This slice of the vast universe covers a patch of sky approximately the size of a grain of sand held at arm’s length by someone on the ground.

Higher res image here

[antipodean]

For an indication on how much better this telescope is, check this out:

[Donsteppa]

An 'instant' GIF of Hubble compared with James Webb

[Machpants]

@Donsteppa said in Science!:

First deep field image from James Webb has just been released!

This first image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date. Known as Webb’s First Deep Field, this image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 is overflowing with detail. Thousands of galaxies – including the faintest objects ever observed in the infrared – have appeared in Webb’s view for the first time. This slice of the vast universe covers a patch of sky approximately the size of a grain of sand held at arm’s length by someone on the ground.

Higher res image here

[Donsteppa]

@Machpants Also:

[booboo]

Thought I'd drop this here ...

Space programme is >70 years old!

[Bones]

[Stockcar86]

All 200 million known protein have their structures predicted via AI AlphaFold. And all of these have been made publicly available

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03348-4

Good podcast episode by The Economist on this here

[Bones]

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[Stockcar86]

[Bones]

Aug 30, 2022  /  Environment

Discovered in the deep: the incredible fish with a transparent head

The rare barreleye fish tracks its prey with extremely light-sensitive rotating eyes encased in a see-through canopy

[JC]

@Bones said in Science!:

Aug 30, 2022  /  Environment

Discovered in the deep: the incredible fish with a transparent head

The rare barreleye fish tracks its prey with extremely light-sensitive rotating eyes encased in a see-through canopy

Yeah but does it taste good?

[Bones]

@JC tastes like chicken

[Stargazer]

[antipodean]

I found this an interesting read

Stuart Ritchie

The revolutionary Nature paper that wasn't

A CRISPR study claimed to upend the established science on genetic mutations. Did it?

[Stockcar86]

Some spoilers in the article if you have not seen the movie, but great article about how they did the night shots for the recent movie Nope

https://nofilmschool.com/dp-hoyte-van-hoytema-night-shots-on-nope

[Stockcar86]

How Physicists Proved The Universe Isn't Locally Real - Nobel Prize in Physics 2022