Glad to have you. I used to follow a bunch on Reddit too, waiting to find a good earthporn one here still

Those are my favorite as well. Something about seeing the deep field images and knowing every dot is a whole other massive galaxy, full of planets and possibilities just excites my imagination.

Thanks for coming out to say Hi

Howdy back at you

General Kenobi!

Lol. Hello

Thank you! Wouldn’t happen without you guys

For real! Pluto was always this little blob growing up, then it had a fuzzy heart, and then to be able to see it with as much resolution as we did is amazing. It’s a curious and beautiful little dwarf

Yeah that one really makes you think about how insignificant things here are in the grand scheme of things.

This is mostly going to be northern hemisphere, but it should be the same from anywhere in the northern hemisphere for the most part

I saw that congrats! I got tied up with work and haven’t been able to post as much here, but more people are posting so it’s awesome.

I love Carl Sagan, he died when I was 10, but man did he have a huge impact on me.

Oh yeah definitely still glowing hot at over 6,000F.

I’m not sure about these infrared images, but if you’re interested, you can actually download the raw data from Webb and use it to practice postprocessing. There’s probably writeups on the process online somewhere though, if you’re interested

It’s just an are that is cooler than the surrounding plasma. Formed through changes in the magnetic field. Here’s a cool article.

Sprinkle spiral is my favorite lol

Really? I wasn’t aware of that, super cool.

No, it’s hard to imagine that some of these cloud formations can swallow our entire planet. They do much Jupiter gorgeous though

Me too, it’s producing some beautifully clear images. I look forward to seeing how far they push this scope

Right? It’s a quick trip down the road compared to some of the objects we have images of.