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Just saw a crazy difference in the Orion Nebula over 15 years
I was looking at a picture from the Hubble Space Telescope taken in 2009 and compared it to a new one from the James Webb... the detail is insane. You can actually see the dust clouds collapsing to form new stars now, which was just a blur before. Has anyone else noticed how much clearer the 'proplyds' are in the newer shots?
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calebd827mo ago
Hubble's 2009 shot was actually from 2004, I'm pretty sure.
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anna_ellis887mo ago
Check the new shot of the Pillars of Creation too. The Webb image shows all that baby star stuff happening INSIDE the pillars that Hubble couldn't see. Is that because Webb sees heat, so it cuts through the dust, or is the camera just that much better now?
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tara6426mo ago
Okay but how much of this is just better marketing? Hubble showed us stuff we'd never seen before and now Webb does the same thing, but is it really that big of a deal? We're just looking at different types of light to see different parts of the same dust cloud. Feels like we get hyped over every new space picture without asking if it actually changes anything.
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