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[–] [email protected] 33 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Webb has a sun shield because it specifically cannot look at the sun ever. What's the source on this photo? Nothing shows up in reverse search and I've not found any articles on Webb looking at the eclipse. Is Webb even positioned where it can observe an eclipse?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Is Webb even positioned where it can observe an eclipse?

Pretty sure it’s not

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's orbiting a Lagrange point somewhere quite far from earth, certainly farther than the moon anyways.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

The tip of the lunar umbra just barely reaches the Earth, and Webb is at L2, about five times farther away. It's not seeing it at all,

[–] [email protected] 32 points 11 months ago

This was certainly not shot from the Webb telescope but it is a very cool image nonetheless

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (3 children)

shot from near my place of employment. Drizzly, shitty mess.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Same here, raining all day

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/23ac62a4-cd10-479e-8639-7c6c4ad5e294.jpeg

I had clear skies and the best pic I could get was distant cosmic nipple

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Anyone know what the red dots are? We saw them during our totality as well

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Very cool ty

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

i think those were solar prominences and not flares but i'm not a sun doctor

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (2 children)

For sure a gate to hell, super demons pouring through and I'm out of ammo for the bazooka.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They've come to do voter fraud for Brandon.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Hell yeah these are the bussed in voters everyone was hollering about the whole time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I thought it was Cthulhu's tentacles grabbing up rapturing xtians. Just wishful thinking it seems.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

Yeah, no. That's not taken from James Webb. Webb is in space at one of the Lagrange points, L2. This orbit is 1.5 million Km from Earth and as such the moon would never be the right size to appear like this.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

angel-biblical BE NOT AFRAID

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Looks like AI /s

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Made me have to look up where L2 was again. Pretty sick that even though it's that far from earth it can still see the sun eclipsed with us!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I dont think this shot was from the Webb telescope since its and event only really observable on the a small part of the surface of the planet right? Or like couldn't it just be a shot taken at any point in time with the moon in front of the sun?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I just got home from watching this cosmic goatse and it was so cool