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2022-09-23, 02:55 PM
I suspect many here are keeping up with the Webb Telescope. Saw this and am totally wowed.

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/202...in-decades
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2022-09-23, 06:26 PM
Hi BMD,

I watched a YouTube video describing this image last night (one of Anton Petrov's). It's hard to believe that the bright 'star' in the image is actually the moon Triton which is so much more reflective in these IR wavelengths than Neptune itself.

That instrument is alreay making some amazing observations.

Phil S.
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