• JWST and Galileo's telescope

    From kelleher.gerald@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jul 13 01:58:51 2022
    So looking forward to upcoming imaging from the new telescope and heartfelt congratulations to the engineering team which put that complex vehicle together.

    Galileo looked out at Jupiter's moons as they ran a circuit of their parent planet and presented his observations as a conclusion that not all celestial objects orbited the stationary Earth as the geocentric astronomers imagined-

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcrBAuLBXag

    The C3 camera of the SOHO satellite looks towards the central solar system (opposite to the JWST) where our parent star resides and can see the faster moving Venus and Mercury run back and forth around the Sun in much the same way as we see Jupiter's
    moons do the same around their parent planet-

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2uCtot1aDg

    The JWST will be most useful in collecting clues to solar system and galactic evolution and no doubt when it turns its attention to SN1987a or Eta Carinae among others. It is hopeful that some supernova will be seen as the birth of a solar system rather
    than the demise of the antecedent star where mass is transferred from the pre-supernova star to the components of the surrounding solar system and the star survives as a main sequence star.

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