meowcat93
meowcat93 OP t1_iu9fy6y wrote
Reply to comment by frone in Haunting Portrait: NASA’s Webb Reveals Dust, Structure in Pillars of Creation by meowcat93
Here’s another sense of physical scale:
https://twitter.com/willgater/status/1586023809119055875?s=20&t=czbg9sGdclDTK8gizR6E0w
meowcat93 OP t1_iu6t5zi wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Haunting Portrait: NASA’s Webb Reveals Dust, Structure in Pillars of Creation by meowcat93
No it’s a different instrument from the previous version.
meowcat93 OP t1_iu6t4pf wrote
Reply to comment by Kind-Honeydew4900 in Haunting Portrait: NASA’s Webb Reveals Dust, Structure in Pillars of Creation by meowcat93
It’s the mid-infrared instrument (MIRI), and stars are much less bright in those wavelengths
meowcat93 t1_j8x4ij9 wrote
Reply to comment by powerman228 in NEW JWST DEEP FIELD - Pandora's Cluster by GeoGeoGeoGeo
I think it's because the image is a combination of images taken at slightly different angles, and the position of the diffraction spikes is dependent on the telescope roll angle.