What ensued<\/a> was simply made of win:<\/p> <\/span> And it doesn’t hurt that one of the pictures Milky J holds up at the beginning is of Supernova 1987A, which was the topic of my PhD research. Still, Hubble being replaced isn’t a bad thing; JWST will still return amazing images, and also be more sensitive than Hubble to boot. Hubble may gotchu, but JWST will hold you tight. <\/p> You can also read some cute behind the scenes notes on two blogs: Geeked on Goddard<\/a>, and NASA Blueshift<\/a>.<\/p> <\/a><\/p> I’m a Craig Ferguson man, truth be told, but I have to give Jimmy Fallon major props for devoting major time to Milky J this week. C’mon, you remember Milky J: he’s the Hubble Gotchu guy. He was on Fallon’s … Continue reading
Ha! That was awesome! All those people in the video are actual NASA\/Goddard Space Flight Center employees (or contractors; hard to tell). NASA can’t buy this kind of publicity, but here it is, handed to them for free. And I love it! It’s funny and cool, sarcastic yet has this terrific undertone of sincerity. And Holy Haleakala, the science is accurate*<\/a><\/sup>! I loved the part where the team shouts JWST specs at him. <\/p>
*<\/sup>OK, fine: Hubble wasn’t the first telescope to detect HD 209458b (not \"dash b\" as Milky J said). It was seen a while before the initial Hubble observations… and no telescope has actually directly pictured; it’s too close to its star. But spectra have been obtained<\/a>, which is pretty cool.<\/em><\/a>
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