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[–] fox@hexbear.net 33 points 7 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?

[–] crosswind@hexbear.net 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Is Webb even positioned where it can observe an eclipse?

Pretty sure it’s not

[–] ryepunk@hexbear.net 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] crosswind@hexbear.net 9 points 7 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,

[–] shitholeislander@hexbear.net 32 points 7 months ago

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

[–] Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.net 27 points 7 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] Lucien@hexbear.net 8 points 7 months ago

Same here, raining all day

[–] xkbx@startrek.website 3 points 7 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

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago
[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 16 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 10 points 7 months ago

Very cool ty

[–] Darthsenio_Mall@hexbear.net 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 15 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They've come to do voter fraud for Brandon.

[–] Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.net 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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

[–] asg101@hexbear.net 3 points 7 months ago

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

[–] randompasta 12 points 7 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.

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] IMF_DOOM@hexbear.net 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

angel-biblical BE NOT AFRAID

[–] Rx_Hawk@hexbear.net 9 points 7 months ago

Looks like AI /s

[–] tripartitegraph@hexbear.net 8 points 7 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!

[–] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 7 points 7 months ago
[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 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?

[–] HarryLime@hexbear.net 4 points 7 months ago
[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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