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PREVIEW: Contemplations #150 | New Space Exploration Revelations

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

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🗓️ 12 November 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Josh, Beau and Dan discuss the discoveries made over the past year by the James Webb Space Telescope.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to contemplations and today we are looking at what we have discovered in the past year or so in space exploration in specific reference to the James Webb Space Telescope which is in my opinion, one of the best things humanity

0:14.4

has ever done ever and is just something that is unquestionably good.

0:21.0

And you know, you see these people just like saying like saying oh I can't believe they're

0:24.6

wasting all of those billions on on space exploration no it's actually a great thing

0:28.8

they say oh it should be spent on earth curing the homeless but the homeless are not in fact let's not go there shall

0:35.6

well in actuality it be spent on single mums and missiles wouldn't it so probably yes but um this is something that is going to be unapologetically good and it's going to lift your spirits if you've been following politics for a long time and it's worth mentioning as well that we have covered this before me and Bow we've covered this was July of

0:55.9

2022 this was all about the James Webb and we're going to be basically building

1:00.8

upon that and talking about the new things that it's discovered and

1:04.2

Dan has also joined us. Hello people. Dan is here because you are interested in it.

1:09.6

It's a jolly interesting subject yes I'm glad you appreciate it. I liked your first one because there was a there was a James Webb documentary on Netflix which I tried to watch because I thought for the reasons you just outline it's an ambiguous good so it's going to be an

1:24.6

interesting documentary they managed to make it about diversity somehow and I watched

1:29.8

about 15 minutes like no have to turn it off and then I found that I mentioned that in the

1:34.0

office and you said that you don't and you did a great and your first one was great

1:36.6

thank you very much so I happy to be a part of the the second so let's get straight into it I suppose and here we have the first

1:46.2

image which the perceptive of you will be able to tell that is Jupiter but it

1:52.1

looks slightly different to how we've seen it before.

1:54.4

So this is the James Webb NIR CAM.

1:58.1

This is a composite image, and this is used three different filters.

2:02.1

I think they're using different color filters here.

2:06.0

I'm going to read a little bit from NASA themselves and what they said, they said.

2:10.4

In this standalone view of Jupiter, created from a composite of several images from Webb,

2:15.3

Aurora's extend to high altitudes above both the northern and southern poles at Jupiter.

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