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This is Titan, Saturn's largest Moon captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. (programming.dev)

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[-] Tronn4@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Wish they wouldn't waste Telescope time on nearby (relatively) objects that are not in the focal depth of a multi-million dollar space camera

[-] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 months ago

It's science. You learn something regardless

[-] Revan343@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 months ago

Titan is far enough out that focal depth doesn't really factor into it; as far as JWST is concerned it is at infinity. Which does raise the question of why it's so blurry, though

[-] Tronn4@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

You know, upon further self thought, maybe nasal blurred it out because it has human settlements. 🤔

[-] essell@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

I suspect they gathered other data whilst taking the "photo". This is just the public release element of the work.

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