Hats Off to NASA's Webb: Sombrero Galaxy Dazzles in New Image

Here's the latest amazing image from Webb - the Sombrero Galaxy (M104) seen in a completely new light - mid-infrared! 🔭🧪
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Thanks for the excellent writeup @startswithabang.bsky.social - always looking for ways to explain how we put together these mesmerizing views of the cosmos!

Are Hubble Images Real? Part III: What Makes Them Real? TLDR: Yes, Hubble images are real. This series of posts is dedicated to the scrutiny of Hubble imagery and a broader discussion of the veracity of astronomical imagery. In this post, we’ll look at …

And finally, in part three I take a look at why these images are real. How is data from Hubble assembled into these beautiful views of the cosmos? These posts were written before Webb launched, but these same concepts apply to Webb as well.
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Are Hubble Images Real? Part II: A Brief History of Astrophotography TLDR: Yes, Hubble images are real. This series of posts is dedicated to the scrutiny of Hubble imagery and a broader discussion of the veracity of astronomical imagery. In this post, we’ll take a b…

In part one we look at image artifacts that are usually removed from astronomical photos (this applies to both Webb and Hubble). In part two, I attempt to put Hubble into context through an exploration of the history of astrophotography.
illuminateduniverse.org/2021/04/08/a...

Are Hubble Images Real? Part I: Image Artifacts TLDR: Yes, Hubble images are real. This series of posts is dedicated to the scrutiny of Hubble imagery and a broader discussion of the veracity of astronomical imagery. In this post, we’ll lo…

Let's just jump right in shall we? The images that we see from Hubble and Webb don't come out of the telescope looking like that. Here is part one in a series of blog posts that I wrote a few years back exploring this topic:
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