• rappo@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    remember that JWST doesn’t do visible spectrum and, regardless, it’s specialized for faint distant objects. From JWST’s perspective, Titan emits a lot of light. It’s kind of like using a telephoto lens to take a picture of your foot.

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      6 months ago

      People in general don’t understand focal length and spectrums. It’s just oooh 400x zoom, fancy, let’s see atoms.