OM wrote:

...The problem there is that the design of JWST is flawed in the fact
that it's not intended to work in the visible spectrum, which is where
the "holy ****!!!" pictures are truly born than catch the attention of
Joe Punchclock, Ethyl Soapsjunkie and Hipster Treehugger and make them
go "holy ****!!!' and for a brief time get addicted enough to know
full well you don't **** with your pusher and they should quit
bitching about their tax dollars going to NASA.






Of course the "holy ****" pictures really come out of the NASA photo
labs after the exaggerated and false colors are added to the really
pretty bland Hubble pictures to make them look cool- a process that hit
some sort of apex with this shot, which made it look like the HST was
peering deep into Mordor:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ima...rglass_big.gif
The public is under the impression that if Hubble had an eyepiece on it
that they could look into like a backyard telescope, they would see
things that looked like this, but although the detail would be there,
the color wouldn't be.


Pat