
Quinneapolis
hey guys wanna see a photo of neptune

Quinneapolis


skerple
ohhhhhh

Gabiluzbad
First time I saw that picture I was like “what’s so impressive about that? We have way better pictures of Neptune”

Gabiluzbad
“.......what do you MEAN we took the from earth????”

Dragons Dragons
oooooooo

Echo
Wait what

A Grinning DM
What telescope was that taken with?

Quinneapolis
James Webb

A Grinning DM
Ah ok so not from Earth then

Quinneapolis
well, compared to Neptune, it's functionally at Earth

Gabiluzbad
Not from earths surface

Gabiluzbad
But from earth

A Grinning DM
I actually didn’t learn until recently that Webb doesn’t orbit Earth, which I found interesting

Quinneapolis
it's at a Lagrange point right

A Grinning DM
Yeah

A Grinning DM
1 million miles from earth, between Earth’s and Mars’s orbits

A Grinning DM
It’s speed synchronized with Earth’s

Gabiluzbad
Hhhhuh

A Grinning DM


A Grinning DM
Huh apparently it also does a little sideways orbit too, didn’t know that

A Grinning DM
I have to remember to read up on how that works

ShootingXC
it's at Zeon

Gabiluzbad
Sounds like zeon is at earth-moon l2 while Webb is at sun-earth l2

ShootingXC
oh I misread

ShootingXC
it's at Texas

Gabiluzbad
Regardless

Gabiluzbad
the James Webb telescope is still absurdly far from Neptune

Gabiluzbad
to have taken that picture

A Grinning DM
Yes