Starburst spikes
Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2024 7:06 pm
I hate the stupid titles on mainstream media articles that are supposed to inform us about astrophysics. Like this one …
https://www.earth.com/news/starburst-sp ... ears-long/
First, the spikes aren’t “exploding” from N79 … they are diffraction patterns due to the JWST telescope.
Second, they aren’t 1630 lightyears long.
Now the article may admit all that in the body but who chose this title? What if someone doesn't read beyond the title?
Now here’s the image in question:
(larger version here: https://cff2.earth.com/uploads/2024/01/ ... b_1big.jpg)
What I find interesting about it, which isn’t even mentioned in the article (and likely not by the JWST team either), are all the plasma filaments in a region where they say stars are forming. They are everywhere. Yet that isn't even mentioned. Even worse … if you look closely … you can see that many of them are pairs of filaments that are helically wound. Now isn’t that far more noteworthy than the stupid “spikes” ... which seems to be what every mainstream article on this is focused on? No wonder science is dead. So is journalism.
https://www.earth.com/news/starburst-sp ... ears-long/
Now can a title get stupider than that?Starburst spikes seen exploding from nebula N79 are 1630 light-years long
First, the spikes aren’t “exploding” from N79 … they are diffraction patterns due to the JWST telescope.
Second, they aren’t 1630 lightyears long.
Now the article may admit all that in the body but who chose this title? What if someone doesn't read beyond the title?
Now here’s the image in question:
(larger version here: https://cff2.earth.com/uploads/2024/01/ ... b_1big.jpg)
What I find interesting about it, which isn’t even mentioned in the article (and likely not by the JWST team either), are all the plasma filaments in a region where they say stars are forming. They are everywhere. Yet that isn't even mentioned. Even worse … if you look closely … you can see that many of them are pairs of filaments that are helically wound. Now isn’t that far more noteworthy than the stupid “spikes” ... which seems to be what every mainstream article on this is focused on? No wonder science is dead. So is journalism.