{"id":7119,"date":"2025-09-21T18:41:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T18:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stellar-astrophysics.org\/wordpress\/?post_type=portfolio_item&#038;p=7119"},"modified":"2025-09-21T18:43:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T18:43:36","slug":"jwst-and-hst-side-by-side","status":"publish","type":"portfolio_item","link":"https:\/\/www.stellar-astrophysics.org\/wordpress\/project\/jwst-and-hst-side-by-side\/","title":{"rendered":"JWST and HST Side-By-Side"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1004\" height=\"610\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stellar-astrophysics.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/jwst-2.png\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stellar-astrophysics.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/jwst-2.png 1004w, https:\/\/www.stellar-astrophysics.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/jwst-2-300x182.png 300w, https:\/\/www.stellar-astrophysics.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/jwst-2-600x365.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>These images shows HST and JWST side by side.\u00a0 In JWST the stars are snowflaked shaped because the mirrors are hexagonal.\u00a0 The JWST is about 5 hours and the HST is about 45 hours (giving an idea of the sensitivity) but the wavelength of the JWST is longer than HST so to do same image with HST is impossible and where the two overlap in wavelength JWST is probably about 100 times more sensitive, so it is a new world.\u00a0  The stars indicated with squares are white dwarfs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These images shows HST and JWST side by side.\u00a0 In JWST the stars are snowflaked shaped because the mirrors are hexagonal.\u00a0 The JWST is about 5 hours and the HST is about 45 hours (giving an idea of the sensitivity) but the wavelength of the JWST is longer than HST so to do same image &hellip; 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