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What I really want to see is the JWST images of Sedna

Hubble can only produce one pixel

https://esahubble.org/images/opo0414d/

Apparently JWST was pointed at it a year ago but all they released was an image-less paper on the spectrum?

BTW you know the "deep field" image they use for testing?

I have a new favorite instead. "Abel 2218" just look at that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abell_2218

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While the JWST has a larger aperture (6.5 m) than Hubble (2.7 m), the wave lengths it is sensitive to are also longer. So the overall resolution is only between 2 and 3 times better for JWST. So if Hubble can only resolve something to 1 pixel, I'd only expect you'd get at most 9 pixels for JWST.

Spectrometers don't always make "images", it's possible they didn't take a picture?

Also, that deep field has some amazing gravitational lenses!

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