Dr Becky, after the preview image yesterday:
Brian
They need to put her in charge of all of the press releases.
i just wanted to thank you (and your daughter) for the link to the ISS video. I’m not ashamed to say I had tears in my eyes through most of it.
Yes. This. Most definitely this.
Dr Becky’s initial reaction to the rest of the images (she will do a more detailed explanation later)
Brian
I still totally have a crush on Dr. Becky, but she now has competition for my virtual crushiness: Dr. Amber Straughn, Deputy Project Scientist for James Webb Space Telescope Science Communications. She is also the Associate Director of the Astrophysics Science Division. She was the one to introduce the extraordinarily detailed new image of the Carina Nebula, birthplace of stars. Also a person who loves to talk science to a lay audience, a highly accomplished astrophysicist in her own right, a lover of large dogs, and a private pilot. Checks all the boxes! 
Gosh, it’s so fun to watch her reactions. I think I learned a couple of things - she was impressed that we could resolve individual stars in one of the Stephen Quintet galaxies; I think she said we couldn’t (previously) even do that for Andromeda, a very close galaxy, and this one is much further. Also for an image I hadn’t previously googled up (this one, at appallingly poor res on the Nasa site), she’d wondered aloud what the top-right galaxy’s structure was about and the speaker right then said it was an active black hole - Dr. Becky is all “YES!” + fistpump to the camera. I’d love to hear the rest of her summary when she’s had time to digest.
I get where you’re coming from, but can we not objectify astrophysicists? Gross, dude.
Oh, FFS! 
My comment was undoubtedly off-topic, but hell, I really admire this woman and her accomplishments. She was raised on a farm in rural Arkansas and was the first of her family to attend college, and ended up getting a doctorate and then working for NASA in a senior position at a relatively young age.
I’d be surprised if she said that, since it’s totally not true. We can easily see individual stars in Andromeda and a number of other relatively nearby galaxies. And not just galaxies in the Local Group, but others further away.
Yeah, it surprised me too, but there was crosstalk. Let me dial up the moment:
Not sure what she meant here?
Possibly referring to infrared bands only. Just a guess, but I’d bet that existing IR scopes don’t have the resolution to make out individual stars in Andromeda (aside from supernovae).
There’s something gross here? Hey, any lover of large dogs and private pilot checks all MY boxes! There’s something wrong widdat?
nm plus words for discourse
You put up a picture of a pilot in an airplane with a dog and then erased it? Why? What was wrong with that? They looked like someone I could be friends with!
Arkansas? But isn’t she British?
You haven’t been following along here. Arkansas was in reference to a different astrophysicist, Amber Straughn, about whom I made a light-hearted and complimentary comment that seems to have sparked controversy. Let’s just get back to discussions about the JWST.
This is Amber Straughn, from Bee Branch, Arkansas. She’s very well-credentialed :
Moderating:
Yes, there’s something gross about objectifying astrophysicists.
Everyone, please drop the discussion of the personal, and especially the sexual appeal of the scientists involved, and get back to discussing the telescope, what the scientists are finding, and their scientific achievements.
Ok…
James May (from Queen) and Graham Gouldman (from 10cc) have
written a little dirge about the JWST.
You can hear it here.
Here’s a great tool for looking at the full resolution images from the first JWST package, from the Worldwide Telescope project:
Fantastic presentation that shows you where in the sky they are, then allows you to zoom in on the smallest details.
You can’t get more cool than being a genuine rockstar AND an astrophysicist… at least not in the nerdsphere.