Betcha the folks at The Onion are kicking themselves right now…
I think the scientist gave a very good explanation of why argumentum ad verecundiam is a logical fallacy…
He probably thought it was a harmless prank because no one would be stupid enough to think that it was a real image.
Then he discovered that he lived in 2022.
Because people before 2022 were better at recognizing sausages?
As a scientist, I’m interested in the science news sites, and follow a few of them. I understand this is what he thought.
I think three clues should have been: the edge is pretty clear, the outline is distinctly different from circular or elliptical, and there’s no limb darkening. But, I don’t know that laypeople would have caught many of these clues.
Perhaps he reached a wider audience than he expected to.
Here’s a good reference to get an idea what resolved star images have looked like to date:
Webb might plausibly give images better than these, but some of the characteristics would still be there.
I looked at this thread for the first time just to comment on how wrong the name for this is. It’s a Pinwheel folks, not a Cartwheel. Totally different things.
That name was already taken:
Damn, I gotta keep up on my space photos!
SPY magazine did something like this back in the nineties: “Is this the planet Neptune…or a tennis ball?”
Indeed, a cartwheel galaxy is different than a pinwheel galaxy. This JWST video shows a cartwheel galaxy. The galaxy movement is very subtle, so you must look closely to see the motion. 
That is subtle. I had to watch it three times before I caught it!
Funny.
Looks more like summersaults* to me.
*I think that’s the first time I’ve ever written or typed that word, for some reason, it just doesn’t look right.
somersault
Ah, that’d be why. Autocorrect spelled it, and when I googled it, it came up with the definition I was looking for.
But if I’d been a bit less lazy, I woulda scrolled down.
I guess I’m just old school. You whippersnappers with your space telescopes and simplified spelling…
Actually, there are 4 objects named pinwheel galaxy, just on the Messier list, and probably more.
New Jupiter images, processed by a citizen scientist:
https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/08/22/webbs-jupiter-images-showcase-auroras-hazes/
Brian
The exciting thing about this is not the CO2 itself, but the clear demonstration of the ability of the JWST to do this kind of spectroscopic analysis. CO2 is present all over the solar system so its presence on a giant exoplanet isn’t all that remarkable. But tell me, for instance, that oxygen was detected on one of the habitable Trappist-1 planets, and I’ll really get excited! And that may happen, as there’s an international collaboration with approved time on the JWST to study the atmospheres of several of those planets. It’s going to be a lot harder than it was for WASP-39b.
Yep. And the first planet they looked at with NIRSpec showed strong water signals.
I’m excited to see just how much detail they can get out of the various planetary spectra. As I understand it, they are still working out the processing and expect to get even better information in the future.