Κυριακή 17 Ιουλίου 2022

July, Sunday 17th., 2022.Disco was right! Nasa’s glitterball images were predicted by pop music

July, Sunday 17th., 2022

This Guardian article by Alex Rayner made my today's Morning Moment!Cute, Fun and True!(Especially for the 'survivors' of the Disco Era like me!)LOL! m.l.p.

Disco was right! Nasa’s glitterball images
were predicted by pop music

parliament album cover on left shows man outside flying saucer on space background. Next to that image is an image of the starry sky from the Webb telescope
The James Webb space telescope’s work is essentially a Parliament rip-off. Composite: Casablanca Records and Nasa

The James Webb space telescope’s pictures are impressive – but disco and Daft Punk did it first

 clouds below a starry sky

The James Webb space telescope’s pictures are impressive – but disco and Daft Punk did it first

Thu 14 Jul 2022 06.00 BSTLast modified on Thu 14 Jul 2022 06.02 BST

What did you see when Nasa unveiled the first images from the James Webb space telescope? Your answer may hinge as much on your gasp of astrophysics as on your record collection.

The Nasa administrator, Bill Nelson, a former senator and ex-astronaut, was agog at “the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe, so far”, for example.

But music fans were more interested in comparing the images to dream pop, funk and disco album covers from the Cocteau Twins, Parliament and the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack in an aesthetically apt, if astrophysically inexact, response to these new insights from the heavens.

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