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<blockquote data-quote="Rabulias" data-source="post: 8690906" data-attributes="member: 16651">Obviously the research itself is paramount, but communication and outreach is still a high priority as they write the press releases, and make the rounds on all the news and talk shows. They want to promote the benefits to keep people supportive of their funding and their mission. As I mention in my post there are probably solid logistical/efficiency reasons for the order of projects, not driven by PR. My post was expressing my personal druthers. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Oh I understand the exoplanet pictures will not be as clear as some folks may be expecting/hoping. I still remember seeing the first early, blurry photos of multi-star systems. As blurry as they were, I was still fascinated by them. As I touched on in my post, they may ultimately be disappointing to the general public (not as &quot;sexy&quot;), so would be a bad choice for a first batch of pictures to release. But the idea of analyzing planetary atmospheres is enticing to me.And as I understand it, these starfield pictures do not show the full extent of the JWST's capabilities - it will eventually see further back to 300-400 million years after the Big Bang (just not as clear as these photos).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rabulias, post: 8690906, member: 16651"] Obviously the research itself is paramount, but communication and outreach is still a high priority as they write the press releases, and make the rounds on all the news and talk shows. They want to promote the benefits to keep people supportive of their funding and their mission. As I mention in my post there are probably solid logistical/efficiency reasons for the order of projects, not driven by PR. My post was expressing my personal druthers. :) Oh I understand the exoplanet pictures will not be as clear as some folks may be expecting/hoping. I still remember seeing the first early, blurry photos of multi-star systems. As blurry as they were, I was still fascinated by them. As I touched on in my post, they may ultimately be disappointing to the general public (not as "sexy"), so would be a bad choice for a first batch of pictures to release. But the idea of analyzing planetary atmospheres is enticing to me. And as I understand it, these starfield pictures do not show the full extent of the JWST's capabilities - it will eventually see further back to 300-400 million years after the Big Bang (just not as clear as these photos). [/QUOTE]

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