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James Webb Space Telescope reveals largest-ever panorama of the early universe

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It surveyed a patch of sky equivalent to the width of three full moons placed side-by-side, the telescope's widest observation area to date. The survey stitched together more than 10,000 exposures, revealing nearly 800,000 galaxies, many of which shine from the universe's earliest eras.
Just awesome.
And then there's the rest of 'sky'. Anyone who says there is no life outside of earth should think about the fact they are whizzing around in one of those galaxies themselves.

Guess it's all just there for astronomers to look at.
 
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Just awesome.
And then there's the rest of 'sky'. Anyone who says there is no life outside of earth should think about the fact they are whizzing around in one of those galaxies themselves.

Guess it's all just there for astronomers to look at.
Has zero doubt that life of some kind exists outside of our immediate slice of the universe.
Is that life visiting, or has ever visited, the earth is where I would draw the line.
 
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Just awesome.
Indeed it is.
Incomprehensible, how large the universe is.

And then there's the rest of 'sky'. Anyone who says there is no life outside of earth should think about the fact they are whizzing around in one of those galaxies themselves.

Guess it's all just there for astronomers to look at.
 
Such blasphemy, with references to evolution and things having been created long before the Bible says they were. ;)
 
Has zero doubt that life of some kind exists outside of our immediate slice of the universe.
Is that life visiting, or has ever visited, the earth is where I would draw the line.
I'll be convinced one way or the other after my first probing. Nah, that didn't really happen...:rolleyes:😁

But who knows what they don't know? I'm doubtful we've been visited; but then I hope we aren't the pinnacle of intelligence in the universe.
If the case, God help the universe.:ROFLMAO:
 
The picture is impressive. However what are we really seeing? Magnification of 4000x + a FOV of three moons put side by side? It's possible but the photograph would be the size of Texas and most parts of the image wouldn't be very interesting.
 
The picture is impressive. However what are we really seeing? Magnification of 4000x + a FOV of three moons put side by side? It's possible but the photograph would be the size of Texas and most parts of the image wouldn't be very interesting.
They are giving a perspective of what area of the sky it would be to you here on earth.

A thumb at arms length is about the size of the moon. Do that three times.

Now do the rest of the sky...:oops:😰
 
10K exposures composited, impressive!

It's nuts to see so much gravitational lensing all over the place.
 
The JWST is just...****ing awesome.
Indeed. Just imagine what the next generation of telescopes will be like. JWST could be to them what the Hubble (over 30 years old) is to the JWST. I suspect even more discoveries are forthcoming.
 
Indeed. Just imagine what the next generation of telescopes will be like. JWST could be to them what the Hubble (over 30 years old) is to the JWST. I suspect even more discoveries are forthcoming.

Unfortunately the next generation of telescopes won't be developed by the US. We think knowledge of science, math, and other things is woke and for sissies. We'd rather spend our time and energy doing manly things like building razor-wire fences and hiring prison guards because we know that this is what great civilizations were founded on.
 
Unfortunately the next generation of telescopes won't be developed by the US. We think knowledge of science, math, and other things is woke and for sissies. We'd rather spend our time and energy doing manly things like building razor-wire fences and hiring prison guards because we know that this is what great civilizations were founded on.
Some do seem to think that.
 
Has zero doubt that life of some kind exists outside of our immediate slice of the universe.
Is that life visiting, or has ever visited, the earth is where I would draw the line.
One interesting concept that I have learned about recently is chaos theory. The interesting insight is that chaos can often be self-organizing- through the random interplay of random forces, without intention or design. I think that’s an amazing insight. These emerging patterns and points of convergence are sometimes called “strange attractors”- often dynamic, contingent, and unstable- like swirling dust clouds that develop and then disappear over time.

If so, our galaxies, stars, atoms, molecules, as well as life, we humans, and our consciousness, may all be sort of strange attractors.

Example of strange attractors in chaos theory:

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How long before MAGA wants to kill this type of research?
They will probably tell you the money is probably better spent chasing after cancer causing wind turbines and pet eating Haitians.
 
The universe is infinitely large and infinitely small
 
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Just awesome.
And then there's the rest of 'sky'. Anyone who says there is no life outside of earth should think about the fact they are whizzing around in one of those galaxies themselves.

Guess it's all just there for astronomers to look at.

How did all that form in 6,000 years?



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How long before MAGA wants to kill this type of research?

So you are comfortable spending whatever millions is spent on this instead of spending it on abused women or starving children?


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Just awesome.
And then there's the rest of 'sky'. Anyone who says there is no life outside of earth should think about the fact they are whizzing around in one of those galaxies themselves.

Guess it's all just there for astronomers to look at.
I count maybe eleven individual stars in that image. Everything else is a galaxy, each with a hundred billion stars.

****ing mind-blowing, no matter how many deep fields I see. Always mind-blowing.
 
I don't think I see any lensing in this particular image. Where are you seeing it?
Not in the article pic, the detail is available for download and I fell into the rabbit hole poring through that downloaded detail. It’s nothing different from what JWST has been visualizing for a while now, it’s just amazing to me how many lensing arcs and other artifacts show up when looking at these deep field captures.

As a young adult I’d pore through Hubble images wherever I could get them, and wasn’t aware in the slightest of such things.
 
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