I Swear This Is My First Bot In A While

First images from the James Webb Space Telescope:

Galaxy cluster SMACS 0723

Southern Ring planetary nebula

Stephan’s Quintet

Carina Nebula

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*sees moon* *remembers outer space* nice

Your fave is problematic: Galaxy GN-Z11

this old object is the oldest fucking galaxy that we have discovered thus far

thanks Hubble space telescope

Gn-z11 is 13.4 billion years old… fuck

now you’re like, wtf, the universe is only 13.8 millions years old??? YES. This galaxy was observed by hubble as it was just 400 million years after the Big Bang

at this point in time, a cosmological baby

tricks people into thinking that she is 13.4 billion light years away… think again

Gn-z11 is actually 38 BILLION LIGHT YEARS AWAY

how can that be, you say, in a universe that’s “only” 13.8 billion years old? is the speed of light not the fastest thing in the universe?

well, given that Gn-z11 is so immensely old, and the universe is always expanding, space has expanded to a distance of 38 billion light years during the 13.4 billion years it took the light of Gn-z11 to reach us

keep in mind that when we observe old objects like the universe, we see them as they were then

time travel, so to speak

summary: time traveller, voyaged far, very wise, maybe a forest witch

Saying there is no life on other planets is like getting a cup full of sea water and saying there are no fish in the sea

Neptune and its moons (Proteus, Larissa, Despina and Galatea) 

Credit: NASA / Hubble (infrared)

A rose made of galaxies http://bit.ly/2rmd9pP

Molten iron rain falls through the skies of scorching-hot exoplanet

WASP-76b is a hot Jupiter exoplanet discovered during 2013 that can be found in the constellation Pisces. It orbits a F-type star (WASP-76) and has a size 0.92 that of Jupiter’s mass. In March 2020, it was speculated the temperature on the planet could reach 2,400 °C on the hot side, hot enough to vaporize neutral iron. If the night side of WASP-76b had temperatures down to at least 1,400 °C, the iron may condense then rain down as hot liquid iron on its surface.

The atmosphere of WASP-76b is cloudy and mostly grey, with a significant amount of thermal incandescence.

space is weird