This first image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date. Known as Webb’s First Deep Field, this image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 is overflowing with detail. Thousands of galaxies – including the faintest objects ever observed in the infrared – have appeared in Webb’s view for the first time. This slice of the vast universe covers a patch of sky approximately the size of a grain of sand held at arm’s length by someone on the ground.
“The south pole of Mars, September 1877.” Star-land : being talks with young people about the wonders of the heavens. 1892.
A very high resolution view of big beautiful Saturn
Composition Credit: Mattias Malmer, Image Data: Cassini Imaging Team (NASA)
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
imagine if aliens found the dead body of a human being exploded in the vacuum of space and they started making fun of the mutilated corpse calling it “splatter alien” and saying it was the ugliest alien in the whole galexy. and then made stuffed animals of it to sell to their alien kids. that’s what happened on this planet to the blob fish
Behemoth Black Hole Found in an Unlikely Place by NASA Goddard Photo and Video
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andrei, he/him, 21, made this at 14 when i was a space nerd but i never fully grew out of that phase so,,,,..,hubble telescope + alien life + exoplanet + sci fi nerd
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