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JWST continues to blow our previous theories of astronomy out of the water...

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“We looked into the very early universe for the first time and had no idea what we were going to find,” Leja said. “It turns out we found something so unexpected it actually creates problems for science. It calls the whole picture of early galaxy formation into question.”

 
JWST continues to blow our previous theories of astronomy out of the water...

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Kinda mind-blowing to think about how much stuff there is out there that we just have no clue about. Do we really know that the universe is 13.7 billion years old? Not for sure, considering that these more mature galaxies exist out there. Maybe the universe extends out even farther than that and there are actual less mature galaxies at its edge. Who knows? It would be incredible to be able to travel out to these places and see things.
 
The James Webb space telescope has captured the rare and fleeting phase of a star on the cusp of death.

The observation was among the first made by the telescope following its launch in late 2021, but the picture was not released until this week. Webb’s infrared eyes observed all the gas and dust flung into space by a huge, hot star 15,000 light years away. A light year is about 5.8tn miles.

Shimmering in purple like a cherry blossom, the cast-off material once comprised the star’s outer layer. The Hubble space telescope snapped a shot of the same transitioning star a few decades ago, but it appeared more like a fireball without the delicate details…..


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The James Webb space telescope has captured the rare and fleeting phase of a star on the cusp of death.

The observation was among the first made by the telescope following its launch in late 2021, but the picture was not released until this week. Webb’s infrared eyes observed all the gas and dust flung into space by a huge, hot star 15,000 light years away. A light year is about 5.8tn miles.

Shimmering in purple like a cherry blossom, the cast-off material once comprised the star’s outer layer. The Hubble space telescope snapped a shot of the same transitioning star a few decades ago, but it appeared more like a fireball without the delicate details…..


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Just wow.
 
The James Webb space telescope has captured the rare and fleeting phase of a star on the cusp of death.

The observation was among the first made by the telescope following its launch in late 2021, but the picture was not released until this week. Webb’s infrared eyes observed all the gas and dust flung into space by a huge, hot star 15,000 light years away. A light year is about 5.8tn miles.

Shimmering in purple like a cherry blossom, the cast-off material once comprised the star’s outer layer. The Hubble space telescope snapped a shot of the same transitioning star a few decades ago, but it appeared more like a fireball without the delicate details…..


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We're all, Wow that's beautiful.

Meanwhile, some poor civilization that was orbiting that star got vaporized.
 
We're all, Wow that's beautiful.

Meanwhile, some poor civilization that was orbiting that star got vaporized.
Well, I know that Tragedy + Time = Comedy. Perhaps (Tragedy + Time) \Wonder = Beauty??

Then again, I got that viral Order of Equations problem wrong the other day, so what the hell do I know??? :hihi:
 
We're all, Wow that's beautiful.

Meanwhile, some poor civilization that was orbiting that star got vaporized.
All except the last survivor, the infant son of the planet's leading scientist who placed his child in a spaceship and launched right before the destruction of Kryp......... whatever the planet was called
 

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