News Forum - New universe selfie, astonishing first photo from the James Webb space telescope

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The very first image from the new James Webb Telescope has made its public debut today. Imagine holding a single grain of sand at your arm’s length. This amazing photo contains everything inside the piece of space covered by that tiny grain of sand. In this astonishing premiere for the new space telescope, the photo reveals, in sharp detail, over 1,000 galaxies – each galaxy containing approximately 100 billion stars (that’s 1,000,000,000 stars like our Sun, or larger). Some of the galaxies in the photo are so large that their massive gravitation is “bending” the light from the galaxies behind […]

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[DiJoDavO]

Was looking forward to it. Not disappointed! 

[Marble-eye]

So remember, when you’re feeling very small and insecure,

How amazingly unlikely is your birth;

And pray that there’s intelligent life somewhere up in space,

‘Cause there’s bugger all down here on Earth!

[ Eric Idle ]