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Evan B

Evan B

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I know it was posted in the "Stuff in the Sky" thread, but I think this is such a big deal that it deserves its own discussion.

The first image is pretty incredible if you go over the high-res version, especially after reading about the Gravitational Lens phenomenon on display.

www.nasa.gov

Webb Image Galleries - NASA Science

Webb's most recent images released by NASA in 2026, displayed in reverse chronological order.
www.nasa.gov www.nasa.gov

High res version:
 
Super cool stuff, been following this for a while now.
 
I think this is a very big deal. Been following since launch. Thanks for posting the links.
 
Truly mind bottling. Can't wait to find out what we are actually looking at. Not sure I'll even be able to comprehend it anyway.
 
Ron McNeal said:
"170 billion galaxies"................ Galaxies!!!........... Much respect, wonderment really, to those who can actually comprehend this idea.....
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Then figure each galaxy on average might contain on average 100 billion individual stars, some of which are like our sun... Just impossible to contemplate the vastness.

Also the closest single galaxy outside our Milky Way, the Andromeda galaxy is 2.3 million light years away. So if that's #2, the #3 is even further, and then just keep counting to 170 billion.

Just the Milk Way alone is 100,000 light years across in size.
 
Images and clarity are truly stunning:

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As mentioned in "Stuff in the Sky", I'm going to have to upgrade my setup (honey, do we have a couple of extra billion laying around?).

Chers
 
Evan B said:
I know it was posted in the "Stuff in the Sky" thread, but I think this is such a big deal that it deserves its own discussion.

The first image is pretty incredible if you go over the high-res version, especially after reading about the Gravitational Lens phenomenon on display.

www.nasa.gov

Webb Image Galleries - NASA Science

Webb's most recent images released by NASA in 2026, displayed in reverse chronological order.
www.nasa.gov www.nasa.gov

High res version:
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Couldn't agree more about the importance of this incredible instrument finally coming online - and exceeding expectations. Personally I'm stunned they pulled it of given its complexity and sensitivity. Stuff like this typically needs a ton of TLC to work.
 
Hubble was/is great after they fixed it. This? Man it makes Hubble look pedestrian... so if we apply Moores law on a 35 year basis what are the new images from the newer telescopes gonna look like in 2040?
 
I have followed the development of the Webb since it's inception and always hoped I would live long enough to see the images. Yesterday that hope was fulfilled. But there is an agony about it, even more than ever it is clear that for all intents and purposes we are the only inhabitants of the universe. Sure, there are trillions of other planets out there that could conceivably hold life but they are incomprehensibly far away. With the nearest star about 70,000 years away at our current speeds it is pretty much a lock that mankind will never reach the stars. What we have here is this incredibly beautiful planet occupied by a gifted species that might be unique in all the universe. And we are razing it, overpopulating it and contaminating it. When I was born there was about 2.3 billion people on earth and there was plenty of room and resources with enough to go around. Fast forward 84 years and earth just passed 8 billion population-almost a 4x increase in one lifetime.

I don't have a theme or a point to make here-just an observation that many of the places I visited as a child that were open fields and forest are now covered with ticky-tacky tract homes to the horizon. A child born now can pretty much expect standing room only should he reach my age as the press of humanity robs him of much of the joy of the natural world. I wish our species could have done better.
 
iveofione said:
I have followed the development of the Webb since it's inception and always hoped I would live long enough to see the images. Yesterday that hope was fulfilled. But there is an agony about it, even more than ever it is clear that for all intents and purposes we are the only inhabitants of the universe. Sure, there are trillions of other planets out there that could conceivably hold life but they are incomprehensibly far away. With the nearest star about 70,000 years away at our current speeds it is pretty much a lock that mankind will never reach the stars. What we have here is this incredibly beautiful planet occupied by a gifted species that might be unique in all the universe. And we are razing it, overpopulating it and contaminating it. When I was born there was about 2.3 billion people on earth and there was plenty of room and resources with enough to go around. Fast forward 84 years and earth just passed 8 billion population-almost a 4x increase in one lifetime.

I don't have a theme or a point to make here-just an observation that many of the places I visited as a child that were open fields and forest are now covered with ticky-tacky tract homes to the horizon. A child born now can pretty much expect standing room only should he reach my age as the press of humanity robs him of much of the joy of the natural world. I wish our species could have done better.
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RCF said:
Hello?

Hello?

Anyone out there?
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Pretty much has to be somebody, some...thing(?) intelligent. More stars in the observable universe than grains of sand on Earth... and planets around most stars.

Let's just hope they haven't intercepted TV transmissions of Jerry Springer, People's Court, Jersey Shore, Kardashians, etc...... Yup, we're screwed.
 
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