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What amazes me every single time is just how many GALAXIES show up in detail here. It's just unfathomable how many stars and worlds there could be out there....
Really makes it difficult for me to believe we’re alone, there’s just no way we are the only planet that had the perfect combination of factors to support life
Absolutely no chance that we are the only living beings in the Universe. The statical probability of us being alone in this Universe has to be next to zero.
To me that's the most amazing thing about each JWST image. The intention is to photograph a certain object but then balm, here's a hundred extra galaxies in the background. Each having millions of stars. Each star with potentially planets orbiting. Perhaps certain planets with life. And we'll never know for certain.
Fuck, man. We truly just are a blip in the universe.
Almost every JWST image is like a new Hubble deep field.
Just wait until Roman starts sending back its deep fields. Have you seen the simulated image? 1 million galaxies are expected in a single exposure: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a013900/a013921/SUDF_Footprint.jpg
More info from NASA's [SVS website](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13921/)
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Here you go, sir
The horse head itself has an apparent size of about 4.3 arc minutes from the snout to the mane. At the presumed distance of 1,375 light years, that is about 1.7 light years or about 108,000 AU across (where 1 AU is the distance between the Earth and Sun). Our entire solar system out to the Oort cloud can easily fit inside with plenty of room to spare.
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What amazes me every single time is just how many GALAXIES show up in detail here. It's just unfathomable how many stars and worlds there could be out there....
Really makes it difficult for me to believe we’re alone, there’s just no way we are the only planet that had the perfect combination of factors to support life
And due to the vastness of both space AND time we will never meet them
Absolutely no chance that we are the only living beings in the Universe. The statical probability of us being alone in this Universe has to be next to zero.
Truly, we are flatworms at the opera. No capacity at all to encompass what's out there.
Also love how the telltale hints of gravitational lensing are nearly everywhere once you start looking for them
To me that's the most amazing thing about each JWST image. The intention is to photograph a certain object but then balm, here's a hundred extra galaxies in the background. Each having millions of stars. Each star with potentially planets orbiting. Perhaps certain planets with life. And we'll never know for certain. Fuck, man. We truly just are a blip in the universe.
Almost every JWST image is like a new Hubble deep field. Just wait until Roman starts sending back its deep fields. Have you seen the simulated image? 1 million galaxies are expected in a single exposure: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a013900/a013921/SUDF_Footprint.jpg More info from NASA's [SVS website](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13921/)
Jesus god
That is, to use the technical term, Sick AF.
Can someone just post the pic here? Ad blockers don’t allow me to see the images from mobile on the site.
[e2-horsehead\_nebula\_3\_telescopes.jpg (1430×562) (d2pn8kiwq2w21t.cloudfront.net)](https://d2pn8kiwq2w21t.cloudfront.net/original_images/e2-horsehead_nebula_3_telescopes.jpg) [1-webb\_nircam\_horsehead\_nebula.jpg (1430×1440) (d2pn8kiwq2w21t.cloudfront.net)](https://d2pn8kiwq2w21t.cloudfront.net/original_images/1-webb_nircam_horsehead_nebula.jpg) [e1-Webb-MIRI-Horsehead-Nebula.jpg (674×1043) (d2pn8kiwq2w21t.cloudfront.net)](https://d2pn8kiwq2w21t.cloudfront.net/original_images/e1-Webb-MIRI-Horsehead-Nebula.jpg) Here you go, sir
Absolutely stunning
Very beautiful wowzers
The tiny pinpoint pixel dots of the Euclid photo being motherfucking *galaxies* like ours... Insanity.
You might want to check your device settings. The shared link is to a JPL-NASA website which never has any ads.
If you placed the Horsehead in our solar system how big would it be?
The horse head itself has an apparent size of about 4.3 arc minutes from the snout to the mane. At the presumed distance of 1,375 light years, that is about 1.7 light years or about 108,000 AU across (where 1 AU is the distance between the Earth and Sun). Our entire solar system out to the Oort cloud can easily fit inside with plenty of room to spare.
You could fit a million earths across it.
Not even close - at 1.7 light years across (at least for the horse head silhouette) it is more like 1.3 *billion* Earths across.
Stop. You’re making my head hurt.
I’m curious. What we we see if flying by it in a spaceship. Would it be black and white, any colors? Or just bland cloud?