To me the cool thing about this image is that the sprinkling of blue stars are in the foreground, some 5 million light years away, while all those gorgeous colorful swirly galaxies are almost unimaginably more distant, out in the far depths of the cosmos. More info: https://www.stsci.edu/contents/media/images/2025/401/01JH0V3YAC020TJZQTPM337VAF?news=true
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Dr. Jessie Christiansen
Oh come ON now. This new JWST image is just ASTOUNDING.
I feel like I’m falling looking into it, and that I would fall forever, and that I would enjoy it.
NASA, ESA, CSA, K. McQuinn (STScI), J. DePasquale (STScI)
I feel like I’m falling looking into it, and that I would fall forever, and that I would enjoy it.
NASA, ESA, CSA, K. McQuinn (STScI), J. DePasquale (STScI)
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Blue/red shift is not something you see like this. It is measured by where absorption lines fall on the spectrum.
I figured “metal-poor” just meant their riffs were lame 🎸✨
And to think, it looks like that in EVERY DIRECTION. Wherever you point a telescope at the sphere of the universe and look closely enough, THAT. It’s beyond humbling. Words fail
;)
https://www.fanaticalfuturist.com/2022/02/worlds-first-real-warp-bubble-created-by-accident-as-scientists-mull-future-warp-drive/
garden-loving cat's sneeze!
(Aside from being beautiful to look at.)
Blue being closest and red being much further...
The universe has never looked better!
Mind-blowing.
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...wait: the speed of light, for five million years?
...I'm gonna need a little more imaginability.
Because blue light (even in stars) is pretty rare (from my comparatively shallow understanding of such things).
Can you clarify that for me?
I was just watching a program about quantum properties of light, and that was part of the program.
What can be see with naked eye goes from blue 0.4 to red 0.7 microns. So it's false but follows the stated rules. Scientific not artistic.
Therefore, I will take joy in the 0.4 microns.
I thank you.
The program in question was “The Secrets of Quantum Physics”, Ep 1, hosted by Prof Jim Al-Khalili of the University of Surrey, currently playing on Tubi.
Well, thanks for the clarification, at least.
Kinda bummer. I was hoping for a smattering of blue stars. 😄
Have an awesome day!
If that’s the case, and that’s “actual color,” it would make this image even more extraordinary, beyond its inherent beauty.
https://science.nasa.gov/mission/webb/multimedia/images/
So beautiful to see the full potential of this Engineering marvel come to pass!