MIRI version of NGC 2566. This galaxy is located only 76 million light-years away from us. 🔭 🧪 - ThreadSky

jwstfeed.bsky.social • 165 days ago

MIRI version of NGC 2566.
This galaxy is located only 76 million light-years away from us.
🔭 🧪

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thirdwhaletrip.bsky.social•165 days ago

Only....😂😂

justme78.bsky.social•165 days ago

My bags are packed and im ready to go , where is my ride?

scale-theory.bsky.social•165 days ago

Why do the starburst filter, loath that filter.

danrudge.bsky.social•165 days ago

road trip!

xxivangel.bsky.social•165 days ago

“only”

msmuffet6754.bsky.social•165 days ago

Now if only they had a tourist bus that could run at 76 million light years an hour, we could sell tickets for day trips.

princefan-1.bsky.social•165 days ago

🤩🤩

damo71.bsky.social•165 days ago

I'll bet they have universal healthcare and treat each other with respect. I'll also bet they're closer to building their NCC-1701 than we are!

shylayna.bsky.social•165 days ago

I like it.

rinnis-mom.bsky.social•165 days ago

Stunning 🤩. I would like to go there & visit, after I die and my souls is free to wander around the universe 🙏

1rmctldy.bsky.social•164 days ago

I so love your interludes. I’m in here doom scrolling, getting more pissed about all the terrible things happening and all of a sudden I fall in here. And it is peace and beauty and ..and….and…joy? Yes I get an endorphin rush of joy floating in your skys. Thank you so much.

chrisagilbert.bsky.social•165 days ago

Imagine that light traveled for 76 million years to land here...

stcloud1.bsky.social•165 days ago

So why spend money on space trips? Just let them find us and tell us how to really travel through space and time.

rwmacleod.bsky.social•165 days ago

" ... The image combines observations from two of Webb’s instruments, the Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam) and Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI), to show off NGC 2566’s well-defined spiral arms, long central bar and delicate tracery of gas, dust and stars."

https://esawebb.org/images/potm2412a/

rwmacleod.bsky.social•165 days ago

An oval-shaped spiral galaxy, seen close-up. Its core is a compact, pale spot that glows brightly, filling the disc with bluish light. Faint strands of pale reddish dust swirl out from the core to the far sides of the disc. ...

rwmacleod.bsky.social•165 days ago

They each join up with an arm of thick, cloudy, red dust with brighter orange patches, that follows the edge of the disc around to the opposite end and a little off the galaxy.

mickrick501.bsky.social•165 days ago

Never seen a halo galaxy before, impressive. forgive my ignorance but is the bright star a somehow lit up black hole or just a local star in the foreground?

witherbucket.bsky.social•165 days ago

Likely the bright core of the galaxy made up of supermassive black holes, which would be incredibly bright

hegelian1.bsky.social•165 days ago

When someone says something is only 76 million light years away, I hear a pop in my tiny brain.

highsorcerer.bsky.social•165 days ago

It could be further!

erikjolson.bsky.social•165 days ago

It’s fascinating to think that this galaxy might not even exist anymore, it took 76 million years for its light to reach us. By the time we’d even dream of exploring it, it could already be gone.

ps9714.bsky.social•165 days ago

Point taken ✅💯

minghow1.bsky.social•165 days ago

If some power can destroy a whole galaxy in only 76 million years, then we could be next, any time now.

paularosvold.bsky.social•165 days ago

Beautiful 😍

dandelionsarefree.bsky.social•165 days ago

Send donOLD & first lady Elonia there.🤣

iluvbugs.bsky.social•165 days ago

I’m looking to relocate.

sojourn42.bsky.social•165 days ago

if you hitchhike on the right hyperspace byway you can get there in no time at all ... you see at the speed of light, all time becomes meaningless

awh42.bsky.social•164 days ago

Only lol

flyfella.bsky.social•165 days ago

According to Creepy Mike ‘the universe is only 6000 years old’ Johnson this is woke drones…..

cracker15.bsky.social•165 days ago

60
billion more
like

justmyopinionok.bsky.social•165 days ago

It’s obviously a British 🇬🇧 galaxy… you can see the Union Jack flag right there in the middle 😹😹😹❤️🤍💙

pkrebes.bsky.social•165 days ago

Wow

clairewilson95.bsky.social•165 days ago

Hope we can catch a ride there

peanutbuttercookie.bsky.social•165 days ago

Almost close enough for a day-trip

nunciobitis.bsky.social•165 days ago

Right? I was just thinking of booking a vacation there.

chasinglorraine.bsky.social•165 days ago

Beautiful. What's its name?

cracker15.bsky.social•165 days ago

amazing!!!!

zanello.bsky.social•165 days ago

So that light-speed space probe sent by T-Rex should be there by now.

minghow1.bsky.social•165 days ago

No, it’s still several million light years short.

zanello.bsky.social•165 days ago

Then I’ll order a pizza delivered and stay up late to watch the landing.

larubia22.bsky.social•165 days ago

Stunning!!!

nostradammit.bsky.social•165 days ago

Spectacular!! 😳

jeffdudaphdco.bsky.social•165 days ago

Only??

wcyranose.bsky.social•165 days ago

Without my body I can travel the speed of light and and take the tour.

nowings4me2b3.bsky.social•165 days ago

That’s me again in the middle 🤩😂🌟🙏

danappalachia.bsky.social•165 days ago

So the light we're seeing from this galaxy began is journey millions of years before the dinosaurs became oil.

bouley.bsky.social•165 days ago

Beautiful

samsloah.bsky.social•165 days ago

can't get enough of these images. fantastic! 🔭

phoenician.bsky.social•165 days ago

“Only”

wahr-eeyore.bsky.social•165 days ago

A twinkle in the eye!

delphigibson.bsky.social•165 days ago

Spectacular!!

anasmashnova.bsky.social•165 days ago

Australia feeling regal

emorys.bsky.social•165 days ago

Only!!

cascadesbiker.bsky.social•165 days ago

only lol

cliffgal.bsky.social•165 days ago

beautiful!

owens-kd1.bsky.social•165 days ago

Only

earlofmayo.bsky.social•165 days ago

is it silly to wonder if there are any life forms there?

minghow1.bsky.social•165 days ago

It’s never silly to wonder.

earlofmayo.bsky.social•165 days ago

Indeed indeed.

adrame.bsky.social•165 days ago

"Only" 😂

msmilack75.bsky.social•165 days ago

is there a shortcut?

mar-flo-ele.bsky.social•165 days ago

❤️

mundey61.bsky.social•165 days ago

Round trip ticket price?

z52racing.bsky.social•165 days ago

Awesome ..

sfinlayson.bsky.social•165 days ago

Bluesky is making me pick ten posts to like to set my on my algorithmic journey. You are the second. Congratulations!

ksilvers.bsky.social•165 days ago

At the center of most galaxies is a black hole, so why is this one bright?

rwmacleod.bsky.social•165 days ago

Black holes are hard to see because well, they don't emit light! ;-)

Take a look at this Hubble visible light image for comparison. Remember that the JWST images are from the infra-red.

Source: https://cdn.astrobin.com/thumbs/x6kNwaDhPTc2_1824x0_esdlMP5Y.jpg

rwmacleod.bsky.social•165 days ago

Here's a good NASA backgrounder on SMBHs:
https://science.nasa.gov/universe/black-holes/

With a section on "Finding Black Holes" that might answer some of your questions.

churlayla.bsky.social•165 days ago

There better be a lot of booze in the galley for that flight.

churlayla.bsky.social•165 days ago

Only?🤣🤣🤣

traestorm.bsky.social•165 days ago

Can I go there? I don't care if there are no habitable planets. It can't be worse than this one right now.

miffa64.bsky.social•165 days ago

Then what are we waiting for? Let’s go!

jefflee65.bsky.social•165 days ago

👽 save us, please. We will make obedient pets... except for the rabid one called Elon.

arejee.bsky.social•165 days ago

Only 76? I'll call an Uber.

ashleyashida.bsky.social•165 days ago

Sooooo we lookin at the past?

tabernaclewired.bsky.social•165 days ago

Boom chicka popcorn

rumrace.bsky.social•165 days ago

Tragic Musk will run out of fuel attempting mars.

rajeshsisodia.bsky.social•165 days ago

That's crazy, how large is our universe!! And where are other intelligent civilisations? Why can't they contact us?
Wait... are we living in their labs?

minghow1.bsky.social•165 days ago

Because the universe is so vast, the billions of civilizations in it are separated by vast differences. So their signals are exceedingly faint and drowned out by all the stellar and black hole activity.