James Webb telescope reveals gargantuan 'Mothra' star in most colorful image of the universe ever taken (www.livescience.com)

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[-] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago

I like to think that this universe is just waiting for anyone to reach immortality and spend the rest of time exploring it

[-] NattyNatty2x4@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I volunteer as tribute

[-] Cyberbatman 5 points 1 year ago

So beautiful yet so scary to know that we are only a tiny bit of dust in the whole galaxy

[-] newtraditionalists@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

"While Hubble images took 122 hours to produce, JWST's — collected nine years after Hubble's — took just 22 hours." That tidbit is crazy to me. Really, the whole thing is crazy to me.

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