Comet Lovejoy’s Long Needle-like Tail By Fritz Helmut Hemmerich

Your fave is problematic: Galaxy GN-Z11

this old object is the oldest fucking galaxy that we have discovered thus far

thanks Hubble space telescope

Gn-z11 is 13.4 billion years old… fuck

now you’re like, wtf, the universe is only 13.8 millions years old??? YES. This galaxy was observed by hubble as it was just 400 million years after the Big Bang

at this point in time, a cosmological baby

tricks people into thinking that she is 13.4 billion light years away… think again

Gn-z11 is actually 38 BILLION LIGHT YEARS AWAY

how can that be, you say, in a universe that’s “only” 13.8 billion years old? is the speed of light not the fastest thing in the universe?

well, given that Gn-z11 is so immensely old, and the universe is always expanding, space has expanded to a distance of 38 billion light years during the 13.4 billion years it took the light of Gn-z11 to reach us

keep in mind that when we observe old objects like the universe, we see them as they were then

time travel, so to speak

summary: time traveller, voyaged far, very wise, maybe a forest witch

Hubble’s view of the Carina Nebula, from the 2007-2009 era I think?

JWST’s view of the same nebula, July 12, 2022

First images from the James Webb Space Telescope:

Galaxy cluster SMACS 0723

Southern Ring planetary nebula

Stephan’s Quintet

Carina Nebula

to celebrate our seven new exoplanets, i made a pastel nasa logo!

who was the fool who was tasked with naming the galaxy and the only adjective they could think of was ‘mmmmmmmmmmmmilky…’

NGC 2419, Wanderer

shit man this got me emotional