NGC 602: Stars Vs Pillars © JWST/Hubble

Webb's First Deep Field (Detail)

Credits: IMAGE: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI

Exoplanet Exploration: “Galaxy of Horrors”

Taken Under the ‘Wing’ of the Small Magellanic Cloud https://go.nasa.gov/2uC4d0c

Saturn in near-infrared (Webb)/visible, ultraviolet (Hubble)

shit man this got me emotional

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

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

The 3 best pictures of space objects Ive taken with my telescope [4974 x 3308]

Source: http://i.imgur.com/x4ZbSyA.jpg

Jupiter and its moons

Image credit: Nevan