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@theplanetaryguy.com

This is a new image from #JWST. The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way. Everything else is a galaxy. Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.

@theplanetaryguy.com

This image subtends 6.44 arcminutes top to bottom and left to right. The central, golden-hued cluster of galaxies are 7.3 billion lightyears away. Read more about this image: esawebb.org/images/potm2... Credit: ESA/Webb/NASA/CSA/G. Gozaliasl/A. Koekemoer/M. Franco/The COSMOS-Web team

29/4/25, 6:49 pm23 reposts270 likes

@theplanetaryguy.com

"We are a way for the cosmos to know itself." — Carl Sagan

samdallas.bsky.social

@samdallas.bsky.social

Also by Carl in pale blue dot

@theeponymousbob.bsky.social

For reference, the diameter of the Moon from Earth is about 31 arcminutes, right?

JeReOnerZ 1312 TOUT CRAMER Fan account !!!

@jereonerz.bsky.social

Yes 👍

@underthematrix.bsky.social

Thanks for including the article. It was very helpful in understanding the image. It makes the image much clearer.

Canuck in the Boonies

@canuckboonies.bsky.social

So a very, very small portion of the sky. Mind boggling.

@kristofarian.bsky.social

and They say we're Alone Too Fucking out here Funny! let's Hope They're Not Republicans.

d1ckm4ge.bsky.social

@d1ckm4ge.bsky.social

is the 7.3 billion lightyears light-travel distance or proper distance?