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For your Monday, here's one of the JWST Deep Field images. This is a portion of the sky about one-fifth the size of a full Moon. And it contains THOUSANDS of galaxies—some of which extend back to when the Universe was a couple of billion years old. The redder a galaxy, the farther away it is.

Take any single portion of this image and you'll find hundreds and hundreds of galaxies. Each hosting hundreds of millions to hundreds of *billions* of stars. Countless, unknowable planets—but on the basis of what we see in the Milky Way, probably hundreds of billions to trillions of planets.

I have no idea how far away this galaxy is, nor how big it is. (That information is obtainable, I just don't have it.) But more than anything, I wonder if there are people there, looking back.

Anyway, here's the full-size image, together with information as to the program under which it was collected. esawebb.org/images/potm2... Credit: ESA/Webb/NASA/CSA/G. Gozaliasl/A. Koekemoer/M. Franco/The COSMOS-Web team