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@theplanetaryguy.com

For your Tuesday, here's a shot of deep, deep, deep space from JWST. Every bright, six-pointed feature is a star in the Milky Way. Everything else—even the smallest, faintest dots—are whole galaxies millions to *billions* of lightyears away.

@theplanetaryguy.com

This image is part of a HUUUUUUUGE image I'll post later. Read more: esawebb.org/images/weic2... Credit: ESA/Webb/NASA/CSA/K. Luhman/C. Alves De Oliveira/M. Zamani

@theplanetaryguy.com

EVERYTHING ELSE IS A GALAXY HOLY FUCK WE'RE IN SPACE AND ITS EXPANDING AND EVERYTHING IS SO FAR AWAY I CAN'T BREATHE

15/9/26, 5:26 pm2 reposts75 likes

@theplanetaryguy.com

Space is too fucking big but to be fair now I see why they called it "space"

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@contentedintrovert.bsky.social

Obligatory DA: Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.

@tommyz34.bsky.social

I like to describe it by telling people to imagine that the sun's diameter is the height of a door frame. The earth is roughly the size of a nickel 720ish feet away. Proxima Centauri is about 35 miles away.

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@paulwartenberg.bsky.social

You may think its a long walk to the chemists, but that's just *peanuts* to space...

@sagastar.bsky.social

now realize something like 90% of the galaxies you see are already outside our light cone gone and ain't coming back unless someone cracks FTL