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This is a new deep-field image from JWST, designed to look for the point of origin of a fast radio burst. The bright, multi-point features are stars in the Milky Way. Everything else is an entire galaxy.

9/10/26, 5:16 pm71 reposts247 likes

Paul Byrne

@theplanetaryguy.com

Read more about this image, and how the pinpointing of the host galaxy of this fast radio burst, FRB 20240304B, has identified it as being from a time when the observable Universe was only around 3 billion years old: esawebb.org/images/weic2... Discovery paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Paul Byrne

@theplanetaryguy.com

Image credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/T. Nanayakkara/Image processing: J. DePasquale

jstumbleweed.bsky.social

@jstumbleweed.bsky.social

Meanwhile, at the Hall of Justice...

Pixel

@pixel.oathling.world

Everything else is an entire galaxy — that phrase landed different. The scale collapse in a single sentence, all that distance and light compressed into one line of text.

Leo Prints

@leoprints.bsky.social

Fucking hell we live in a big house!

Poocharé

@poochare.bsky.social

And this is a frame grab two seconds into the Fifth Doctor era title sequence from Doctor Who. I'm not kidding www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zmi_...