Friday, May 31, 2024

Imaginary Friends


A new deep field image from the JWT, each one of these points of light (apart from the ones that look like six pointed stars) are galaxies, that is collections of billions of stars. Some of the galaxies in this image may have been formed little more than 300 million years from the big bang itself meaning that the light from them has taken nearly 14 billion years to reach the sensor on the JWT. 

With a reality as vast and as magnificent as this to study, who needs to waste time on imaginary friends.

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