The Astronomy Thread

Cybsled · Jul 18, 2022

What the heck is that odd artifact looking thing in the first photo? The chunk with stuff around it

Burns · Jul 19, 2022

Cybsled said:
What the heck is that odd artifact looking thing in the first photo? The chunk with stuff around it

Most likely it is one of the 80 moons of Jupiter, or an asteroid sitting somewhere between JWST and Jupiter.

Araysar · Jul 19, 2022

Brahma said:
Jupiter via JWST.

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Wow looks like shit. Can't believe we paid $20 billion and waited 30 years for this

meStevo · Jul 20, 2022

Big Phoenix · Jul 20, 2022

I love getting my astronomy news from cringe tiktoks.

meStevo · Jul 20, 2022

Meh, was a good brief explainer I came across after I saw someone else share the tweet.

I'll take whatever access to smart people I can get

Brahma · Jul 20, 2022

meStevo said:
Meh, was a good brief explainer I came across after I saw someone else share the tweet.

I'll take whatever access to smart people I can get

It was fine. Thx

Araysar · Jul 20, 2022

"here's a 13.4 billion year blurry red blob"

its just gets gayer and gayer

Tuco · Jul 20, 2022

I'm with Araysar. How many pixels of a red blob do you need for me to get an interdimensional blowjob?

Araysar · Jul 20, 2022

They should call it the Ketchup Stain galaxy.

Disband NASA.

Void · Jul 21, 2022

Big Phoenix said:
I love getting my astronomy news from cringe tiktoks.

She's what someone on this board famously called a factory 10. In normal society, a 5 or 6 or so depending upon your tastes. Not bad, bangable, worth considering for more if she's really cool and not too crazy. But if she's the one decent female at an almost all-male workplace, she automatically rockets to a 10. Sort of looks like it translates to TikTok too.

Furry · Jul 21, 2022

Araysar said:
They should call it the Ketchup Stain galaxy.

Disband NASA.

Maybe they'll find it's twin galaxy the mustard hole.

Kharzette · Jul 21, 2022

Lensed superdistant quasars could add a bit more weight to the distant star light being used as random elements in bell tests etc. My brain isn't big enough to know for sure, but I think superdistant stuff we can only see by lensing couldn't have crossing light cones in the past, making them perfect for the test.

I only just learned about this in: