First Released James Webb Telescope Picture

[Tennesseer]

Picture is an area of our sky about the size of a grain of sand. Deep space light from 13.5 billion light years ago. All those galaxies. More pictures to be released today.

[djAdvocate]

it is impossible to imagine we are alone in the universe.

[bean29]

They were talking about this on the news when I was in the kitchen this am.  Can you tell me more about the telescope, or link to an article with details - I am super busy today.

Thanks!

[Tennesseer]

Jul 12, 2022 12:34:41 GMT -5 bean29 said:

They were talking about this on the news when I was in the kitchen this am.  Can you tell me more about the telescope, or link to an article with details - I am super busy today.

Thanks!

James Webb Space Telescope

[Tennesseer]

Jul 12, 2022 12:24:04 GMT -5 djAdvocate said:

it is impossible to imagine we are alone in the universe.

All in all, Hubble reveals an estimated 100 billion galaxies in the universe or so, but this number is likely to increase to about 200 billion as telescope technology in space improves, Livio told Space.com.

How many galaxies are there?

In an email with Live Science, lead author Christopher Conselice, a professor of astrophysics at the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom, said there were about 100 million stars in the average galaxy.

How many stars are in the universe?

Let's compromise on the number of galaxies. How about 150 billion of them. And I'll stick with an average of 100 million stars in an average galaxy. I am going to assign an assumption the average star has 4 planets. So let's do the math.

The total number of planets in the universe is roughly around 60,000,000,000,000,000,000 or 60 quintillion stars.

Surely more than one of them must have intelligent life on them (and I am using the word intelligent life loosely based upon today's intelligence).

[Tiny]

Jul 12, 2022 13:09:11 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

Surely more than one of them must have intelligent life on them (and I am using the word intelligent life loosely based upon today's intelligence).

It's a nice thought - but I doubt we (humans) will meet that life... Time is wrench in the works.

[saveinla]

I think no one wants to meet us and you cannot blame them. 

[NoNamePerson]

Jul 12, 2022 12:24:04 GMT -5 djAdvocate said:

it is impossible to imagine we are alone in the universe.

I've always thought "earthlings" were conceited to think we are all there is out there in the form of life! And I would love to meet a living being from other galaxies, etc. 

[tractor]

Jul 12, 2022 18:07:44 GMT -5 NoNamePerson said:

Jul 12, 2022 12:24:04 GMT -5 djAdvocate said:

it is impossible to imagine we are alone in the universe.

I've always thought "earthlings" were conceited to think we are all there is out there in the form of life! And I would love to meet a living being from other galaxies, etc. 

Maybe they're already all around us, but we just don't know....squirrels always seemed suspect to me.

[pulmonarymd]

Cats, definitely cats.

[NoNamePerson]

Jul 13, 2022 8:41:34 GMT -5 tractor said:

Jul 12, 2022 18:07:44 GMT -5 NoNamePerson said:

I've always thought "earthlings" were conceited to think we are all there is out there in the form of life! And I would love to meet a living being from other galaxies, etc. 

Maybe they're already all around us, but we just don't know....squirrels always seemed suspect to me.

  I remember a movie from my youth about aliens inhabiting bodies. They put an X on people. I found myself looking for X’s on certain people around me. One time I put an x on my neck just for the heck of it. Was made to wash it off that night.  Old black and white movie. Somebody reading this will come up with title before I head to google. Had to be in early fifties

[Tiny]

Even if we can't visit all those galaxies and may never meet an lifeform from them we are all still connected: 

“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”

― Carl Sagan, Cosmos




And to bring it all a little closer to "home": 


“There’s as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each of us, a little universe.”

― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Cosmos

[Tennesseer]

Jul 13, 2022 10:46:04 GMT -5 NoNamePerson said:

Jul 13, 2022 8:41:34 GMT -5 tractor said:

Maybe they're already all around us, but we just don't know....squirrels always seemed suspect to me.

  I remember a movie from my youth about aliens inhabiting bodies. They put an X on people. I found myself looking for X’s on certain people around me. One time I put an x on my neck just for the heck of it. Was made to wash it off that night.  Old black and white movie. Somebody reading this will come up with title before I head to google. Had to be in early fifties

For some reason, Invaders from Mars (1953) comes to mind.

[NoNamePerson]

Jul 13, 2022 10:47:29 GMT -5 Tiny said:

Even if we can't visit all those galaxies and may never meet an lifeform from them we are all still connected: 

“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”

― Carl Sagan, Cosmos




And to bring it all a little closer to "home": 


“There’s as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each of us, a little universe.”

― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Cosmos

But I want to shank hands, stand toe to toe, nose to nose with them. Looking at my teeth for calcium just doesn’t get it. 

[NoNamePerson]

Jul 13, 2022 11:00:50 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

Jul 13, 2022 10:46:04 GMT -5 NoNamePerson said:

  I remember a movie from my youth about aliens inhabiting bodies. They put an X on people. I found myself looking for X’s on certain people around me. One time I put an x on my neck just for the heck of it. Was made to wash it off that night.  Old black and white movie. Somebody reading this will come up with title before I head to google. Had to be in early fifties

For some reason, Invaders from Mars (1953) comes to mind.

Sounds about right! 

[Tiny]

Jul 13, 2022 11:11:12 GMT -5 NoNamePerson said:

But I want to shank hands, stand toe to toe, nose to nose with them. Looking at my teeth for calcium just doesn’t get it. 

What if the aliens have one tentacles, no toes and no nose?


LOL! I just saw a new musical called It came from Outerspace (based on the 1953 movie based on a short story by Ray Bradbury).

The aliens in the movie were blob-y with one eye and weird tendril like appendages...
The aliens in the stage play had an eye and tentacle like appendages.

They were ultimately friendly aliens.

[happyhoix]

I read an article a while back about all the reasons why we might not have encountered aliens yet. (There are none, we’re in the desolate sticks too far off the beaten path to get noticed, they have visited but not in a form we can see or feel, they’re avoiding us because we’re stupid and dangerous) but the most sad one was that all intelligent life forms get to a point where they are developed enough to cause mass destruction of their planet and shortly afterwards, they do.

[Tennesseer]

Webb Accidentally Spied a Stunning Side View of a Galaxy in Its First Image Drop





Webb Accidentally Spied a Stunning Side View of a Galaxy in Its First Image Drop

[NoNamePerson]

Jul 13, 2022 11:49:58 GMT -5 Tiny said:

Jul 13, 2022 11:11:12 GMT -5 NoNamePerson said:

But I want to shank hands, stand toe to toe, nose to nose with them. Looking at my teeth for calcium just doesn’t get it. 

What if the aliens have one tentacles, no toes and no nose?


LOL! I just saw a new musical called It came from Outerspace (based on the 1953 movie based on a short story by Ray Bradbury).

The aliens in the movie were blob-y with one eye and weird tendril like appendages...
The aliens in the stage play had an eye and tentacle like appendages.

They were ultimately friendly aliens.

I've seen people in WM that looked stranger than that!  

[Tiny]

Picture is an area of our sky about the size of a grain of sand. Deep space light from 13.5 billion light years ago. All those galaxies. More pictures to be released today.

We are an eye blink in time.

[Tennesseer]

Jul 14, 2022 11:38:10 GMT -5 Tiny said:

Picture is an area of our sky about the size of a grain of sand. Deep space light from 13.5 billion light years ago. All those galaxies. More pictures to be released today.

We are an eye blink in time.

Wouldn't it be interesting if the telescope was somehow able to zero in on a planet's surface located in one of those deep space stars and galaxies and able to see non-natural structures in various degrees of construction or destruction. That would mean we would be seeing a civilization which existed billions of light years ago.

[Tennesseer]

Jul 13, 2022 9:38:28 GMT -5 ArchietheDragon said:

I saw a guy on the street in NYC spray paint that exact picture. 

[billisonboard]

Hey Tennesseer,  did you catch this one?

[Tennesseer]

Aug 5, 2022 12:55:48 GMT -5 billisonboard said:

Hey Tennesseer,  did you catch this one?

chorizo.

[billisonboard]

Wanted to just post it first for Tennesseer without comment. Figured he had seen it but thought it would be fun if he hadn't, 

Top scientist admits 'space telescope image' was actually a slice of chorizo

The article mentions something about "cocktail hour".

[Tennesseer]

Chorizo tapas?

[djAdvocate]

i was actually thinking it looked like food.