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The Avenger
Out of this world amazing!!!
The vastness and scope of the universe is beyond my understanding.
Sven Asai
Yes, beautiful and amazing, like a painting of Monet too. But it’s finally of no use and only causing massive costs. That big amount of money for ‘space exploration’ is better spent on all those real problems on our planet.
fallaffel
Of no use to who? Scientists are using it to better understand the history of the universe! Isn't that something worth knowing about?
TrevorPeace
Compare that photo to the one of the sanshakudama at the Gamagori Fireworks Festival in today's issue. Both are gorgeous. No complaints here.
MilesTeg
There's plenty of funding money out there and it's being used for far, far more frivolous things than space exploration. It's very possible that what we learn from space exploration can be used to address serious problems on earth as well.
Nemo
This is just jaw-dropping.
WilliamJames
The last line of the story is absurd. Current state? We are seeing the state of the galaxy 500 million years ago.
"While Webb gives us a snapshot of the current state of the Cartwheel, it also provides insight into what happened to this galaxy in the past and how it will evolve in the future."
Still, it's a stunning revelation of the beauty of the Universe.
georgiopelo
Amazing and humbling. Reminds us or how petty and delusional us humans are? How can people still believe in religion if they see this and then just think a little? We are only a speck of irrelevant dust to the unplanned, uncontrollable universe. The only thing humans can do to alter it, nowadays especially, is to destroy our own entire planet. And if we do, the universe will pay no attention, it will just go on without us.
oyatoi
Five hundred million years from now, we’ll be able to see attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion and the Tannhäuser Gate’s glittering C beams.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=7&v=NoAzpa1x7jU&feature=emb_logo
Sven Asai
Exactly that, it’s of no measurable use, isn’t worth anything and also is not even possible knowing about. The money and resources have all to be used instead to solve problems here and now, on this planet, for our and future generations.
Peter Neil
This is an infrared image, longer wavelengths than our eyes can see, so it doesn’t look like that to the naked eye. But still amazing.
TokyoLiving
It's a farce for simple minds, pathetic Santa never existed..
englisc aspyrgend
Stunning, beautiful and fascinating. We live in an amazing age, able to discover and understand things our ancestors couldn’t even dream of.
And still there are people who only want to naval gaze and inspect the fluff, incapable of grasping that as a species we have the breadth of intellect and capacity to look out and fathom the infinite wonders of the universe while also seeking to improve our own spec of dust.