The first test image of the James Webb Telescope
6 shiny black dots are nearby stars, and every other bright pixel is a complete galaxy, each with hundreds of billions of stars and planets 🌌
There is something very poetic about the fact that, in some ways, humanity’s most important intellectual achievements best demonstrate how insignificant we are, how flimsy our existence is, and how far our arrogance, our idea of our place in the universe, exceeds reality.
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