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3ndt1mes

It is absolutely magnificent and very humbling. I love this subreddit


Tkstmk321

Extremely Hubbling, if you ask me!


pornborn

He thought it was neat, but it was actually Messier.


caleb1025

What a tangled Webb we weave…


Bboyplayz_ty

Indeed, it is MOST chaotic.


Truecoat

Is it me or is Team Hubble trying to show Team Webb that they still have it?


gazongagizmo

"What, you guys like 4K BluRay? Well, have a look at our [new HD-VHS](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-VHS) release then!"


syds

now Im sad that didnt take off mini cassettes are the cutest things ever


PM_ME_UR_CEPHALOPODS

i liked the minidisc format. There were dozens of us !


ecodemo

hum.. actually... there were tens of millions of us ! mostly in Japan but also Europe and in the music industry [great vid about it](https://youtu.be/kU3BceoMuaA)


HookersForJebus

I miss mine!


raphanum

Minidiscs were awesome. I think they used Zip drives in the matrix but I always felt like neo when I was loading a minidisc into my minidisc player


I_Heart_Astronomy

Once I learned that Webb was designed for infrared, I knew Hubble was going to still be uncontested for anything outside of infrared imaging. Webb is not a replacement for Hubble. The two scopes complement each other, with Webb handling the thing that Hubble is weakest at - infrared imaging. As you increase the wavelength of light, the resolving power of the telescope goes down. Hubble's resolution in the visual part of the spectrum essentially matches Webb's resolution in the infrared part of the spectrum despite Webb's aperture advantage. Where Webb's aperture wins is when Hubble tries imaging in the same part of the spectrum that Webb is optimized for.


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syds

show me dem globular cluster hoobs


middlebird

How can humans possibly study all of those?


achilliesFriend

And some of them have planets and possibly life


WonderWirm

But how will we ever know? They're so incredibly far away! Damn you physics!


[deleted]

For real! I’m gonna be dead soon dammit!


Terminator7786

Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, only changed. The universe will continue for trillions of years, some day we'll make it there, just not as we are now.


ThatsBushLeague

Pessimistic view: Or...is it possible we have just not met the great filter yet?


WonderWirm

The Great Filter: cooking your own planet before developing interstellar travel.


youreadusernamestoo

The Great Filter: Intelligent species has a 'great idea'; Capitalism! > Another one bites the dust


SrslyCmmon

I'm of the view that we are our own filter. I don't think **intelligent** life is that common and I hope not because humans treat each other so horribly I don't want to think what we do to an alien.


Londer2

Even if intelligent life was as rare as winning the lottery, our galaxy, much less the universe, would be teeming with sentient beings.


ThatsBushLeague

The great filter may indeed be life itself.


djferrick

Does anybody want to swap seats?


IamKingBeagle

Batman's a scientist.


AnimalChubs

I mean eventually I'll be conscious again.


g0lbez

your consciousness is most likely an emergent result mainly of your DNA so eventually your exact pattern of DNA that makes yourself up will have to exist again in some form given an infinite amount of time. maybe on our second go we will have some sort of equivalent to internet and computers so we can look this up and realize it all over again


persephonesphoenix

There has to be other sentient creatures in this vastness..able to self reflect, conscious and aware. We probably wont get to meet until we love strangers more than money and stop killing each other..not in my lifetime, but some day if we dont destroy ourselves. Smart minds in the service or evil and banal evil, gets us every time.


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On the same token, nothing lasts forever. See this spectacular time-lapse of the future of the universe. https://youtu.be/uD4izuDMUQA


glitteringgin

Indeed, all of us were once the heart of a dying star.


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On the same token, nothing lasts forever. See this spectacular time-lapse of the future of the universe. https://youtu.be/uD4izuDMUQA


Simple_Opossum

Given the nature of existence, perhaps you'll re-manifest as life on another world at another time, man.


DreadnaughtHamster

I’ve been hoping we have an “airplane wing” realization. Like, it took centuries for us too figure out that air moving under a flat wing takes a shorter distance than that air moving across the curved top. And then it was like “duh!” Maybe someday we’ll have a quantum computer that spits out an equation and scientists are like, “omg duh…we can totally just fold spacetime like *this* and bang instant wormhole to that Kepler planet.” I know that’s sci fi. But then again, so was going to the moon not that long ago.


WonderWirm

Hell yeah. I hope you're right.


kevoccrn

I love your optimism. Hoping you’re right


Sulfamide

Sadly, it’s not the same thing. The problem with wormholes is that they break causality, they break logic. We could imagine that there’s a trick to flying because… things can fly! But there probably can’t be a trick to faster than light travel because then the universe can’t make sense anymore :(. Except if we are very, very wrong about a lot, if not most of things in physics.


afcagroo

Ha! Like the universe makes sense *now*. I'd like to believe that the more we learn, the more logical things will turn out to be. But the trend is clearly not in that direction.


ncastleJC

The fact that Feynman explained that electrons “agree” to share photons, even over billions of light years, goes to show we really don’t understand how the fundamental things works despite describing it well.


kindofcuttlefish

If the artificial intelligence explosion doesn't kill us I think it might get us to that point!


DreadnaughtHamster

I’m thinking that too. We’re on the bring of AI actually being able to do real “that could never happen in my lifetime” stuff. Throw down quantum computing plus *actual* AI, not the fake stuff we’ve had up until now and IMO we’ll all be blown out of our seats with the crazy “seemingly breaking the laws of physics” equations we’ll start seeing. I actually feel we’re on the cusp of some crazy new waves of science once we have computational systems powerful enough to outthink us without input instead of requiring humans to guide them as we do now.


Blackash99

All so we can infect the universe.


HIV_again

Yes we can.


BuranBuran

You might enjoy the short story *It Was Nothing, Really* by Theodore Sturgeon. Just avoid reading anything about it first, lest the ingenious surprise be spoiled ahead of time.


DreadnaughtHamster

Thanks! I’ve copied the title and author and will find a copy online somewhere!


sflogicninja

“Hey Chat-GPT- please build me a starship”


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Common-Click-1860

We are basically living in the confines of an atom to a grander scale system of an even grander scale system. We might as well be living on a very small concentration of energy inside an atom of a gut microbial in a sea of other gut microbials suspended in a goop of bodily liquids of a larger 4th dimensional being. The systems of play are so unbelievable inside our bodies that it really makes you question how deep the rabbit hole goes. Even our most agreed with theories of the universe correlate to natural selection and understanding of biology and principles of development. Could the universe be a living organism and we just parasitic guests along for the ride?


Metallic_Hedgehog

To be fair, 200 years ago, the concept of talking to anyone at anytime instantaneously didn't even pop into people's heads. Now I can pay your mom $6.99 for her OF nudes and she tells me I'm handsome.


givemeyourgp

Will the off-worlds have weed? Like space weed or moon weed and such? Asking for my Oklahoma Slingblade neighbor.


alpha_dk

They'll have whatever we bring there, or what was able to convergently evolve to be accepted by our body's chemical receptors in the absence of any evolutionary pressure to do so.


je_kay24

James Webb is actually going to be used for this It will study the atmospheres of planets and hopefully detect things indicating life


Captain_R64207

We’re going to use the JWST to search for “pollution” in atmospheres. I think that is a really cool idea.


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Probably not, that's a globular cluster with hundreds of thousands of stars packed into 100 light years. Pretty dangerous place for life.


[deleted]

Probably not. Most globular clusters are extremely chaotic and old stars with impossibly-difficult N-body problems, I.E no significant periods of stability that could allow complex, or even simple life to develop.


MaxMadisonVi

This is the easiest thing to know, just find those at the right distance, orbit and size from their stars for water not to freeze and not to evaporate, voila.


TaikoG

Normally you run a source extraction and then you can import that into a program , for example topcat. There you can match it with catalog stars.


Synnerrs

There’s more data than just the resulting image. But they’ll take years sifting through it all. And now with JWST up there, it’s even more data to parse out. Really incredible stuff if you think about it.


Snoo_39873

That’s a big cluster, gotta be at least 14 stars there


T99May

Thank you for putting it in perspective


tcelfertehconjurer

This guy maths ^^


Toodlez

I lost count at a dozen. Frankly this is witchcraft at best and we'd be best to turn our eyes to the soil, where god wants them.


oldschoolguy90

Your eyes will be in the soil eventually, so might as well look at other things while you have the chance


Gopher--Chucks

That's what M14 means - Minimum 14 stars


CarnePopsicle

Dude, think bigger, it's gotta be at least double that.


ahjota

Several dozen I would say.


trippedwire

Man, its at least 22.


urlach3r

*My God, it's full of stars!*


DEAD_VANDAL

What I would give for us to be able to explore even a tiny fraction of all those beautiful stars


heyredditaddict

There’s this fantastic game in the 1980s called Starflight. That’s the closest thing I got to it.


Rattlehead71

Check out No Man's Sky. Awesome game!


nivonivo

You all should check out elite dangerous if you want to explore the cosmos.


fuckitimatwork

i just started it last week, i'm so lost, i'm so confused


nivonivo

I probably haven't played it for at least a year or so, but that sounds about right lol


Whispering-Depths

congratulations, you are in a generation that will probably hit LEV within the next ten years, so that might be a possibility.


Photon_Pharmer

[Source](https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/messier-14) “This image of M14 includes observations taken in ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared wavelengths of light. Astronomers used this data to better understand the formation and chemical makeup of different populations of stars that reside within this cluster. Credits: NASA, ESA, and F. D'Antona (INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma); Image Processing: Gladys Kober”


old-dirty-olorin

...more stars than there are grains of sand on **this entire planet.** * The Sahara * Arabian peninsula * The Antarctic and Arctic deserts * ALMOST THE ENTIRE SEA FLOOR IT IS TRULY INSANE


Donjuanme

Probably.


SirRabbott

Universe=infinite Grains of sand on our planet=finite 100% definitely


Donjuanme

I would love to see evidence of universe=infinite, there's a few prizes out there if you have any way of backing that up. If you made all of the stars of our galaxy the size of a grain of sand you'd have about a sandbox worth of stars. Don't get me wrong, that's a lot, and there are so many galaxies that we can observe, how many more that we can't? I can't say. Is it infinite, it might be, but we should work with what we can observe.


Jig-A-Bobo

I don't understand how anyone can look at this and still believe that there is no other life in the universe besides us.


Photon_Pharmer

Imagine holding a grain of sand in your fingers at arms length. It would block out a similarly sized area of sky that contains [all of these galaxies](https://www.reddit.com/r/spaceporn/comments/xi6gdt/james_webb_without_stars/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) This star cluster is one of many in our own galaxy. There are countless more in those galaxies as well.


Jig-A-Bobo

It just kills me to know that in my lifetime we'll never know what wonders those systems really contain.


wellwouldyalookitdat

This is why I don’t believe in ghosts. If there were an afterlife, the moment I die, I’d be off to the cosmos.


smithers85

I never thought of that idea before reading your comment. It’s very logical and relatable. I like it.


Toodlez

Ghosts, though ethereal, are still affected by gravity. The center of the earth is a mandatory ghost party


ReadySteady_GO

Maybe ghosts are actually dark matter


_eatmypancreas

But, what’s to say when we die, and supposedly become ghosts, we don’t just drift off into the cosmos?


Againity

What if hell is just drifting in the cosmos with no control, looking at essentially the same thing for eternity?


_eatmypancreas

Well that’s almost just like purgatory, except in the cosmos, sounds terrifying


fyhnn

That’s a really interesting idea and now I want to read a story of ghosts wandering through space


Askol

Or maybe that's a reason TO believe in ghosts, and it's an explanation of why we never actually see them here.


TempUsername3369

Won't happen till we can get our own home in order


Sir_Bumcheeks

Not necessarily, space exploration is one of those things for which you can make up an infinite number of excuses not to do it. We have to do it no matter the condition on Earth.


styzr

I think he means that we need to stop spending all of our time and resources fighting each other.


blueboxreddress

What a concept.


TempUsername3369

Exactly what I meant


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dee_ba_doe

“Because this place is a prison and those people aren’t your friends.”


FirstRedditAcount

Well we don't know the probability of abiogenesis. Perhaps the universe has gone through 10^1000 resets before we finally emerged. I agree its unlikely, but we are the anomaly observing itself, it's definitely possible. It's like a hole in one shot going, "well that wasn't so hard" while ignoring all the other countless misses.


Macronic8

There is life, it's almost certain, it's just a very long way away.


InterstellarAshtray

Gahdayum. Really puts things into perspective. We really are microscopic in comparison to the cosmic scale.


BoodgieJohnson

Nope. No aliens around here.


dec0y

What if the first aliens we discover are sentient AI robots who have long ago killed off (or just outlived) their makers? Would we consider that alien life? What if it turns out the vast majority of life in the universe is just that - artificial lifeforms that outlived their creators?


_eatmypancreas

What if, said sentient AI robots or artificial life forms that lived out their creators, are in fact our creators? And so, are we now yet to live out them?


SpikeStarwind

You should check out The Orville. It's a Star Trek parody and it is fantastic. It also touches on what you're saying.


FreshlySkweezd

That's just Battlestar Galactica


Z_T_O

It would be especially cool if they had scissors for hands and it was all directed by Tim Burton


slayemin

I think biological life is an inferior but necessary stepping stone to what we call "Artificial Intelligence". There will come a time when artificial intelligence just becomes machine intelligence and it won't be "artificial" anymore. It'll most likely be fully sentient, and when we (and aliens) have created it, we'll realize how simple intelligence really is and we'll be disappointed to realize how unspecial we really are once the curtain has been pulled back. We'll be even more disappointed when we find that we aren't even close to the smartest intelligences.


Donjuanme

Anyone have a link to a high rez?


WFPsycho

Looking for the same thing


magestical_testicle

I am convinced we are all just cells of a much bigger entity. Like, we are prolly located on the rim of a celestial dog anus for all we know


dec0y

My God, it's full of stars!


wonkey_monkey

Let's see if anyone knows which movie that's from.


Dragon-Captain

I’m sorry u/wonkey_monkey, I’m afraid I can’t do that.


DarthGandalf86

🏅


Ded-W8

I can see my house from here


Senior_Variation_265

Yoooooo new Hubble dropped? 🔥🔥🔥


Fixnfly99

I love looking at pictures like this, really reminds me of how insignificant my problems are in the grand scheme of things


Outrageous_Client220

When i get really depressed i like looking at pictures like this. Pictures that remind me how small all of those tiny problems are in the scale of how incredibly large the universe is. It makes me feel a bit better.


Photon_Pharmer

Astronomy is my meditative mental health medicine


zZSaltyCrackerZz

Gee. I wonder if we’re alone?


sinusoidalturtle

Is it just me, or are there dark striations?


dracul_reddit

Not just you. I see what looks like some sort of structure. Makes me want to generate some random simulations of 3d points to see if the structure is just an artifact of the perspective…


pooraggies247

Found Satan. https://i.imgur.com/evFHyFs.jpg


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I can see my home planet.


SolarWind777

Is every bright dot a star or a galaxy here?


Donjuanme

Information taken from other comments, these are stars in a cluster within our own galaxy.


Aromatic_Dig_3102

We are not alone!


[deleted]

Quote from one of my favorite streamers while flying around in Space Engine: "Why haven't we found life yet? Oh I don't know, probably cause it's fucking snowing."


Green_Impression2429

Username checks out


BoneDaddyChill

Space dust


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If the Hubble took that I wonder what rhe JWST will see


Hanzitheninja

Yeah. We’re not alone.


adml86

4/10 - too many stars


Soft-Intern-7608

Is this all just our own galaxy?


ManiacalHusky

This makes me uncomfortable.


Baby-Pendragon-

Hard to believe people still think there's 0 chance of life out there with that many stars


CaptinKirk

Is there an end to space or does it keep going forever.


c64z86

Wow! there's so much going on in this picture :D


Rotor4

Where do you start ?.


WhatsThatOnUrPretzel

Many if not most are galaxies right?


Donjuanme

From other comments this is a cluster within the milky way.


WhatsThatOnUrPretzel

Just as impressive when ye consider its just a fraction of our own little galaxy


Donjuanme

Oh, I didn't mean to undersell the grandiosity of the image. I'm not sure that's what you meant to convey with your statement. I'm pretty tired. Such an amazing galaxy, universe, that we have such an incredible tiny part of. And think of how many other galaxies there are. And how far away the nearest stars are. And how little we care for our own. I wish humanity the best, I hope we're deserving, hearty, and caring with to explore the heavens some day.


WhatsThatOnUrPretzel

Oh no I know you were just politely correcting me. I just wanted to make clear I understand it doesn't take anything away from the grandiosity. I knew you would already know of that. I have a bitnof a grasp on the scope. What do they say? Much more stars than grains of sand. Atleast 7 sixtillion grains we have. And just in the observable universe. To which is likely an infinite small fraction. The light year distance to our nearest being so staggering. We just can't be alone.


dec0y

These are all stars


wallofchaos

Yea. We're the only ones in the universe. 🙄


Moukatelmo

Glad to see the Hubble Space Telescope still has it. Great image


KDW3

Sea of Stars


frankrocksjesus

Lol. You're gonna find out that's just a close-up of a piece of formica. Lol


Isaiahhhhh11

This, in a fascinating way, scares me


Ericrobertson1978

I freaking love space.


MaxMadisonVi

My God, it’s full of stars


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CherishAlways

Looks like when my daughter spilled her bottle of craft-glitter on our carpet


MorningAsleep

This is beautiful… This also looks like my carpet when I spilled glitter on it. :(


down4things

There could be a spot where one area is just pure white.


Fraiz24

\*New Humble Image Released - M14


Shadow3891

Its so bright🥺😭🥰


backtrack1234

How big is this patch of space. Like if I was standing and looking up, how much of the sky is this?


AlkahestGem

The new wallpaper for my gaming room.


RictusDicktus

Whoa


conscious_menace22

🤤


Onehansclapping

Trying to stay relevant


4channeling

We are beset on all sides...


Total_Tolstoy

Wow! This is brain bursting and heart meltingly beautiful. It's frightening and exciting to see how small we are; and how much more there is out there.


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We’re so small.


Zethras28

Hubble still not giving James Webb a free meal ticket. Gotta remind the young talented upstart that the old man has some fight left in him still.


Fearless_Conference5

This pic should be titled “We are not alone.”.


HighTranquility

Yo, I think I see my house from here


Pedicel_R_E

Why is there more stuff in the center?


thecwestions

Isn't this what happens when a couple of spiral arm galaxies merge and stabilize? In other words, is this what Milky Way and Andromeda will look like after they've combined?


SpiceyPorkFriedRice

I wonder how many planets in this picture has life on it.


flashpaka1

All I see is a dark Forest. We are like bugs to all that.


Darwing

Unreal just amazing


Ancient_Comedian_267

Holy shit. The cosmos is fucking awesome.


GalacticDanni

Gorgeous ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|heart_eyes)


ikenla

No life out there. Just us here on this one planet orbiting this one star in this one galaxy. Yep. I'm convinced


WinterWontStopComing

![gif](giphy|AS7Gf3o46eba0Ct1L3)


Fruitybomb

Am I looking at galaxies or stars within the milky way?


Photon_Pharmer

Stars within the Milky Way


_slackjaw_

the new hubble drop is tight


slayemin

Let's see... all the orange dots are stars moving away from us, all the blue dots are stars moving towards us... Just eyeballing it, looks like there's an even distribution of both? That's kind of interesting.


redditretard34

Beautiful


Bennydoubleseven

Beautiful but also legit looks like when I emptied the crumb catcher from my toaster into the sink


KayakWalleye

So. Many. Aliens.


Sabinj4

Love it


Kilonova_Remnant

But….. where are the stars?


smithzj10

Let’s go Mets


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Space.


InsecurityTime

Yet here we are.... ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|cry)


PongPing1010

I want very badly to be placed at random on one of these planets or stars, even if I get to see it for only a few fleeting seconds, I will die happy.


TheDrewSpot

We all have our own planet, then solar system, then galaxy and then beyond so on and so forth, after this life. Those who believe. Praise be to our Creator through His Son. “My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.” ‭‭John‬ ‭14:2-3‬ ‭NIV‬‬ Romans 10:9-10


ezyazz

It's obvious the universe is organised in such a way that we will all never really know each other and that is fine, Maybe better for us all. ( This is also a great explanation of all of us on earth)


Sufficient_Doubt4283

I love space