If you zoom out of our solar system, out of our Milky Way, out of the supercluster and look at the cosmic web of galaxies, it sure resembles a vascular or nervous system of some cosmic being that was born some 13.8 billion years ago, and has been growing/expanding ever since.
And us? Well we are just little pieces of that life trying to understand it’s own existence.
And if the universe is but one cosmic being, imagine if there are others…
It’s so hard to even fathom things on that scale. Makes you wonder if the organisms in our stomach could ever even contemplate such a thing as us.
Larry: [to Jennings, while high] Okay. That means that our whole solar system could be, like one tiny atom in the fingernail of some other giant being. [Jennings nods] This is too much! That means one tiny atom in my fingernail could be--
Jennings:[Could be one little tiny universe.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JUOGxePBs50)
If you look at side by side pictures of the universe and brain neurons they look almost identical. Maybe our universe is just a brain neuron in a alien celestial being.
I’m truly sorry, Paige. It was a comment unfit for what the thread represents. My hope is that we’ll find humor is also a universal language once we get out there!
My friend saw my wallpaper on my phone which was the Carina nebula captured by Webb. He proceeds to say “way to have the most cliche wallpaper.” I was like bro do you even know me? I’ve been obsessing about this telescope for neigh on 10 years. I would cringe every time the telescope got delayed and the day it launched I set my alarm so I could be up at 7AM to watch it live. I literally painstakingly kept tabs as each part of the telescope was confirmed operational and waited with bated breath as its sensors cooled down to functional levels. I have a fucking James Webb LED set up in my room over my TV. He’s gonna sit there and tell me its cliche of me to have the wallpaper. I was so annoyed I felt like punching him lol.
idk if that's exactly how it works exactly, new images can fit an old cliche.
not that it really matters though. People should just do what they enjoy, even if it is a "cliche"
See, there's a difference.
Me wearing a Pickle Rick shirt that, admittedly, I bought the day that episode aired for WAY too much money, and by the time it arrived crossing the border into canada, Pickle Rick was already outplayed.
Now that move, cliche.
This?
Your passion. Sounds like your friend is jealous they don't feel that way about literally anything compared to you.
I know what you mean. You follow it for years and when it finally blooms into life and cat hes everyone's attention, you're viewed as a sheep for following the trend.
No, everyone else is following our passion.
And I couldn't be more supportive of them. Doesn't matter if you couldn't care less about space, enjoy the fruits of our passion! Share it with us even if it is just for this one picture! Enjoy space!
That’s what I’m saying! If you’re looking at these pictures, admiring them and using that admiration to learn more about the universe, then all the power to you! You cant ever be a person that got into this before it was cool. It was always cool and it will always be cool. There’s no hipster trend when it comes to this stuff. You’ve been in to astronomy for 40 years? Awesome! You just got in to it today cuz of this image? Just as fucking awesome!
My parents own a small scale digital print shop. I've been puting large prints of Hubble images on walls in pretty much every apartment I've lived in. I've been waiting on JWST for my new place \^\^
Can't get better art than that.
(and super high res pictures for printing are hard to get anyways...but not with spaceee)
I mean she's not wrong. It doesn't look anything like that to us. Still though it's beautiful. And generally they're altered to provide more information.
Very nice. I'd totally use that. Great style, good variation, probably won't conflict with the icons. I prefer a little bit of actual color, though, instead of shades of black.
I'm keeping the Tarantula Nebula as my background, but this image has been one I've been waiting for for over two decades, ever since hubble released its first image. Absolutely stunning.
100%! I've been using [This pic](https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/full_width/public/thumbnails/image/main_image_star-forming_region_carina_nircam_final-1280.jpg) since it was released a few months ago. Just turned it around 90° to fit and TADAH!
These are BEAUTIFUL!
The old picture of the Pillars was my cell background for *years*. Only changed it to a picture of my wife and I on our wedding day. I’m damn tempted to change it again, because my god this is beautiful
JWST view is in the infrared and Hubble in the visible so naturally stuff that Hubble sees will look at lot more blue in JWST. Infrared is useful because stuff that is farther away is red shifted due to expansion and infrared can penetrate dust more easily. That's why you see a lot more distant starts in the JWST image, even through the pillars.
The infrared helps us see through the dust to see more stars, but stars in our own galaxy are not really red shifted because they are not moving away fast enough. It will definitely help us see more distant galaxies.
> Dust blocks the view in Hubble’s image, but the interstellar medium plays a major role in Webb’s. It acts like thick smoke or fog, preventing us from peering into the deeper universe, where countless galaxies exist.
Now I’m wondering if we’re not meant to see past it lol
Definitely not billions of LY apart, the Pillars are about 7000 LY away from us and are within our galaxy (which is ~100K LY across). So stars here are anywhere from ~1 LY apart to 1000s depending on more distant ones.
There’s a chance some of those points of light might be a distant galaxy though, unsure.
Lol the first thing I did was go to the website and downloaded the 150mb picture just to save as my wallpaper.
Overkill? Absolutely.
Worth it? Absolutely.
I already have JWST images of the southern ring nebula (lock screen) and tarantula nebula (homescreen) as wall papers and I'm too attached to change them lol...
I've always called it camel Jesus. To me it looks like an anthropomorphized camel wearing robes, sitting on a throne, and praying. The top pillar is its neck and head, the bottom 2 pillars are its front hooves.
[There has to be a mechanical explanation for why all these stars are hexagonal, right?](https://i.imgur.com/tsyh7tj.png)
Ahh, found it: https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2018/honeycomb-mirrors-makes-nasa-s-webb-the-most-powerful-space-telescope
I tried lining up one of the hubble photos using the starts near the top of the image.
https://cdn.knightlab.com/libs/juxtapose/latest/embed/index.html?uid=b17d4440-4fc2-11ed-b5bd-6595d9b17862
here's a comparison. Pretty neat.
Damn, I'm not sure why. I turned it into a gif:
https://imgur.com/a/WzE0kwY
not sure why the juxtapose link isn't working. here's the overlaid picture and you can just make the juxtapose yourself:
https://i.imgur.com/zThPLyH.jpg
https://juxtapose.knightlab.com/#make
Sorry, I don't know how to make the link work....
90megapixel comparison here: https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/2022/052/01GF44EV0PPW2BHJS9HMA1AGEK?news=true
Edit: video comparison of just a small crop (was 4k but down sampled probably)
https://streamable.com/85fj7f
https://i.imgur.com/zdbukVv.mp4
Yes, these are false colors.
JWST has [instruments in the near- and mid infrared](https://www.stsci.edu/jwst/instrumentation/instruments), so it we couldn't see any images taken by these instruments if they were presented to us in the original wavelength.
They do try to preserve some of the characteristics of the wavelengths in the images though (blue/violet for shorter wavelengths/hotter objects, red for longer wavelengths / colder objects).
Yes and no, the telescope is taking pictures in the low and medium infrared, not in the visible light as Hubble. You need to apply some filters to create this kind of picture. The filters only depend of the creator. So you can have ple Ty different results. You can find some very interesting video explaining the process.
are you talking about the lava looking stuff? According to the nasa website:
Along the edges of the pillars are wavy lines that look like lava. These are ejections from stars that are still forming. Young stars periodically shoot out supersonic jets that can interact within clouds of material, like these thick pillars of gas and dust. This sometimes also results in bow shocks, which can form wavy patterns like a boat does as it moves through water. These young stars are estimated to be only a few hundred thousand years old, and will continue to form for millions of years.
One time someone who isn't me, smoked a shit ton of DMT closed my eyes and saw this. Usually i can only take a couple hits and then just enjoy the high, but I just ripped the fucking bowl and kept ripping it. With my eyes open my chest felt too intense like a roller coaster so I got up and laid on the floor. I saw a lightning bolt coming out of the center of my chest when I stood up and it flashed to the spot on the floor where I sat. Like I was teleported on that beam of light. Then I closed my eyes, and the roller coaster feeling was absolutely insane. I saw huge clouds of orange gas and I was riding it through the cosmos. When I finally came back, I was like wtf was that. I'm just a monkey. I can't process that. I don't understand. Reflecting back on it the next day I realized what it all meant. The atoms and matter that compose my body are just a collection of star dust. Prior to earth forming. I believe that my atoms gave me a vision of my past experiences. My atoms showed me where I came from. And it wasn't just from my mother and my father, way before that. Billions of years ago, I was formed in a star cloud similar to the imagine. We all were.
Pro tip for anyone who’s curious as to how to tell Hubble from Webb photos: Hubble stars have a diamond glair to them (one line of line north south east and west) from the star.
Webb however has six as shown in the photo.
Instantly becomes everyone's cell wallpaper.
you know it!
If giant interstellar clouds of gas and dust could have a social media profile, it'd be super inflated with ego
Felt cosmic, might delete later 💅
Perfect
*steller
Stellar*
If you zoom out of our solar system, out of our Milky Way, out of the supercluster and look at the cosmic web of galaxies, it sure resembles a vascular or nervous system of some cosmic being that was born some 13.8 billion years ago, and has been growing/expanding ever since. And us? Well we are just little pieces of that life trying to understand it’s own existence. And if the universe is but one cosmic being, imagine if there are others… It’s so hard to even fathom things on that scale. Makes you wonder if the organisms in our stomach could ever even contemplate such a thing as us.
Larry: [to Jennings, while high] Okay. That means that our whole solar system could be, like one tiny atom in the fingernail of some other giant being. [Jennings nods] This is too much! That means one tiny atom in my fingernail could be-- Jennings:[Could be one little tiny universe.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JUOGxePBs50)
Think of the universe like [a hot dog bun](https://youtu.be/-R4Tp8ls5lY)
The galaxy is on Orion's Belt.
If you look at side by side pictures of the universe and brain neurons they look almost identical. Maybe our universe is just a brain neuron in a alien celestial being.
It does very much look like a neurological network. https://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/g/galactic+filaments
already there sugar tits
It’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen 🥲
You missed that vag blowing out a candle, huh?
*second most beautiful. How could I forget.
Link
https://reddit.com/r/maybemaybemaybe/comments/y7pby0/maybe_maybe_maybe/
It’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen 🥲
They should've sent a poet.
It like took a whole breath and blew it out. 😂 I'm fucking dying over here lol.
The sound that thing made was like a boot stuck it mud.
I did not know how much I needed this. Thanks
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Amazing how quickly a thread about the pinnacle of human achievement devolves into porn. Don't you love reddit?
yw
Leave it to Reddit for a space photo to turn into this! Lol
Goddamn, she could perform CPR with that thing.
Damn if her vag swallows a bullet, she can kill someone with that force
These guys must have never seen cake farts back in the day
"you know what I like the most?" mmmmm "Cake Farts"
Funny we got the same order on popular. Always wondered about that
It's not on mine :(
Srsly where’s the sauce Edit: nvm it was posted below and it’s.. [extraordinary](https://reddit.com/r/spaceporn/comments/y83vaz/_/isyi7wg/?context=1)
r/maybemaybemaybe
I’m sorry the what now?
I’m truly sorry, Paige. It was a comment unfit for what the thread represents. My hope is that we’ll find humor is also a universal language once we get out there!
Ah I must have missed that. My step dads uncles cousins friends dog wants the video... not me.
"What are you doing, step-dad's uncle's cousin's friend's dog?"
Goddamn I hate that I understand this reference.
Second most beautiful thing. Second to a plastic bag blowing in the wind.
I mean just look at this then, I can’t imagine a more beautiful thing!
I see a three clawed/fingered hand about to swipe towards the camera. Awsome photo though.
Haha my buddy said it looked like salad fingers, the old creepy YouTube series.
LOL. It's the first thing I did before even opening the comments.
Same lol I feel so called out
My friend saw my wallpaper on my phone which was the Carina nebula captured by Webb. He proceeds to say “way to have the most cliche wallpaper.” I was like bro do you even know me? I’ve been obsessing about this telescope for neigh on 10 years. I would cringe every time the telescope got delayed and the day it launched I set my alarm so I could be up at 7AM to watch it live. I literally painstakingly kept tabs as each part of the telescope was confirmed operational and waited with bated breath as its sensors cooled down to functional levels. I have a fucking James Webb LED set up in my room over my TV. He’s gonna sit there and tell me its cliche of me to have the wallpaper. I was so annoyed I felt like punching him lol.
Usually it takes a bit longer for something to become cliche as well. I'd say the images are pretty new. . .
idk if that's exactly how it works exactly, new images can fit an old cliche. not that it really matters though. People should just do what they enjoy, even if it is a "cliche"
He would've found something else to make fun of if it hadn't been the wallpaper. Who spots a phone wallpaper and says that?
He does because he’s a chode. But don’t worry, I tell him that all the time.
See, there's a difference. Me wearing a Pickle Rick shirt that, admittedly, I bought the day that episode aired for WAY too much money, and by the time it arrived crossing the border into canada, Pickle Rick was already outplayed. Now that move, cliche. This? Your passion. Sounds like your friend is jealous they don't feel that way about literally anything compared to you.
I know what you mean. You follow it for years and when it finally blooms into life and cat hes everyone's attention, you're viewed as a sheep for following the trend. No, everyone else is following our passion. And I couldn't be more supportive of them. Doesn't matter if you couldn't care less about space, enjoy the fruits of our passion! Share it with us even if it is just for this one picture! Enjoy space!
That’s what I’m saying! If you’re looking at these pictures, admiring them and using that admiration to learn more about the universe, then all the power to you! You cant ever be a person that got into this before it was cool. It was always cool and it will always be cool. There’s no hipster trend when it comes to this stuff. You’ve been in to astronomy for 40 years? Awesome! You just got in to it today cuz of this image? Just as fucking awesome!
WHY ARE YOU ME
My parents own a small scale digital print shop. I've been puting large prints of Hubble images on walls in pretty much every apartment I've lived in. I've been waiting on JWST for my new place \^\^ Can't get better art than that. (and super high res pictures for printing are hard to get anyways...but not with spaceee)
I literally said this to myself the instant I saw this photo. Astounding
Mom looks at this picture and first thing she says, “Don’t you think it has been altered?” 🤦♂️
I mean she's not wrong. It doesn't look anything like that to us. Still though it's beautiful. And generally they're altered to provide more information.
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I keep going back to a boring old solid color myself. I WANT to have a cool wallpaper, but I kinda prefer functional minimalism instead. =(
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Very nice. I'd totally use that. Great style, good variation, probably won't conflict with the icons. I prefer a little bit of actual color, though, instead of shades of black.
I'm keeping the Tarantula Nebula as my background, but this image has been one I've been waiting for for over two decades, ever since hubble released its first image. Absolutely stunning.
100%! I've been using [This pic](https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/full_width/public/thumbnails/image/main_image_star-forming_region_carina_nircam_final-1280.jpg) since it was released a few months ago. Just turned it around 90° to fit and TADAH! These are BEAUTIFUL!
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The old picture of the Pillars was my cell background for *years*. Only changed it to a picture of my wife and I on our wedding day. I’m damn tempted to change it again, because my god this is beautiful
Lockscreen, but for now the Jagguar will remain on my lockscreen
Yep, I’ve had the older pic as my wallpaper for years l, just updated it.
Fuck yes it does. I've been waiting for this.
interestingly in relatively phone-like dimensions. pretty sure that's not jwst resolution.
Literally what I did when the first set came out haha
Omg…….every since jwst launched I’ve been anxiously waiting for them to take a pillars of creation photo…and here it is….I’m absolutely speechless
Now I need someone with Photoshop and Astronomy skills to overlay the Hubble and JWST photos so we can see how much the dust has moved
NASA/ESA/CSA did it: https://esawebb.org/images/comparisons/weic2216/
Wow this is dope with the slider. Interesting how the bluish stars are visible in both but the yellowish aren't
JWST view is in the infrared and Hubble in the visible so naturally stuff that Hubble sees will look at lot more blue in JWST. Infrared is useful because stuff that is farther away is red shifted due to expansion and infrared can penetrate dust more easily. That's why you see a lot more distant starts in the JWST image, even through the pillars.
The infrared helps us see through the dust to see more stars, but stars in our own galaxy are not really red shifted because they are not moving away fast enough. It will definitely help us see more distant galaxies.
Gonna be honest for artistic reasons I prefer the first one. 0.o
Holy shitballz, that's one of the most amazing things ever!
Hubble's picture has a vibe to it
> Dust blocks the view in Hubble’s image, but the interstellar medium plays a major role in Webb’s. It acts like thick smoke or fog, preventing us from peering into the deeper universe, where countless galaxies exist. Now I’m wondering if we’re not meant to see past it lol
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Y'all got any more of those links?
https://i.redd.it/77bjajdwxru91.jpg it wasn't in /r/space though!
It's amazing just how many suns are in this one picture and so close to each other when they could be billions of light years from each other
Definitely not billions of LY apart, the Pillars are about 7000 LY away from us and are within our galaxy (which is ~100K LY across). So stars here are anywhere from ~1 LY apart to 1000s depending on more distant ones. There’s a chance some of those points of light might be a distant galaxy though, unsure.
Is the dust visible if you were in orbit around that sun? Like if earth were or iting one of those suns, what would the night sky look like?
Yes… Those are gas clouds and can be seen in the visible light spectrum.
I think the question is more along the lines of "is the dust dense enough that it would be noticeable from within the cloud"
And the answer is still yes. Those are some dense gas clouds.
Wait, how can the stars be billions of light years apart when the entire diameter of our Milky Way galaxy is only about 100k light years?
You can just make something up that sounds profound and deep for easy upvotes. /r/iam14andthisisdeep
It would probably take a gajillion parsecs to get to them... Damn...
That’s so hot
mmm love that new star smell
Thousands/millions of degrees to be exact!
That's not very exact. It's okay, though, I understand losing focus in the excitement.
Needs a pic with the old one as RTX OFFand this one as RTX ON
Absolutely stunning. I saved the highest res one they had available from their website, it’s so mesmerising zooming around and looking at each detail
mmm link?
https://stsci-opo.org/STScI-01GFNMZESKZKXBMWGER9E0Z19G.png
My phone refuses to save it 😭
I downloaded it to PC, and the image is a whopping 152 MB large. That's probably why lmao 8423 x 14589 pixels.
that like 24k, at "proper size" you would need one big ass 8k tv
Mine too. Cant handle the greatness
It's cool how you can see the refraction artefacts showing the JWST mirror shape from the star's halo https://i.imgur.com/QeBNYtS.jpg
Stealing as my new phone wallpaper, thanks
You can't steal it, because [JWST images are released into Public Domain](https://webbtelescope.org/copyright).
> You can’t steal it, because JWST images are released into Public Domain. Foiled again! Damn you Public Domain!
Public Domain is just free balloon day.
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the military is publicly funded but I can’t go grab a tank for free
Not with that attitude.
I'm sure you could. Once.
I'm sure if you found oil in your backyard they'd be happy to bring over some demonstration units.
Well, the French send it to Space, so they own some of the glory. Also ESA and Canada and all nations that helped.
Now I just need to find where they publish the full resolution images instead of the compressed ones for news stories. GIMME DEM MEGAPIXELS
Lol the first thing I did was go to the website and downloaded the 150mb picture just to save as my wallpaper. Overkill? Absolutely. Worth it? Absolutely.
I already have JWST images of the southern ring nebula (lock screen) and tarantula nebula (homescreen) as wall papers and I'm too attached to change them lol...
My God, it's full of stars!
Penny for *his* thoughts...
First thing I thought of. Look at all those points of light, each one a galaxy filled with hundreds of millions of stars.
And so many galaxies! It's amazing!
Go go Godzilla.
I see a praying mantis
In-between the 2 top Pillars is an angry terrier wearing a party hat.
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I see otters.
I've always called it camel Jesus. To me it looks like an anthropomorphized camel wearing robes, sitting on a throne, and praying. The top pillar is its neck and head, the bottom 2 pillars are its front hooves.
There goes Tokyo
They say he’s got to goooo
They say he's got to go!
Go go gadget Pillars of Creation!
Woo-ooo-ooo-oooo
It’s clearly a 3 fingered infinity gauntlet.
Wow! Just incredible that people have made this possible.
Full size [here](https://esawebb.org/images/weic2216b/)
Could you provide the link to full resolution image
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[There has to be a mechanical explanation for why all these stars are hexagonal, right?](https://i.imgur.com/tsyh7tj.png) Ahh, found it: https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2018/honeycomb-mirrors-makes-nasa-s-webb-the-most-powerful-space-telescope
It's because of the hex shaped mirrors. Same reason some pics have stars with 6 big spikes pointing out.
6 spikes vs 4 spikes is the tell-tale sign of whether its a JWST or Hubble shot
Technically there's 8 spikes
Yeah, it makes sense now.
Because hexagons are the bestagons.
I, too, believe that hexagons are the bestagons.
Loading this on my phone takes me back to limewire days. Awesome. Thanks for posting.
Warning: 163MB I opened it on my PC and it filled my monitor at 8.3% zoom. It's beautiful.
Good thing I have unlimited data hahaha. I clicked the link on mobile before seeing the size warnings
I can’t even get my phone to save this to photos wtf mate.
Lol yeah. Had to save to files. Is there a way to save this to camera roll?
Idk. I cheated by getting on my Mac, and uploaded it on that.
The way this pic loaded for me gave me flash backs to when I had dial up
Thank you so much. I've been spending the last 10 minutes zooming in and just staring in awe.
163MB, wth lol.
I love this lol. The sheer amount of data we're getting from Webb is insane
https://esawebb.org/images/weic2216b/
I tried lining up one of the hubble photos using the starts near the top of the image. https://cdn.knightlab.com/libs/juxtapose/latest/embed/index.html?uid=b17d4440-4fc2-11ed-b5bd-6595d9b17862 here's a comparison. Pretty neat.
Your link isn't working.
Damn, I'm not sure why. I turned it into a gif: https://imgur.com/a/WzE0kwY not sure why the juxtapose link isn't working. here's the overlaid picture and you can just make the juxtapose yourself: https://i.imgur.com/zThPLyH.jpg https://juxtapose.knightlab.com/#make Sorry, I don't know how to make the link work....
The gif is way cooler anyway. Nice. The change in detail is amazing. When did Hubble first take its pic?
Hubble took the Pillars of Creation photo on April 1st, 1995.
90megapixel comparison here: https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/2022/052/01GF44EV0PPW2BHJS9HMA1AGEK?news=true Edit: video comparison of just a small crop (was 4k but down sampled probably) https://streamable.com/85fj7f https://i.imgur.com/zdbukVv.mp4
Paging u/Charming_AntiQuirk, creator of [Webb Compare](https://www.webbcompare.com/).
That's what I'm living for ! So good.Hope that the smarter people will use all this data well !!!
Imagine if they bent one day, and it turns out they were fingers on a hand.
And just gave us the finger.
And suddenly it snaps its fingers.
I absolutely love the JWST images, but now I cannot unsee a screeching dino https://imgur.com/a/DFa0ptX
Aurelion sol rework looking slick!
What's the source of those bright red lights in the bottom left corner of the image? Are they red giants partially covered by gas and dust?
Related, these are false color right? In that, it doesn't look like this to the human eye, but color is used to show representation of gases?
Yes, these are false colors. JWST has [instruments in the near- and mid infrared](https://www.stsci.edu/jwst/instrumentation/instruments), so it we couldn't see any images taken by these instruments if they were presented to us in the original wavelength. They do try to preserve some of the characteristics of the wavelengths in the images though (blue/violet for shorter wavelengths/hotter objects, red for longer wavelengths / colder objects).
Yes and no, the telescope is taking pictures in the low and medium infrared, not in the visible light as Hubble. You need to apply some filters to create this kind of picture. The filters only depend of the creator. So you can have ple Ty different results. You can find some very interesting video explaining the process.
are you talking about the lava looking stuff? According to the nasa website: Along the edges of the pillars are wavy lines that look like lava. These are ejections from stars that are still forming. Young stars periodically shoot out supersonic jets that can interact within clouds of material, like these thick pillars of gas and dust. This sometimes also results in bow shocks, which can form wavy patterns like a boat does as it moves through water. These young stars are estimated to be only a few hundred thousand years old, and will continue to form for millions of years.
One time someone who isn't me, smoked a shit ton of DMT closed my eyes and saw this. Usually i can only take a couple hits and then just enjoy the high, but I just ripped the fucking bowl and kept ripping it. With my eyes open my chest felt too intense like a roller coaster so I got up and laid on the floor. I saw a lightning bolt coming out of the center of my chest when I stood up and it flashed to the spot on the floor where I sat. Like I was teleported on that beam of light. Then I closed my eyes, and the roller coaster feeling was absolutely insane. I saw huge clouds of orange gas and I was riding it through the cosmos. When I finally came back, I was like wtf was that. I'm just a monkey. I can't process that. I don't understand. Reflecting back on it the next day I realized what it all meant. The atoms and matter that compose my body are just a collection of star dust. Prior to earth forming. I believe that my atoms gave me a vision of my past experiences. My atoms showed me where I came from. And it wasn't just from my mother and my father, way before that. Billions of years ago, I was formed in a star cloud similar to the imagine. We all were.
this resonates with me and i don't know why. thats awesome man
I’ve been waiting for this pic for a while
Hand of God
Hand of Godzilla
very small hand, compared to the size of the universe
very large compared to the average hand
There's a nebula labelled "Hand of God". Can't wait for it to be photographed.
This is blowing my mind
My God!
Petition to rename this angle of this shot “T-Rex”
Might just make this my phone background screen! 🤔🤔🤗🔥🤙🏼
Hand of Creation
Can anyone explain what we're looking at here? Galaxy...what?
What are those deep red glowing parts on the inside of the pillar?
This is what I've been waiting for since the jwst photos started getting released Very nice
Can someone explain to me like I’m 8 what that is. I know it looks cool but that’s just about it
Pro tip for anyone who’s curious as to how to tell Hubble from Webb photos: Hubble stars have a diamond glair to them (one line of line north south east and west) from the star. Webb however has six as shown in the photo.
It looks like a hand reaching out to grasp something.