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Webb captures iconic Horsehead Nebula in unprecedented detail (www.esa.int)

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[–] Daxtron2@startrek.website 8 points 7 months ago

I always love seeing the telltale Webb diffraction spikes. Great new pictures.

[–] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The number of galaxies present in JWST images always makes me want to puke

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

vertigo?

[–] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Existential crisis about how every narrow image shows 100,000x the amount of matter and bodies that I already can't conceptualize from just our own galaxy