Embark on a Galactic Journey Billions of Light Years Away
Remember when you wished you could time travel as a kid? Well, the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) just made that possible. Kind of. They’ve released a visualization featuring about 5000 galaxies from their CEERS Survey, captured by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). It’s not quite a flux capacitor, but it’s the next best thing.
Key Points
– The visualization lets viewers zip through galaxies at a speed of 200 million light years per second. The further you dive into the video, the older the images of the galaxies get.
– The grand finale of the video features Maise’s galaxy, which formed about 13.4 billion years ago, a casual 390 million years after the Big Bang.
– The exact number of galaxies in the universe is still up for debate, but the estimate is around 200 billion.
Galaxy Count: A Cosmic Mystery
The exact number of galaxies in the universe is still a mystery, but estimates suggest it’s around 200 billion. And you thought finding a needle in a haystack was hard!
The Art Conclusion
So, there you have it. We’re just a tiny speck in a universe filled with billions of galaxies. But thanks to the JWST and CEERS, we can take a peek into the cosmic abyss and see galaxies billions of light years away. It’s a humbling, awe-inspiring, and slightly terrifying experience, all at the same time.
Zooming through galaxies, at a speed so fast,
With the JWST, we’re having a blast.
From the Big Bang to now, we travel through the past,
In a universe so vast, we’re left aghast.
Source: Feber
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