To Stand On A Comet

Neptune's rings

The first JWST image is creating quite a buzz around gravitational lensing because of the sheer amount of it in the image. Gravitational lensing makes galaxies appear warped like these:

Because spacetime curves around a massive body, light bends when it's near enough a massive object, allowing us to see very distant galaxies behind the cluster we're looking at.

Here is some recommended reading on it if you wanna learn more:

HubbleSite.org

Gravitational Lensing

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Magnificent Hubble image of a cluster warping space and stripping gas

Hubble image of galaxy cluster MACSJ01338-2155 shows gravitational lensing and gas stripped from galaxies.

Google Books

Einstein's Telescope: The Hunt for Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the Universe

"In Einstein’s Telescope, Evalyn Gates, an expert on all that’s dark in the universe, brings dark matter, dark energy, and even black holes

there was no women's march even remotely close to me, so i threw my own. end the gender gap in STEM! let young girls know they can be scientists!

Lunar Eclipse over the ESO’s VLT, Chile

Eclipse

Today there was a partial solar eclipse visible in mid to eastern europe.

In Germany we could see how the moon covers between 20 and 30% of the sun

Space + Academia

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me: majored in aerospace engineering to hopefully design rovers that go to other planets to perform little science experiments and find rocks

my classmates: i want to create missiles and advanced war weaponry for the military

me:

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What that James Webb image really means. Full video here:

The black areas represent the remaining natural dark skies in the United States