{"id":136836,"date":"2025-05-06T07:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T11:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=136836"},"modified":"2025-05-06T06:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T10:52:07","slug":"sa-almost-every-speck-of-light-in-this-incredible-image-is-a-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=136836","title":{"rendered":"(SA) Almost Every Speck of Light in This Incredible Image Is a Galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you ever want to get a bit of perspective, there&#8217;s very little that&#8217;s more humbling than a good deep field image \u2013 and JWST has just dropped a real showstopper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the latest image release, the powerful space telescope gazed back nearly 12 billion light-years into a tiny patch of sky, less than a fifth of the width of the full Moon. That little patch of sky is teeming with glittering lights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It looks a lot like any patch of the sky seen when you look up from the ground on a cloudless night, with one major, jaw-dropping difference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of the lights in the new JWST-Hubble composite image are not bright stars, but galaxies, stretching back almost as far across space-time as the beginning of the Universe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/almost-every-speck-of-light-in-this-incredible-image-is-a-galaxy?utm_source=substack&#038;utm_medium=email\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Almost Every Speck of Light in This Incredible Image Is a Galaxy <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/a65ptZSvAX\">https:\/\/t.co\/a65ptZSvAX<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Astronomy Daily (@AstroDailyPod) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AstroDailyPod\/status\/1919668837147910280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 6, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you ever want to get a bit of perspective, there&#8217;s very little that&#8217;s more humbling than a good deep field image \u2013 and JWST has just dropped a real showstopper. In the latest image release, the powerful space telescope<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=136836\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136836"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136843,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136836\/revisions\/136843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}