From childhood, This Guy knew about our Solar System, our Galaxy, the amorphous Milky Way, stars throughout the sky the ancients organized into constellations, The stars visibly forming Orion, Big Dipper, Little Dipper, and “nebulae” or nebulas, clouds like the Magellanic, and precious few other galaxies—nearby Andromeda being one.
Now, as in, in the past decade or so, the Milky Way has been plumbed sufficiently for it confidently to be described as a “barred” and utterly mature spiral-arm Galaxy. Who knew? How can “milk” now be so described? Amazing.
Yes, the sun, Sol, is a star, and nearby and other visible stars still abound, but...Wham! All in what seems like a nice, we’re all collectively so done with mere “stargazing”!
With relatively recent (visible spectrum) Hubble images, and even more recent (Infrared spectrum) James Webb Space Telescope, now it’s all about the billions and billions and trillions of fellow GALAXIES to the Milky Way.
All the things we called “nebulae”, because viewing through our own murky atmosphere, are now being forever unmasked as actual galaxies too, just with shapes we in our relative blindness and ignorance failed properly to recognize, comprehend, or categorize.
What a time for astrophysicists. Big Bang Theory? At this point, with all the fully-formed galaxies being newly discovered some 13+ billion light years away? The Big Bang theory frankly seems like fairy tale stuff—a husk falling of its own weight, drying up and blowing away, with none of its legion of committed adherents being able to do anything to preserve their underlying explanatory science or philosophy.
That strange sound you hear is probably that of a ___-ton of academic and scientific-organizational resumes, hitting the streets all at once!
In the meantime, has anyone else been discovering and exploring the theories of Dr. Russell Humphreys?
https://m.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEA&search_query=dr.+russell+humphreys
They’ve found over a dozen galaxies that are +13 redshift... Structures that should have had nearly enough time to form in the supposed couple hundred million years after their supposed “big bang”...
The Universe is far older then the current theories allow for. We’ve taken just the barest peek into the Reality around us and entire careers are on the line to prove one theory or another...