'We had less than a 2% chance to find this': James Webb telescope uncovers baffling 'Big Wheel', one of the most massive galaxies in the early universe

Live Science ^ | March 21, 2025 | Themiya Nanayakkara

[Red Badger]

Ping!.......................

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Red Badger.

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[Ciaphas Cain]

Big wheel keep on turnin'
Proud Mary keep on burnin'
Rollin', rollin', rollin' on the river

[Repeal The 17th]

“...a cosmic giant whose light has traveled
over 12 billion years to reach us...”
-
So the image is what it looked like 12 billion years ago.

[Red Badger]

Yes.

It may not even exist now..................

[Red Badger]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7RaInjOtW8

[rellic]

I worked at Americas largest telescope(Kecks) for ten years.
One thing I could never resolve is this fascination with things that may no longer exist.
I equate it to “grave digging”.
I love looking at a clear night sky.
But I know the light of our closest
star besides our sun, took 4 years to get here.

[doorgunner69]

Consider all the species that have evolved and vanished out there.

[SuperLuminal]

Between JWST data and Euclid data, my head is reeling...

I’d like to have a crack at all this data, but, at 91.4, I’ll have to stay above ground until I’m 110...

Oh well, time to get back in the gym...🙄😥

[Red Badger]

At least you will still get your Social Security direct deposits.................

[alexander_busek]

One thing I could never resolve is this fascination with things that may no longer exist.

Astronomers are fascinated with "things that may no longer exist" precisely because they no longer exist - as well as because they hope to learn something.

I equate it to “grave digging”.

So you also fail to understand why archeologists are enthusiastic about their finds?

I worked at Americas largest telescope(Kecks) for ten years.

Until they found out that you were using "Windex" to clean the main mirror?

(Ducks!)

Regards,

[rellic]

“Until they found out that you were using “Windex” to clean the main mirror?”
It is actually “mirrors”. We used dry ice to clean them.
You don’t know much about 10 meter plus telescopes, do you?
Since I was an engineer there and had the opportunity to visit others, What has to go on to make “Science”,
is very impressive.

[Theophilus]

Assuming that the expansion of space is constant and consistrnt. Assuming that red light shift is constant and consistent. Assuming the speed of light is constant and consistent.

[alexander_busek]

You don’t know much about 10 meter plus telescopes, do you?

You didn't understand that I was being humorous?

"Ducks?"

Regards,

[BigOrangeI]

Technically, everything we see happened in the past.

[sit-rep]

too bad the left cant be among that list!

[rellic]

I guess I didn’t get your humor.
Too many years in the industry.
Hard to believe things that massive are that
delicate.

[fishtank]

[sasquatch]

Almost went to work at UofA on spin casting. Ended up in oceanographic research instead.