fexl 1 day ago
space channel #Space and Time

James Webb Looked Too Deep Into Space, this Shouldn't Exist

There are thousands of observations in the pipeline that haven’t even been made public yet. Entire surveys that will run for years. Missions planned to pair Webb’s results with new instruments, ones that’ll look in other wavelengths, or catch up in resolution.

And then there are the things we haven’t even imagined yet. The surprises. The quiet anomalies. The strange patterns in background galaxies. The leftover questions from redshift measurements that don’t quite align. The weird atmospheres. The gaps in stellar mass. The lensed flashes that might be something more.


Because the thing about a telescope like this is… you never really know what matters until you look. And when you finally do, it’s never what you expect.

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