> By using the data from the James Webb Space Telescope’s 6.5‑meter (21-ft) mirror, scientists at UC Santa Barbara have surveyed 0.54 square degrees of sky, which is equivalent to the area of three full moons when viewed from Earth. Charting nearly 800,000 galaxies, the COSMOS-Web dataset covers almost 98% of cosmic history.
EDIT: one of the galaxies in the article highlight photos (the top right one) sure has a structure that just feels "artificial" to me.
But when Star Trek made a whole series about a ship being sent too far away to ever return (in one lifetime), they only sent it to the other side of our galaxy.
Anyway... the Fermi Paradox still doesn't apply to things 100s of MLYs away, that we can barely size up, much less get TV channel programming from.
tiagod•7mo ago
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tiagod•7mo ago
According to Wikipedia, "It is estimated that there are between 200 billion to 2 trillion galaxies in the observable universe."
Edited: Off by some orders of magnitude.