On Monday, July 11, President Joe Biden released one of the James Webb Space Telescope’s first images in a preview event at the White House in Washington. NASA, in partnership with ESA (European Space Agency) and CSA (Canadian Space Agency), will release the full set of Webb’s first full-color images and spectroscopic data during a televised broadcast beginning at 10:30 a.m. EDT (14:30 UTC) on Tuesday, July 12, from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Learn more about how to watch.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Mock Paper Scissors 
My God, it’s full of stars.
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It’s full of galaxies. THOUSANDS of galaxies in a very small piece of our view. That’s what’s gob-smacking.
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It’s inspiring me to sit down and re-watch Cosmos again and let Carl Sagan help me keep this good feeling going (because there’s so much crap out there continually trying to drag us down).
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It’s the only magic I believe in. Behold Earthlings the only thing greater than yourself…
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If you’re wondering about the distortion (see the “arcs”?)…
https://www.republicworld.com/science/space/james-webb-space-telescopes-image-distortion-explained-what-is-gravitational-lensing-articleshow.html
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Of course. Thanks!
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I find it amazing that in only about 100 years we’ve gone from believing in a wish fulfilling sky daddy to (barely) grasping the scale of the reality in which we exist.
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