r/spaceporn Oct 28 '22

JWST MIRI's image of Pillars of Creation James Webb

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u/mak484 Oct 28 '22

So it only has ~70,000 years to go!

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u/letsgetbrickfaced Oct 28 '22

Stop it you’re ruining the start of my weekend/s

Seriously we all are so small in the universe.

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u/Meritania Oct 29 '22

If it was travelling 10% the speed of light when it was first launched, it would have only cleared the length of finger during the pandemic.

If it was travelling the speed of light and had only just finished, it would have started travelling in 2018.

You can fit the distance between the sun and our nearest star between that finger.

It’s huge.

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u/rth1027 Oct 29 '22

Gods creation is so amazing!

/s

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u/ThomasMoane Oct 28 '22 edited Oct 29 '22

Without crashing. 45 years straight forward without crashing into something is unbelievable.

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u/reverick Oct 28 '22

Space is so mind blowingly big it i wouldnt be suprosed if it could probably travel 45,000 years without a collision. It's just emptiness out there.

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u/TheScorchbeastQueen Oct 28 '22

I know it’s difficult but don’t think on earth scales. We can see with our eyes and telescopes just how much space there is between things up there. It really is that easy to not bump into things

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u/derrovanxxx Oct 29 '22

Just imagine there are probably millions of civilizations out there that also reached this achievement and have or are sending out satellites and we're all just missing each other because space is that damn vast.

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u/parkaboy24 Oct 29 '22

This is why I know almost for a fact that other life exists. The universe is so damn huge, and we’re here, so it only makes sense. I wonder how long it’ll be until intelligent life in the distant future finds our dingy old satellites and telescopes when we’re long long gone. I wonder what they’ll think of it, or if they’ll ever even find any of it.

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u/derrovanxxx Oct 29 '22

imagine some other intelligent life's satellite did reach our solar system in the past and just went undetected, or obliterated by Jupiter, or even made it to earth just to burn up in our atmosphere.

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u/parkaboy24 Oct 30 '22

My mind is blown

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u/pierre__poutine Oct 29 '22

Mom, are we there yet?

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u/TFK_001 Oct 29 '22

Also the sun still pulls it and slows it down