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user-inactivated  ·  488 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: James Webb telescope spots super old, massive galaxies that shouldn’t exist

How many Welsh Corgi's across are these galaxies?

Seriously though I fucking love space. I have no mind for numbers, so pursuing anything with the cosmos as a career was out for me, but fuck I could read about this shit all day.

    six potential galaxies that emerged so early in the universe’s history and are so massive they should not be possible under current cosmological theory.

However accurate this might be, the concept is what I love about science. Being wrong is exciting. Sometimes terrifying. But learning more all the same.





Devac  ·  487 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Seriously though I fucking love space. I have no mind for numbers, so pursuing anything with the cosmos as a career was out for me, but fuck I could read about this shit all day.

You didn't ask, but are you aware of Ask an Astronomer site? 'Cause it sounds right up your alley.

I'm firmly in the "maths = yey!" camp, but remember having fun reading The Story of Astronomy by L. Motz and J.H. Weave for an essay assignment in science education. It's been a couple years, but IIRC, they spend about half a page discussing the ellipse equation and go back to discussing hows and whys of humans probing space for data.

user-inactivated  ·  487 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm aware now! Thank you! I'm going to get acquainted.