Webb's data confirms Maisie's Galaxy as oldest ever observed

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• ForgetReddit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What if an intelligent species was born, thrived, and perished in that galaxy? What if thousands had?

  Humanity will one day be gone - will anyone out there even know we existed? Shouldn’t this awareness of our insignificance be unbearable? Shouldn’t I be sleeping right now?

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  • ParsnipWitch@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I always think we are such rare combinations of molecules. And we are even able to see how precious and rare all lifeforms are. Very likely there is nothing like that out there.

    And on top of that we are the only known combination of molecules which theoretically could protect complex life, even beyond the lifespan of earth or even our galaxy. But we don’t see us as the ones who could have protected that freak of chance. Instead we bicker and perish and the universe will with high probability never see anything like that again.

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• discodoubloon@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I'd love to see some sort of local star universe map that shows what everything is looking at!

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  • hoshikarakitaridia@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I hope I understand correctly but do you mean a map of specific objects or phenomena that different research groups are looking at?

    That would be hell of a lot of work but it wouldn’t only be pretty, it would help the research to make sure they don’t miss anything. Because you know, there’s kind of a lot of shit out there.

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• Jeredin@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  👨‍🚀 Wait, it’s black holes all the way back?

  🔫🧑‍🚀

  Some point to Dark Matter (heh) but I’m a RMOND kind of guy, so I’m team Black Holes.

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