Red Skies at Night

Old. 

Not just how I feel. 

The Webb telescope keeps finding shit to blow our minds. Well, you know, should one believe in science and not that cavemen roamed the earth with dinosaurs 6,000 years ago, after g-d created "man" out of mud and clay. 

The Webb just found six potential galaxies that are what could be closest to the Big Bang (not the show!) - being created some 500-700 million years after said Bang. 

Now to you and me - but you know, not Joan Collins - 700 millions years is a LONG time. But the Big Bang is 13 BILLION years ago.  So these galaxies are basically some of earliest galaxies ever formed. They aren't not oldest, but they are the largest. 

It is throwing everyone in the astronomy world a cosmic curve ball.  That's a sports-related metaphor. 

The bright red light of the galaxies indicate old light,. They believe that each galaxy has were also huge, harboring tens to hundreds of billions of sun-sized stars worth of mass, on par with the Milky Way.

Honestly, think about that. 

It still bolsters my theory of intelligent life elsewhere. Of course it exists - but the question would be: how could it possibly find us.  We are a speck of a speck of a speck..........and so on. And if you've seen what goes on in Florida, anything / anyone is more intelligent than that. 

Anything. 

Song by: the Fixx

Champagne Supernova

Grated, I have an untrained eye. Eyes. Plural. So, I don't know what I'm really seeing in the Webb telescope images. 

Those in the know alleged that this is SDSS.J141930.11+5251593, some 3 to 4 billion light-years from Earth. 

The bright object dimmed over a five-day period, suggesting that it could have been a supernova, caught by sheer luck shortly after the star exploded.

"Could have been".  

Scientists.  They don't know anything. One day, horse dewormers are a good cure for Covid, they next they don't even know if a picture is a supernova. 

It's all hokum. 

First off, here is how to calculate what 4 million light years looks like. 

I'm just saying, if you have to go to the Power of 19 to put in a calculation for milage, this is going to take forever on a AAA Trip Tick.  

But I assume that if you're looking at the cosmos with a device that can see things that have never been seen before, it's almost always going to be "sheer luck" that whatever is found is found. I'm kind of hoping for weekly discoveries. I would think it would almost have to find those. 

At least that is my hope. 

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