Here are some fascinating facts about knowledge and beauty!
The James Webb Space Telescope has produced some genuinely amazing and mind-blowing photographs. Many of us back here on Earth are inspired by them; it is simply amazing what human thoughts and bodies are capable of when they collaborate.
Recent discoveries from JWST have baffled researchers with amazing new data. They have used infrared data to produce stunning and dramatic photographs.
Massive galaxies that are thought to have originated barely a few hundred million years after the Big Bang have been discovered. They include stunning pictures of Jupiter's characteristics and polar regions, including auroras that sparkle at both poles. They have discovered little asteroids in addition to an infinite number of whole galaxies. One only stretches for 200 meters.
They have gathered further information about exoplanets that, provided we survive ourselves, may maintain an atmosphere for eons in the future and are located about forty light years distant. The questions they raise just contribute to the wonder of seeing over such a broad span of time and space.
JWST is amazing all by itself. It weighs substantially less than the Hubble Space Telescope and measures roughly 25 square meters. It is cooled on one side so that it can function at close to minus 400 Fahrenheit, or -400F.
The sun screen is about 70 feet long in total. The eighteen hexagonal mirrors have beryllium, gold, and a very thin glass layer on top of them. There are only two ounces of gold in all. The hexagonal design was inspired by honeybees for maximum efficiency, and the dazzling gold color evokes images of sunshine and honeybees.
When one observes such beauty produced by very lowly mortals, one cannot but see the metaphor of reflecting upon ourselves. JWST is awe-inspiring, modest, and fascinating in every way. It demonstrates our capacity for information acquisition, engineering, and most importantly, collaborative innovation.
However, among the billions of other individuals on our world, millions of scientists are understandably concerned about the quality of life on our own planet.
The mind also reels at this. Why can we gather multinational teams of very intelligent and cooperative individuals to practically perform magic in space technology, yet we struggle to persuade far more people to take the next step to move away from fossil fuels? How can we persuade doomers to fight ferociously in order to escape as much torment as we can? However, we can still observe the stars while battling light pollution, excessive consumption, noise, and our own created trash.
