heres a comparison (not at full res albeit) of the same nebula as seen through Webb vs Hubble, to give you an idea of how much this telescope whips ass
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heres a comparison (not at full res albeit) of the same nebula as seen through Webb vs Hubble, to give you an idea of how much this telescope whips ass 3 comments
another fun fact: if you're curious how big that full res image is compared to the entire sky - imagine holding up a grain of sand at arms length and looking at it. trillions of stars in every single speck. |
fun fact: if you look at a dot in this image, and it doesn't have diffraction spikes coming off it, that's not a star; that's a whole galaxy