Ok so from what I can understand it blew off approximately a million years ago, and now it’s about 8.8k ly away. But where was it in relation to earth when it exploded?
Ok so from what I can understand it blew off approximately a million years ago, and now it’s about 8.8k ly away. But where was it in relation to earth when it exploded?
Putting on my sci-fi hat; a distant galaxy that is likely a billion years older than ours, very likely has had enough time to develop life somewhere in the trillions of stars that formed within it, by the time the photons of that galaxy finally reached us and hit that very specific telescope sensor at that very specific moment the JWT engineers were observing.
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has detected a new grand-design spiral galaxy as part of the PANORAMIC survey. The newfound galaxy, named Zhúlóng, is extremely massive and appears to be the most distant spiral galaxy identified so far. The finding was detailed in a paper published December 17 on the pre-print server arXiv.
Grand-design spiral galaxies are characterized by their prominent, well-defined arms, which circle outwards from a clear core. It is assumed that the arms in such galaxies are actually overdense regions of the disk which trigger star formation as incoming material is compressed in that region.
The worst that could happen in our lifetimes, I would say, is be a total waste of money and resources since no other reachable bodies have atmospheres suitable for Earth-based life. Beyond our lifetimes, and possibly beyond humanity’s existence, that life may be able to survive somewhere but any kind of evolution likely takes millions of years and long-term survivability may not let it see that day
Odds are we already have: Mars, Venus both have had landers, and given that the protections from bringing bacteria are similar or worse than this lander, the only reason bacteria would not have survived is due to heating of the landers in atmosphere. IANARocketScientist.
Fortunately, we found this out now, before we drop a red hot lander through the ocean surface of one of the moons of (I can’t remember) which they suspect could have life
It’s not where I am sadly, cloudy all night looks like but on the 24th my next clear day but if it’s clear where you are Venus should be visible with the naked eye from about 16:00
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