Yesterday I indicated that NASA would be releasing the  first full-color image released from the James Webb Space Telescope .  Well, here it is: Our universe is around 13.7 billion years old.  The JWST,  launched on December 25, 2021 , will have the potential to look back perhaps 13.4 billion years.   It is six times larger and 100 times more powerful than   Hubble, sent out 32 years ago in 1990.   Here is a graphic of the same portion of the sky comparing Hub with Jim: Galaxy clusters, as seen above, are the most massive objects in the universe.  This boggles the mind, but a cluster of galaxies can consist of hundreds to thousands of galaxies bound together by gravity.  The typical mass of each is 10 to the fourteenth power - 10 to the fifteenth power the mass of our sun!  Then, there are  bodies such as the  Laniakea SUPERcluster  as seen to the right.   Laniakea is Hawaiian for  immense heaven .  Remember that asteroid that recently zoomed through our solar system?   Oumuamua  was d

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  If you are among those intrigued with outer space, you might want to skip NCAA football for a couple of hours and tune in to CNN tonight at 9PM ( EST ) or 4PM in Hawaii.    The Hunt for Planet B   will be setting the stage for, finally, and hopefully, the launch of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope on December 18 at 7:20 ( EST ) on an Ariane 5 rocket at the European Spaceport located near Kourou, French Guiana.  This is Europe's contribution to the project.  Why here is that the location is at the equator. The staff of the European Space Agency ( ESA ) and NASA, plus much of the world, will be holding their collective breaths until the first sign of success occurs in about  six months  after launch.  Why?  Just  read these details  to appreciate the complexity of the operation to take the telescope a million miles away to the second Lagrange ( L2 ) at the Earth-Sun balance point. A first comparison can be made with the infra red  Herschel Space Observatory , which in 2009 was