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 ....
New SIMPLE SOLUTIONS for PLANET EARTH AND HUMANITY: This blog site derives from the original version of Planet Earth & Humanity, but will be more WE than ME. The coverage will remain similar, but perhaps these postings will seem to come from a parallel universe, or maybe even Purgatory. But truth and reality will prevail, with dashes of whimsy and levity to help make your day.