Sure, we've been oohing and ahhing over the initial release of pics from the Webb IR Space Telescope, but what to they mean? I've been digging through j-school fluff all day, trying to find something with a little approachable substance... and of all places, Syfy Wire had the best article by far.
Here's the link, and here's the most spectacular image from there:
That blurry red smudge in the top left? The light reaching us is from 13.1 billion years back in time, just 0.7 billion years after the Big Bang. Already, as the second plot shows, heavier elements had been brewed in the hearts of first generation stars and second, maybe third, gen stars had formed up already. Now that's doing science.
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