New deep field image just released, and it is from the new James Webb telescope. Holy shit. https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/main_image_deep_field_smacs0723-5mb.jpg (I didn't directly link the picture, as it is rather large and I didn't want to make the forum page go wonky) Look at all of that gravitational lensing going on. It is incredible. The next two decades with this thing is going to be a something to see!
Yeah, then you realize that every planet in the solar system would fit side-by-side between the earth and the moon. Space makes my head hurt sometimes.
2.5 times as massive as all the other planets combined. It's barycenter with the Sun is outside the sun's radius. So technically they both orbit each other.
I have a lot of measured excitement for tomorrow's announcement. I know we are still a long way off, at best. But, if repeatable, this could be a monumental step in what has been widely considered a science fiction pipe dream.
It's the old joke, my man. Fusion is always just ## years away! I am just skeptical we will ever get it done in any meaningful way, short of some new physics breakthrough. The temperatures and pressures are just too immense. But I will always push for research into it.
