Wes 🇵🇸 on Twitter: "@d57heinz @newscientist a lot of stuff IS blocked by other things and hard to observe, like exoplanets" / Twitter

This red dot is the oldest galaxy we've ever seen! The latest data from the James Webb Space Telescope has helped astronomers find the galaxy, which dates back to just 300 million years after the big bang newscientist.com/article/232960

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Got a question. How is it when we pick a point in space, Such as this one. How is it that nothing obstructs this image in that vast amount of distance. Is there pictures of a galaxy far away obstructed by another galaxy closer up. How do photons pass through to us? Is it 🍀?

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a lot of stuff IS blocked by other things and hard to observe, like exoplanets

3:17 PM · Jul 20, 2022Twitter for Android

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