Gaze into James Webb Space Telescope's stunning first deep field image

[jasonwebb]

What is craziest about this photo. In the far background of this photo is tiny specks of light dots. This could be futher then the Hubble ultra deep field.
It also makes me wonder how many civilizations are in this one photo? Remember that this is about the size of a grain of sand held out at arms length. Truly amazing, my uncle James would have been proud.

[piggypiggypig]

In billions of years from now, if we're still around in one form or another, we will show this image to emerging alien civilizations and they won't believe it. They will only know our galaxy because that's all that will be seen.

[tomsolon]

This image brings home the fact that we are so insignificant; all our petty squabbles and trite concerns makes it all seem so trivial. We are truly nothing!

[Cassini-Huygens]

I'm crying. The stunning beauty....I'm speechless and overwhelmed. So lucky to live these days

[SliversRebuilt]

"Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the universe, or we are not. Both are equally terrifying." - Arthur C. Clarke

[ganeskmr]

Om My God we are not alone there are Trillions of Trillions of creature living around our earth, what a nature this is master piece. thanks James Webb.🙏🙏💙💙

[IOnGust]

How beautiful that is! Wisdom is in that beauty.

[badcallsign]

Just look at those massive regions of gravitational lensing! Look at how sharp it is!

[JohnH]

“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”

― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

[celestialcircles]

"The nameless was the source of heaven and earth.
It is mysterious and natural, and existed before
 heaven and earth.
Motionless and fathomless, boundless infinite;
It stands alone and never changes;
It pervades everywhere and never becomes exhausted.
It is the Mother of the Universe, from where all things
 have sprung.
I don’t know its name, so I call it Tao."

[lastborn]

If you broke down the per minute cost and opportunity costs to fund this whole project and resulting sub grants to research its finding to me as a taxpayer and told me it was soiled in wasteful spending and corrupted in human error …I’d still say this picture, as is, is worth it!!! Stunning!!!

[kthejung]

Someday people will read about how humans used to live on 1 planet before we ventured out.

[KingKizza]

Amazing images from JWST... can't wait to see more images in afew hours time.

[jasonwebb]

Was it worth the wait? Yes in my opinion it was. I just wished my dad could have lived long enough to see it.

[ThePathOfEudaimonia]

I don't believe in a personal God, maybe Spinoza's and Einstein's take, but images like this and realizing the scope of The Universe is so mind-blowing and leads to a sort of mystical experience.

Beautiful, exciting, and daunting!

[crawford]

Looks like a lot of lensing. Perhaps gravitational. I expect no amount of mirror and optical perfection can rid the image of that sort of distortion.

[anunknownknown]

I am hoping discovery of the great attractor will occur...then again, maybe not. It is mind blowing to finally "see" what Webb has found.

[markd]

Ok so, these galaxy’s are so far away that we don’t have the technology to get to them anyway. Cool yes, but unrealistic

[tomburns]

I’ve been a bit pissed that it was a little late,
but it’s a Universe alright- just can’t find the words to describe it’s beauty

[joeytacey]

I couldn't watch the whole thing because it's just two mind-boggling