JWST Images Galaxy Cluster and Sees the BEST Gravitational Lensing | Cosmic Seahorse Explained!

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JWST has observed some awesome gravitational lensing recently, thanks to an awesome cluster of galaxies warping space. This gives rise to some epic lensing, including one galaxy that is now known as the Cosmic Seahorse. Thanks to comparable images from Hubble, we can map out exactly what's happening here and explain everything we see, which is awesome!

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[davidpescod]

This is a truly stunning and beautiful photo of lensing on an unbelievably monumental scale. I think your explanation of using spectroscopy to confirm that multiple images of a galaxy are indeed the same galaxy was brilliantly done, Chris. Many thanks, as always, for the effort and time you put into producing such excellent videos

[bryandraughn]

A-mazing!
Galaxies are fascinating to me.
I remember when we could only see a few of them and then this happened.
A "background" galaxy was a rare event when I was young. A photograph would occasionally catch a small, distant galaxy when looking at a nearby example, and a few blurry clusters were known.
When i first saw the Hubble deep field, i was blown away completely.
You're doing a fantastic job!

[maxvaessen]

Awesome stuff Chris! Thanks for sharing

[PADARM]

Fantastic, Einstein would be very happy to see these images.

[Nightscape_]

I love how that dragon galaxy looks like it's swallowing another one.

[deoproximo]

That 30 galaxy is extremely far away but it's been magnified by what's the biggest lens you can think of and we can see stars in it and other features when normally they would be a blur.

[dorbie]

One of the more interesting exploitations of gravitational lensing is that light takes different amounts of time to travel along the different paths, sometimes days and weeks apart because the distances are so vast. This means that if you witness a Supernova in one image of a lensed Galaxy, you know exactly where to look and when to look to observe the same supernova event from its very inception, not just after the fact.

[soppdrake]

The jwst image is amazing! What an incredible dancing light display

[heteronimous]

Excellent video! Humans should invest in science instead of war!

[dmb]

There is so much that can be said about a single image from the JWST. I'm sure you are just scratching the surface.

[Viperatut]

A simpler explanation is there is a huge wine glass in space.

[michaelccopelandsr]

Time is fascinating. I worked the subway stations for nearly 10 years. From one end of the city to the other. Every so often I would notice the city would be saying that, "Today just flew by" or "The day was just dragging along."  How can an entire city complain about the same time paradox unless it was effected by it. Maybe a time distorted bubble the earth passes through in its revolution around the sun. Maybe random waves of time distortion hitting the earth? Maybe they're randomly given off by the sun. Maybe they're from outside our Terran system and reach us in intervals. ???? Ti-i-i-ime, is on my side. Yes, it is!

[JulesvonderSpritz]

Congratulations : your video is extremely good ! I was enthralled

[K-Sharon]

Great stuff, Chris! Thanks for the shoutout :)

[ioanbota]

Realy I like this video so much its so interestyng

[cosmosorbust]

Neils Bohr was arguing with Einstein about a rewriting of the laws of physics. "It is wrong to think the task of physics is to find out how nature is, " Bohr stated.
Einstein angrily disagreed, slamming Bohr famously by stating: "Deine Mutter ist so massig, ich kann die Leute hinter ihr stehen sehen." (Your mother is so massive, I can see the people standing behind her.)
This led to his work on the theory of gravitational lensing.

[esslar]

This is great and very well explained, too.

[SaneGuyFr]

hello, i was responding to a flat earther channel, anywas beautiful image, clear skies!

[HansZarkovPhD]

Its amazing hot the webb telescope is changing the theory of the big bang origin

[JC]

0:49 It's absolutely mind-bending that each of those fuzzies is actually hundreds of millions, if not billions of stars - many of which could have planets on which life is possible. And we're supposed to be the only intelligent life in the universe? I don't think so.