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The Webb telescope just offered a revelatory view of humanity’s distant past (arstechnica.com)
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[–] smitty@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

390 light years away

As galactic scales go, that’s really close

[–] baronvonj@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does that mean the image is from 390 years ago?

[–] smitty@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yes, if one of those stars blew up 389 years ago, we’d see it next year