this post was submitted on 30 Jul 2023
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A community for post and pictures about the James Webb Space Telescope, Hubble Telescope, Spitzer, etc as well as other space images.

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Likely to be to most iconic comparison to Hubble so far. Hubble on the left, JWST on the right.

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[โ€“] Got_Bent 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This was the first picture I ever saw that clued me in to the size of the universe. Next was the deep field. It was humbling.

[โ€“] Agr8lemon 5 points 1 year ago

humbling is a great word. No matter how much we think we know, looking at something like this reminds me of how small we really are.