NASA celebrates James Webb telescope anniversary with new images

It has been two years since NASA's James Webb telescope gave us a stunning first look at the depth of our universe. To commemorate the achievement, NASA has released new images showing two distant galaxies interacting with each other. Jane Rigby, astrophysicist and a senior project scientist for the Webb telescope at NASA, joins CBS News to discuss.
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[@ThatIrishCowboy]

That's clearly a hummingbird

[@CJ_222]

kinda looks like a goose to me lol

[@catha.j.stuart2200]

I thought it looked like a prawn 🦐

[@James_Knott]

Those are really good shots for a Webb cam! 🙂

[@desmeisme]

Dang, there are totally more of us out there. And many more things I’m sure. How could there not be

[@CJ_222]

yeah it boggles my mind that people believe that we are the only beings in space. hell we can only see what we call the "observable universe". what if it truly is infinite ?? makes my brain hurt lol

[@MLGxBXRxPRO]

If we're are or not alone both those thoughts scares me

[@joshuatrainer6859]

What an amazing universe. One may wonder why or how such a place exists. There is no doubt that existence is a profound condition.

[@johnnyfreedom3437]

You mean there seems to be "reason and order to it all!" Another interesting tidbit is the question why is every civilization we discover always have religion? What is man's inherent need to worship a higher being?! I wish I could be around long enough to hear the answer!

[@raw3040]

and now the moon up close. let's see if that works out as well. and then also close-up. then it must be clearly visible.???😊

[@fbiagent6294]

@@johnnyfreedom3437 Check out Michael Shermer. He has good insight on why humans do that.

[@JanetEarthOne711]

Wow 😲 Awesome! #JamesWebb 2year anniversary 👍👍

[@milleniumfalcon8654]

Awesome majestic space telescope 🔭 images 👍☺️

[@pianofixer898]

If you’re a fan of James Webb, tell your senators and representatives to support Goddard Spaceflight Center.

[@Colli40000]

What is it?

[@kylemadden8619]

@@Colli40000 Its where the james webb was built end developed.

[@81179venky]

Beautiful stunning new pics ❤

[@christinem.carter-wanner5304]

I was born to soon!

[@beeliam-li2hf]

The news anchor lady looks good 👍🏽 also

[@kakhaval]

Brilliant picture, even without JW

[@JaylenPotts-zs2qw]

James Webb is very special the telephone is amazing

[@An-dromedra.]

New best shoot from nasa James Webb telescope ❤🎉❤

[@user-mc3ie6of4n]

amazing

[@dammitdan106]

Milky way is going to CLEAVAGE collide with Andromeda?

[@metoo6599]

Aww nice!!!❤🎉

[@The_SuperNatural803]

And they say no other life exists out there.. 🙄

[@BruceDeshado]

I thought that video was very interesting...i like stuff like that.

[@stardust4987]

A hummingbird.

[@js6728]

so which one is sitting in orbit at the southern axis?

[@adamredwine774]

Huh?

[@newcinema4931]

pretty sure thats hubble because jwst doesn't orbit us

[@Aces77777]

It'll be better if it can see what's on those planets

[@adamredwine774]

Not possible

[@LolUGotBusted]

You mean different stuff besides what it can see on those planets?

[@aaronschmidt9753]

Still begs the questions: What is this? Why? What the hell is going on?

[@trevorjensen2706]

It is two galaxies that are converging into one galaxy (per the video).

[@Elmo_Galupe]

The Aliens run Linux.

[@sonrichard76]

Will our Sun go supernova before we meet the Andromeda galaxy?

[@livingiseasywitheyesclosed3498]

Even the word "amazing" pales in comparison to these images.

[@justicewillprevail1106]

Looks like a dolphin

[@deweyl2478]

Still no aliens tho smh

[@mathewmcfool]

I wonder if it can take a picture of me from space

[@somnuswaltz5586]

No it can't. Thats been asked many times

[@adamredwine774]

@@somnuswaltz5586Primarily just because of its location and position though. Granted, the picture would just be white because it’s an infrared telescope so you couldn’t make anything out and a person would still be way smaller than a single pixel, but in theory some of the photons from a person could register on it’s instrument.

[@somnuswaltz5586]

@@adamredwine774 that's like saying you can see a dinosaur a million miles away with a large enough telescope just because a single photon from the dinosaur hits it.

[@adamredwine774]

@@somnuswaltz5586 Yes. I agree.

[@SkillsPayTheBills01]

Hope we see extraterrestrials soon which ik it won’t happen

[@findaxelfoley8106]

Religion is a con, Science is truth.

[@CJ_222]

facts! religion is just a tool to control society

[@mandogundam5779]

Or science could be the art of studying god-like tools in a giant interstellar workshop.

[@eecemaster4524]

Science is the word of God, invented by humans through hypotheses and experiments to reach to theoretical conclusions about the dynamics of space.

[@findaxelfoley8106]

@@eecemaster4524 James Webb telescope shows your God is too weak for THIS much detail. Thoughts and prayers cure nothing

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

The JWST is absolutely wonderful. However... it is unfortunate that it can really only serve and benefit the wealthy, powerful, influential, and popular. 😕 Everyone else has no voice nor power nor input.

[@SajiSNairNair-tu9dk]

😂🧏‍♂️

[@joelvanwinkle5976]

Looks like a penguin

[@johnnyfreedom3437]

I remember Sputnik and then Telstar going overhead once every 45 minutes! Telstar was the only man-made thing in the sky we could see back then! Now there are 10,000 pieces of junk in the sky besides all our satellites! And of course elon's Dysons Sphere!

[@Got_Trolled]

Basically, in summary we astronomers don’t know much anything about the universe but keep bragging about our knowledge from big bang, what-at-the-edge-of-universe, parallel universe, 11 dimension universe, worm holes, etc.

[@ge2623]

Way to go Elon!!! Oh, wait. I forgot I'm an idiot.

[@ABCDEFGHIJK4097]

Most people don't realize that these pictures have been colored by hand. The original pictures don't even look like that at all and you hardly see anything.

[@AmbientMorality]

I mean, sure, but I don't get why that's meaningful. Any digital camera is also doing heavy processing to convert a monochrome image into a colorful one. Here it's near infrared so much of the detail wouldn't even be visible to humans. ("colored by hand" is a bit misleading. colors are assigned to different wavelengths and then the images are composited atop each other, but i'd call that more "colors were assigned to different wavelength bands by hand")

[@ABCDEFGHIJK4097]

@@AmbientMorality It's important because people think this is what you actually see. But in reality you see nothing.

[@AmbientMorality]

@@ABCDEFGHIJK4097 Hmm, I suppose that's fair. I don't think it takes away from it though; it's pretty great that we have instruments that can do things our eyes could never.

[@Stylenwavin]

No way these are colored by hand. You silly

[@ABCDEFGHIJK4097]

@@Stylenwavin They are.

[@Ibn_Abdulaziz]

They believe that their particle gods can create the universe but not the very machines that they are using to comprehend the universe with. For the machines, they believe knowledge and ability is required to create. But for the universe that those machines are used for to comprehend, then it (the universe) doesn't require any knowledge and ability to create. Inanimate particles can just smash in together by chance and random events. So their knowledge benefitted them naught. The objective was preserving desires and addictions and not reaching truth.

[@rakkasaniron1696]

That's an absurd argument against science. It's a kind of zealotry masquerading as wisdom. But it only goes through the "cadence" of wisdom, no wisdom exists in those words. Not trying to be disrespectful, and I fully recognize that science and measurements/observations aren't always a perfect way of understanding the universe on certain levels. But real science is about curiosity, understanding, innovation, making sense of the nature of things. You're free to have your cynical perspective, of course. But don't try to pretend that Science is incapable of wisdom. There's more than one path to it, but understanding WHAT things actually are is one of the most important aspects of wisdom. We'd on average be wiser if more people took up an interest and passion in the sciences.

[@Ibn_Abdulaziz]

@@rakkasaniron1696 Science just means knowledge. You've turned the world into a doctrine of atheism/polytheism and immorality. Knowledge doesn't lead to your conclusions.

[@Ibn_Abdulaziz]

@@rakkasaniron1696 Your doctrine is not new. Those before you who argued for naturalism and materialism believed that the four elements: water (liquid), air (gas), earth (solids) and fire (plasma) created the world. They called it nature. Fast forward, and you replaced it with the periodical table. Taking atoms as creators is not atheism, but the lowest form of polytheism. Because you're taking inanimate things as creators when even idolaters didn't say that the inanimate idol created anything. It leads to pantheism where every particle become divine, calling it "the god particle". And thus the spilling animals become their gods too, whereas a trinitarian polytheist restricts his gods to three entitles.

[@Ibn_Abdulaziz]

@@rakkasaniron1696 It's also a redherring. The usury printing draws engineers and manufacturers who need to sell their products to where there's a market in order to make living. Now it is shifting to china. The usury hoards the technology to itself, and the owners of that usury system (i.e the juice) then gather that technology around people who believe stardust created the world and that the h-man of 🇩🇪 and his victims turn into nitrogen before turning into stardust once the sun goes supernova, creating stars together as stsrdust hods with the particles of the h-man of germany and his victims. Thus they use the technology, careers, and material things that shallow minds covet that the usury system gathered to itself as bait. In order for you to get a share of it, you have to believe in their stardust gods. And that's the minor tests of this life. If you associate atoms with Allah ﷻ, the Creator of this world in order to quench your lusts, then you have lost both this life andvthe next.

[@adamredwine774]

@@PatternRecognitionistno, they are photographs.

[@T.Z.M4N]

There is a God after all.

[@CJ_222]

this does not prove that there is a god lol

[@T.Z.M4N]

@@CJ_222 Did man do this or did you do it?

[@CJ_222]

@@T.Z.M4N I don’t care what your religion says or what anyone believes. The truth is we’ll never know.

[@T.Z.M4N]

@@CJ_222 I feel for you for you have nothing.If I am right then I get a reward.If I am wrong then nothing lost nothing gained.I am not a gambling man.

[@babyjarell03]

Please don’t believe anything. They say imagine all the other pictures they’re holding from us.

[@WallE58]

The universe is old but not as old as people in Congress and the two mummies trying to be president that is extremely old

[@phk2000]

The universe is infinite and eternal. That which is infinite can't expand - it's already everywhere. That which is eternal had no beginning - it has always been. The human mind can't handle this - though the ramifications are truly mind-blowing and should be investigated by all. The quality of your life and happiness depend on it.

[@user-rj4iw6nn6h]

The heavens declare the GLORY OF GOD 🙌🙌

[@JohnSmith-jf4so]

The universe declares God's handiwork.

[@user-dc2tp3tk1m]

Gosh ... Jesus sure knew exactly what he was doing when he created everything . Don't matter wether you believe that or not but Believers have got absolute facts about who created everything and when it was created and it wasn't millions of years ago either 😅 What baffles me is all the trouble that people will go through trying to prove that God didn't create anything cause he don't exist 😅 so im gonna do something i saw not long ago on Facebook and it's a bunch of junk car parts and im throwing a big pile of them together and in a million years ill have me a Lamborghini 😅 . And according to the big bang theory that's what happened. Everything just started forming from nothing so why not try 😅 Absolutely beyond idiocy 😅

[@viralroom1001]

there is no jesus.. just our creator

[@SeanCooney-xe5xe]

You could just admit that you hate learning

[@jesse76th96]

😅😅😅

[@adamredwine774]

@@PatternRecognitionistno, they are photographs

[@adamredwine774]

Cars don’t reproduce.

[@thomasgriffith2953]

Interesting but how does it effect us here on earth???

[@MisfitsFiendClub138]

Our Universe will be toast once the sun burns out, about 4 to 5 billion years from now

[@MichaelDeHaven]

Our planet will unfortunately be toast even earlier than that as far as life goes. We've got ~1.3 billion years til our sun gets so large and hot that life on earth effectively becomes impossible. It'll likely be only simple bacteria alive by that point on earth. Then comes us being engulfed by it, like the poster above said. As for how it affects us here. They are trying to understand the evolution of our universe. From our galaxy to our own sun. We are working on understanding the very laws by which everything functions. It may not have any immediate practical use at this moment. But we never know what knowledge may be used for. There's always its intrinsic value. But quantum mechanics didn't have any practical value when it was first discovered. Now our modern world wouldn't be possible without that knowledge. I hope that helps answer your question.

[@adamredwine774]

@@MisfitsFiendClub138we only have about 500 million years until the sun grows enough to make the planet uninhabitable.

[@adamredwine774]

By helping us understand how the universe works which allows us to develop new technologies like the internet.

[@MisfitsFiendClub138]

@@adamredwine774 wasn't talking about 'us', specifically the universe itself

[@FloridaMan69.]

I helped build it

[@adamredwine774]

Mazel tov and thanks.