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Huh, I thought there would be more. Like billions of galaxies.
by Eddy_Viscosity2 1y ago
Huh, I thought there would be more. Like billions of galaxies.
- merek 1y agoThey only observed an area of sky approximately the size of "three full moons" > By using the data from the James Webb Space Telescope’s 6.5‑meter (21-ft) mirror, scientists at UC Santa Barbara have surveyed 0.54 square degrees of sky, which is equivalent to the area of three full moons when viewed from Earth. Charting nearly 800,000 galaxies, the COSMOS-Web dataset covers almost 98% of cosmic history.
- ShinTakuya 1y agoThere are. The count is gotten by extrapolating from randomly selected areas of sky. This is more like another detailed picture of a small patch of sky.