It's so funny to me that Einstein clowned on himself for coming up with a stupid theory that he thought was wrong. And now today scientists are going back to it because he was actually really, really correct. Anyway, here's a picture of the Tarantula Nebula I stole (aka legally downloaded) from NASA's JWST telescope Flickr.
In 2022, the Hubble Space Telescope broke its own record, and spotted the most distant star yet. This star, nicknamed Earendel, emitted its light within the universe’s first billion years
The star, which the research team has dubbed Earendel, is located in the Sunrise Arc galaxy and is detectable only due to the combined power of human technology and nature via an effect called gravitational lensing. Both Hubble and Webb were able to detect Earendel due to its lucky alignment behind a wrinkle in space-time created by the massive galaxy cluster WHL0137-08. The galaxy cluster, located between us and Earendel, is so massive that it warps the fabric of space itself, which produces a magnifying effect, allowing astronomers to look through the cluster like a magnifying glass
While other features in the galaxy appear multiple times due to the gravitational lensing, Earendel only appears as a single point of light even in Webb’s high-resolution infrared imaging. Based on this, astronomers determine the object is magnified by a factor of at least 4,000, and thus is extremely small – the most distant star ever detected, observed 1 billion years after the big bang
These would probably run about $60 + shipping - they're not cheap to have made, but I'm really happy with the construction of them. I think that's pretty reasonable for a lamp with custom queer artwork on them, but I don't want to commit to designing a bunch of them if people aren't excited about it.
JWST: New images reveal detailed features of Uranus’s seasonal north polar cap, as well as bright storms near and below the southern border of the cap (December 18, 2023)