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On Monday, Royal Museum Greenwich released their 2022 Astronomy Photographer of the Year shortlist. The entries are genuinely spectacular – so much so that they were originally going to be featured in this week’s coolsh*t. But timing is a cruel mistress. 1 day later, NASA released the first images captured by the James Webb Telescope – images which, by the way, just so happen to be of the whole bloody galaxy – and, unsurprisingly, they’ve absolutely blown these photographer gimps out the water. Or the sky, I should say. If you don’t know what we’re referring to, the James Webb Telescope is the largest and most powerful space-based observatory ever built. It was launched 1 million miles into space last year with the hope that it may help answer some of the many mysteries of our universe. And, as it turns out, it also takes one hell of a snap, since it is able to capture distant galaxies that we had previously never been able to see. It doesn’t half make you feel insignificant – but in a rather comforting way. Seeing the full scale of the universe really puts that pitch you’d been fretting over into perspective.
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