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		feoren on Jan 12, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The James Webb Space Telescope is finding too many... Not an expert here but it sounds like you might be describing the Cosmic Microwave Background. This is basically the remnant of the early opaque plasma cloud that filled the entire universe. As we look far away/back in time, the photons reaching us have redshifted due to the expansion of the universe. That's why these originally extremely high-energy photons are now just low-energy microwaves. The "background", 0 seconds after the Big Bang, is in all directions, and presents as the Cosmic Microwave Background. Or so I understand. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_microwave_background

Pxtl on Jan 12, 2023 [–]

There's always a relevant xkcd for every science question, and in this case it's one of the first ones:

https://xkcd.com/54/

limbicsystem on Jan 12, 2023 | [–]

But oddly the most recent one as well https://xkcd.com/2723

yreg on Jan 13, 2023 | | [–]

It's incredible how Randall seems to be able to come up with an endless number of fun ideas even after all these years.

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