NASA has released the first batch of images captured by the Webb space telescope, and rock’s top astrophysicist, Brian May, has teamed up with 10cc songwriter Graham Gouldman on a new tune to celebrate the occasion.
You’ve probably seen this widely reproduced image showing scores of galaxies. What you might not have seen is how big a piece of the sky it represents: A spot the size of a grain of sand held at arm’s length. A lot of that radiation left those galaxies billions of years before our solar system formed.
I can’t see how someone could ponder that image yet still think it’s all about us.