Free Chat Friday, Week 28

This image made available in March shows a star used to align the mirrors of the James Webb Space Telescope with galaxies and stars surrounding it. The hexagonal shape of Webb’s mirrors and its filters made the shimmering star look more red and spiky. [ AP ]

Rise and Shine, News Viewers, Friday is here, there’s chatting to be done, coffee to be consumed, perspective to be gained, the big picture to get bigger. This week we saw the first pictures taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, and instead of seeing distant horizons, we saw distant eons, we saw the past in front of our eyes. the past that made us. Trippy. Mind Blowing.

“The atoms of our bodies are traceable to stars that manufactured them in their cores and exploded these enriched ingredients across our galaxy, billions of years ago. For this reason, we are biologically connected to every other living thing in the world. We are chemically connected to all molecules on Earth. And we are atomically connected to all atoms in the universe. We are not figuratively, but literally stardust.” ― Neil deGrasse Tyson



Here on the Blue Planet, we’ve lived through another week in the news; we have some particularly devastating cartoons to prove it. Fill us in on your thoughts, plans and notions; and welcome to free chat….. what’s happening on your corner of the universe?