The James Webb Space Telescope has now graced us with a collection of highly detailed images of space. Through these images, we have seen galaxies that are many billions of light-years away, a beautifully crisp image of the death of a star, and a shot of a group of galaxies overlapping each other that took 1,000 images to create.
So how do we celebrate such a monumental moment in science? With memes, of course! Within minutes of the images being live, they had been carefully crafted and edited, compared to everything from bowling alley carpets to surrealist art, and thrown into the mix with beloved films and TV shows.
Below we’ve gathered our favourite JWST memes to celebrate this event.
Dali and Ernst would have loved the JWST
Same energy. pic.twitter.com/DBNIPyQFx5
— Andy Howell (@d_a_howell) July 12, 2022
Bowling alleys beat the JWST to it
It's here–the deepest, sharpest infrared view of the universe to date: Webb's First Deep Field.
— dom nero (@dominicknero) July 12, 2022
Previewed by @POTUS on July 11, it shows galaxies once invisible to us. pic.twitter.com/9HgNMQg600
NASA identifies intelligent life in space
Oh no JWST what have you done pic.twitter.com/00By3zKE2f
— Bram De Buyser (@chton) July 12, 2022
The two sides of technology collide
True pic.twitter.com/RUvQigUnPW
— To Be Frank (@psa10memes) July 13, 2022
The telescope he tells you not to worry about
hey astro twitter my dad made this for us #JWST pic.twitter.com/CBx7MeMP6X
— Charlotte Minsky (@minskycharlotte) July 13, 2022
It’s all so clear now
I waited aost a decade to make this meme. #JWST #hubble #JWST_HST_SciVI #NASA #NASAWebb #JamesWebbSpaceTelescope #Web3 pic.twitter.com/SVbNUYdWEg
— Panini_Singam (@panini_singam) July 11, 2022
Why travel billions of light years when you could just get the bus
So in awe of the gravitational lensing! Never expected to see such clarity and color pic.twitter.com/S7o8rceqQR
— Julia Kardon (@jlkardon) July 11, 2022
One for the Superman fans out there
Here’s a new image from JWST! ???? pic.twitter.com/D0nY9F3n0h
— Ex V Planis (@ExVPlanis) July 13, 2022
Planet B-Ball was a key finding from the JWST
Breaking News: President Biden revealed the first image from the Webb Space Telescope, the deepest view yet into our universe’s past, NASA said. pic.twitter.com/t6NfGVp0Qs
— depressica alba (@rodb) July 12, 2022
Have you seen the images yet? Have you?!
What opening the Internet looks like today… and it’s amazing ???? ????#UnfoldTheUniverse pic.twitter.com/7vMVBatdPO
— Kate ???? (@katebomb) July 12, 2022
Even Google’s Doodle got invovled
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Read more:
- First James Webb images show us creation as it happens, says Hawking Chair in Cosmology
- James Webb Space Telescope images: Dying stars, distant galaxies and water on an exoplanet
- James Webb is about to take us to the edge of time: Here’s why that’s even cooler than it sounds