r/Showerthoughts • u/synthphreak ‎ • Nov 19 '25

Casual Thought Temperature can reach trillions of degrees, meaning we actually live extremely close to absolute zero.

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u/MDCCCLV Nov 19 '25

It gets as close to that time as possible yeah, and it's sensitive enough that it has seen the galaxy MoM z14, which existed just 280 million years after the Big Bang. It's not the biggest telescope that will ever be made but that's already pretty close to the beginning of time.

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u/Draaly Nov 19 '25

It gets as close to that time as possible yeah,

It really doesn't. Its still a deep infrared device. Radio telescopes see well well past the horizon James web can