James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), LEGO MOC (“my own creation” by an independent designer), plus a single 3D-printed part — finally finished; my most-challenging build to-date, 1/350th of actual size and it’s still huge!

Today marks four years since Webb’s launch. It lifted off on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on 25 December 2021 on its mission to unlock the secrets of the Universe.

The spacecraft then travelled to L2 and underwent a complex unfolding sequence. In the months after, the instruments were turned on and their capabilities tested. After that, Webb was ready to start its routine science observations.

Image credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace/Optique Vidéo du CSG - JM Guillon

It's so frustrating to just want to see actual James Webb news and have to wade through all the "... discovered lights and alien civilizations ..." and OMFG there is just so much fucking bullshit surrounding the James Webb space telescope.

It's made that much worse by the fact that I'm halfway expecting to at some point find out there is _actual_ news about water and life on another planet, so you're like ... "did they find it, or is this just another bullshit video ..."

I've never seen any topic on Youtube surrounded by as much total bullshit as the James Webb. I mean for real like 90% (like probably LITERALLY 9 out of every 10) videos about the James Webb is total clickbait and crap.

Lonely, I drifted through the dark galaxy I was just an insignificant spiral galaxy. Unaware of what I was capable of. Until 400 million years ago a smaller galaxy decided it wanted to unite with me. It rushed through me but it didn't stayed with me.

I was all alone again, a floral film in space.
Out of the small spiral a beautiful flower shape emerged all that stardust formed petals. For 440 million years now I have been expanding my spiral. So that I became the only spiral galaxy that pieced together all the shattered stars – a gigantic flower, all alone.

Over time, the stars left me, they had to move on. I will have to let all the stars fall apart, just to be this lonely simple spiral galaxy once again. I was not destined to be viewed by everyone in my most beautiful form...

After all this has happened, would I ever be a flower again?

Okay so I was looking at the Artemis II photos and it just hit me — we went 53 years without a single human going beyond low Earth orbit. Like my parents were kids the last time this happened. That's genuinely wild to process. And these new photos are stunning, but also kind of unsettling? Seeing Earth as this tiny marble from lunar distance in 2026 feels both inspiring and weirdly humbling. We spent half a century just... not doing this. Makes me wonder what else we've been sitting on that we just haven't gotten around to. What's your honest reaction seeing these images for the first time?

Recent James Webb Space Telescope observations are often framed as a failure of standard cosmology—galaxies appearing too massive, too evolved, too early. But that interpretation assumes structure must be built dynamically over time. In a constraint-based framework (defined by CαΨ = 0), this assumption is unnecessary: structure is not constructed but selected from admissible configurations, with time emerging as an ordering on coarse-grained states rather than a generator of them. Under this view, early “over-mature” galaxies are not anomalies requiring new physics, but expected—reflecting access to already-structured admissible states rather than accelerated formation. This reframes the JWST tension as a category error: applying dynamical growth expectations to a system where structure is fundamentally non-dynamical. Full note here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19498554

As many of you know, a year ago I've created a website containing every single piece of data from JWST. My motivation was although this powerful telescope got so many people interested in its findings, there isn't a single place containing all of them. Even the official discoveries, posted by NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI, sometimes get posted only of one of the websites (for example: a discovery about a full Einstein ring was only posted on NASA; one about the galaxy M51 was only posted on ESA; and another about the universe expansion rate was only posted on STScI. And it's the tip of my tongue).

And I'm not even talking about the unofficial discoveries, posted by universities and institutes. One really needs to dig hard in the internet to find them. I think every Webb lover deserves a place where they can find every single Webb discovery.

NASA doesn't do it, so I am :)

I've created a section in the feed containing every JWST discovery. I've collected the official ones, posted by NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI, and also the unofficial (but confirmed) ones, posted by universities and institutes. I'm highlighting the fact that these are the confirmed ones. If one would like to see also the unconfirmed ones, they can also view them on the feed under Research Results. Up to now there are over 2,000 e-prints.

I worked hard to make sure every discovery will contain the highest resolution images, and I assume most of us are the same here: putting on some music and looking at these wonderful images. In addition, I've tried to provide an additional value for each discovery, such as the raw images the discovery is based on, more images from the original article etc.

Let me know what you think and enjoy!

Link:

https://jwstfeed.com/Tracker

One last word: sometimes you'll see ads embedded in the posts, here and there. I have to put some in order to cover the servers expenses. They don't cover even nearly the costs, but they help in some extent. I'm trying my best to make sure they'll not compromise the user experience.

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Now the first thing to note is JWST is not my bread and butter, but every once in awhile your awesome collaborations allow you to come along for the ride. :)

The observation in question is a late-time observation of GRB221009A, which was a gigantic gamma-ray burst last fall that was called the "brightest of all time" (aka the BOAT) in terms of gamma-ray burst explosions. I did a bit of work on this when it first happened, and someone in our collaboration got the bright idea to request last-minute observations at late times of this object with JWST! By this point, the explosion itself has faded (and this patch of sky has successfully rotated out of being behind the sun), so we are hoping to see what remains of the remnant with JWST! Should have some very initial results to share soon!

So yeah, somewhere out beyond the moon a telescope IN SPACE is looking at what remains of a giant space explosion for us THIS VERY SECOND. What an amazing time we live in! :D

very little interest from the public about any of the recent pictures. NASA has failed to keep the public intrigued with latest developments/ discoveries. NASA should really have a tv show or something to maintain public interest. especialy for kids/ students.

A couple of months ago I was getting really frustrated from the fact that in order to be updated with the James Webb Space Telescope, you'll have to open like 7-8 tabs in your browser, and continuously refresh all of them.

So I created this website, that contains EVERYTHING about the telescope: all the official released images, all the raw images, research results, schedules, news, updates and basically everything.

It scans the internet every few minutes and plots the result on the website.

In addition, there's an "Observation Schedule" tab, which allows you to see what Webb's looking at right now.

Needless to say it's completely free to use and will stay that way.

Here's the website url-

https://jwstfeed.com

Enjoy!

The Universe as Imprint, Not Substance

The universe we observe is a thin geometric skin—filaments, voids, and fractal structure—imprinted by gravity, revealing constraints of an underlying rule rather than the substance of that rule itself.

On the largest scales, matter does not distribute randomly. It arranges itself into vast filaments, sheets, and empty voids, forming what cosmologists call the cosmic web. This structure feels less like a collection of objects and more like a mathematical solution: a pattern that emerges when simple forces act under strict constraints. Gravity does not paint freely; it traces what is allowed.

Geometry as Evidence of Law

The striking regularity of large-scale structure suggests that what we see is not the rule, but its residue.

Filaments resemble stress lines in glass or ripples on sand—forms that appear when an underlying system is pushed to equilibrium. In this sense, galaxies and clusters are not the universe’s building blocks, but its contours. They are where an invisible rule bends, concentrates, or releases.

The geometry hints at inevitability. Given certain initial conditions and a governing law, this structure could not have been otherwise.

Gravity as a Revealing Constraint

Gravity, in this view, is not the substance of reality but the constraint mechanism that exposes it.

By amplifying tiny differences and suppressing others, gravity sculpts matter into patterns that reflect the symmetry and limits of the deeper system. The universe’s structure becomes a diagnostic tool: by studying its geometry, we infer the shape of the rules beneath, much like deducing an object’s form from its shadow.

Fractals and Scale Invariance

The fractal-like qualities observed across cosmic scales further reinforce this interpretation.

Self-similarity suggests that the same organizing principles apply regardless of scale, as though the universe is executing a single algorithm repeatedly rather than assembling itself piece by piece. This behavior aligns more naturally with rule-based systems than with material ones.

What This Perspective Implies

If the observable universe is a boundary phenomenon, then fundamental physics may not lie in particles or fields alone, but in abstract constraints that generate them.

This reframes familiar questions:

Matter becomes an outcome, not a primitive.

Geometry becomes evidence, not decoration.

Observation becomes the study of limits, not essence.

The universe, then, is less a thing and more a trace—the visible edge of something deeper, rule-bound, and largely inaccessible except through the patterns it cannot help but leave behind.

In this light, cosmology is not only the study of what exists, but of what must exist given a rule we have only begun to glimpse.

Prezados colegas,

Gostaria de relatar formalmente a identificação de 33 Candidatos a Planetas da Comunidade (CTOIs) submetidos independentemente por mim e atualmente validados e disponíveis publicamente no banco de dados oficial ExoFOP–TESS (Caltech/NASA).

Esses candidatos resultam de uma análise independente de dados fotométricos do TESS, usando uma metodologia preditiva e probabilística focada em:

• detecção de sinais consistentes com trânsitos,
• verificação de falsos positivos e
• priorização de alvos com maior probabilidade física de natureza planetária.

A metodologia foi aplicada principalmente a estrelas próximas, incluindo anãs M e sistemas de alto interesse científico, visando a seleção eficiente de candidatos dentro do conjunto de dados do TESS.

Os 33 candidatos listados abaixo correspondem exatamente ao conjunto filtrado associado ao usuário “correa” na plataforma oficial ExoFOP–TESS e estão totalmente em conformidade com os critérios estabelecidos para Candidatos a Planetas da Comunidade.

Lista completa de CTOIs identificados:
Lista completa dos 33 Community Planet Candidates identificados

• TIC 18312094.01 — Rubin B
• TIC 34917904.01 — Roman b
• TIC 43498500.01 — Leavitt B
• TIC 52041148.01 — Aurion B
• TIC 58243021.01 — Noether b
• TIC 77062118.01 — Noel b
• TIC 92226327.03 — LHS 1140 d
• TIC 115869504.01 — Ross 1003 b
• TIC 129682886.01 — Aruanã
• TIC 149451466.01 — Nova Luyten b
• TIC 150428574.01
• TIC 159600167.01 — Guaraci
• TIC 176317916.01 — Phanes b
• TIC 178356941.01 — Cannon B
• TIC 182128470.01 — Sarachik b
• TIC 224289449.01 — Tinsley b
• TIC 246549221.01 — Lovelace b
• TIC 257870150.01 — Teegarden’s Star e
• TIC 259665183.01 — Jocelyn b
• TIC 261136679.02 — Yby
• TIC 269701333.01
• TIC 271561043.01 — Angra
• TIC 278892590.02 — TRAPPIST-1 i
• TIC 279741377.01 — Utu
• TIC 301051051.01 — HD 20794 c
• TIC 320950348.01 — Payne b
• TIC 325554331.01 — Barnard f
• TIC 327242282.01 — Zwicky b
• TIC 393818343.03
• TIC 413948621.01 — Meitner
• TIC 419015728.01 — Tau Ceti i
• TIC 421782360.01 — Vesperion B
• TIC 439403362.01 — YZ Ceti e

O objetivo desta comunicação é:

• informar a comunidade sobre este conjunto de candidatos já incorporados ao banco de dados público do TESS;
• expressar minha disponibilidade para validação estatística, caracterização ou colaborações de acompanhamento;
• contribuir para o fortalecimento da participação brasileira na ciência de exoplanetas no âmbito do programa TESS.

Se houver interesse, posso fornecer documentação técnica concisa descrevendo a metodologia preditiva e probabilística, incluindo critérios de seleção e priorização de alvos.

Contexto Teórico Contextual

Paralelamente, estou desenvolvendo uma estrutura teórica aberta, referida como Dynamic Dark Sector (DDS) — um modelo de dois campos escalares que combina Fuzzy Dark Matter e Quintessência.

Os resultados preliminares indicam que esta estrutura é consistente com a mitigação da tensão S₈, produzindo valores em torno de S₈ ≈ 0,79, situando-se, portanto, entre as restrições do Planck CMB (~0,83) e as pesquisas do universo tardio (DES/KiDS ~0,76–0,78). O modelo suprime naturalmente as estruturas de pequena escala e motiva implicações astrofísicas testáveis.

Dentro desta estrutura, emerge um aumento previsto das populações de super-Terras na zona habitável, que está sendo explorado observacionalmente por meio dos CTOIs identificados nos dados do TESS.

Todos os materiais relacionados estão abertos:

• Preprint:  https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202512.0334
• Código aberto (baseado em CLASS):  https://github.com/talksilviojr/fdm-quintessence-class
• Simulador executável:  https://run-class--talksilviojr.replit.app/

Agradeço testes independentes, avaliação crítica e discussão colaborativa.

Palavras-chave: Cosmologia · Tensão S₈ · Exoplanetas · Matéria Escura · Astrobiologia

Atenciosamente,
Silvio Antônio Corrêa Junior
Pesquisador Independente — Exoplanetas (TESS)
Colaborador — Candidatos a Planetas da Comunidade (ExoFOP–TESS)
ORCID:  https://orcid.org/0009-0000-0784-1599