The James Webb Space Telescope has just dumped 1.5TB of data onto the internet, creating a searchable database containing imagery of nearly 800,000 galaxies. Eight hundred thousand. Let that sink in for a moment while you’re sitting there with your morning coffee, worrying about whether you remembered to put the bins out or if your teenage daughter will actually clean her room this week.

Someone in the comments perfectly captured what I’ve been feeling since this news broke: “I feel incredibly small, but filled with wonder.” That’s exactly it, isn’t it? There’s something profoundly humbling about being confronted with the sheer scale of the universe, yet simultaneously exhilarating. It’s like standing at the edge of the Southern Ocean down at St Kilda pier during a winter storm – you’re reminded just how tiny you are, but there’s something magnificent about that realisation.