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You Are A Elf posted:Those galaxies are 500 million light years away and we are seeing them as if they’re just around the corner And as they were 500 million years ago.
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Captain Invictus posted:we are so utterly hosed gently caress, he lives! 
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ProperCoochie posted:I've been hesitant to bump this thread because I didn't want to get peoples' hopes up BUT DAT NEW poo poo JUST DROPPED That's a melanoma, op. You should have that checked out by a doctor asap
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GABA ghoul posted:That's a melanoma, op. You should have that checked out by a doctor asap That’s what they used to call me. Old Melanoma Head.
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ddiddles posted:Uhh....JESUS bump
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I miss the high-key announcements  This is still cool though.https://twitter.com/NASAWebb/status/1565353100160176128
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YeahTubaMike posted:I miss the high-key announcements 
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YeahTubaMike posted:I miss the high-key announcements Just stunning. And NASA is going to build a space station orbiting the Moon a few years down the line. I'm so glad we're doing such cool and important space stuff again.
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How are u posted:Just stunning. And NASA is going to build a space station orbiting the Moon a few years down the line. I'm so glad we're doing such cool and important space stuff again. A lot of people don’t realize a new space race is upon us. China set the table, and NASA and co are trying to catch up (they might surpass, they might not! Time will tell)
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yeah china is catching up pretty quick. their rocketry is still pretty rudimentary and based on western tech (and they still show no signs of rocket reuse), but they've been ticking some boxes lately like "space station" and "martian rover". their deep space exploration and novel satellite design is basically non-existent, but they do finally have a fully functional sat-nav system as of a year or two ago to rival GPS/GLONASS/Galileo. the west and the US especially still have a healthy lead but china has the ambition and funding to surpass them in the next 5-15 years if they try hard enough e: misinterpreted your post. it's china that is playing catchup from deep in the back here, not NASA lol. but they are working hard hot cocoa on the couch fucked around with this message at 17:52 on Sep 1, 2022 |
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YeahTubaMike posted:I miss the high-key announcements still cant see poo poo lol
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ELTON JOHN posted:still cant see poo poo lol there will never be a true picture of an exoplanet, it took flying a probe basically into Pluto to take pictures of it other than malformed dots
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ELTON JOHN posted:still cant see poo poo lol I think this is more of a "you" problem.
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MrQwerty posted:there will never be a true picture of an exoplanet, it took flying a probe basically into Pluto to take pictures of it other than malformed dots well there is the idea of sending out a whole lot of little probes away from the target until they're at the perfect spot where our sun will gravitationally lens the light such that with enough probes you might be able to actually make out land masses
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ELTON JOHN posted:still cant see poo poo lol Turn off your monitor
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new poo poo https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1567163189082693632?s=20&t=FQxlA4On7FQiRD3-BaPIlQ
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Demon Of The Fall posted:new poo poo 
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Demon Of The Fall posted:new poo poo
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Demon Of The Fall posted:new poo poo zooming in on that bright spot  
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Demon Of The Fall posted:new poo poo Looks like Oogie Boogie
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Sedgr posted:Space contains everything and it is still dwarfed by the emptiness. -Albert Einstein What gets me is that these stars look like they're literally next doo to each other, and yet they're most likely hundreds of light-years apart. Universal distances always blow my mind
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Dragonstoned posted:zooming in on that bright spot Aw yeah. First thing I did was zoom way in to this part
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Seth Pecksniff posted:What gets me is that these stars look like they're literally next doo to each other, and yet they're most likely hundreds of light-years apart. No, those guys literally are next door to each other. The star cluster R136 you're looking at is only only about 50 light years across, and that central blob where they're so close that you can't resolve individual stars is like 6. It's a starburst area: a place where a whole shitton of thick gas condensed out into a whole lot of stars, many of them super-giants that are gonna burn out and go boom super fast. Here's the tl;dr of a big star forming nebula: 1. Somehow a lot of gas gets pulled together, either by gravity and movement inside the galaxy or interactions with other galaxies (the second is much more effective, and can make a whole galaxy light up with millions of new stars). At this point it looks like a big black blob. 2. The densest region starts collapsing under its own gravity, pulling in more gas. Little knots accumulate and get big enough to collapse down into proto-stars. 3. Dozens or hundreds of stars turn on, basically all at once in astronomical time. The first thing they do is turn all that cold dense gas around them into hot expanding gas. This shuts down star formation as gas gets dispersed from the cold dense blobs. This famous picture looks like dirt being blown away in strong wind, because that's exactly what's happening. 4. If this was a big cloud, a good number of these new stars will be giant fuckers that are so bright that they light up the whole cloud complex for 100s of light years around them. This takes a couple forms (reflection where light bounces off the clouds, emission where UV and Xrays from super-giants are absorbed by gas and then that energy re-emitted as visible or IR light). <--- All the pretty pictures of cool nebula are from this step 5. The energy and solar wind from the star cluster, and the biggest stars quickly going supernova, blows away all the gas and dust. The nebula fades out. Many of the stars spread out, but a tight cluster of them may hang together a long time and still be a recognizable group for millions or billions of years. Only 10% of the gas made it into stars, the rest eventually get scooped into new clouds in the long long future.
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vortmax posted:Our own local star started in a cluster like this iirc Woah how old are you?
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vortmax posted:Our own local star started in a cluster like this iirc I forget did they ever find any solar siblings?
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Lawman 0 posted:I forget did they ever find any solar siblings? https://skyandtelescope.org/astrono...he%20Sun%20was. Two, I think.. One right here, only 117 light years away.. dunno about the other
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vortmax posted:Our own local star started in a cluster like this iirc Every star starts out in some type of cluster -- the gas clouds won't start collapsing unless they've got enough mass to make dozens or hundreds of suns.
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NEW poo poo OF THE ORION NEBULA F**K YES https://pdrs4all.org/pdrs4all-first-images-release/   BONUS IMAGE WITH A HIDDEN FROG 
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Klyith posted:No, those guys literally are next door to each other. The star cluster R136 you're looking at is only only about 50 light years across, and that central blob where they're so close that you can't resolve individual stars is like 6.  two galactic icebergs made of gas colliding, and the friction sends stars as sparks Thank you, I will think about this all day.
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ProperCoochie posted:NEW poo poo OF THE ORION NEBULA F**K YES thse are great
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Klyith posted:This famous picture looks like dirt being blown away in strong wind, because that's exactly what's happening. Well speak of the devil! Next up on Webb's continuing tour of the Greatest Hits of modern astronomy: The Pillars of Creation.  https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/nasa-s-webb-takes-star-filled-portrait-of-pillars-of-creation The cool new poo poo: those bright red flares are from very young stars, which are still burping out hot gas ejections as they settle down. Webb can see into the interior of these dust clouds much better than Hubble. These "pillars" don't look nearly so solid anymore, huh?
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Associate Christ