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roomtone posted:gas planets don't count How can gas planets be real? Like just close your eyes and don't breath, haha.
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Grey Cat posted:How can gas planets be real? Like just close your eyes and don't breath, haha. Gas planets under heavy covers
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redshirt posted:The Sombrero Galaxy híjole!
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Enceladus  The blue areas to the south are a partially open global geyser system.
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Lots of cool photos in here. The space ones are the best, but I have a special fondness for landscapes and Mars in particular. 2.5-billion-pixel image is the most detailed view ever of Mars landscape They're somehow both super cool because they're from a completely different world, but also funny because they look a lot like the empty non-scenery you might see at a rest stop in the middle of Nevada.
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Here's a shot from Titan  I think the scale is a couple of inches.
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redshirt posted:Here's a shot from Titan Titan and Venus have a similar-but-different vibe
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MrQwerty posted:Titan and Venus have a similar-but-different vibe Hmm, I'd never considered them together. One is literally the hottest place in the solar system (not counting the Sun). The other is a -250F methane ice world.
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redshirt posted:Hmm, I'd never considered them together. One is literally the hottest place in the solar system (not counting the Sun). The other is a -250F methane ice world. And they're both yellow hellholes with scaly ground
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this is a good thread to have. one of my low effort hobbies is peeking through the uploads from webb every night and seeing if anything cool looking shows up. most of what it takes are kinds of data other than pictures for looking at with human eyeballs, so it's a pretty quick scroll 99% of the time. here are some random rear end shots I have pulled and processed, not all of which I labeled and or remember what sky object they are        here is a photo of europa. it's tiny but still amazing that we can get europa pixels from an earth-adjacent space telescope  NGC-1566  NGC-1385 (oh I messed with colors on this one)  the average non-image image looks like this. smart people can still use the pixel values to make the science go, but it's not much to look at by itself 
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Well that's just nifty as all hell. Though what's with the blotches of black in this one?
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I think it's bullshit how Nasa slaps a bunch of neon lights over Hubble photos like they're presenting a gaming PC. I want to see a telescopic image of space, not an artists representation of a telescopic image of space.
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Nice Tuckpointing! posted:Well that's just nifty as all hell. I have utterly no idea what causes those, but they are in the raw image (they are ugly and I would not add them on purpose) and are frequent enough that I assume them to be an artifact of "make pretty photos" being near the bottom of the list of things it's actually for Beartaco posted:I think it's bullshit how Nasa slaps a bunch of neon lights over Hubble photos like they're presenting a gaming PC. I want to see a telescopic image of space, not an artists representation of a telescopic image of space. all hubble's raws are just online for free, the cost is effort and installing niche software. the versions that have been lisa frank'd by random artists do tend to make the news though
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Beartaco posted:I think it's bullshit how Nasa slaps a bunch of neon lights over Hubble photos like they're presenting a gaming PC. I want to see a telescopic image of space, not an artists representation of a telescopic image of space. Both Hubble and James Webb produce grayscale images; the colorization channels are chosen for reasons like highlighting different chemical compositions in gas clouds or separating electromagnetic emission spectra. They also usually need to clean up various artifacts like excess starlight and cosmic ray flashes. Also, keep in mind that space telescope exposures take many hours to days, so even in visual wavelengths there's really no "real" version of the processed image you're seeing, any more than there's a "real" version of a stained cell you're looking at through a backlit microscope. The very act of observation at these scales is the act of translating information out of our perceptual range into something we can comprehend.
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Javid posted:this is a good thread to have. one of my low effort hobbies is peeking through the uploads from webb every night and seeing if anything cool looking shows up. most of what it takes are kinds of data other than pictures for looking at with human eyeballs, so it's a pretty quick scroll 99% of the time. here are some random rear end shots I have pulled and processed, not all of which I labeled and or remember what sky object they are These are amazing! What's your setup like? Do you have to travel to get good shots?
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Reminder that we are totally insignificant.
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Hollismason posted:Reminder that we are totally insignificant. Or the inverse, we're sentient living things considering the Universe we're made up. Pretty miraculous.
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redshirt posted:Check out this ancient goddess. I love this one because I like to imagine it happening. The slowest, laziest collision in the history of the solar system.
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Touched up or untouched up, space is gorgeousSecks Cauldron posted:I think the Carina Nebula is stunning I always thought the division in this pic made it a good phone background  
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redshirt posted:One of the Deep Fields: This would make great wallpaper, like for actual walls
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This one's great, perfect mix of noise and an absolutely wild view of the planet.
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Snowy posted:This would make great wallpaper, like for actual walls Lol I accidentally printed out a copy of this on a brand new expensive plotter. I got away with it, and can't guess how much it cost in toner. It covers most of a wall, it's great, I love looking at it every day.
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Beartaco posted:All of the planets are named after Roman deities, with the exception of Uranus which was named after the Greek sky father solely because astronomers thought it would be really god drat funny. Considering that William Herschel wanted to name it after King George, it's not that bad a choice. I guess.
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All the poo poo from the James Webb telescope are actually nutty and every time I see them I think god drat it owns to be alive to see this poo poo
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Genesplicer posted:Considering that William Herschel wanted to name it after King George, it's not that bad a choice. I guess. i think having a planet called george would be pretty nice actually
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European Space Agency (ESA) has sent out their own satellite Euclid and it has also taken some sweet pictures: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Euclid/Euclid_s_first_images_the_dazzling_edge_of_darkness Horsehead nebula  a Photogenic Spiral Galaxy:  Perseus Cluster (Perse means rear end in finnish)  Unlike James Webb, which focuses on in depth accuracy, the Euclids goal is to capture 1/3rd of visible space within next 6 years and use the knowledge to map galactic distribution and distribution of Dark matter and energy.. Of course Euclid does not take pictures in same depth that James Webb can.
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Beautiful. It's amazing that space is so big that galaxies - collections of hundreds of millions of stars - are just scattered little dust clouds, spinning a little spin, in comparison.
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 Perseus Cluster has 1000 galaxies in there and oops there's 100 000 more galaxies further behind in the background.
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One day soon, we will finally be able to see all the crabs in the Crab Nebula
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Captain Hygiene posted:One day soon, we will finally be able to see all the crabs in the Crab Nebula Not likely friend
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Hollismason posted:Reminder that we are totally insignificant. redshirt posted:Or the inverse, we're sentient living things considering the Universe we're made up. Pretty miraculous. Yeah, we're far cooler than all that empty space with nothing in it.
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ganymede is the coolest. i want to be a bartender there here it is casting a shadow on jupiter 
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redshirt posted:The smaller planets and larger moons of the Solar System: No phobos 6/10 No. 6 fucked around with this message at 04:09 on Nov 11, 2023 |
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I enjoy looking at the Deep Field images, and feeling emotions I don’t know the names of.
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Tree Bucket posted:I enjoy looking at the Deep Field images, and feeling emotions I don’t know the names of. Search your feelings for those words, those thoughts. Cosmic oneness? That everything can be so big and yet so small simultaneously? That there are quantum fields that pervade our reality and we barely understand the concept?
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redshirt posted:Beautiful. How lucky are we that Jesus was born here on earth and not one of the other millions of planets near us
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