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Post by X201 on Jul 12, 2022 14:47:03 GMT
Love the irony of this live stream though. Can get images from billions of years ago, but can't get a decent video link to Canada or Europe  |
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Post by Trowel 🏴 on Jul 12, 2022 14:52:07 GMT
What's casusing all the gravitational (?) distortions around the centre of the image? The gravity of the cluster galaxies (white) in front causes the background to be stretched and magnified (so said the science lady on the telly). |
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Post by Fake_Blood on Jul 12, 2022 14:59:53 GMT
What's casusing all the gravitational (?) distortions around the centre of the image? We don’t know, there’s a cluster of galaxies there, but not enough visible mass to explain this amount of warping. |
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Post by Fake_Blood on Jul 12, 2022 15:16:16 GMT
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Post by ryder35 on Jul 12, 2022 15:49:48 GMT
Makes me want to go back and play some Elite in vr |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2022 16:00:43 GMT
I could spend hours zooming in on cool shit then slowly zooming out and being mind blown by the scale every time. I spent hours at the weekend blowing people minds with a 4 inche reflector. Point at any point in the sky and you can see 20+ stars in an area the size of the moon. So many more stars than you can imagine. This shit here, where all this is tge size of a grain of sand at arms length is just fucking insane. |
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Post by Fake_Blood on Jul 12, 2022 16:19:33 GMT
Just for the lulz they should have opened with we did it you guys, we found god. Turns out he hangs out just behind galaxy NGC 384666, better known as Anus Felis or the starfish galaxy.
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Post by razz on Jul 12, 2022 19:35:07 GMT
Southern Ring Nebula is just gorgeous, holy shit. That thing is 0.4 light years across, our solar system is just 0.00127 light years across. Unfathomly big.
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Post by damagedinc on Jul 12, 2022 22:10:56 GMT
These images are mental
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Post by Fake_Blood on Jul 12, 2022 22:23:47 GMT
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Post by Ulythium on Jul 12, 2022 23:01:48 GMT
It's so great to see other FG-ers geeking out about this stuff!
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Post by smoothpete on Jul 13, 2022 10:28:00 GMT
This shit here, where all this is tge size of a grain of sand at arms length is just fucking insane. This is the thing that blows my tiny mind the most.
“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is."
It really fucking is
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Post by Fake_Blood on Jul 13, 2022 11:31:09 GMT
Meh, it’s mostly empty anyways. Comparatively, the smallest thing we know of, the planck length at 10^-35 meters is much more removed from our scale than the largest thing we know of, with the observable universe clocking in at 10^26 meters.
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Post by scanline on Jul 13, 2022 12:06:19 GMT
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Post by scanline on Jul 13, 2022 12:41:57 GMT
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Post by lukasz on Jul 21, 2022 23:51:43 GMT
Great comparison. So happy that it finally worked!!! Been reading about recent damage to the telescope via meteorite strike. It's quiet scary how fast it happened. No big deal if it was a freak accident but if we get more of those big hits on regular basis the telescope won't survive for long. |
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Post by Ulythium on Aug 22, 2022 22:55:53 GMT
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Post by dam on Aug 23, 2022 7:39:50 GMT
I was hoping they'd point it at closer stuff! I wonder what sort of info they could get by looking at close exo-planets?
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Post by razz on Aug 23, 2022 8:49:51 GMT
The SLS Moon Rocket is launching tomorrow
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Post by askew on Aug 23, 2022 8:55:38 GMT
Where's it headed?
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Post by razz on Aug 23, 2022 9:05:48 GMT
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Post by razz on Aug 24, 2022 12:32:51 GMT
Sorry it's actually Monday 29th August. Doh!
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Post by barchetta on Aug 28, 2022 8:01:33 GMT
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Post by jonsend on Aug 29, 2022 10:17:53 GMT
Artemis/SLS launces around 1pm BST.
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Post by Fake_Blood on Aug 29, 2022 11:01:40 GMT
I'll eat my hat if they launch today.
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Post by barchetta on Aug 29, 2022 11:28:53 GMT
Yeah, temp issues, potential cracked 'flanges'... sounds foolhardy at best if they do go.
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Post by gammonbanter on Aug 29, 2022 11:32:52 GMT
Why isn't this on any of the major news channels? The Telegraphs YouTube channel has a NASA logo in the corner unlike the other live streams - go figure?
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Post by barchetta on Aug 29, 2022 12:37:50 GMT
Guardian reporting launch has been called off for today.
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Post by minimatt on Sept 3, 2022 11:17:51 GMT
Second attempt at live action Kerbal role play today, NASA coverage begins at 12:15 eastern, which if I've understood time travel correctly is 17:15 uk & 18:15 europe
edit: tho hydrogen leaks so, who knows
edit 2: launch scrubbed, hydrogen kept falling out
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Post by Ulythium on Sept 3, 2022 15:04:01 GMT
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