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NASA releases first photo within the Sun's atmosphere (16.9 million miles from surface)
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Big red bastard always gloating about how hot it is meanwhile Pluto is freezing, get your priorities sorted mate.
I get kind of sad that I wont live long enough to see all the neat stuff we discover in the universe in the future. However, I can be content with the fact that Earth is probably one in a million planets. Imagine trying to find a single tree outside of Earth.
Speaking of eerie, anyone hear of Boötes void before?
If you want to really feel insignificant, it is hypothesized that our own Milky Way galaxy (and Local Group of galaxies) is inside the largest voids in the Universe. The KBC.
Seriously getting chills just from those gifs.
A reminder that the Sun turns five million tons of mass (15 Empire State Buildings) into light every second.
Parker is a ridiculously badass probe.
Speaking of eerie, anyone hear of Boötes void before?
That's Barnard 68. People mistakenly use it when talking about Bootes.
Bootes is spherically. Also:
It's an interesting place.
Thd sun is massive but pale in comparison to the largest known black hole.
Yes that tiny blue circle in the center is the orbit of Neptune.
Wrap your mollynoggle around this one.
I just read the wiki on this and I'm legit terrified that something like this exists
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S5_0014+81
Thd sun is massive but pale in comparison to the largest known black hole.
Yes that tiny blue circle in the center is the orbit of Neptune.
Wrap your mollynoggle around this one.
The fact that there are black holes of this magnitude is unnerving to say the least.
Dude that's my literal wish when I die! To be able to just traverse time and space and see all. I like your thinking!
Pluto got robbed. He used to be the god of the underworld and now he's not even a planet anymore.
Excuse my ignorance, but why didn't this thing completely burn and melt being this close to the sun?
That gif is now outdated. UY Scuti is bigger than Canis Majoris. And to think there are billions of stars in a galaxy and there are billions of galaxies out there. Andromeda itself is way bigger than ours.
NDT made a comment that I'll always think of. No matter how great our technology becomes, we'll never be able to leave the galaxy. And in the far future, since the universe is ever expanding, we'll reach a point where everything will travel so far away from us that it will be much harder or even impossible to observe.
NDT made a comment that I'll always think of. No matter how great our technology becomes, we'll never be able to leave the galaxy. And in the far future, since the universe is ever expanding, we'll reach a point where everything will travel so far away from us that it will be much harder or even impossible to observe.
As far as I know the probe hides behind a solar shield that it keeps pointed towards the Sun at all times. The Shield is incredibly durable and reflective, bouncing light back at the Sun instead of absorbing it (and getting fried).
This is absolutely awesome. Also, still reinforces my point lol. You wanna appease and express gratitude to this thing for keeping you alive simply by not consuming or disintegrating you. Along with all of the other ways it's the only reason you're here.
Also add to that image, that when the sun dies, it will expand and swallow earth whole, taking the planet with it/him/her.
That picture is just absorption/scattering by space dust.
Speaking of eerie, anyone hear of Boötes void before?
Killer soundtrack. First half of that movie is some of the best sci-fi I've ever seen. Then the whole genre changes to a horror movie and I was less impressed.
Yeah? Seeing more of our universe from an unprecedented perspective is very moving to me.
Yeah that last few sentences is mind boggling. Like how does something like this exist. Black holes are just rediculous.