space is dope imo

When you're lost it's so relentless

It is so big, it is small

Why does man try to act so tall

Is this the reason

Deep in our minds

It does not feel it does not die

Space is neither truth nor lies

Into the void we have to travel

To find the clue which will unravel

Is this the reason

Deep in our minds

The secret lies with our tomorrow

In each of us is a hidden sorrow

The path goes onward through the night

Beyond the realms of ancient light

Is this the reason

Deep in our minds

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20061107/i/r3685756597.jpg?x=345&y=345&sig=.LKQGSR.G9C8Mip5qVescQ--

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0805/lander2panel_hirisephoenix.jpg

The Phoenix lander's footpads are about the size of a dinner plate. One of three is shown at the right, covered with Martian soil after a successful soft landing on the Red Planet on May 25. Amazingly, the left panel image is of the spacecraft during its descent phase, captured by the HiRISE camera onboard Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter -- the first image ever of a spacecraft descending to the surface of another planet.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/790106-0203_Voyager_58M_to_31M_reduced.gif

http://www.skyfactory.org/gammacygni/gammacygni_med.jpg

dude space is the fuckin best

http://www.omniluxe.net/wyw/sm2.jpg

http://shatters.net/celestia/

i like 2 download

http://i37.tinypic.com/sc9dp2.jpg

http://www.break.com/usercontent/2008/7/Space-Shuttle-Launch-Seen-From-Air-Canada-543456.html

wish i was that dude

http://idw-online.de/pages/de/image105391

http://idw-online.de/pages/de/newsimage?id=105391&size=screen

http://idw-online.de/pages/de/news346986

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17jymDn0W6U

the pwn universe

just watched with christian zeal and activity by john adams playing in my headphones <3

Mars:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/1001/almosttrees_mro.jpg

^^ view that big btw

mad dope

totally. looks like a space jungle!

so the "trees" in that martian dune scene are talus/rock debris falling down a grade, right? that's what i remember them being explained as, but i can't reconcile how i'm imagining what that's supposed to look like with what i actually see in the image. it makes it especially difficult with no clues as to scale or perspective to go off of.

they should just admit they're trees.

so is this thread going to turn into astronomy picture of the day for ilx, then?

you guys see trees in that photo? I see a bunch of disembodied, sleeping eyes with bushy lashes and gobs of greyish discharge. it's still dope, but in a weirder and more stomach-churning way.

wallogina-esque

Explanation: They might look like trees on Mars, but they're not. Groups of dark brown streaks have been photographed by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on melting pinkish sand dunes covered with light frost. The above image was taken in 2008 April near the North Pole of Mars. At that time, dark sand on the interior of Martian sand dunes became more and more visible as the spring Sun melted the lighter carbon dioxide ice. When occurring near the top of a dune, dark sand may cascade down the dune leaving dark surface streaks -- streaks that might appear at first to be trees standing in front of the lighter regions, but cast no shadows. Objects about 25 centimeters across are resolved on this image spanning about one kilometer. Close ups of some parts of this image show billowing plumes indicating that the sand slides were occurring even when the image was being taken.

^ lots of those words are links if you click through

they should just admit they're trees though

http://triggerpit.com/2010/11/22/incredible-pics-nasa-astronaut-wheelock/

Yo, space rules. Bye!

new wallpaperz

yeah, those are incredible

we had one of ireland on another thread a week or so ago but not as clear as those

amazing pics, love the florida at night one for the way the moon reflects off the entire atlantic ocean O_O

one of my favorite threads for sure

yesterday i went to dinner at a friend's house and we had dinner, which was great, and the conversation was this wild meandering thing (hi...) that lead us to talking about the planet and then about how astronomers are watching the stars thru telescopes and seeing light shadows pass over the stars, indicative of planets of a certain size and solidity akin to our own. ooh! i love this for so many reasons.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3112/3125740957_38cce71e43.jpg

http://www.kurzweilai.net/images/galactic-halo.jpg

The Andromeda Galaxy (/ænˈdrɒmᵻdə/), also known as Messier 31, M31, or NGC 224, is a spiral galaxy approximately 780 kiloparsecs (2.5 million light-years) from Earth.[4] It is the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way and was often referred to as the Great Andromeda Nebula in older texts.

There are about 50 galaxies in the Local Group (see list of nearest galaxies for a complete list), on the order of 100,000 in our Local Supercluster and an estimated number of about 170 billion in all of the observable universe.

i'm gonna go pass out

that's not andromeda above, that's the sombrero galaxy. this is andromeda:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Andromeda_Galaxy_%28with_h-alpha%29.jpg/1920px-Andromeda_Galaxy_%28with_h-alpha%29.jpg

The Andromeda Galaxy is the most distant object you can see with your naked eyes, two million light years away. It is visible as a dim, fuzzy star from a dark sky site. With binoculars you can clearly see the elliptical shape of the galaxy.

I need some binoculars. And a trip away from the sodium-bleached London sky.

i got an astronomy textbook, it has the first image on this thread on the cover

dude space is the fuckin best

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http://www.smokymtnastro.org/images/Autumn/NGC4414Xannotated.jpg

http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/13/health/hubble-telescope-galaxies-trnd/index.html

(CNN)Turns out we were wrong; there aren't 200 billion galaxies in the universe.

It's more like 2 trillion.

Yes, TRILLION!

That's the latest from NASA, which announced Thursday the number of galaxies in our observable universe is 10 times higher than previously projected.

This revelation was possible, thanks to that font of discovery -- the Hubble Space Telescope.

Good bump

One of my stags is gonna be a camping trip here with telescopes and whiskey:

http://darksky.org/first-international-dark-sky-park-in-ireland-receives-accreditation/

All trillion editing mistakes can been

http://io9.gizmodo.com/5799335/five-weird-theories-of-what-lies-outside-the-universe

We know with some certainty that there's "more universe" out there beyond that boundary, though. Astronomers think space might be infinite, with "stuff" (energy, galaxies, etc.) distributed pretty much the same as it is in the observable universe. If it is, that has some seriously weird implications for what lies out there. Beyond the Hubble Volume you won't just find more, different planets. You will eventually find every possible thing. Read that again and let it sink in. Everything. If you go far enough, you'll find another solar system with an Earth identical in every way except that you had cereal for breakfast this morning instead of eggs. And another where you skipped breakfast. And one where you got up early and robbed a bank. In fact, cosmologists think that if you go far enough, you will find another Hubble Volume that is perfectly identical to ours. There's another version of you out there mirroring your every action 10 to the 10^188 meters away. That may seem unlikely, but then, infinity is awfully infinite.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Sun_and_VY_Canis_Majoris.svg/1280px-Sun_and_VY_Canis_Majoris.svg.png

http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2011/06/09/big-star-right-size_custom-30e7583d46a7040d8dde338533e99633e9a3de27-s900-c85.jpg

It's really hard to tell / define how big it really is because it is so big

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VY_Canis_Majoris#Controversy

are there any good quality videos on youtube that talk about huge space is

like i know there is carl sagan stuff but anything newer?

space is deep imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGwq620thqo

the Sagan stuff in the first ep of Cosmos is still painfully beyond my genuine comprehension, think of how vast one galaxy is and then multiply out by a vast number of galaxies at vast distances from one another, i think it is literally incomprehensible in any sense other than mathematically

http://cdn.iflscience.com/images/0db4bb8d-d7ba-5e57-8fb6-477b01ea9159/extra_large-1464361445-767-this-is-what-andromeda-would-look-like-at-night-if-it-were-brighter.jpg

http://www.iflscience.com/space/what-andromeda-would-look-night-if-it-were-brighter/

if possible for Andromeda to be more luminous, it would appear roughly six times larger than our moon. But at 2.5 million light-years from Earth, the galaxy is not as easily seen as the crescent in our sky—which is only 238,900 miles (384,400 kilometers) from Earth.

“As a side note, its worth noting that the "size" of the Andromeda galaxy only really corresponds to that part of Andromeda that everyone is familiar with,” says McConnachie. “That part of Andromeda is most of the disk, which is where the overwhelming majority of the stars are located. However, if you include the much fainter outer parts of the galaxy, then the actual spatial extent of Andromeda is much, much, much larger.”

The full extent of Andromeda, according to McConnachie, is at least 20 degrees across, or the equivalent of more than 40 full moons!

http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/12/brightest-ever-supernova-isnt-a-supernova-after-all/

...convinced the researchers that the bright flash was probably caused by a star being torn apart and spaghetti-fied.

It's really hard to tell / define how big it really is because it is so big

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VY_Canis_Majoris#Controversy

― El Tomboto

it seems that UY Scuti might be a better contender for largest known star at this point

http://i.imgur.com/7aYbwwY.png

UY Scuti is a bright red supergiant and pulsating variable star in the constellation Scutum. It is a current and leading candidate for being the largest known star by radius and is also one of the most luminous of its kind.[citation needed] It has an estimated radius of 1,708 solar radii (1.188×109 kilometres; 7.94 astronomical units); thus a volume nearly 5 billion times that of the Sun. It is approximately 2.9 kiloparsecs (9,500 light-years) from Earth. If placed at the center of the Solar System, its photosphere would at least engulf the orbit of Jupiter.

http://pop.h-cdn.co/assets/17/08/768x432/gallery-1487714768-pia21425.jpg

http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a25336/seven-earth-like-planets-trappist-1/

they make good beer too

sorry didnt realise this was going down in caek's corner

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/01/11/china-shows-first-panoramic-photos-far-side-moon/

See the Sun like never before! @NSF’s Inouye Solar Telescope produces first detailed images of the sun’s surface. https://t.co/c3SPB6gg8w #SolarVision2020

📷: @NatSolarObs/ @AURADC/ NSF pic.twitter.com/1GP2rwkVG0

— National Science Foundation (@NSF) January 29, 2020

dang

i was looking into this (no pun intended) last night, and couldn't manage to find the most important detail that every account has left out.

what is the scale of this image? is that hundred of miles wide or like a square foot? i seriously have no idea

oh wait, here we go:

The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope has produced the highest resolution image of the sun's surface ever taken. In this picture, taken at 789 nanometers (nm), we can see features as small as 30km (18 miles) in size for the first time ever. The image shows a pattern of turbulent, “boiling” gas that covers the entire sun. The cell-like structures -- each about the size of Texas -- are the signature of violent motions that transport heat from the inside of the sun to its surface. Hot solar material (plasma) rises in the bright centers of “cells,” cools off and then sinks below the surface in dark lanes in a process known as convection. In these dark lanes we can also see the tiny, bright markers of magnetic fields. Never before seen to this clarity, these bright specks are thought to channel energy up into the outer layers of the solar atmosphere called the corona. These bright spots may be at the core of why the solar corona is more than a million degrees.

...

The NSF's Inouye Solar Telescope images the sun in more detail than we’ve ever seen before. The telescope can image a region of the sun 38,000km wide. Close up, these images show large cell-like structures hundreds of kilometers across and, for the first time, the smallest features ever seen on the solar surface, some as small as 30km. Background image: NSO Integrated Synoptic Program/GONG

I heard “as big as France” - is Texas really as big as France??

a little bigger, actually! honestly i was surprised france was as big as texas (almost)

that seems insane to me. I guess because most of Texas is basically unvisitable lol

the sun on the other hand

pretty big. I've seen bigger.

space is the size of about 5 to 10 states of texas

citation required

common sense and some research skills, that's all

https://i.imgur.com/X4RY9QH.jpg

you recognize those constellations, don't you? that's texas

now we can gerrymander the entire multiverse

there are going to some sliiiiiiight changes to the galactic trade federation's district lines this year guys. earth is no longer in the same district as the rest of the solar system. the district covering earth also goes through a wormhole and connects to a much larger district in a different dimension. turns out that they are actually really really anti-earth, too, so you're going to have to work across the aisle with your representation. thanks!

lol

earth voters are more than welcome to exercise their right to vote in the upcoming elections, especially since so many of the proposed measures involve destroying the earth, and how to distribute the earth's remaining consumer goods among the rest of the galaxy. however please note that all voting locations are in the other dimension, and remember to bring your new multidimension ID card (only available in other dimension, and you need it to get to the other dimension). thanks!

gotta drill for quarks

https://i.imgur.com/tYEVP6D.jpg
burn baby burn! burn baby burn!

alright guys enough already!! *pumps mossberg 12 gauge*

i'm sorry, i just galactic politics. as a peace offering, i really like this underrated twitter account

...el canal azul está muy cortado que conste... no es color "natural"

ASTEROID #BENNU🔘 #OSIRIS-REx🛰️ MISSION
Instrument OCAMS W+V+B filters
TARGET = BENNU
Distance 2.4 km
Detailed Survey Mission Phasehttps://t.co/LD6RPmiWoV

NASA/Goddard/UoA/j.Roger pic.twitter.com/iiNTVSQ2Jq

— landru79 (@landru79) January 28, 2020

this person digs through publicly released space imagery as it comes out and makes little animations to connect together the different stills in a visualizing pleasing way (this is something i always thought someone should do at NASA, in house)

azul es un color natural iirc

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wxexwz/something-in-deep-space-is-sending-signals-to-earth-in-steady-16-day-cycles?