• @HootinNHollerin
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    6 months ago

    Wait it’s all sand?

    Always has been 🌎🧑‍🚀🔫🧑‍🚀

  • @weariedfae
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    76 months ago

    Can someone explain to a layman what that less dense (appears darker) area is about? Just a random section of fewer stars or something else?

    • @Wilzax
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      126 months ago

      Gas cloud

      • @magiccupcake
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        66 months ago

        It’s not gas that’s making it dark, its dust, small particles made out of some combination of iron, silicates, carbonaceous materials, and other elements.

  • @Etterra
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    66 months ago

    Funny how stars and the CMB both look like static on a screen.

  • beefbot
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    46 months ago

    Aw they all look so happy together! Makes me feel like our little Sol is lonesome way out here

  • @RealFknNito
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    46 months ago

    Looks like the bottom of my bowl after eating cinnamon toast crunch.

  • @[email protected]
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    36 months ago

    It’s wild that clouds in space just look like… Clouds.

    And yet it’s as large as a solar system or more.

  • @Passerby6497
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    16 months ago

    If that’s pointing at the center of the galaxy, where’s the supermassive black hole?

    • @ThatWeirdGuy1001
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      46 months ago

      We’re near the end of one of the arms of the milky way. There’s trillions of stars in between us and the center of the galaxy.

      The only real way we’d get an actual image of the center of the milky way is if we somehow maintained connection to a telescope that was billions of light-years away.

  • Tarquinn2049
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    16 months ago

    I bet if we blur it a bit and do an image search with it, we’d get pictures of a drink sitting on a beach and it’s shadow.

    • @trolololol
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      16 months ago

      Use it as seed for generative aí