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star gazin (mander.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

The Stars, Like Dust

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

hi mom

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Use it as seed for generative aí

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Wait it’s all sand?

Always has been 🌎🧑‍🚀🔫🧑‍🚀

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Gas cloud

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Metal cloud

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

🤘

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Neat, thanks

[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Where can I find the high res image?

[–] [email protected] 40 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for the high-res! Was able to confirm there's no way it's more than 9,999,797.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Huh, I counted 10,000,014. I must have counted a few twice, I'll have to start over.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Did you double count altaris 31b? It's a pretty common mistake

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

There are still some blurry ones in the back, how can I enhance them?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Get cast in a cop/spy/sci-fi drama on TV, have an assistant pull up the image on a screen, then simply say "Enhance" out loud.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

If you spend five seconds ‘poring over it’ you’ll also be able to spot ‘unmistakable signs’ of ‘alien civilisations’ with your butt-nekked eyebawllz.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

The original image is 50,000 x 25,000 so it's possible that this is the maximum resolution possible

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

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