Beautiful galaxy and space thread

[Rane1071]

Ever been to a planetarium? It's been a while, but the one on the campus of my university is one of the best in the state.

I haven't been to one in ages. The one in the city is supposed to be really good now. I'll have to go and check it out one of these days.

 

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I just wanted to comment that this is a fantastic thread! I absolutely love space topics. Space ....(and whatever we haven't found out there) is just so absolutely interesting.

 

[Rane1071]

I just wanted to comment that this is a fantastic thread! I absolutely love space topics. Space ....(and whatever we haven't found out there) is just so absolutely interesting.

Agree 100%. :hatsoff:

 

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[~~whimsy~~]

That would be a game Tganos would play lol

 

[Rane1071]

"Earth beside Jupiter's Great Red Spot to scale."

That would be a game Tganos would play lol

Thanos is coming!

 

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Hawaii from the Space Station.

 

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Researchers Have Discovered a Black Hole 40 Billion Times More Massive than Our Sun.

The approximate scale of the largest known supermassive black hole (S5 0014+81) compared to the size of our Solar System.

S5 0014+81 is a distant, compact, hyperluminous, broad-absorption line quasar or blazar located near the high declination region of the constellation Cepheus, near the North Equatorial Pole. The object is a blazar, in fact an FSRQ (Flat Spectrum Radio Quasar) quasar, the most energetic subclass of objects known as active galactic nuclei, produced by the rapid accretion of matter by a central supermassive black hole, changing the gravitational energy to light energy that can be visible in cosmic distances.

In the case of S5 0014+81 it is one of the most luminous quasars known, with a total luminosity of over 1041 watts, equal to an absolute bolometric magnitude of -31.5.

http://www.thespaceacademy.org/2018/05/researchers-have-discovered-black-hole.html#.XIuZJCgzayI

 

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Might as well throw the little guy in too.

 

[Rane1071]

Grand Spiral Galaxy (NGC 1232)



Messier 82 - Starburst Galaxy

 

[Rane1071]

Andromeda–Milky Way collision

The Milky Way and the andromeda Galaxy are set for a collision course and will collide in roughly 3.75 Billion years. As a result, they will become one galaxy.

Some people nick name it Milkdromeda.

 

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The core of the Black Eye Galaxy (M64)

 

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Andromeda–Milky Way collision

Looks like a celestial tango.

Well Rane... let's hope medicine and science can keep us going for this event :1orglaugh

 

[Rane1071]

Astronomers capture first image of a black hole.

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) -- a planet-scale array of eight ground-based radio telescopes forged through international collaboration -- was designed to capture images of a black hole. Today, in coordinated press conferences across the globe, EHT researchers reveal that they have succeeded, unveiling the first direct visual evidence of a supermassive black hole and its shadow.

The image reveals the black hole at the center of Messier 87, a massive galaxy in the nearby Virgo galaxy cluster. This black hole resides 55 million light-years from Earth and has a mass 6.5-billion times that of the Sun.

https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/blackholes/formedia.jsp



Earth Vs. Black Hole.

Looks like a celestial tango.

Well Rane... let's hope medicine and science can keep us going for this event :1orglaugh

I'm trying that's for sure, but that would be awesome to see. The night sky would be incredible.