Beautiful galaxy and space thread

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252 million b.c.

I knew nothing of the Permian Extinction/Great Dying. Fascinating and terrifying!

 

[Rane1071]

NGC 6503 practices social distancing: The galaxy is alone at the very edge of an empty patch in space called the Local Void. Be like NGC 6503

https://illuminateduniverse.org/2020/03/19/hubble-heritage-archive-ngc-6503/

252 million b.c.

I knew nothing of the Permian Extinction/Great Dying. Fascinating and terrifying!

Yeah, apparently it nearly wiped everything out on Land and in the Oceans. One of the causes (they think) was the massive volcanic eruptions under Siberia that went on for nearly a million years., ("The Siberian Traps"). One theory it was a 'rare mantle plume' from the Earths core.

Fascinating and very cool though. (No pun intended)

 

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Hubble finds the best evidence yet for elusive midsized black holes
At about 50,000 times the mass of the Sun, this intermediate-mass black hole skirts the line between shrimp and giant.

https://astronomy.com/news/2020/04/...evidence-yet-for-elusive-midsized-black-holes

 

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Astronomers spot never-before-seen gravitational wave source from binary white dwarf stars

https://www.space.com/white-dwarf-binary-gravitational-wave-source-discovery.html







Kewl!

 

[Prod3]

Love Carl Sagan.

Maybe some appropriate music to go with all these great pictures

 

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https://www.globestore.com/mova-45-earth-cloud-cover-globe-small-crystal-base-p/mg-45-ste-c-scb.htm

 

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This Map Lets You Plug in Your Address to See How It’s Changed Over the Past 750 Million Years
The interactive tool enables users to home in on a specific location and visualize how it has evolved between the Cryogenian Period and the present

Something fun to play with.

https://dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-earth#0

 

[Rane1071]

NGC 6334, Cat’s Paw



Milky Way at Serpentine Dam, Western Australia



NGC 2936, Porpoise Galaxy



One of my favourites - Hubble image of Hoag's Object - a rare Ring Galaxy 612 million light-years away!

 

[maildude]

This weird dance was spotted the other day by China's FAST telescope. It's a pulsar 27,000 LY away, spinning and devouring a nearby star. I mean spinning fast...more than 316 RPS. BION, this is a real pic. NOT an artist's rendering...I think. *EDIT* Naw...it's an artist's rendering after all. Those bitches at Space.com fooled me again. But it is interesting, isn't it? Maybe not........

 

[Mr. Daystar]

It;s interesting, it's all interesting....I guess it would be cooler with real photos, but what are you gonna do, it's not like you can just pull out your phone and snap a quick pic. t's pretty amazing that they get the photos they do. At least I think so.

I will NEVER wrap my head around the fact that the universe is INFINITE, and CONSTANTLY EXPANDING.

 

[Rane1071]

Betelgeuse

"It's one small step for Whimsy ...



"A giant leap for Whimsykind!"

 

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Jupiter in Infrared.

 

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This photo taken by NASA’s Suomi-NPP orbiting satellite shows a large plume of dust leaving the coast of Africa this week. This dust plume is being blown west out over the Atlantic, and will eventually reach the coast of North America. Plumes of dust like this one play an important role in the ecosystems of the western hemisphere.

 

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Europa and Jupiter from Voyager 1

 

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[Theopolis Q. Hossenffer]

It;s interesting, it's all interesting....I guess it would be cooler with real photos, but what are you gonna do, it's not like you can just pull out your phone and snap a quick pic. t's pretty amazing that they get the photos they do. At least I think so.

I will NEVER wrap my head around the fact that the universe is INFINITE, and CONSTANTLY EXPANDING.

And the fact that now it is thought that some parts have expanded so far that the light from them will never reach earth. Called the Event Horizon.