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re: Close up of Andromeda galaxy shows how many stars there really are
Posted on 6/3/18 at 12:41 am to DavidTheGnome
Posted on 6/3/18 at 12:41 am to DavidTheGnome
Is this thread about Star Wars?
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Posted on 6/3/18 at 12:45 am to DavidTheGnome
Andromeda looks dumb.
Posted on 6/3/18 at 12:48 am to shutterspeed
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Andromeda looks dumb.
Who cares, IWSHI
Posted on 6/3/18 at 1:25 am to DavidTheGnome
It's amazing that bees made that.
Posted on 6/3/18 at 1:45 am to Mac
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There are more stars in the sky than grains of sand on the earth. In fact, scientists estimate there are multiple stars for every grain of sand. Seriously mind blowing.
Sort of incomprehensible......
Posted on 6/3/18 at 5:20 am to Sid in Lakeshore
The scale of things in the universe is mind-boggling for sure. To put our galaxy into perspective, if a star in our galaxy was shrunk down to the size of a white blood cell, then the Milky Way would be the size of the Unite States.
Posted on 6/3/18 at 6:47 am to LSUERDOC
That’s amazing. There could be life all over the universe but due to the shear size & distance of everything, there’s a good chance we will never encounter it.
Posted on 6/3/18 at 6:58 am to olgoi khorkhoi
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How does this dovetail with the fact that the Earth is flat?
flat galaxy is the next theory
Posted on 6/3/18 at 7:04 am to DavidTheGnome
Magnificent. Just think of the potential for life out there... hostile and friendly.
Posted on 6/3/18 at 7:20 am to FairhopeTider
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shear size & distance of everything
it takes 100,000 years at the speed of light to travel the Milky Way from end to end.
Posted on 6/3/18 at 7:28 am to The Boat
Posted on 6/3/18 at 7:28 am to 3Son
I wonder how many Predator space ships are flying around in that mass headed to their next drop off planet ?
Posted on 6/3/18 at 7:42 am to DavidTheGnome
Posted on 6/3/18 at 7:56 am to Coon
I was not expecting that ending. I guffawed!
Posted on 6/3/18 at 8:36 am to FairhopeTider
Maybe our solar system is the equivalent of an atom or molecule in some larger being, the universe being a cell. To further that analogy, humans are growing and colonizing - I think that makes us a virus or cancer of some sort.
Posted on 6/3/18 at 9:41 am to ReauxlTide222
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Which one are we?
The ones who took the picture, from far, far away.
Posted on 6/3/18 at 10:21 am to BilltheTiger
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I have an article that goes through the odds of life developing after the Big Bang.
Link?
Posted on 6/3/18 at 10:41 am to FairhopeTider
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there’s a good chance we will never encounter it.
considering the Universe is expanding and it's expansion is actually accelerating, it's certainty that we will NOT...
it's improbable that we even get out of our own solar system and into our closest's neighboring one...
Posted on 6/3/18 at 11:57 am to chRxis
Below is the Hubble Ultra Deep Field photo. This was taken in a very small patch of sky with what they thought was very little in it. Each point of light below isn’t a star but rather an entire galaxy like in the OP. The amount of stars out there is beyond human comprehension.
Also it should be noted that these are only the galaxies that are in the observable universe. Due to the age of the universe, the speed limit light travels, and the expansion of spacetime we simply have no way of knowing what lies beyond. Because of the expansion of the universe there’s a lot of things that have shifted too far into the red end of the spectrum due to the Doppler effect that the Hubble can’t see. When the James Webb becomes operational it sees in the infrared so will open up even further galaxies (closer to the beginning of time but not all the way).
Also it should be noted that these are only the galaxies that are in the observable universe. Due to the age of the universe, the speed limit light travels, and the expansion of spacetime we simply have no way of knowing what lies beyond. Because of the expansion of the universe there’s a lot of things that have shifted too far into the red end of the spectrum due to the Doppler effect that the Hubble can’t see. When the James Webb becomes operational it sees in the infrared so will open up even further galaxies (closer to the beginning of time but not all the way).
Posted on 6/3/18 at 11:57 am to jbgleason
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LoL at the people who think we are the only intelligent life forms in that mass. It’s a statistical near certainty that we are not alone.
Also kind of ridiculous to think that any intelligent lifeforms could ever find each other. We have this limited understanding of space and time often forgetting that the earth's timeline of intelligent life could be billions, trillions or even trillions of trillions of earth years difference. Itd be like someone dropping a speck of sand from a tall ceiling and you trying to hit it with another speck of sand as it drops from across the room.
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