If you are ever bothered by how enormous the Sun and space is, try to refocus on something small, like spiders. How tiny spiders can be, and how very many of them are in the room with you right now.
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Follow-up observations showed that the streak measures more than 200,000 light-years long — roughly twice the width of the Milky Way — and is thought to be made of compressed gas that is actively forming stars. The gas trails a black hole that is estimated to measure 20 million times the mass of the sun and is speeding away from its home galaxy at 3.5 million mph (5.6 million km/h), or roughly 4,500 times the speed of sound.
According to the researchers, the streak points right to the center of a galaxy, where a supermassive black hole would normally sit.
The scale of space is horribly daunting. To scale, if the sun were 3 feet across, the Earth would be merely the size of a marble sitting nearly 600 feet away. Neptune would be about the size of a baseball 3.5 miles away. And even at this tiny scale, the closest star to the sun would need to be placed 2 trillion miles away.
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The scale of space is horribly daunting. To scale, if the sun were 3 feet across, the Earth would be merely the size of a marble sitting nearly 600 feet away. Neptune would be about the size of a baseball 3.5 miles away. And even at this tiny scale, the closest star to the sun would need to be placed 2 trillion miles away.
That is wild. At that scale, the nearest star is not even close to even being in our full sized solar system FUCK
Follow-up observations showed that the streak measures more than 200,000 light-years long — roughly twice the width of the Milky Way — and is thought to be made of compressed gas that is actively forming stars. The gas trails a black hole that is estimated to measure 20 million times the mass of the sun and is speeding away from its home galaxy at 3.5 million mph (5.6 million km/h), or roughly 4,500 times the speed of sound.
According to the researchers, the streak points right to the center of a galaxy, where a supermassive black hole would normally sit.
There, that should calm you all down.
I want to know what caused that, but I'm not sure if I really want to know.
If you are ever bothered by how enormous the Sun and space is, try to refocus on something small, like spiders. How tiny spiders can be, and how very many of them are in the room with you right now.
Good point, I do find thinking about my tarantulas calming
The universe actually revolves around me. Every time I go for a walk my mighty legs are able to pull the earth and the universe around me and towards me. So just remember as you all go about your petty pathetic lives you're all orbiting me.
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Such a dumb name for a cool planet. Just imagine what sort of fucking colossal disaster had to befall it in order for it to be rotating like that. It was probably an entire other planet smacking into it. It is very cool to get a good look at the rings. Between Saturn and Uranus we have the best bling on our planets. The other solar systems get jealous.
Such a dumb name for a cool planet. Just imagine what sort of fucking colossal disaster had to befall it in order for it to be rotating like that. It was probably an entire other planet smacking into it. It is very cool to get a good look at the rings. Between Saturn and Uranus we have the best bling on our planets. The other solar systems get jealous.
I truly hope we can get some Pluto level images of Neptune and Uranus in the next 50 years, or whatever my lifetime winds up being.
Uranus is already so stunning there but getting real close up can only make it better, right?
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Oh, don’t worry, the Sun is so fuckoff huge that even poor little Pluto is anchored to it like a ball and chain.
Like, it is very difficult to impress upon you just how fucking enormous the Sun is.
If you’re going to have an existential crisis, it should definitely be over the relative size and gargantuan gravitational pull of the Sun.
don't like that one bit!
There, that should calm you all down.
And even after Saru's said all that, remember:
There are stars out there way, way bigger than Sol.
Bullshit, I've been around helium. Balloons are like the opposite of heavy, and the sun's even lighter than that.
Mercury is in this picture
this should help as well
The scale of space is horribly daunting. To scale, if the sun were 3 feet across, the Earth would be merely the size of a marble sitting nearly 600 feet away. Neptune would be about the size of a baseball 3.5 miles away. And even at this tiny scale, the closest star to the sun would need to be placed 2 trillion miles away.
This video doesn't even explain how the black hole star will come and wash away the rain. Lame
That is wild. At that scale, the nearest star is not even close to even being in our full sized solar system FUCK
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I want to know what caused that, but I'm not sure if I really want to know.
Good point, I do find thinking about my tarantulas calming
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…. Starts?
…. Fars?
…. Sfarts?
…. Sfartars?
Sfartars.
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2023/nasa-s-webb-scores-another-ringed-world-with-new-image-of-uranus
I was working remotely at the time
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It's true, Uranus really took a pounding.
Uranus is already so stunning there but getting real close up can only make it better, right?
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