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Gorgeous and upsetting that I'll never be able to visit it. 13 billion years before me, potentially trillions of years after me. Seems like such a waste of the spark of awareness that I can't take that awareness and experience the galaxy in all its glory.
I have reservations for the restaurant at the end of the universe.
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> Of course there are other lifeforms out there, it's statistically implausible for it to be otherwise. I'll grant you that once we have found a single other planet with life. Until then we're doing statistics on a single data point and no, the number of planets and galaxies etc are not sufficient to statistically determine the prevalence of life because as yet none of them are confirmed to have life. This is wishful…
This is only true if we believe Earth is special, which we have no bases. So I'll stick to statistics for now, thank you very much.
The youtube link to a 'zoom' in video to the image: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkVprNB5XbI What is really, really neat to notice isn't just the detail in that final image.... look behind it, and there are whole edge-on spiral galaxies in the distance. Not stars. Galaxies. The nebula is about 1375 light years away. Those galaxies in the distance.... are billions of light years away. It's hard to comprehend.
There really is a lot of stuff left to see for the first time
This is so far away from our concept of counting things that the mind just gives up. There's no comparison, no dumbing down to X amount of football fields, just nothing.
I find it depressing, confusing but also inspiring and fascinating at the same time.
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This is only true if we believe Earth is special, which we have no bases. So I'll stick to statistics for now, thank you very much.
Statistics is a very precise science. Can you show your work or is it just a gut feeling?
How much of the pictures in the article are processed? What does the unprocessed photo look like?
So the smartass answer is that it looks all black :)
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Statistics is a very precise science. Can you show your work or is it just a gut feeling?
I know nothing compared to people who work in the field, so I don't have my own work, I trust theirs.
The amount of faint Galaxies in the final image is absolutely astounding, there's no way we are alone.
Gorgeous and upsetting that I'll never be able to visit it. 13 billion years before me, potentially trillions of years after me. Seems like such a waste of the spark of awareness that I can't take that awareness and experience the galaxy in all its glory.
god look at all those itty bitty galaxies behind it... so exciting