As much as I love space stuff i sometimes wonder how they come across some of the images they show us and some of the conclusions they share.

I see posts on my insta and it'll be like "on this planet it rains diamonds, on another planet it rains acid"

Does someone show up to nasa for their 9-5 and it's their job to figure out what rains on whatever planet/moon? Or do they send individual probes to all these places? Seems like a huge waste of resources and time

So they flew a probe out of the galaxy then turned it around to take a photo? Yea, not buying it

Keep it coming, absolutely love trying to fathom space.....just opens so many thought pathways.

Awesome thread, I love astronomy. The most incredible thing to me is how ridiculously massive space is yet how slow the speed of light is (relatively speaking). Why would the speed limit if the Universe be so slow compared to it's unimaginable size?

Also the Hubble Ultra Deep Field photo, probably the most incredible photo humans have ever taken. Second probably being an actual black hole event horizon. JWST is going to be mind blowing, and the EHT team have discovered something that they are live streaming today!!! I'll post the link if I can find it.

Edit:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ni0DE_5l5qk

They imaged the black hole in the center of our galaxy. Pretty wild!

"This is the gargantuan black hole that lives at the centre of our galaxy, pictured for the very first time."

"Known as Sagittarius A*, the object is a staggering four million times the mass of our Sun."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-61412463

chit blows my mind and puts things into perspective.

How do they plan to launch a rover and have it land on Neptune is beyond me.

They say it based on theories of what is going on with the planet.

For instance, telescopes will pick up chemical signals from space, and then someone will make up a story about what's happening in space due to those chemicals.

For instance, Coke came out with a new flavor called Starlight and it's supposed to be what the center of the galaxy smells like, which is strawberries, lol.

That's based on signals they got from that area of space.

Also, NASA makes up wild stories and has photoshopped images to keep "wonder" going about space in order to keep funding going. That's why stories change all of the time.

About ten years ago they were saying that some moons have lakes of hydrocarbons on them, meaning massive amounts of oil. Of course, that was during the "peak oil" hoax that was a popular topic on the misc. So, NASA was saying that if you give us money we will go and get all that space oil! Now, you hear nothing about it.

A lot of this space news is pure bullsh!t.

[QUOTE=Rylol post_id=1661162513]"This is the gargantuan black hole that lives at the centre of our galaxy, pictured for the very first time."

"Known as Sagittarius A*, the object is a staggering four million times the mass of our Sun."

[URL=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-61412463]https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-61412463[/URL]

[img]https://i.ibb.co/9VN1n78/BH.jpg[img][/QUOTE]Pretty crazy.. there was a time where we thought we'd never be able to see the center of our universe. There was a time (30 years ago) where black holes were merely science fiction, then the thought of seeing one was so out there we assumed it was merely a theory

Now we're taking pics of the center of our universe and able to "see" what a black hole looks like while also seeing the orbits of the planet around the black hole

Space depresses me. I watched a video on YouTube of how the future will go and basically summed up as everything is based off energy which eventually runs out, stars explode and dwindle to nothing, even black holes operate off energy which will eventually run out so in the very very very distant future, life will be nothing. Just black emptiness, no light, no anything. Just blackness forever. Like literally forever

Highest resolution of the surface of the sun:



Each of those gaseous releases are roughly the size of the state of Texas.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-51305216

dont worry fella you will not be around to see it .......then the universe will recreate itself

I missed that part where the universe recreates itself, another theory perhaps?

we are but a drop in a super massive cum bucket

Potentially the most distant object ever seen from Earth right there.. HD1 is an object estimated to lie around 13.3 billion light years away from our planet, placing it in an era when many chemical elements were yet to form. If confirmed, it is more than two billion light years beyond the current record holder.

Despite being so far away it is extremely bright, suggesting high energy processes taking place billions of years ago. Astronomers have suggested it could either be the earliest supermassive black hole ever discovered, or more intriguingly, a galaxy giving birth to one of the 'Holy Grails' of astronomy – Population III stars, the first to form in the universe. Once the James Webb telescope is fully functional they plan to find out more about this

The spectra of light from the object/the atmosphere can give you a pretty good idea of what its chemical composition is. Then you can work out other properties such as its mass from the gravitational observations.

From there you can figure out these things by applying the laws of physics and chemistry.

For the first time, scientists have grown plants in soil from the moon collected by NASA's Apollo astronauts.

Researchers had no idea if anything would sprout in the harsh moon dirt and wanted to see if it could be used to grow food by the next generation of lunar explorers. The results stunned them.

"Holy cow. Plants actually grow in lunar stuff. Are you kidding me?" said Robert Ferl of the University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/moon...nasa-1.6451351






We gonna terraform the Moon boyos

looks fake af