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jdippey t1_j98lxix wrote
Reply to comment by MissBunny09 in This image of Mars shows the north polar ice cap, the border between highlands and lowlands, former river valleys, plains covered by dark sands and the large Hellas Planitia impact basin in the south. Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin by MistWeaver80
There was indeed liquid water on Mars in the distant past.
jdippey t1_j98lrzc wrote
Reply to comment by Monoken3 in This image of Mars shows the north polar ice cap, the border between highlands and lowlands, former river valleys, plains covered by dark sands and the large Hellas Planitia impact basin in the south. Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin by MistWeaver80
It’s not that simple, unfortunately.
Mars lacks a magnetosphere, causing its atmosphere to be slowly stripped away by ionizing radiation from the solar wind. Even if you could provide the energy required to melt the ice caps on Mars, any resulting atmosphere would essentially be lost to space.
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Klondike2022 t1_j98l98b wrote
Reply to I spent 20 hours shooting the Horsehead nebula to create my most intricately detailed photo of this region. This area is surprisingly large, and if it were brighter it would appear much larger than the full moon. Make sure you zoom in! [OC] by ajamesmccarthy
Wow that’s weird to think about. Be nice if someone made a sky map the showed all these and they’re size
Full-Hedgehog3827 t1_j98kxvq wrote
Reply to Most solar telescopes tend to be below five inches in aperture, as solar scopes above four to six inches or so have to resort to costly measures to eliminate the effects of bad seeing by Ok_Copy5217
I know most women like the larger telescopes, but it's how you use them that matters
pinkynatbust t1_j98kvrp wrote
I wish I had a wall of this to look at. Great work!
outer_fucking_space t1_j98kf2w wrote
Reply to I spent 20 hours shooting the Horsehead nebula to create my most intricately detailed photo of this region. This area is surprisingly large, and if it were brighter it would appear much larger than the full moon. Make sure you zoom in! [OC] by ajamesmccarthy
That is an absolutely stunning photograph. You should be proud.
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Reply to The Tadpole galaxy by Hubble, Its eye-catching tail is about 280,000 light-years long. Also known as UGC 10214 and Arp 188, it is a disrupted barred spiral galaxy located 420 million light-years from Earth in the northern constellation Draco. Credit Image: NASA/ESA/HST/STScI. by Davicho77
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FullyStacked92 t1_j98js0u wrote
Reply to I spent 20 hours shooting the Horsehead nebula to create my most intricately detailed photo of this region. This area is surprisingly large, and if it were brighter it would appear much larger than the full moon. Make sure you zoom in! [OC] by ajamesmccarthy
I dont want to alarm anyone but in the middle of this photo and slightly to the right there seems to be a galactic being thats almost fully formed. Looks like its about to put on its head. I hope it hasn't seen us.
Jackalodeath t1_j98hlix wrote
Reply to comment by terabranford in The Tadpole galaxy by Hubble, Its eye-catching tail is about 280,000 light-years long. Also known as UGC 10214 and Arp 188, it is a disrupted barred spiral galaxy located 420 million light-years from Earth in the northern constellation Draco. Credit Image: NASA/ESA/HST/STScI. by Davicho77
Ah. Well, spurred me to learn something, so thanks on my part!
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Reply to comment by Chiliconkarma in The Tadpole galaxy by Hubble, Its eye-catching tail is about 280,000 light-years long. Also known as UGC 10214 and Arp 188, it is a disrupted barred spiral galaxy located 420 million light-years from Earth in the northern constellation Draco. Credit Image: NASA/ESA/HST/STScI. by Davicho77
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Reply to comment by Jed1M1ndTr1ck in The Tadpole galaxy by Hubble, Its eye-catching tail is about 280,000 light-years long. Also known as UGC 10214 and Arp 188, it is a disrupted barred spiral galaxy located 420 million light-years from Earth in the northern constellation Draco. Credit Image: NASA/ESA/HST/STScI. by Davicho77
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terabranford t1_j98gbl6 wrote
Reply to comment by Jackalodeath in The Tadpole galaxy by Hubble, Its eye-catching tail is about 280,000 light-years long. Also known as UGC 10214 and Arp 188, it is a disrupted barred spiral galaxy located 420 million light-years from Earth in the northern constellation Draco. Credit Image: NASA/ESA/HST/STScI. by Davicho77
Ah, ok. Thank you.
I thought as much. I was just hoping to spark some good old fashioned debate and theorizing.
fail
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Jackalodeath t1_j98fgej wrote
Reply to comment by terabranford in The Tadpole galaxy by Hubble, Its eye-catching tail is about 280,000 light-years long. Also known as UGC 10214 and Arp 188, it is a disrupted barred spiral galaxy located 420 million light-years from Earth in the northern constellation Draco. Credit Image: NASA/ESA/HST/STScI. by Davicho77
Got nosey; according to this article by NASA, it's presumed the tail will "break off" over the course of its progenitor galaxy's lifetime; a long fucken time from now. Its thought to have been formed from a collision with a smaller, blue, "blob-like" galaxy - which is visible in the upper left of the Tadpoles' "head," inside one of its spiral arms - that has managed to get about 300,000 light-years away from its "victim" since.
All info gleaned from linked article.
alabasterwilliams t1_j98ewim wrote
Reply to comment by RainbowFartss in The Tadpole galaxy by Hubble, Its eye-catching tail is about 280,000 light-years long. Also known as UGC 10214 and Arp 188, it is a disrupted barred spiral galaxy located 420 million light-years from Earth in the northern constellation Draco. Credit Image: NASA/ESA/HST/STScI. by Davicho77
But there ain’t no whales, so we tell tall tales, and sing our whaling tune!
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Reply to The Tadpole galaxy by Hubble, Its eye-catching tail is about 280,000 light-years long. Also known as UGC 10214 and Arp 188, it is a disrupted barred spiral galaxy located 420 million light-years from Earth in the northern constellation Draco. Credit Image: NASA/ESA/HST/STScI. by Davicho77
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RainbowFartss t1_j98dhvo wrote
Reply to comment by alabasterwilliams in The Tadpole galaxy by Hubble, Its eye-catching tail is about 280,000 light-years long. Also known as UGC 10214 and Arp 188, it is a disrupted barred spiral galaxy located 420 million light-years from Earth in the northern constellation Draco. Credit Image: NASA/ESA/HST/STScI. by Davicho77
We're whalers on the moon. We carry a harpoon.
Why_do_i_here t1_j98bx9h wrote
Absolutely stunning drawing, I could look at this for hours.
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Reply to The Tadpole galaxy by Hubble, Its eye-catching tail is about 280,000 light-years long. Also known as UGC 10214 and Arp 188, it is a disrupted barred spiral galaxy located 420 million light-years from Earth in the northern constellation Draco. Credit Image: NASA/ESA/HST/STScI. by Davicho77
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Flamingotough t1_j98ap4d wrote
Reply to comment by cinemascifi in Where does space really begin? Chinese spy balloon highlights legal fuzziness of ‘near space’ by HarpuasGhost
I may have just misunderstood you point?
I thought you critized my idea of taking speed into account, by saying that objects in geosynchronous orbit would be stationary as seen from the ground. I just wanted to note that although that is true enough for this argument, such an object would still travel it's orbit at a significantly different velocity compared to the spot on the ground underneath.
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Reply to comment by onmyyacht in This image of Mars shows the north polar ice cap, the border between highlands and lowlands, former river valleys, plains covered by dark sands and the large Hellas Planitia impact basin in the south. Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin by MistWeaver80
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