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morningcoffee1 t1_j9asrcq wrote

Reply to comment by Rath_MC 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

Yup. Collision or a close flyby. For galaxies this is relatively common. Our own Milky Way

will experience something similar with the Andromeda Galaxy, because we're on a collision course.

But no worry, in general galaxies collide, but individual stars do not. Plus it's still a bit of a wait.

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pixoxri t1_j9aqs6h wrote

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

420 MILLION lightyears. I can't even fully grasp how something can be so unbelievably huge and it's still just a tiny, tiny dot in all that space. If I could wish for one thing in my life, it would be to have been born much later in time when we know more about space. It's so hard to comprehend and it saddens me that I will die before we really know what it all means.

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Mr_Kittlesworth t1_j9anzu2 wrote

Reply to ‘We found the Artemis-I noise level at 5 km had a crackling quality about 40 million times greater than a bowl of Rice Krispies.’ — Maximum noise measured during Artemis-I launch on 16 Nov. 2022 was higher than predicted by marketrent

Yeah, but how many bananas away from the launch do you need to be before the sound is below 367 grape nuts hitting a hardwood floor from a height of 15 aeronautical engineering textbooks?

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sixpackabs592 t1_j9akxuf wrote

Reply to ‘We found the Artemis-I noise level at 5 km had a crackling quality about 40 million times greater than a bowl of Rice Krispies.’ — Maximum noise measured during Artemis-I launch on 16 Nov. 2022 was higher than predicted by marketrent

Just tell us the decibel level you dumb fucks I don’t care about how many Olympic swimming pools or statues of liberty or fucking rhode islands can fit in it just give us the numbers

/rant

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Snoo_39873 t1_j9ae2k4 wrote

Reply to comment by PhilosophyEconomy873 in 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

You probably wouldn’t see much of anything prior to editing. I’ve photographed the same thing and prior to editing, I can just barely make out the flame nebula in the original image, the entire image is grey. It takes a lot of good processing to bring these details out

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jdippey t1_j9a9vy6 wrote

Reply to comment by _kempert 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

Is that true? I’m not aware of any planets lacking a magnetosphere that we’ve been able to actively observe losing an earth-like atmosphere to solar wind.

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Raed-wulf t1_j9a9jew wrote

Reply to comment by websterhamster in ‘We found the Artemis-I noise level at 5 km had a crackling quality about 40 million times greater than a bowl of Rice Krispies.’ — Maximum noise measured during Artemis-I launch on 16 Nov. 2022 was higher than predicted by marketrent

Yeah but 40 million is a hard number to grasp.

If they were being true Americans about it, they’d say it sounded like being 2 football fields away from a machine gun firing full auto into the side of a tractor trailer.

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Tobs1414 t1_j9a7oyz wrote

Reply to comment by escalibur 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

Yeah, this image is technically hundreds of millions of years old. It doesn’t look anything like this now.

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