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That's beautiful and I'm loving your username

Why do ppl call this the Milky Way ? I’ve read it’s a dwarf galaxy called Sagittarius that’s getting eating up by the Milky Way

I'm sure the photo has been smoothed out in post, no way the exposure was this good at first.

You too, can see the moon’s butthole with one simple trick

How did you get a picture of the Milky Way right next to a light house? Wouldn’t that be super duper light polluting?

Oh no no, you can't post this beautiful picture without the interactive gigapixel zoom link!

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Fantastic photo! The glow around it makes it look ethereal almost

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There are dark sky reserves in Canada at least and it almost looks like this, it feels like you're falling off the face of the earth when you look up at the sky at 3am

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You are right, and I am sorry for the last bit I said. There is just something about the theory that doesn't make sense to me. While there is a lot of research that went into it, for some reason, it just doesn't seem like the answer to me. It keeps me up every night thinking about it, and the truth is I feel as if im going crazy thinking about it all. The universe just makes no sense at all, and that is both beautiful and terrifying. I am no scientists or anything, I am just a man who thinks way too much. It's just what if it has always existed? There is no end to it because it's just infinite

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Describing any astrophotography as "bird's eye" is such a bizarre choice of words.

No, I do not. I'm not disproving it, and there is a lot of evidence for the big bang, I will not deny that. There is also a lot of holes in the theory. I just do not believe in this theory. I believe the answer is much deeper, and there are still answers we have yet to unlock. The theory just doesn't sit well with me, and I don't think we should all just accept the big bang theory as the answer.

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These photos are what churches were built upon. To look god in His eye and understand the there’s depth to them that can never be fathomed completely. That the vastness creates a beauty in its simplicity that can only be inferred.

>the universe is not meant to be understood

This kind of thinking would have us, as a species stagnate, peaking at 16th century technology. Beforehand people believed that the universe is fundamentally unknowable, and that the body is regulated only by four humors. Nothing would be learned if we thought it doesn’t matter, because it isn’t meant to be understood.

The fact is, whether we will understand all of it or not, we benefit greatly trying to figure it out. You may not appreciate it, but every technology the modern world has, is because someone tried to figure it out. Because they were curious and he observed and experimented. It was an astrologist that discovered magnetic resonance that now is the basis of how MRI works. Curiosity makes us all better, even if you don’t see the immediate benefit of it.

We have theories about the universe because we go to the length of actually observing it as much as we can. Looking at the data, we can see things happen and we try to figure out how it works. The Big Bang theory is the best explanation we have now to what we see in our observations and how we understand the physics involved. It didn’t pop out of nowhere, it is culmination of hundreds of years of observation, calculation, testing. We don’t ‘believe’ in it because we were told to. Is it perfect? No. It actually has some holes in it, but scientists see these holes and they get excited, because these are opportunities for study and discovery, rather than blocks in their way.

>The Big Bang theory states that the universe is 14 billion years old, but in all honesty, I do not believe the big bang theory. I find it hard to believe that everything was created from a tiny little ball. It just sounds ridiculous

You don't have to believe the big bang theory but you shouldn't dismiss it simply because it sounds strange. Lots of scientific discoveries that we use everyday sounded ridiculous when they were first made. If you don't believe in a dominant theory then you sort of need to explain why it doesn't work, rather than just saying it doesn't sound right.

While the big bang isn't perfect, it is the best theory we have to fit the universe as we observe it now. So you'd need to explain why these observations aren't right.

It’s odd to me that religion and science kind of come to the same scenario ultimately…. in a religion like Christianity, there is something that has just always been around that the “finite” universe was created from. That is, an eternal god created a finite universe and everything in it. Science is basically also stuck on a similar scenario right now. We can go back to the Big Bang, but what causes the Big Bang and what existed before the Big Bang. Whatever it was, we think maybe is just eternal. Particles that just always exist or a multiverse fabric that is just eternally there. There are different theories on this and different religions, but when it really comes down to it, it just boggles my mind that anything at all actually exists.

"Why we can't find life anywhere"

Because we've looked I'm so many places.

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>If you go near a black hole, time begins to be very weird.

only when you compare clocks.

you do not need to be near a black hole to experience time dilation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_dilation

In physics and relativity, time dilation is the difference in the elapsed time as measured by two clocks. It is either due to a relative velocity between them (special relativistic "kinetic" time dilation) or to a difference in gravitational potential between their locations (general relativistic gravitational time dilation). When unspecified, "time dilation" usually refers to the effect due to velocity.

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For GPS satellites to work, they must adjust for similar bending of spacetime to coordinate properly with systems on Earth

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>I find it hard to believe that everything was created from a tiny little ball. It just sounds ridiculous

it wasn't a "tiny little ball" - there was no matter to make a ball out of.

it was ENERGY.

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energy = mass times speed of light squared.

things had to cool down before atomic particles could form.

we can see the evidence.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_background_radiation

Cosmic background radiation is electromagnetic radiation that fills all space. The origin of this radiation depends on the region of the spectrum that is observed. One component is the cosmic microwave background. This component is redshifted photons that have freely streamed from an epoch when the Universe became transparent for the first time to radiation. Its discovery and detailed observations of its properties are considered one of the major confirmations of the Big Bang. The discovery (by chance in 1965) of the cosmic background radiation suggests that the early universe was dominated by a radiation field, a field of extremely high temperature and pressure

Did you take this? If so do you mind sharing your acquisition details? I'll be attempting the eagle nebula sometime this year.