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Yeah, it's a massive improvement over the Hubble one.
The picture reaffirms my belief that there is Extraterrestrial intelligence out there, but it's so far away we'll never know.
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Yeah, it's a massive improvement over the Hubble one.
The picture reaffirms my belief that there is Extraterrestrial intelligence out there, but it's so far away we'll never know.
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if it all looks the same then who cares?
looks the same as whatever hubble did 30 years ago
no, but something like pillars of creations would be nice. NASA literally fucking sucks at everything.
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Lets be honest. The NASA fuckheads were saying how it's so beautiful they were crying at the images. I want to see an alien great wall of china, or GTFO
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The gifs do a pretty good job. Kind of looks like a 2008 cellphone vs. modern cellphone in terms of quality
Either that or....
Either that or....
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Neat: Someone found an Einstein Cross in the picture already.
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Einstein Cross - Wikipedia
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Neat: Someone found an Einstein Cross in the picture already.
Einstein Cross - Wikipedia
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Ok, does it have to be in that parallelogram shape or can it be any four points of light? And why four and not five, or 3?? Learning, not arguing!
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It's because the gravitational lens in this case is an oblong galaxy. With more distortion in one axis than the other you get a quadripole image because the diagonal light rays (relative to the galaxy's plane) get projected away from the viewer. If the lense were perfectly symmetric and the object exactly behind the lens you'd get a ring. With exotic configurations and alignments you might be able to get a triangle or something.
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Looks like many images of the same pale orange galaxy too. Realistically though these are images mostly for politicians that don't know anything to ooh and aah over and NASA is hamming it up to make sure the money keeps coming.
Most of the actual science these days is done by writing algorithms trying to sift through terabytes of data. Astronomy was one of the directions I considered going in and the students at the open house day all said it was a week of pretty pictures and then 4 years of mathematics. I noped out.
Most of the actual science these days is done by writing algorithms trying to sift through terabytes of data. Astronomy was one of the directions I considered going in and the students at the open house day all said it was a week of pretty pictures and then 4 years of mathematics. I noped out.
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Brahma
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Jeez man. Didn't need to break it down that much. Now I'm wishing I said more!
Lets be honest here...all these astronomy photos look the same. Unless we are seeing detailed photos of lets say an accretion disk, or a magnetar, you will just be like, oh that's pretty.
Initially it was about the photos. Hubble gave us that in spades. Now its about the science, and proof. I want them to see right to the edge. I want to see so far back, we are looking at nothing but radiation and...plasma.
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Yeah I want to see different shit. I want to see accrretion disks, quasars or just cool nebula. All of the deep field photography looks the same. Bunch of galaxies, each a couple pixels across, not nearly enough for any meaningful detail, across a black background
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