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The Universe is AWESOME!

  • 18-04-2018 1:21am
    #1
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users Posts: 23,433 ✭✭✭✭


    800px-Hubble_ultra_deep_field_high_rez_edit1.jpg


    In the image above taken by the Hubble Space Telescope there are 10,000 visible galaxies each containing billions and billions of stars.

    If you took a needle out and held it to the night sky and looked through the hole on the end - that is the equivalent portion of space in the picture.

    To cover the whole sky the same techique would have to be used roughly 40,000,000 times.

    :)


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  • #2
    Captain Red Beard
    Registered Users Posts: 871 ✭✭✭Captain Red Beard


    Uranus is awesome.


  • #3
    JupiterKid
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 12,555 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    It is indeed OP. That’s why I’ve had an interest in astronomy since I was about 17.

    Just look at this close up image of the atmosphere of the planet Jupiter, taken by the orbiting Juno probe. Surreal!!:cool:

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  • #4
    SmartinMartin
    Registered Users Posts: 2,937 ✭✭✭SmartinMartin


    I fcuking hate that word. Fascinating, incredible, amazing, spectacular, magnificent, etc, but awsome? Septics have ruined that word through overuse and trivialitization.


  • #5
    4068ac1elhodqr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,586 ✭✭✭4068ac1elhodqr


    The little Milky Way alone is flush with billions of potentially habitable planets - and that's just one sliver of the universe (there are billions of other galaxies to choose from).

    In total around about 6 sextillion (x21 zeros) possible habitable planets in the universe, more than there is individual specs/grains of sand on all of the earths beaches combined.


  • #6
    Outlaw Pete
    Registered Users Posts: 10,423 ✭✭✭✭Outlaw Pete


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  • #7
    Franz Von Peppercorn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    That rug really tied the room together.


  • #8
    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,221 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »
    That rug really tied the room together.

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  • #9
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users Posts: 23,433 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkktE_fs4NA


  • #10
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users Posts: 32,972 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    JupiterKid wrote: »
    It is indeed OP. That’s why I’ve had an interest in astronomy since I was about 17.

    Just look at this close up image of the atmosphere of the planet Jupiter, taken by the orbiting Juno probe. Surreal!!:cool:

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    Triiippppeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey!

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #11
    pleas advice
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,492 ✭✭✭pleas advice


    SmartinMartin wrote: »
    I fcuking hate that word. Fascinating, incredible, amazing, spectacular, magnificent, etc, but awsome? Septics have ruined that word through overuse and trivialitization.

    It's massiv, innit?


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  • #12
    Liamalone
    Registered Users Posts: 4,954 ✭✭✭Liamalone


    Fake news


  • #13
    PandaPoo
    Registered Users Posts: 4,977 ✭✭✭PandaPoo


    SmartinMartin wrote: »
    I fcuking hate that word. Fascinating, incredible, amazing, spectacular, magnificent, etc, but awsome? Septics have ruined that word through overuse and trivialitization.

    I would say this is the epitome of awesome.


  • #14
    jaxxx
    Registered Users Posts: 3,230 ✭✭✭jaxxx


    The universe is awesome, humans suck. Yup!


  • #15
    Outlaw Pete
    Registered Users Posts: 10,423 ✭✭✭✭Outlaw Pete


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U1-OmAICpU


  • #16
    pleas advice
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,492 ✭✭✭pleas advice




  • #17
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users Posts: 23,433 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Stars are like people. They are born, they live and they die.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyFe7120dl4


  • #18
    jaxxx
    Registered Users Posts: 3,230 ✭✭✭jaxxx


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    Our Sun will have a pretty bad result for us but not a Supernova at least as it does not have the size or mass. Stars are like people. They are born, they live and they die.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyFe7120dl4

    Ah old sunny still has a few billion years of hydrogen left to burn. I'll be well dead thankfully! (I hope anyway!!)


  • #19
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    Ah, it's alright..


  • #20
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users Posts: 23,433 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    602883main_chandra_universe_full-800x571.jpg

    Tarantula Nebula is a star nursery producing many super massive stars which will go on to create black holes which will devour us all.


  • #21
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users Posts: 23,433 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Carina Nebula nursing infant stars.

    hubblestars.jpg


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  • #22
    SmartinMartin
    Registered Users Posts: 2,937 ✭✭✭SmartinMartin


    PandaPoo wrote: »
    I would say this is the epitome of awesome.

    Did I say it wasn't?


  • #23
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,730 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    Do flat earthers think the Universe is flat as well?


  • #24
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users Posts: 23,433 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    How could they after this? :D


  • #25
    Relikk
    Registered Users Posts: 1,800 ✭✭✭Relikk


    SmartinMartin wrote: »
    Did I say it wasn't?

    You insinuated that the word doesn't apply with regard to the subject matter of the thread. It most definitely does apply.


  • #26
    verycool
    Closed Accounts Posts: 965 ✭✭✭verycool


    42


  • #27
    valoren
    Registered Users Posts: 5,458 ✭✭✭valoren


    I like to think that with the heat death of the universe after all the stars burn out nothing will be left except the litany of blackholes which have grabbed all the matter they can over trillions of years. Trillions of years later, with no matter left to attract, these same blackholes will eventually come together to form an unimaginably enormous solitary black hole. The singularity at it's centre becoming literally the centre of the universe. Due to quantum fluctuations at it's event horizon, this remaining blackhole, which contains all of the matter the universe once contained will slowly reduce in size over another spate of a few trillion years. In time, it will just become a singularity where time itself stops. Who knows it might, after another trillion years this singularity, now the size of an atom, might just explode and go through the whole process again. And again. And again.........


  • #28
    garbo speaks
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 300 ✭✭garbo speaks


    All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.


  • #29
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users Posts: 23,433 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    valoren wrote: »
    I like to think that with the heat death of the universe after all the stars burn out nothing will be left except the litany of blackholes which have grabbed all the matter they can over trillions of years. Trillions of years later, with no matter left to attract, these same blackholes will eventually come together to form an unimaginably enormous solitary black hole. The singularity at it's centre becoming literally the centre of the universe. Due to quantum fluctuations at it's event horizon, this remaining blackhole, which contains all of the matter the universe once contained will slowly reduce in size over another spate of a few trillion years. In time, it will just become a singularity where time itself stops. Who knows it might, after another trillion years this singularity, now the size of an atom, might just explode and go through the whole process again. And again. And again.........

    If the universe is expanding than what is it expanding in to?


  • #30
    Stab*City
    Registered Users Posts: 2,413 ✭✭✭Stab*City


    Fascinating stuff!


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  • #31
    Four Phucs Ache
    Registered Users Posts: 1,017 ✭✭✭Four Phucs Ache


    valoren wrote: »
    I like to think that with the heat death of the universe after all the stars burn out nothing will be left except the litany of blackholes which have grabbed all the matter they can over trillions of years. Trillions of years later, with no matter left to attract, these same blackholes will eventually come together to form an unimaginably enormous solitary black hole. The singularity at it's centre becoming literally the centre of the universe. Due to quantum fluctuations at it's event horizon, this remaining blackhole, which contains all of the matter the universe once contained will slowly reduce in size over another spate of a few trillion years. In time, it will just become a singularity where time itself stops. Who knows it might, after another trillion years this singularity, now the size of an atom, might just explode and go through the whole process again. And again. And again.........


    It will be big bang 2.....

    The big bang we know of could have been big bang 9 or 28!!!!!


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