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fossilesque@mander.xyzM to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 11 months ago

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    Where can I find the high res image?

    • jonasw@discuss.tchncs.de
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      From the article: https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/what-do-10-million-stars-look-like

      https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noirlab2027a/zoomable/

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        Thanks for the high-res! Was able to confirm there’s no way it’s more than 9,999,797.

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          Huh, I counted 10,000,014. I must have counted a few twice, I’ll have to start over.

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            Did you double count altaris 31b? It’s a pretty common mistake

      • Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org
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        There are still some blurry ones in the back, how can I enhance them?

        • CuriousRefugee@lemmy.ml
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          Get cast in a cop/spy/sci-fi drama on TV, have an assistant pull up the image on a screen, then simply say “Enhance” out loud.

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            If you spend five seconds ‘poring over it’ you’ll also be able to spot ‘unmistakable signs’ of ‘alien civilisations’ with your butt-nekked eyebawllz.

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          The original image is 50,000 x 25,000 so it’s possible that this is the maximum resolution possible

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    Wait it’s all sand?

    Always has been 🌎🧑‍🚀🔫🧑‍🚀

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    Can someone explain to a layman what that less dense (appears darker) area is about? Just a random section of fewer stars or something else?

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      Gas cloud

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        It’s not gas that’s making it dark, its dust, small particles made out of some combination of iron, silicates, carbonaceous materials, and other elements.

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          Metal cloud

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            🤘

      • weariedfae@lemmy.world
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        Neat, thanks

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    Funny how stars and the CMB both look like static on a screen.

  • beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Aw they all look so happy together! Makes me feel like our little Sol is lonesome way out here

  • RealFknNito@lemmy.world
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    Looks like the bottom of my bowl after eating cinnamon toast crunch.

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    It’s wild that clouds in space just look like… Clouds.

    And yet it’s as large as a solar system or more.

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    hi mom

  • Passerby6497@lemmy.world
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    If that’s pointing at the center of the galaxy, where’s the supermassive black hole?

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      We’re near the end of one of the arms of the milky way. There’s trillions of stars in between us and the center of the galaxy.

      The only real way we’d get an actual image of the center of the milky way is if we somehow maintained connection to a telescope that was billions of light-years away.

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    I bet if we blur it a bit and do an image search with it, we’d get pictures of a drink sitting on a beach and it’s shadow.

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      Use it as seed for generative aí

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    The Stars, Like Dust

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