ITT we post interesting stellar objects
Giving (You) a break from the ragebait
>>84671611Does Rocky count, question?
Neutron star is cool and bothersome. Can it please stop spinning?
At least two trillion galaxies in the observable universe. 500 billion to trillions of stars in a galaxy. Many are dwarfs, but even (((non brown))) dwarfs may host planets habitable to life. Trillions upon trillions of possibilities for life, going back 14 billion years.
>>84671629Someone stop him to STOP
>>84671623I saw this in a meme involving ryan gosling once, not sure what it is>>84671629Neutron stars and pulsars are awesome. So much matter out there, a limitless expanse of lifeless stories.
>>84671646He's the alien in Project Hail Mary. Very good film, even better book.I want Simon The Convict from Iron Lung to rape Ryland Grace from Project Hail Mary in the ass while Rocky watches.
Pls make it STOPPwhat an asshole
Imagine the life that could be out there. Advanced civilizations thousands or millions of years old, achievements vast beyond our comprehension. Interstellar travel and contact, dense near the boundary of a galactic center, or earlier in a more dense universe.
Robotic civilizations, artificial life spawned from biological ones. Lifetimes spanning thousands of years, interstellar travelers through the void. Consciousness unfamiliar to us.
Knowing there is a neutron star spinning forever my life is ruined
>>84671611I didn't know about the first 2 images or barred spiral galaxies until this thread, neat. Interesting how these varied structures exist, though, I know future technology might depict them differently.I stumbled upon a post about the RRN recently but it took a bit of searching to find again since I confused it with the Square version in my memories.
In our own galaxy even. Perhaps in the Large Magellanic Cloud, or certainly perhaps, at least at some point. Looking up at us in their skies, coming to know they live in a dwarf galaxy orbiting our vast milky way. How beautiful would that be in the sky?
Just found this. Looks annoying as hell. Make it stop
>>84671682Supposedly we're hurtling through space and there are all sorts of hazards that we 'dodge' including black holes speeding across the cosmos. When I think about how we survive all this, while the objective damage something can do is still real, the fear of a lot of things fades away.
but what about this
Are we really alone in this limitless expanse? I think if more people / normies saw their life in this wider perspective, things would be very different. It may "not make a difference" but it's epiphanic nonetheless to realize how young we are compared to others.
>>84671776If people were more educated on the basics around them things would be better, yeah.
I bet it is the far border of galactic centers where it is most probable for inter-alien contact. Far enough from the center to have a multi billion year stable orbit to facilitate life, but close enough for higher star density for greater chances of contact. It could even be possible within our own galaxy.
>>84671831Why does the difference between several lightyears and several thousand lightyears matter for contact? They'll either be aware of each others existence or not, and there is nobody else sending radio signals in the milky way.
>>84671859We don't know the limits to interstellar contact. It could be real, actual contact, and it could be more likely the closer everything is to each other. It's hard to take these questions seriously, this is unscientific imagination, but plausible considering the scale of things.>there is nobody else sending radio signals in the milky wayThere is no scientific evidence of this, we just haven't detected anything resembling intelligent life.
>>84671611all the images I have are way too large. But here is what I recommend to visit:>https://science.nasa.gov/mission/webb/multimedia/about-webb-images/>https://science.nasa.gov/mission/webb/webb-videos/>https://esawebb.org/images/
>>84671968Never visited those before, thanks.
Would visit
>The Bootes Void was initially discovered as part of a study into the existing process of redshift, the movement of interstellar objects to or from Earth. The zone appears spherical in shape. Measuring a mind-numbing distance of 330 million light-years in diameter, the void is one of the largest examples of this empty space phenomenon. To put this into perspective, the diameter of the Milky Way is about 100,000 light-years and the Sun is located about 28,000 light-years from the Galactic Center.
>>84672100There is s pulsar star in the middle thats ruining my life, I know it!
>>84672168>https://science.nasa.gov/asset/webb/expedition-to-star-cluster-pismis-24/>>84672021you are welcome.Canadians Using the James Webb>https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/satellites/jwst/science-images-from-james-webb-space-telescope.aspThe Raw Data Archive for all images:>https://archive.stsci.edu/
>>84672246I appreciate the Canada link, though, I'm not exactly patriotic.
>>84672100Only 60 or so galaxies in it, wilde.
I hecking love science.
>>84672354...and I forgot the pic.
And then gravitational lensing.
>>84672366Forgot pic... again. Original post
James Webb deep field
More jwst stuff
bumping one of the few quality threads on the board today.
>>84672393One of my favorites, I love deep fields. Entire worlds of life could have come and gone by now in these extremely ancient galaxies. Extraterrestrial life in particular really fascinates me. (had to lower the res to upload this one, its the eXtreme deep fields found at https://science.nasa.gov/mission/hubble/science/universe-uncovered/hubble-deep-fields/#udf2012)
Extremely based thread. Its just so wild that all these distant objects don't appear to us as they truly are now, so we'll never know what they truly look like in real time. Depending on what theory of cosmology you follow, the universe could have already died and we don't know it yet, and won't ever know it because from our perspective it won't happen for billions of years.
>>84674167I love the pleiades, i used to look at it among other things through binoculars in the middle of nowhere with little light pollution
For me, its the neutron star. Although black holes are probably the most extreme and mysterious objects in the universe, these undead stellar remnants are no less bizarre. All the mass of a dead star and its core compressed into a sphere less than 30km across comprised of the densest material known. It distorts gravity and light around it the same as a black hole does. A thimble-full of its material would weigh more than the entirety of planet Earth. Of all the varieties of neutron star, the Magnetar is probably the most extreme and mysterious. With the most powerful magnetic field in the universe, from 250,000km, the distance of the moon, this unthinkably powerful object would ruin every credit card on Earth. From 10,000km it would strip the iron from your blood and violently disassemble you at the molecular level.
>>84673170The size of the observable universe is pretty crazy.
>>84674308The local supercluster (which is already a crazy huge amount of galaxies) looks like a small speck compared to the rest.
>>84674292I'm feeling kinda skeptical of the stats of the Neutron Star. Remember when they said the brontosaurus existed and we'd be all flying personal jetpacks to work? I was taught there was nine planets in our solar system and then they changed it.It was kinda silly to believe in the brontosaurus but at the time it seemed ligit. We even got a kids movie about em.
