This gif blows my mind if true

[SAWYER]

http://i184.photobucket.com/al...2964987_wearesmall.gif

 

[destrekor]

very true.

let me try and dig up the animation that is captured from

 

[johnjohn320]

Was cool until they brought "Star Trek Physics" into it. Jesus Christ...

 

[Jinru]

Heres 1 large jpg rather then a slide show.

http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/2706/spaceb.jpg

 

[mugs]

Pretty sure I remember reading that picture is not "real" - it's an artist's depiction. I don't think galaxies look like that even with the most powerful telescopes. I don't recall if it's an artist's depiction of what that GIF says it is (a very small section of the sky)

Edit: I'm referring to the Hubble "photograph"

 

[MotF Bane]

That's pretty cool.

 

[Newbian]

I was waiting for a scare tactic during the whole show.

 

[johnjohn320]

Originally posted by: Jinru
Heres 1 large jpg rather then a slide show.

http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/2706/spaceb.jpg

Why does that image list two different stars as being the "largest known"? (VV Cephai, VY Canis Majoris)?

 

[RESmonkey]

I was going to be an astronomy/astrophysics major...but there's quite a while before one gets paid in that field.

 

[F1N3ST]

Well heres what I think, there are an infinite (or close to it) amount of planets, solar systems, galaxies etc....and people are IGNORANT to think that there is not other life out there, more or less advanced than us. I bet we could find two snowflakes that are identical if we cared enough .

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: destrekor
very true.

let me try and dig up the animation that is captured from

Close enough.

 

[AdamK47]

It wasn't cool until they brought "Star Trek Physics" into it. Xenu...

 

[destrekor]

you so tiny!

Originally posted by: Jeff7

Originally posted by: destrekor
very true.

let me try and dig up the animation that is captured from

Close enough.

lol
I hadn't even refreshed the page while I dug that up. Kept finding just video slideshows basically using the imagery from the very first still in the OP's gif.
I could have swore there was a full animation using that one, but I remember seeing the one both of us found too.
Found those while in my astronomy courses at school, and funnily enough, after finding them a little while later in the first course the instructor had all of that in lecture too. They were shocking the first time, then seeing them on a big projector screen it was even more crazy.

And the funny thing? Those massive stars are still little babies in comparison to the ones that had to have formed during the early times of the universe, so that their fusion products created a lot of the other elements.
I can't remember if every single element in the periodic table was originally formed in those massive fusion factories or if the main ones, like up to somewhere above Carbon were the main results and the rest were formed over time in deeper space.

 

[johnjohn320]

Originally posted by: Jeff7

Originally posted by: destrekor
very true.

let me try and dig up the animation that is captured from

Close enough.

Haha, best YouTube comment ever right there: "This is not updated. There should be a Canis Majoris, follwed by my BALLS, right before yo fat mamma. "

 

[TruePaige]

Originally posted by: Jinru
Heres 1 large jpg rather then a slide show.

http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/2706/spaceb.jpg

In one slide they call VY Canis Majoris the largest known star, and then directly under it they call W Cephai the largest star. Serious errata makes me question credibility.

 

[Gothgar]

wild and crazy shit

 

[arkcom]

Originally posted by: RESmonkey
I was going to be an astronomy/astrophysics major...but there's quite a while before one gets paid in that field.

I got a Physics BS in 07, and still haven't found work in physics. I probably never will unless I get a Doctorate. In other words, you're right.

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: arkcom

Originally posted by: RESmonkey
I was going to be an astronomy/astrophysics major...but there's quite a while before one gets paid in that field.

I got a Physics BS in 07, and still haven't found work in physics. I probably never will unless I get a Doctorate. In other words, you're right.

B.Sc astrophysics '06 here. Been working for peanuts in condensed matter research for a few years. Gonna do an MBA.

 

[dennilfloss]

1900 Sol diameters is freaking gigantic!:shocked:

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: mugs
Pretty sure I remember reading that picture is not "real" - it's an artist's depiction. I don't think galaxies look like that even with the most powerful telescopes. I don't recall if it's an artist's depiction of what that GIF says it is (a very small section of the sky)

Edit: I'm referring to the Hubble "photograph"

It's called the Hubble Deep Field

 

[MrPickins]

Originally posted by: mugs
Pretty sure I remember reading that picture is not "real" - it's an artist's depiction. I don't think galaxies look like that even with the most powerful telescopes. I don't recall if it's an artist's depiction of what that GIF says it is (a very small section of the sky)

Edit: I'm referring to the Hubble "photograph"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Ultra_Deep_Field

It's real, and it's spectacular.

 

[JSFLY]

Originally posted by: mugs
Pretty sure I remember reading that picture is not "real" - it's an artist's depiction. I don't think galaxies look like that even with the most powerful telescopes. I don't recall if it's an artist's depiction of what that GIF says it is (a very small section of the sky)

Edit: I'm referring to the Hubble "photograph"

No it's a real photograph.

Google hubble deep field.

 

[lxskllr]

Originally posted by: johnjohn320
Was cool until they brought "Star Trek Physics" into it. Jesus Christ...

Star Trek references help put things in perspective for people who don't know astronomy. Everything's far out, but how far is it? Star Trek gives a reference that laymen(me) are familiar with.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: silverpig

Originally posted by: mugs
Pretty sure I remember reading that picture is not "real" - it's an artist's depiction. I don't think galaxies look like that even with the most powerful telescopes. I don't recall if it's an artist's depiction of what that GIF says it is (a very small section of the sky)

Edit: I'm referring to the Hubble "photograph"

It's called the Hubble Deep Field

Sure enough. I must have it confused with something else.

 

[destrekor]

Originally posted by: silverpig

Originally posted by: mugs
Pretty sure I remember reading that picture is not "real" - it's an artist's depiction. I don't think galaxies look like that even with the most powerful telescopes. I don't recall if it's an artist's depiction of what that GIF says it is (a very small section of the sky)

Edit: I'm referring to the Hubble "photograph"

It's called the Hubble Deep Field

Yeah with all that in such an extremely microscopic slice of what we call space... how can anyone truly doubt we are alone. The number of orbiting planets found in a single galaxy alone is a relatively large number. Granted, so many conditions have to be set for even the most simple of lifeforms to come to being, stuff like RNA and DNA alone take quite a "perfect" set of variables... but that many planets, and then that many galaxies... in that utterly pathetic sample of what we call the universe... we are not alone. Maybe somewhere something close to dogs, dolphins, or even apes might exist, in evolutionary terms of intelligence.

Then again, shockingly enough, life may exist, but radio frequency or some other radiation signature proving an intelligent lifeform is out there, might not reach Earth for another 10-14 billion years, considering quite a few of those galaxies in that image alone, are close to that old in terms of the light we are seeing. i.e. all the light/radiation coming from those furthest galaxies might be 10 billion years old from the time it originated out there, only maybe a few billion years after the universe formed. Considering Earth, and our star, are only about, averaged, 4 to 5 billion years old, and life wasn't even possible on Earth until a few billion years after the planet started coming together... and then the billion years it took life to go from nothing but cellular soup, to microscopic organisms, and then to animals like us... well, I think my point should be clear.

Basically, what we are seeing right now might be before any life, just like our Galaxy, was even possible. 10 billion years later, Earth might finally receive a radio transmission seeking other intelligent life, similar to what we have been doing.

Can we wait 10 billion years? The human species, iirc, hasn't even been around a million years (ancestors and whatnot, and the missing link, not counting, just homo sapiens).

What would it even be like to say your species has been around for billions of years. Hell, even millions. As an advanced, intelligent organism, Earth hasn't even held something like that for even hundreds of millions of years. Mammals haven't been around that long.

Woah. I just blew my own mind. I gotta go before I do any more damage. I have a midterm tomorrow.