Posted on 04/15/2019 11:15:54 AM PDT by LibWhacker
*DROPPED JAW*
Wow! Stunning!
Glad we’re getting to view it now before the cannibals get it.
As good as images from Hubble !
Taken by “AMATEURS”.
Magnificent and mind boggling!
Mucho thanks, bigly, for sharing this.
Really cool ping.
I’ve seen the southern sky once. It’s a real treat for someone used to the northern sky.
Couldn’t understand why cannabis had anything to do with it.
Now I see you wrote “cannibals”
and I am more confused.
At 100% image size my 24” monitor shows about 2% of the full picture area (appr. 1/7 vertical and 1/7 horizontal; 1/7 x 1/7 = 1/49 = appr. 2%, right?).
I think I need a bigger monitor.
There are a heck of a lot of stars out there. One estimate (said to be credible) I saw some time ago stated that there are about as many stars in the universe as grains of sand on all of Earth’s beaches...
I’d love to see it. Seventy years old and I’ve never been south of the equator, or anywhere near it.
Ferdinand Magellan was trying to find the spice islands by sailing west instead of east. He almost made it, but was killed in a skirmish when he agreed to help an island king against his neighbor.
I thought they were cannibals, but they might not have been.
Animaniacs had a great skit on Magellon.
I wonder what our galaxy looks like in their night sky.
Lol, you have to get used to scrolling; I don’t think there is a monitor that has that many pixels.
One thing about the sand analogy is they aren’t positive about how big the universe really is. There is still the possibility that it is infinitely large.
There once was a man, his name was Magellan
A Portuguese skipper, the girls found him cute
He sailed with five ships to find the East Indies
Then come back to Spain with a bounty of loot
The Warners:
Whoopi-ti-yi-yo, oh, happy Magellan!
Starting your journey with hardly a care!
Whoopi-ti-yi-yo, strong, brave Magellan
You'll find the East Indies, you just don't know where!
Yakko:
They crossed the Atlantic and spotted a country
Magellan said...
Magellan:
It's the East Indies at last!
Yakko:
But then someone shouted...
Wakko:
Hey, that's Argentina!
Yakko:
Magellan got cranky and chopped down the mast
The Warners:
Whoopi-ti-yi-yo, settle down, Magellan
Put down that ax! There's no time to despair
Whoopi-ti-yi-yo, keep trying, Magellan
You'll find the East Indies, you just don't know where!
Yakko:
A great storm arose in the mighty Pacific
The five little ships were diminished to three
At last, land was sighted. Magellan was happy
But then someone shouted...
Dot:
Hey, that's Chile!
The Warners:
Whoopi-ti-yi-yo, cheer up, Magellan
Check out your map and don't tear out your hair!
Whoopi-ti-yi-yo, keep trying, Magellan
You'll find the East Indies, you just don't know where!
Yakko:
It took them five months, but they crossed the Pacific
They spotted a land that was dotted with palms Magellan proclaimed...
Magellan:
Yes! That's the East Indies!
Yakko:
But then someone shouted...
Wakko:
Hey, I think that's Guam!
The Warners:
Ai yi yi yi, oops, Magellan!
Your fun little journey's become a nightmare!
Whoopi-ti-yi-yo, keep trying, Magellan
You'll find the East Indies, you just don't know where!
Yakko:
They sailed due west to the Philippine Islands
Magellan was pleased as the natives drew near
But then someone shouted...
The Warners:
I think they're attacking!
Yakko:
Magellan said...
Magellan:
What?
Yakko:
And got hit by a spear
The Warners:
Whoopi-ti-yi-yo, farewell, Magellan!
You almost made it! It's really not fair!
Whoopi-ti-yi-yo, oh, ghost of Magellan
The East Indies Islands were right over there!
What are the individual globs of light scattered throughout the picture?
It looks like something rammed its way through the middle of that galaxy and blew it apart.
Be sure to count the stars in the full image. Then realize this is just a small part of our galaxy, which itself is a small to middling size and then imaging 52 trillion more galaxies.
Of course that snapshot of the Universe is totally lifeless, without any intelligence living anywhere except in this obscure galaxy in the furthest reaches on one planet in a tiny solar system
There must be a surfeit of bridges for sale somewhere and fortunes to be made.
If you think that is mind boggling, you should see some of the images taken by amateurs of the moon and mars. Taking images now days not only has nifty lens, but astounding software that can take images through the atmosphere as good as or better than any released image of the moon and nearby planets.
“There must be a surfeit of bridges for sale somewhere and fortunes to be made.”
Seems to me that your position rests on the assumption that life can arise spontaneously, accidentally, with no outside assistance.
Star Size Comparison
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=GoW8Tf7hTGA
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