Over 10,000 Galaxies In This One Picture

Never stops short of making me LOL. A lot of people here are quick to dismiss the government, call them out for lies, "never trust the government!!!" But when it's got to do with science, the same government that funds their scientific obsession they're so quick to believe. I mean, c'mon, man.

LOL

 

Its also not true within science. That background radiation map is also a composite, data taken from different points at different times using best accepted mathematical models

If anyone ever wanted to try use that at 375000 years to calculate what it might of looked like at 100000 years, they wouldnt, cos it didnt look exaclty like that at 375,000 years. We'd need to be able to capture all data simultaneously at a single point in time to see what it really looked like. So its not really true

 

well they're not actually IN the picture. nothing is IN a picture. its a picture. it may be a picture OF a real image from a telescope in space. i think someone already pinned that one down. and i'm just being futsy, but that's how i sometimes am.

 

it sure looks like a smiley face beaming down from the heavens.

But this is actually a massive galaxy cluster known as SDSS J-1038 + 4849.

http://www.myhighplains.com/story/d/story/nasa-hubble-captures-smiley-face-galaxy/28566/Wyc5uX3EYkGCnteMACb4HA

 

Maybe rat will agree with you that the pic is faked.

I don't know of anyone who says "never trust the government" but who is also quick to believe scientists.

 

Fun interactive scale of the solar system

http://www.bbc.com/future/bespoke/20140304-how-big-is-space-interactive/index.html

 

It's thermal imaging, it's not a photograph we would take with a regular camera.. An analogous example would be like fmri imaging with brains:

Picture:



Fmri:




Iirc the cosmic microwave background radiation cools as the universe expands which is represented by the variations in color in the WMAP image.

 

^ Pretty irrelevant to the analogy I'm trying to make, but ok...

 

what would be the purpose to photoshop that .. it's a real picture.

yes, there really are other galaxies out there ...

 

gravitational lensing?

 

when you spin the camera to get the effect..

 

awesome


happiness is the night sky.....in all of its glory. I love astronomy.

 

another universe, and then another and so on...infinitely....

 

so it's the exposure time, gravitational lensing is cooler tho

 

if u ran a model of a universe in a computer at a sufficent resolution of detail you would eventually find all of the features developing that normally would occur if the universe were a "real" universe.

to entities inside the model universe simulation, there would be no obvious way to tell that they were part of a simulation, and really, what would be the difference?

if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck ... it's a duck. I can emulate a 6502 processor on an x86 machine and run 6502 code in it and from the point of view of the 6502 program there's no difference at all between running in the emulator and running on the real hardware, for all intensive purposes it's the same machine with the same behavior, whether it's actual hardware or implemented in software makes not so much difference.

 

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