NEBULA THREAD

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>Pics of the most visually impressive thing of the universe.

well Op? ........must b-more than one image

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....in the reflection nebula NGC 2023... in the bottom left corner of the nebula is the shape of the head of a horse of course

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well it definitely seems Original Posters hopped it... so here's a collage created from (100) of our planetary nebulae all are presented north up and at apparent size relative to one another...

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>>2791374
All I see is the hooded woman under a palm tree....

>>2792439
but which way is North in spess?

>>2792566
>but which way is North in spess?
It's north with respect to their on-sky position, relative to the observer. The night sky, mapped onto a globe, has north/south hemispheres and poles just like a globe of the Earth.

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we was kangs and sheeit

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>>2791371
here's a gorgeous shot of the Milky Way, meteors, and the Andromeda Galaxy (small but clear in the upper right quadrant ;')

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Orion Nebula

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Two interacting galaxies (UGC 1810 on top and UGC 1813 below) that are together known as Arp 273

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This one picture, taken of a region of sky just one-tenth the size of the Moon, contains more than 10,000 unique galaxies.

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NGC2359 » Emission Nebula aka Thor's Helmet

>>2794019
Wow , i'm kind of a newbie desu , but i'm trying to understand your picture , it seem pretty insane , what is a galaxies exactly ? Is there like another earth or planet in there ? Look like a black hole .

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>>2794063
you live in the milky~way galaxy, the background picture your bamboozled with, is full of over 10,000 galaxies, so unfortunately there may be 10,000 + 1 replicas of you

>>2794068
Wow , yeah thats what i thought it was , but i don't understand , you clearly just told me there was paralel universe or so , why people don't belive it then if its a fact

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>>2794063
>Is there like another earth or planet in there ? Look like a black hole.

The XDF box in this image above is not a black hole but as in the other image you queried relates to the location and size that the Hubble eXtreme Deep Field telescope looked at in outer space, within that small square in outer space it could see 10,000 other galaxies like the one we live in, but if mister Hubble telescope also looked in another direction and selected another small area to look at he would most possibly see.... 10,000 more galaxies "Crikey! that's 20.000 more of you"

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crushed I am alone thank fuck.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3i2y4sEQpRI

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bump

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For the second time in six years, a massive star exploded in the Whirlpool Galaxy. This star system lies about 23 million light-years from Earth toward the northern constellation of Canes Venatici. Actually a pair of galaxies locked in a gravitational embrace, the large spiral's structure resulted when the smaller companion came from behind and passed through its disk, As recently as 50 to 100 million years ago, a subsequent disk passage returned the smaller companion to slightly behind the larger spiral where we see it today.

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NGC 6302, also called the Bug Nebula or Butterfly Nebula, is a bipolar planetary nebula in the constellation Scorpius, its wingspan covers over 3 light-years...

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Two beautiful and almost identical spiral galaxies in Virgo, imaged by the Gemini South telescope in Chile...

NGC5427 (the faced-on spiral galaxy at lower left) and its twin NGC 5426 (upper right). Together, they are known as Arp 271.

This violent encounter that will take 100 million years to complete. Over millions of years, the twin galaxies will pass each other, pull back, tangle again… this repeats several times, and finally they will end up as a large and featureless elliptical galaxy, leaving no sign that once upon a time they were a pair of beautiful spiral (except in our pictures on Earth, if we are still around…).

One last thought: The galaxies are 90 million light-years away from us, meaning that the image above was what they looked like 90 million years ago. Today, as we are admiring their beautiful spiral structures in the picture, in reality they may be so distorted that what was left is only a mess, gradually settling down to become an elliptical galaxy.

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>>2794084

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>>2798094
can any of you boffins explain to me, why the infamous red spot has never moved ....and no Clearasil jokes

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Born to late to explore the earth, born to early to explore the galaxy, but the right age to pay taxes.
now that he's discovered >>2798091 our solar system is part of the Milky Way galaxy, what's in the fringing middle he didn't ask....
Sugar, Glucose Syrup (Sources include Wheat), Milk Solids, Vegetable Fat, Cocoa Butter, Cocoa Mass, Barley Malt Extract, Cocoa Powder, Egg White, Emulsifier (Soy Lecithin), Salt , Natural Flavour (Vanilla Extract). but that's his thoughts
here's someone else's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDrY4g522q8

>>2800235
Born to late to explore the earth, born to early to explore the galaxy

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andromeda tilt shift

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The Helix Nebula has sometimes been referred to as the "Eye of God" as well as the "Eye of Sauron".

>>2791015
This was my phone background for a while. What where they referred to again? Pillars of Creation?

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>>2804193
Here's an actual image of the Helix Nebula. The whole "it looks kinda like an eye" thing is cute enough on the original image, it doesn't really need that level of embellishment to get the point across.

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Just in time for the 50th anniversary of the TV series "Star Trek," which first aired September 8th,1966, a new infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope may remind fans of the historic show.


Since ancient times, people have imagined familiar objects when gazing at the heavens. There are many examples of this phenomenon, known as pareidolia, including the constellations and the well-known nebulae named Ant, Stingray and Hourglass.

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The Crab Nebula is a supernova remnant and pulsar wind nebula in the constellation of Taurus. The now-current name is due to William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, who observed the object in 1840 using a 36-inch telescope and produced a drawing that looked somewhat like a crab

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The NASA Hubble Space Telescope peering deep into the core of the Crab Nebula, this close-up image reveals the beating heart of one of the most historic and intensively studied remnants of a supernova, an exploding star. The inner region sends out clock-like pulses of radiation and tsunamis of charged particles embedded in magnetic fields.

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Supernova 1987A suddenly exploded on 23 February 1987 on the edge of a nearby dwarf galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud 168,000 light years away.

The event, which was visible with the unaided eye, was one of the nearest core collapse supernovae of modern times, giving scientists an opportunity to study the cataclysmic blast in unprecedented detail.

The new research, reported in the Astrophysical Journal, has detected signs of what could be a pulsar wind nebula driven by a spinning neutron star or pulsar.

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A neutron star is the crushed core of a massive star that ran out of fuel, collapsed under its own weight, and exploded as a supernova. Each one compresses the equivalent mass of half a million Earths into a ball just 12 miles (20 kilometers) across, neutron stars are most commonly found as pulsars...

This illustration compares the size of a neutron star to Manhattan Island in New York, which is about 13 miles long... squish!

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>>2807564
>>2809174
thanks
Cassiopeia A - The colorful aftermath of a violent stellar death

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Here's an infrared portrait of the Witch Head nebula from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer

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The nebula Messier 78 is a reflection nebula in the constellation Orion.

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Horse Head Nebula IR

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Horse Head Nebula IR

>>2803399
just right to browse dank memes

>>2798098

It does move. It is a large storm. Look it up. There are sequences of still photos out there that show it rotating.

PS - great thread, guys!

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The constellation of Virgo (The Virgin) is especially rich in galaxies, due in part to the presence of a massive and gravitationally-bound collection of more than 1300 galaxies called the Virgo Cluster. One particular member of this cosmic community, NGC 4388, is captured in this image, as seen by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3.

Located some 60 million light-years away, NGC 4388 is experiencing some of the less desirable effects that come with belonging to such a massive galaxy cluster. It is undergoing a transformation and has taken on a somewhat confused identity.

While the galaxy’s outskirts appear smooth and featureless, a classic feature of an elliptical galaxy, its center displays remarkable dust lanes constrained within two symmetric spiral arms, which emerge from the galaxy’s glowing core — one of the obvious features of a spiral galaxy. Within the arms, speckles of bright blue mark the locations of young stars, indicating that NGC 4388 has hosted recent bursts of star formation.

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The Red Spider Nebula is a planetary nebula located near the heart of the Milky Way, in the northwest of the constellation Sagittarius.
The nebula has a prominent two-lobed shape, possibly due to a binary companion or magnetic fields and has an ‘S’-shaped symmetry of the lobes – the lobes opposite each other appear similar. This is believed to be due to the presence of a companion to the central white dwarf. However, the gas walls of the two lobed structures are not at all smooth, but rather are rippled in a complex way.

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This image was obtained as part of the Coma Cluster Survey. It reveals both the relatively calm outskirts and intriguing core of PGC 83677. Here, studies have uncovered signs of a monstrous black hole that is spewing out high-energy X-rays and ultraviolet light.

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ofc

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Fireworks shows are not just confined to Earth’s skies. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spectacular fireworks display in a small, nearby galaxy, which resembles a July 4th skyrocket.

A firestorm of star birth is lighting up one end of the diminutive galaxy Kiso 5639. The dwarf galaxy is shaped like a flattened pancake, but because it is tilted edge-on, it resembles a skyrocket, with a brilliant blazing head and a long, star-studded tail.

Kiso 5639 is a rare, nearby example of elongated galaxies that occur in abundance at larger distances, where we observe the universe during earlier epochs. Astronomers suggest that the frenzied star birth is sparked by intergalactic gas raining on one end of the galaxy as it drifts through space.

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This video using images from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the rich galaxy cluster Abell 3827. The strange blue structures surrounding the central galaxies are gravitationally lensed views of a much more distant galaxy behind the cluster. Observations of the central four merging galaxies have provided hints that the dark matter around one of the galaxies is not moving with the galaxy itself, possibly implying dark matter-dark matter interactions of an unknown nature are occurring.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7rAkp3DnYE

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>>2814560
what ?>>2811211

>>2814573
im not sure that someone having a seizure has as much to do with the creation of the universe as you may think it does.

>>2814581
why you talking to me? wrong end of the stick...
shit post's get shit replies >>2814560

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Twisted Galaxy
The spiral galaxy NGC 7714 has seen some tough times. About 100 million years ago it drifted too close to a galactic neighbor, and the two objects began a dramatic gravitational dance. This image, released on January 29 and snapped by the Hubble Space Telescope, shows how the galaxy has been transformed by its close encounter.

The graceful arms of NGC 7714 got twisted out of shape and dragged into long tails. During the interaction the galaxy also ripped material from its smaller companion, forming a hazy stream of matter that is being funneled into the bigger galaxy's core. The incoming matter is triggering the birth of huge new stars, lighting up the galaxy with sparkling bursts of blue

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Messier 78 (M78, NGC 2068) is the brightest diffuse reflection nebula in the sky, situated in the rich constellation Orion. Discovered 1780 by Pierre Méchain.

So science has made me sad. I began my physics PhD about two years ago and now I work with the Astronomy group (I use their fancy radio telescope to study geophysics. Not important). However recently I found out sad facts about nebula. I always imaged riding on star trek style FTL ship and blasting throug hnebula with all the bright colors and everything, but basically that's a lie. In general, the nebula are only bright becasue we are so far away from them. Think of a cloud and fog, you can see the cloud as a distinct object only becasue you are so far from it. Once inside it though, it disolves to a white mess. A nebula would be the same, it would only serve to cloud your vision of other objects, and even more so, since you are so close to it, and the emission so low, you wouldn't see anything but blackness. Even being really close to it, because the surface luminosity of the object is actually quite low, it would look like nothing but dust. Cold dark dust.

Bonus, most of those colors aren't real. Essentially all astronomy photos are taken in black and white at a single frequency, often a frequency outside of the normal sight range, and then color is added later to bring out some important aspect, such as a spectral line from a particular element. In real life, most everything is varying shades of white.

tl;dr: Life is terrible and meaningless, and space is an empty void

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>>2814646
>So science has made me sad
wow ...all empty space eventually fills up with something...mate
"knowledge": we are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

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>>2814646
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC3Tu7zmcPs

>>2814646
you forgot the part where what we are seeing thru the telescope is hundreds of lightyears away and already passed. While there is false color added, you would still not see what you see here even if FTL (instantaneous teleportation) did exist, because everything we see has already passed many many many years ago.

I don't completely agree however, that you would not see such wonders out of the USS Majestic's 20ft thick sapphire window, you would just be seeing a very far journey, back in time of another distant event that has long passed in another part of the universe.....

It'd just be another window, looking at a different piece of history of galactic events, from a different vantage point/perspective. Because really, being close enough to see one of these events (such as a vagrant white dwarf colliding with a class 3 supergiant at near lightspeed) would more than likely mean near-instantaneous death by gamma rays.

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>>2814922
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYrGBB3kdM8&list=RDaYrGBB3kdM8#t=11

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Messier 83 is a barred spiral galaxy approximately 15 million light-years away in the constellation Hydra. It is one of the closest and brightest barred spiral galaxies in the sky, making it visible with binoculars.

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>>2814929
.....zoom

>>2803399
born in the perfect time to explore self

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>>2814925
quick fix

>>2814646

Astro grad student bouncing in.

>Bonus, most of those colors aren't real.

They are real, kinda. It depends on what you mean by "real". Are the colours accurate representations of what we'd see with our own eyes? Nope, nor is that our goal. Are the colours just some fake artist's interpretation/rendition? Nope, absolutely not. The colours are absolutely in the data, they're objectively "real", they're just not mapped to our shitty meatbag eyes.

>Essentially all astronomy photos are taken in black and white ...

*ALL* digital photography is captured in greyscale. The Hubble Space Telescope and your cellphone are no different on this front - they both capture multiple greyscale images, which are subsequently *post-processed* into a single RGB colour image.

The main difference here is that your cellphone uses a Bayer filter (a grid of alternating red, green, and blue filters over the array) in order to capture all three of its required greyscale images at once. You lose some spatial resolution doing it this way (for each filter, you just mask out the pixels used by the other filters and interpolate over them), but you get to capture all three images at once. For astronomy, we care much more about spatial resolution, and most astronomical objects don't change much over the course of a few minutes anyway, so we take the time to capture full-frame images with separate filters. But otherwise, the process is fundamentally the same - multiple greyscale images are captured for post-processing into a single RGB colour image.

>>2814646

>... at a single frequency ...

I'm being a bit picky with language, but this isn't true at all. There are a few common narrow band filters which are used for emission line work, but even these cover a small range of wavelengths/frequencies. The vast majority of images are captured using wideband filters, which cover huge swaths of wavelength space (~hundreds of nanometers). Note that the typical Bayer filters used by your cellphone are comparable in spectral width to our common wideband filters - a few hundred nanometers each.

>often a frequency outside of the normal sight range

Yep, this is often the case.

>>2814646

>and then color is added later

Kinda. Colour is "added" in the exact same way colour is "added" to your cellphone's colour images. That is, the colour is merely a consequence of the ratio of each pixel's brightness as observed by the red, green, and blue filters.

The reason the Halpha regions in images like >>2814931 show up nice and red isn't because someone thought it would be nice if those little splodgy regions inside the galaxy were red, it's because Halpha emits strongly at a wavelength that is commonly covered by the *red* filter. Those pixels are nice and bright in the red image, and considerably less bright in the blue/green filters. The colours being displayed might not directly map to our own eyes, but they're 100% real in the sense that they're a *direct* consequence of the observed data. All the visual information you're being shown is real and physically interpretative.

People get this idea in their head that we're just arbitrarily colouring in different parts of the images, as if we're just using the Brush tool in Photoshop (I'm not saying this is what you're saying, this just tends to be a common misinterpretation when people talk about how the colours are "fake"). This isn't what's happening at all.

What's more, the super common B, V and R (or u, g, r in newer systems) filters we use in astronomy are reasonably comparable to the standard R, G, B filters used in consumer grade Bayer filters. Most bright nebula/galaxies are common targets to amateur astrophotographers as well, so it's pretty easy to find images of many of these objects photographed using default DSLR's Bayer filters. So if you really care, you can search for comparison images.

>>2814646

>In real life, most everything is varying shades of white.

Kinda, not really.

When you look through an amateur grade telescope, it's very rare to see any colour in most astronomical objects. You can maybe get a tiny bit of blueish green out of the M42 with a large Dob, but even that's a bit weak. But that's not because those objects don't have any inherent colour, it's just because they're *faint*. The rods in our eyes (which are sensitive to brightness) are much more sensitive than our cones (which are sensitive to colour), so faint objects look much more monochromatic. There's just not enough light to activate the cones. Take distinctly red, green and blue LEDs, put them in a totally dark and infinitely sized room room, but move them so far away that they're *very* faint (inverse square law), and they'll also appear as a washed out grey colour. That doesn't mean they're any less red, green, or blue, it just means our eyes have a hard time dealing with the colour of faint sources.

Cameras don't really have to deal with this same limitation - you can just expose for longer in order to collect more light.

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I downloaded the entire Nasa hubble space telescope archive. if you need more i will supply.

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my fav

>>2816826
Not him, but it seems you're just, in many words, agreeing with what he said

>>2814646
Don't feel sad anon. Just because nebula aren't something you can see yourself flying through as with a cloud doesn't make them any less beautiful

I think i remember in astrophotos they tell you what filters they used. Like I think a silicon emission is used for yellow or some such? I'm just grasping at memories though.

>>2817419
>Not him, but it seems you're just, in many words, agreeing with what he said

In some ways, perhaps, but in many ways, no. The problem is that a lot of what they said was overly simplified (with a few bits being flat-out wrong) or based on misunderstandings. Most of these points require a bit more clarification in order to ensure that people are properly informed about what he's *actually* talking about. For example, the "astronomical images are captured in black and white" stuff always raises a red flag to me, because it implies that the person doesn't understand how any digital colour photography works. The fact that these pretty colour astrophotographs are generated in fundamentally the same way as your cellphone camera's image usually comes as a surprise to most people.

I want to be careful in the distinction between "real" and "fake" when talking about these things. Like I said in >>2816823, the impression a lot of people get from these simplistic "the colours aren't real" statements is that the images are just arbitrarily painted over for (mostly) aesthetic purposes. I've seen quite a lot of people even take it further to suggest that these kinds of images are entirely artist renditions. Neither of these are true for these kinds of images. The colour data displayed in these images is absolutely real, it's just not on a 1:1 mapping with the filters in our eye's cone cells.

It doesn't help that the technical term "false colour" also implies "fake". (The technical term "true colour" has a similar but opposite issue.

>>2817419
>Not him, but it seems you're just, in many words, agreeing with what he said

As for the "everything is a shade of white" stuff, the fact remains that most of these objects *do* have a strong inherent colour. It's merely an issue of observers bias - they're far enough away that they appear very faint, and our cone cells aren't as sensitive as our rod cells so they *appear* more monochromatic than they actually are. The same effect occurs to human vision at night - with less light, our vision becomes much more monochromatic. But you wouldn't then argue that the same pretty field of flowers is actually just "shades of white" because, through an observer bias, your colour vision is significantly reduced at night.

This is a cute point about astronomy that is fun to explain to school groups on tours. But the fact that it's "only" an observers bias is important to remember. And importantly, when you suggest that "everything is just a shade of grey", it further reinforces the above misconception about the "fake" colours in all these images. This is why I like to (try) to be clear about this sort of stuff.

These objects *aren't* just shades of grey. Most of the images of nebulae posted here have strong emission lines that peak all throughout the visible spectrum. Some of them (eg. M42) are bright enough that our eyes can start to see some colour through larger amateur scopes. But most importantly, we have developed instruments that we can expose for longer periods of time in order to capture an objective image of these objects under various wavebands. We don't need to rely on our limited, meatbag eyes for these kinds of things.

>>2817455
>>2817460
blah blah blah
this isn't a blog post images

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>>2817574
dude you forgot to post your picture... m'xass

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>>2821136
Sorry
I had very little to contribute. Plus I was just tired of the pedantry and sperging out

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http://www.gestaltreality.com/articles/the-universe-as-god/

>>2822301
And who created god?

>>2822851
Nobody created God. God exists outside of time a way that none of us can understand. But God created us and he loves us.

>>2822857
Leave faggot

>>2822857
I'm not stoned enough for this >>2822851
The US government

Your religious bullshit will never be as satisfying as scientific truth.

>>2822857
>he loves us
god is homosexual?

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>>2823325
In the beginning בְּרֵאשִׁ֖ית be·re·shit 7225 beginning, chief from rosh
God אֱלֹהִ֑ים e·lo·him; 430 God, god pl. of eloah
created בָּרָ֣א ba·ra 1254a to shape, create a prim. root
the heavens הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם ha·sha·ma·yim 8064 heaven, sky from an unused word
and the earth. הָאָֽרֶץ׃ ha·'a·retz. 776 earth, land a prim. root
KJV Lexicon
In the beginning
re'shiyth (ray-sheeth')
the first, in place, time, order or rank (specifically, a firstfruit) -- beginning, chief(-est), first(-fruits, part, time), principal thing.
God
'elohiym (el-o-heem')
angels, exceeding, God (gods)(-dess, -ly), (very) great, judges, mighty.
created
bara' (baw-raw')
(absolutely) to create; (qualified) to cut down (a wood), select, feed (as formative processes) -- choose, create (creator), cut down, dispatch, do, make (fat).
'eth (ayth)
self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely) -- (as such unrepresented in English).
the heaven
shamayim (shaw-mah'-yim)
air, astrologer, heaven(-s).
and
'eth (ayth)
self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely) -- (as such unrepresented in English).
the earth
'erets (eh'-rets)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land) -- common, country, earth, field, ground, land, natins, way, + wilderness, world.

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>>2823325
א לַמְנַצֵּחַ, לְדָוִד:
אָמַר נָבָל בְּלִבּוֹ, אֵין אֱלֹהִים;
הִשְׁחִיתוּ, הִתְעִיבוּ עֲלִילָה-- אֵין עֹשֵׂה-טוֹב.

You're wasting your time with that nonsense

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ד כִּי-אֶרְאֶה שָׁמֶיךָ, מַעֲשֵׂה אֶצְבְּעֹתֶיךָ--
יָרֵחַ וְכוֹכָבִים, אֲשֶׁר כּוֹנָנְתָּה

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another celebrity fag lol

>>2822300
>>2822301
>>2823332
>>2823336
>>2823362

smoke this i

rump

>>2817275

can you post the max res ones? i think i have them all already, preferably anything around the stupid resolution limit (10k x 10k i believe)

>>2823331
only if you're an boy

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>>2806044
This cannot be 1987A. How exactly did they get it to rotate for the camera?

>>2809355
space is a vacuum how can gas exist in it?

this is bullshit

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>>2829003
how can gas exist in space?

...the vacuum of space. although the temperature is low, the pressure is almost 0, and therefore the materials are in a gas state Mars average temperature is about -30C but water boils there in to vapor it's colder in space...I have come across conflicting information. I have read there is no matter at all in space, and also that most of the gas in space is hydrogen and helium.

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sick of looking at low resolution celebrities Stellarium 0.15.1 is out ...is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D

image: Located about 6,000 light-years from Earth, the Heart and Soul nebulae form a vast star-forming complex that makes up part of the Perseus spiral arm of our Milky Way galaxy. The nebula to the right is the Heart, designated IC 1805 and named after its resemblance to a human heart. To the left is the Soul nebula, also known as the Embryo nebula, IC 1848 or W5. The Perseus arm lies further from the center of the Milky Way than the arm that contains our sun. The Heart and Soul nebulae stretch out nearly 580 light-years across, covering a small portion of the diameter of the Milky Way, which is roughly 100,000 light-years across.

>>2829003
Git smart or kys

>>2832448
>kys
why do i have to keep searching abbreviation's

>>2832460
Is it really that hard to figure out?

>>2829050
What is gas if not matter? Git smart indeed.

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>>2791015
>relevent

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>all my nebula pics are like 30MB and way to big for 4chan
>watdo

>>2832460
Because you're daf

>>2835524
HOLY SHIT WHAT NEBULA IS THAT?!

>>2836112
It's art.

>>2832448
Autistic moron

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a widefield view of Stephan’s Quintet (red circle) and NGC7331 + Deer Lick Group (red box)... but not a very impressive image

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Then this image was taken of the Stephan’s Quintet as part of the commissioning process by the Large Monolithic Imager (LMI) on Lowell Observatory... now that's better

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then some bright spark pointed Hubble at it...

Located in the constellation of Pegasus, Stephan’s Quintet is a group of four galaxies whose respective gravities lock them in a cosmic dance with each other that will inevitably lead to their coalescence. The fifth and brightest member of the group, NGC 7320, is in fact just 40 million light years away but viewed from Earth appears to be spatially associated with the aforementioned group and thus makes up the fifth member of the quintet. Unfortunately my 80 mm telescope only shows a smudge of light from Stephan’s Quintet but it is light that has just arrived here at Fairvale Observatory after making a 300 million year journey, it is literally looking back in time. A more substantial Hubble image shows us exactly what was happening to these galaxies at that moment – it seems probable that they have by now come together but we’ll have to wait another 300 million years to see that.

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spongebob

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>>2839579
better perspective

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>>2835524
well not directed at you personally but using your question as an example...

(large image files and resizing) so you can't post on 4chan, it's a Delmer normally resolved by step1 open image with Microsoft paint, say you've download this image at...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/Stephan's_Quintet_Hubble_2009.full_denoise.jpg

when download it's file size = 32.6 MB, but after you've opened it and saved it with Microsoft Paint it has now become a 12.1 MB image... wtf... it's still To Big to post? even-though this massive picture was reduced by 20.5 MB... so personally I use paintshop same procedure just open image then save hence the 32.6 MB image reduced to 5.74 MB, a postable one... fit for any good website, but remember being informative about your image/post adds 1000's of pixels more >>2839583

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the nearby galaxy Centaurus A'
Cen A' is about 12 million light years away and has roughly the same mass as our Milky Way, containing a few hundred billion stars. The underlying glow of those stars is what makes that round background fuzz in the image, and takes on the familiar elliptical shape of many such galaxies...
Note: All the individual stars you see here are in our on galaxy, since we’re inside the Milky Way looking out to Cen A'. Also, the little circles next to bright stars are reflections inside the camera itself, and aren't real.

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...when you observe Cen A' using a radio telescope it gets weirder... two huge jets of material are being shot out of the core. The image here shows those jets... Cen A' is a very strong emitter of radio waves... in fact that’s why it’s called Centaurus A' being the brightest radio source in the constellation of Centaurus.

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this image It shows the spectacular barred spiral galaxy NGC 6872 that is shaped like an "integral sign" and to~date the Largest-Known Spiral Galaxy it's about 5 times the size of our home galaxy the Milky Way, It is accompanied by a smaller, interacting galaxy, IC 4970 (just above the center). the bright object to the lower right of the galaxies is a star overlapping from our own Milky Way...

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>>2791015
The most amazing space nebula's...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY4uOZrzv0s

image: Flaming Star Nebula

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Part of the supernova remnant SN 1006 seen with the NASA and ESA Hubble

>>2823325
>Your religious bullshit will never be as satisfying as scientific truth.
Like, for example, that black people have a low average IQ, and that virtually all scientific, cultural etc progress was due to white and Jewish people.
Hitler's eugenics, too, is merely science - the logical conclusion of Dawrinism. Who cares for a God that offers universal love, hope and dignity to all people, and who is the source of universal human rights? Human rights aren't science. Dignity is no science. Humans should be replaced with robots and AI, they are more efficient. Science! There is also no scientific argument against torture, colonialsm, or slavery.

>>2822867
But Islam is great and you have to vote for pro-Islam parties.

>>2823331
Trump loves gays and he isn't a homo. If he were a homo, no-one would have a right to criticize him.

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just a disclaimer...

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...

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...Nixon you old dog, you still probably phoned the wife's daily in the middle of the night

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This image also shows a group of thick clouds of dust known as the Thackeray globules silhouetted against the pale pink glowing gas of the nebula. These globules are under fierce bombardment from the ultraviolet radiation from nearby hot young stars. They are both being eroded away and also fragmenting, rather like lumps of butter dropped onto a hot frying pan

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The oddly shaped Pencil Nebula (NGC 2736) is a small part of a huge remnant left over after a supernova explosion that took place about 11 000 years ago.

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Cat’s Paw Nebula (also known as NGC 6334) lies in the constellation of Scorpius (The Scorpion). Although it appears close to the centre of the Milky Way on the sky, it is relatively near to Earth, at a distance of about 5500 light-years. It is about 50 light-years across and is one of the most active star formation regions in our galaxy, containing massive, young brilliant blue stars, which have formed in the last few million years. It is host to possibly tens of thousands of stars in total

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I’ve never seen a full-on aurora, but some day I will. I hope it’s as pretty as this one was...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a8N8XJS-0c

>>2846414
Dam thats a cool picture, where you got it from?

>>2849563
NASA archives

>>2804260
Yes. Unfortunately they've moved around since that pic was snapped, and look rather "mushy" now.

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B1509-58: A Young Pulsar Shows its Hand

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>>2851084
Are you sure? I'm fairly certain that was taken in 2014. Posting the 1995 original for comparison.

>>2814931
Is each of those dots a star in that galaxy, or are some of them from other background objects?

>>2854557
The individual stars are too small to see. We see groupings and broad light sources, gases and dust reflecting light.
Any image with a cross is in our galaxy (this is caused by telescope secondary mirror mountings) and anything else is far far away or absurdly far far away

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>>2854535
This guy's >>2851084 talking nonsense.

New image was 20th anniversary (2015) and better imaging, etc shows it as being in perfectly good shape... have a proper hi res

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kind donation from new poster >>2857149

>>2846406
>>2846409
Badass. Thank you for this.

>>2823325
Because both CLEARLY can't exist.
Yknow, a higher power could NEVER instate 'rules' we call laws of nature or scientific facts.
Nope, never.

>>2857311
This reminds me of Carnage.

>>2793979
Why is this shopped. look into the picture, it's like a battle between two people.

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>>2859500
Posting a pic of what I'm talking about

>>2859500
>>2859516
Google "Pareidolia"

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>>2794063

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>>2859520
>Pareidolia
Its pretty obvious to me

>>2859525
Most examples of pareidolia are obvious to the person who spots them.

>>2846406
>>2846409
Well, Damn.

>>2839576
>>2839579
>>2839583
ultimate cliffhanger, I would love to see what this collision looks like..

>>2814560

get this bacon-hater the fcuk outta here

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>>2862349
Stephan's Quintet is one of 100 other compact galaxy groups which was catalogued by Paul Hickson in 1982. So if you want to get an idea for what it might look like once some of those galaxies have properly collided, a good start would be to take a look at images of some of the other Hickson compact groups.

Pic related is Hickson Compact Group 31 (HCG31). Obviously the two (possibly three, hard to tell from an image alone!) galaxies are looking like a bit of a mess following collision. You can also see a stream of new hot blue stars through the middle of the image - it's really common to see bursts of star formation like this during galaxy collisions, as you get big collisions of gas/dust clouds within the galaxies, which compress and collapse into nice star forming regions.