Striking how it’s almost indistinguishable from the deep sea.
zaceggs on
Did they take a picture of my attic?
Hspryd on
Crazy to think what that black really is.
Demartus on
It’s so…exotic and also mundane. Like I can imagine what it feels like, yet know what/where/how far away it is.
al-Assas on
It looks like a pile of dirt.
DeliciousPumpkinPie on
Really makes it clear why they refer to these types of asteroids as “rubble piles.”
bladefinor on
I can’t see what scale we are looking at?
Trilife on
What an astreod, what a distance, YOU!
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KryptonCalm on
Bold claim. Could easily be the insulation on your roof.
corsica1990 on
It is *still* so weird to me how dusty/poofy a lot of asteroids are. There’s dirt in them thar orbits!
SpiritualScumlord on
Rock and Stone!!!!!!!!!!!!!
IapetusApoapis342 on
What asteroid is it and what was the image taken by?
Mr_Shizer on
That’s a hell of a rendering distance.
HarambeWest2020 on
Look at the way it is! This is clear evidence of intelligent design!!
ResidentSheeper on
You sure? Looks like it might just be some construction site.
crookba on
why isn’t it worn smoother because of travelling thru space?
Armagedunn-1 on
As suspected… it WAS a rock! Can’t to find out what’s in it, saw Mark Kelly talking about sugars in a recent interview.
1_Yui on
Imagine being a pebble on that asteroid, holding on for dear life because if you ever get detached you’ll probably be alone for a very, very long time
NoDoOversInLife on
WHO stood ON the asteroid to take the photo🧐🤔
xParesh on
Crazy to also think if we ever managed to take a photo from a planet outside the solar system, it’s probably going to look pretty much exactly like this one too
JuliaX1984 on
What would the location data say?
DryAfternoon7779 on
That looks like the blown in insulation in my attic
MittFel on
This close, they always look like landscape. But nope, you’re looking at balls.
TurtleFisher54 on
This is just a reminder that the most interesting place in the universe is most likely right where we are
jrgeek on
Time to play where’s Waldo.
MisterCookEMann on
Looks like an old pile of cat vomit…
Easy_Lengthiness7179 on
Looks like the insulation in my attic
ignatius_reilly0 on
Fake. Can’t see stars. /s
lobabobloblaw on
I think I see a cigarette butt
Glass_Covict on
Must’ve been a big ass-teroid
MetallicBaka on
It really, really needs a bar.
lokethedog on
Looking forward to the psyche probe arrival. It will probably also look like just a rubble pile, but you never know. Could have a bit of variation on its surface.
huxtiblejones on
I’ve written about this image before but it gives me such an intense feeling of wonder crossed with dread.
This lifeless clump of rocky material flung from some distant region of space, floating interminably around for millions or billions of years… it’s an object, but it’s also a place. A place of total silence and desolation, and countless such examples litter the cosmos. They’re in our solar system, in our galaxy, beyond our galaxy. Quintillions of little islands of lifeless nothingness bobbing around in a black ocean so vast that we’re elementary particles by comparison.
Sometimes I can almost hold all of these thoughts at once in my mind and I feel overwhelmed. It’s like I get this millisecond where I can feel the totality of everything in existence, the reality of it all existing out there as real as this moment, and it overwhelms me, makes me feel stuck, tiny, confused, dismayed, stunned, in awe.
We’re microorganisms clinging to a tiny piece of debris that’s floating in the interstitial voids of our galaxy, which is itself just another grain of sand. It’s incomprehensible, like truly something I feel the human mind didn’t evolve a capacity to grasp, and yet we know it to be a fact.
Ellers12 on
Is it a black and white pic or is the asteroid just not very colourful
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Striking how it’s almost indistinguishable from the deep sea.
Did they take a picture of my attic?
Crazy to think what that black really is.
It’s so…exotic and also mundane. Like I can imagine what it feels like, yet know what/where/how far away it is.
It looks like a pile of dirt.
Really makes it clear why they refer to these types of asteroids as “rubble piles.”
I can’t see what scale we are looking at?
What an astreod, what a distance, YOU!
/////
Bold claim. Could easily be the insulation on your roof.
It is *still* so weird to me how dusty/poofy a lot of asteroids are. There’s dirt in them thar orbits!
Rock and Stone!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What asteroid is it and what was the image taken by?
That’s a hell of a rendering distance.
Look at the way it is! This is clear evidence of intelligent design!!
You sure? Looks like it might just be some construction site.
why isn’t it worn smoother because of travelling thru space?
As suspected… it WAS a rock! Can’t to find out what’s in it, saw Mark Kelly talking about sugars in a recent interview.
Imagine being a pebble on that asteroid, holding on for dear life because if you ever get detached you’ll probably be alone for a very, very long time
WHO stood ON the asteroid to take the photo🧐🤔
Crazy to also think if we ever managed to take a photo from a planet outside the solar system, it’s probably going to look pretty much exactly like this one too
What would the location data say?
That looks like the blown in insulation in my attic
This close, they always look like landscape. But nope, you’re looking at balls.
This is just a reminder that the most interesting place in the universe is most likely right where we are
Time to play where’s Waldo.
Looks like an old pile of cat vomit…
Looks like the insulation in my attic
Fake. Can’t see stars. /s
I think I see a cigarette butt
Must’ve been a big ass-teroid
It really, really needs a bar.
Looking forward to the psyche probe arrival. It will probably also look like just a rubble pile, but you never know. Could have a bit of variation on its surface.
I’ve written about this image before but it gives me such an intense feeling of wonder crossed with dread.
This lifeless clump of rocky material flung from some distant region of space, floating interminably around for millions or billions of years… it’s an object, but it’s also a place. A place of total silence and desolation, and countless such examples litter the cosmos. They’re in our solar system, in our galaxy, beyond our galaxy. Quintillions of little islands of lifeless nothingness bobbing around in a black ocean so vast that we’re elementary particles by comparison.
Sometimes I can almost hold all of these thoughts at once in my mind and I feel overwhelmed. It’s like I get this millisecond where I can feel the totality of everything in existence, the reality of it all existing out there as real as this moment, and it overwhelms me, makes me feel stuck, tiny, confused, dismayed, stunned, in awe.
We’re microorganisms clinging to a tiny piece of debris that’s floating in the interstitial voids of our galaxy, which is itself just another grain of sand. It’s incomprehensible, like truly something I feel the human mind didn’t evolve a capacity to grasp, and yet we know it to be a fact.
Is it a black and white pic or is the asteroid just not very colourful