Earth swimming in a sea of stars amidst the Milky Way
https://imgur.com/gallery/earth-swimming-sea-of-stars-amidst-milky-way-6ST0LoY#GcHAkvO
Earth swimming in a sea of stars amidst the Milky Way
https://imgur.com/gallery/earth-swimming-sea-of-stars-amidst-milky-way-6ST0LoY#GcHAkvO
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As seen by NASA’s Parker Solar Probe
Why am I paying bills? Why are we destroying our planet? Why are we suffering as a society from so many **petty** reasons?
Look at this.
We are a rock floating in space. Living our only life in our only home.
Anyway, this is mesmerizing.
2 things that amaze me every time I see such pictures. only <10 stars are born per year within milky way & the olbers’ paradox. Space is amazing.
I could only imagine endless possibilities looking at space
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe captured this grand prospect of Earth swimming in a sea of stars over the course of ten days in April 2019. Earth is the first bright round spot that shows up before the Milky Way is seen. The Moon was too close to Earth to be resolved. The background star near Earth is Spica. Mercury is seen in transit across the Milky Way core. Venus is the very bright spot at the end. Jupiter is also seen just before Mercury appears while Saturn is in the background. The stripes are caused by solar dust hitting the camera guard. By the time Parker Solar Probe imaged Venus it was traveling at 95km/s (~213,000mph), making it the fastest object ever created by humankind.
https://wispr.nrl.navy.mil/encounter2-summary
*I processed and animated 458 WISPR L3 source data files to provide the highest resolution video of Parker Solar Probe’s encounter possible. The music is 2M1 by Brian Eno.*
*points to random star* there might be life over there
My eyes see a weird curve in the background, as if the universe were round. I guess our observations would have a spherical limit, overall, but also in this sea
Sooo here’s da erf… that is a sweet erf you might say.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
|Fewer Letters|More Letters|
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|[ESA](/r/Space/comments/1qmfmro/stub/o1luzca “Last usage”)|European Space Agency|
|L2|[Lagrange Point](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian_point) 2 ([Sixty Symbols](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxpVbU5FH0s) video explanation)|
| |Paywalled section of the NasaSpaceFlight forum|
|[L3](/r/Space/comments/1qmfmro/stub/o1llehm “Last usage”)|[Lagrange Point](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian_point) 3 of a two-body system, opposite L2|
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