Something about galactic gravitational physics is just so fascinating to me.
“Why is all this stuff here? Gotta be something big in the middle holding it together.”
“Correct, but only like, a little bit, the rest of its held by the stuff that’s being held.”
It’s just a buncha big stuff holding progressively longer and longer hands and yet, that’s the biggest (ya know like, visually identifiable) natural structure out there.
EXCUSE_ME_BEARFUCKER on
Holy mother, I’ve never seen this Hubble shot before. Which galaxy is this? It doesn’t look like Andromeda.
Interesting_Okra_902 on
Why does this picture seem to rotate. It’s messing with my head.
CaptainLord on
And there’s 2 000 000 000 of these bad boys around the observable universe.
garrawadreen on
I’m just a complete noob regards cosmology, but to think we were throwing sticks, grunting, not so long ago (same as for some people today 😉) that ‘we’ have now got a camera to take a photo of another galaxy, that would take 160, 000 years to travel to, and compare it to our own, in the full knowledge it’s billions of stars with potential life is astonishing – it always stuns me!
curryandbeans on
What’s the light in the middle? Just the concentration of stars in the middle like you’d expect?
mejhlijj on
Holy shit this is breathtaking. It’s 2 am here and this photo made me realise that it doesn’t freaking make a difference whether I wake up tomorrow or not. My puny brain wasn’t evolved to comprehend the scale of this shit.
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Something about galactic gravitational physics is just so fascinating to me.
“Why is all this stuff here? Gotta be something big in the middle holding it together.”
“Correct, but only like, a little bit, the rest of its held by the stuff that’s being held.”
It’s just a buncha big stuff holding progressively longer and longer hands and yet, that’s the biggest (ya know like, visually identifiable) natural structure out there.
Holy mother, I’ve never seen this Hubble shot before. Which galaxy is this? It doesn’t look like Andromeda.
Why does this picture seem to rotate. It’s messing with my head.
And there’s 2 000 000 000 of these bad boys around the observable universe.
I’m just a complete noob regards cosmology, but to think we were throwing sticks, grunting, not so long ago (same as for some people today 😉) that ‘we’ have now got a camera to take a photo of another galaxy, that would take 160, 000 years to travel to, and compare it to our own, in the full knowledge it’s billions of stars with potential life is astonishing – it always stuns me!
What’s the light in the middle? Just the concentration of stars in the middle like you’d expect?
Holy shit this is breathtaking. It’s 2 am here and this photo made me realise that it doesn’t freaking make a difference whether I wake up tomorrow or not. My puny brain wasn’t evolved to comprehend the scale of this shit.