• Edge of the Milky Way
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Amazing time lapse footage of our galaxy from various locations on our planet. It's mind bogglingly jaw dropping. Some of the ads on the page will be NSFW [URL="http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=10c_1317220703"]http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=10c_1317220703 [/URL]Personally, it's beautiful, but terrifying. If that is what it actually looked like outside at night, I'd be too scared to sleep. The idea of all that out there scares the crap out of me for some reason.
I think its awesome... I mean just imagine how many other planets and galaxies out there are teeming with intelligent life. To me its fantastic, I just pray humanity has enough sense to start getting serious about space exploration.
[IMG]http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/65_years.png[/IMG] The alt text read: [release] The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures who made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into space-- each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision. [/release]
[QUOTE=Ridge;32533599]Personally, it's beautiful, but terrifying. If that is what it actually looked like outside at night, I'd be too scared to sleep. The idea of all that out there scares the crap out of me for some reason.[/QUOTE] That is exactly what it looks like at night, actually, if you go somewhere like a mountain or Arizona. It's a shame we live in a day and age where the average citizen is hidden from the rest of the Universe by light pollution. How are we going to appreciate the stars if you can't even see them?
That's not the edge, that's the core.
How the hell do people do this? I want to do this.
Fucking incredible. I wish i was living away from all the commotion and living somewhere in nature and at night all i saw is that.
Does anyone have that image where the hubble space telescope records light from a tiny space of the night sky? And it shows what it saw and it's full of galaxies
Watching space through the Hubble telescope is like watching atoms through the wrong end of a pair of binoculars.
[QUOTE=Xgen;32535652]Does anyone have that image where the hubble space telescope records light from a tiny space of the night sky? And it shows what it saw and it's full of galaxies[/QUOTE] [IMG]http://www.stsci.edu/jwst/science/images/assembly_of_galaxies.jpg[/IMG] [editline]29th September 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Canuhearmenow;32534129]That is exactly what it looks like at night, actually, if you go somewhere like a mountain or Arizona. It's a shame we live in a day and age where the average citizen is hidden from the rest of the Universe by light pollution. How are we going to appreciate the stars if you can't even see them?[/QUOTE] Yeah, but not quite as bright, due to the long exposure of the film. I don't think space can actually be seen that bright through our atmosphere.
[QUOTE=Ridge;32536688] Yeah, but not quite as bright, due to the long exposure of the film. I don't think space can actually be seen that bright through our atmosphere.[/QUOTE] True, however it can come pretty close. Here's what a picture without long exposure (and some faint light pollution) of the Milky Way looks like. [img]http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4130/5037325064_7a468720f7.jpg[/img]
I've seen the Milky way with my eyes before. It's fantastic.
[QUOTE=Ridge;32536688][IMG]http://www.stsci.edu/jwst/science/images/assembly_of_galaxies.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE] Awesome, thanks. Do you have the image that provides context for this one? Like it says 'the telescope focused on a small seemingly empty part of the night sky, and this is what it saw'. It would help my friends understand what I'm talking about when I show them. If not I guess I could just make one
Here is one that just....indescribable. [url]http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110915.html[/url] [IMG]http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1109/ngc3521_gabany901.jpg[/IMG]
[QUOTE=Canuhearmenow;32534129]That is exactly what it looks like at night, actually, if you go somewhere like a mountain or Arizona. It's a shame we live in a day and age where the average citizen is hidden from the rest of the Universe by light pollution. How are we going to appreciate the stars if you can't even see them?[/QUOTE] I live in AZ, and I can say from experience that it's absolutely amazing to go out into the desert and watch the sky. I've seen sights like this many times, and I'm incredibly glad that I can.
Been camping before, and seen something almost as gorgeous as that, but not quite. If you REALLY want to feel your place in the grand scheme of things, and have a decent smartphone, there's an app that's like Google Earth for space. It uses your GPS and gyroscope in the phone to tell where the phone is pointed, and by looking at the screen and pointing it in ANY direction, the screen will show you EXACTLY where any celestial object is in the sky, directly. Seriously, get it and try it; it's the coolest damn thing I've ever seen on a phone. I'd have never known I could easily see Jupiter from my home in the suburbs, a white dot brighter in the night sky than I EVER would have suspected otherwise. Stargazing doesn't need to only be for people who've memorized the stars.
I love space. Too bad the old men in government care about their own wallet more than actual human progression. [IMG]http://i.somethingawful.com/forumsystem/emoticons/emot-smith.gif[/IMG]
I live close to the city & the atmosphere is very crowded and i barely get to see the outer-worldly atmosphere and the stars. Videos like this really inspire me to go out into the wilderness far away from civilization & gaze into space.
[QUOTE=Ridge;32533599]Personally, it's beautiful, but terrifying. If that is what it actually looked like outside at night, I'd be too scared to sleep. The idea of all that out there scares the crap out of me for some reason.[/QUOTE] I wouldn't be able to sleep, because I wouldn't want to stop looking at it. If I could spend my whole life watching a view like that, I don't think it'd ever get old.
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