Official Space is Awesome Thread

[Qqq123xx]

Pluto is no longer a Planet. Space is not awesome.

[driverwedge]

[url="http://phys.org/news/2015-02-big-quantum-equation-universe.html"]http://phys.org/news/2015-02-big-quantum-equation-universe.html[/url]

Please pass the Advil.

[NV825]

[quote name='driverwedge' timestamp='1423604486' post='10926991']
[url="http://phys.org/news/2015-02-big-quantum-equation-universe.html"]http://phys.org/news...n-universe.html[/url]

Please pass the Advil.
[/quote]

I can't imagine the thought process to formulate these type of theories.

[RJRJRJ]

[quote name='NV825' timestamp='1423605323' post='10927095']
[quote name='driverwedge' timestamp='1423604486' post='10926991']
[url="http://phys.org/news/2015-02-big-quantum-equation-universe.html"]http://phys.org/news...n-universe.html[/url]

Please pass the Advil.
[/quote]

I can't imagine the thought process to formulate these type of theories.
[/quote]

Whats funny is that a long, long time from now, people will probably look back at us like we look at the "the Earth is flat" people.

[bscinstnct]

[quote name='driverwedge' timestamp='1423604486' post='10926991']
[url="http://phys.org/news/2015-02-big-quantum-equation-universe.html"]http://phys.org/news/2015-02-big-quantum-equation-universe.html[/url]

Please pass the Advil.
[/quote]

"In physical terms, the model describes the universe as being filled with a quantum fluid. The scientists propose that this fluid might be composed of gravitons—hypothetical massless particles that mediate the force of gravity. If they exist, gravitons are thought to play a key role in a theory of quantum gravity."

^

*Gravitons-hypothetical massless particles*

Seriously, guys?

[driverwedge]

Right? Stupid gravitons.

[bscinstnct]

[b] Alien Star Missed Us by Less Than a Light-Year, Scientists Say[/b]



http://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/alien-star-missed-us-less-light-year-scientists-say-n307996

[NV825]

[b] Found: Early Black Hole 12 Billion Times More Massive Than Our Sun[/b]

Deep within the early universe, there lies a gigantic black hole in the midst of an extremely luminous disc. This space-time warp is so gigantic, it’s estimated to be 12 billion times more massive than our own Sun. That makes it one of the most massive deep-space black holes ever recorded.

rest of the story: [url="http://www.popsci.com/found-supermassive-black-hole-12-billion-times-more-massive-our-sun?dom=fb&src=SOC"]http://www.popsci.com/found-supermassive-black-hole-12-billion-times-more-massive-our-sun?dom=fb&src=SOC[/url]

[drpino]

New selfie from Mars:

 

http://www.nasa.gov/jpl/msl/pia19142/#.VO32ffnF98E

 

 

http://mashable.com/2015/02/25/strange-lights-dwarf-planet-ceres/

 

 

Dwarf planet Ceres continues to puzzle scientists as NASA's Dawn spacecraft gets closer to being captured into orbit around the object. The latest images from Dawn, taken nearly 29,000 miles (46,000 kilometers) from Ceres, reveal that a bright spot that stands out in previous images lies close to yet another bright area.

[hogans71]

This thread is awesome...

[bscinstnct]

[quote name='NV825' timestamp='1424973411' post='11033299']
[b] Found: Early Black Hole 12 Billion Times More Massive Than Our Sun[/b]

Deep within the early universe, there lies a gigantic black hole in the midst of an extremely luminous disc. This space-time warp is so gigantic, it’s estimated to be 12 billion times more massive than our own Sun. That makes it one of the most massive deep-space black holes ever recorded.

rest of the story: [url="http://www.popsci.com/found-supermassive-black-hole-12-billion-times-more-massive-our-sun?dom=fb&src=SOC"]http://www.popsci.com/found-supermassive-black-hole-12-billion-times-more-massive-our-sun?dom=fb&src=SOC[/url]
[/quote]

Saw that.

Anybody good at math?

Id like to know

If

Our sun=tennis ball

How big is this thing?

Like the size of Texas? Bigger?

[driverwedge]

[quote name='bscinstnct' timestamp='1424999300' post='11036317']
[quote name='NV825' timestamp='1424973411' post='11033299']
[b] Found: Early Black Hole 12 Billion Times More Massive Than Our Sun[/b]

Deep within the early universe, there lies a gigantic black hole in the midst of an extremely luminous disc. This space-time warp is so gigantic, it's estimated to be 12 billion times more massive than our own Sun. That makes it one of the most massive deep-space black holes ever recorded.

rest of the story: [url="http://www.popsci.com/found-supermassive-black-hole-12-billion-times-more-massive-our-sun?dom=fb&src=SOC"]http://www.popsci.co...?dom=fb&src=SOC[/url]
[/quote]

Saw that.

Anybody good at math?

Id like to know

If

Our sun=tennis ball

How big is this thing?

Like the size of Texas? Bigger?
[/quote]

That's a big Twinkie.

[NV825]

[quote name='bscinstnct' timestamp='1424999300' post='11036317']
[quote name='NV825' timestamp='1424973411' post='11033299']
[b] Found: Early Black Hole 12 Billion Times More Massive Than Our Sun[/b]

Deep within the early universe, there lies a gigantic black hole in the midst of an extremely luminous disc. This space-time warp is so gigantic, it's estimated to be 12 billion times more massive than our own Sun. That makes it one of the most massive deep-space black holes ever recorded.

rest of the story: [url="http://www.popsci.com/found-supermassive-black-hole-12-billion-times-more-massive-our-sun?dom=fb&src=SOC"]http://www.popsci.co...?dom=fb&src=SOC[/url]
[/quote]

Saw that.

Anybody good at math?

Id like to know

If

Our sun=tennis ball

How big is this thing?

Like the size of Texas? Bigger?
[/quote]

According to this [url="http://www.usta.com/2011_tennis_ball_specifications/"]link[/url], a standard tennis ball is 59.4 grams. If we multiply that by 12 billion, then this thing has a total mass of 712,800,000,000 grams (or 712,800,000 kg).

[drpino]

According to a quick google search, the mass of the sun is 1.9891 × 10[sup]30[/sup] kilograms. Multiply that by 12 billion and you get the actual mass of this black hole. Basically, this thing is incomprehensibly massive!

[drpino]

And on a sad note, someone who many of us associate with the concept of space has passed. RIP Leonard Nimoy!

[url="http://www.openculture.com/2013/01/leonard_nimoy_narrates_short_film_about_nasas_dawn_a_voyage_to_the_origins_of_the_solar_system.html"]http://www.opencultu...lar_system.html[/url]

[media]http://youtu.be/jp68E6tBetY[/media]

[bscinstnct]

[quote name='NV825' timestamp='1425056052' post='11040607']
[quote name='bscinstnct' timestamp='1424999300' post='11036317']
[quote name='NV825' timestamp='1424973411' post='11033299']
[b] Found: Early Black Hole 12 Billion Times More Massive Than Our Sun[/b]

Deep within the early universe, there lies a gigantic black hole in the midst of an extremely luminous disc. This space-time warp is so gigantic, it's estimated to be 12 billion times more massive than our own Sun. That makes it one of the most massive deep-space black holes ever recorded.

rest of the story: [url="http://www.popsci.com/found-supermassive-black-hole-12-billion-times-more-massive-our-sun?dom=fb&src=SOC"]http://www.popsci.co...?dom=fb&src=SOC[/url]
[/quote]

Saw that.

Anybody good at math?

Id like to know

If

Our sun=tennis ball

How big is this thing?

Like the size of Texas? Bigger?
[/quote]

According to this [url="http://www.usta.com/2011_tennis_ball_specifications/"]link[/url], a standard tennis ball is 59.4 grams. If we multiply that by 12 billion, then this thing has a total mass of 712,800,000,000 grams (or 712,800,000 kg).
[/quote]

Well, the empire state building weighs 350,000 tons which I think is 700,000,000 lbs and a pound is around 1/2 kilo or something so there you go.

[Sonny217]

[b][size=6]STAND BY FOR MAXIMUM MIND-BLOWIFICATION!!![/size][/b]


[size=4]My fellow space nerds, I humbly present for your consideration, the Hubble eXtreme Deep Field image (XDF)[/size]

[attachment=2638955:Hubble_Extreme_Deep_Field.png]

Why this image is mind blowing:

With the exception of a few stars (3 or 4 from what i can see) every speck of light in this image is an entire galaxy.

There are about 5,500 galaxies in this image

Each galaxy contains hundreds of billions of stars (at least)

The faintest galaxies in the image are one ten-billionth the brightness a human eye can see

The total area contained in this image is less than one thirteen-millionth of the total area of the sky!!!!!

[attachment=2638995:XDF-scale.jpg]


[url="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/xdf.html"]http://www.nasa.gov/...cience/xdf.html[/url]

[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_eXtreme_Deep_Field"]http://en.wikipedia....reme_Deep_Field[/url]

[attachment=2638997:844.jpg]

[hogans71]

[quote name='Sonny217' timestamp='1425080886' post='11043627']
[b][size=6]STAND BY FOR MAXIMUM MIND-BLOWIFICATION!!![/size][/b]


[size=4]My fellow space nerds, I humbly present for your consideration, the Hubble eXtreme Deep Field image (XDF)[/size]

[attachment=2638955:Hubble_Extreme_Deep_Field.png]

Why this image is mind blowing:

With the exception of a few stars (3 or 4 from what i can see) every speck of light in this image is an entire galaxy.

There are about 5,500 galaxies in this image

Each galaxy contains hundreds of billions of stars (at least)

The faintest galaxies in the image are one ten-billionth the brightness a human eye can see

The total area contained in this image is less than one thirteen-millionth of the total area of the sky!!!!!

[attachment=2638995:XDF-scale.jpg]


[url="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/xdf.html"]http://www.nasa.gov/...cience/xdf.html[/url]

[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_eXtreme_Deep_Field"]http://en.wikipedia....reme_Deep_Field[/url]

[attachment=2638997:844.jpg]
[/quote]

Stop man, you're freakin' me out!

[NV825]

I used to have that as my desktop background for the longest time. The beauty of all those galaxies is mind blowing.

[driverwedge]

Feeling smaller now.

[url="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/milky-way-may-be-50-percent-bigger-than-previously-thought/"]http://www.cbsnews.com/news/milky-way-may-be-50-percent-bigger-than-previously-thought/[/url]

[bscinstnct]

"We can't journey to the centre of the Earth, but that hasn't stopped us finding out what is down there"

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150814-what-is-at-the-centre-of-earth

"What's down below all that is shrouded in mystery. It seems unfathomable. And yet, we know a surprising amount about the core. We even have some idea about how it formed billions of years ago – all without a single physical sample. This is how the core was revealed."

[driverwedge]

[quote name='bscinstnct' timestamp='1439777225' post='12151778']
"We can't journey to the centre of the Earth, but that hasn't stopped us finding out what is down there"

[url="http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150814-what-is-at-the-centre-of-earth"]http://www.bbc.com/e...centre-of-earth[/url]

"What's down below all that is shrouded in mystery. It seems unfathomable. And yet, we know a surprising amount about the core. We even have some idea about how it formed billions of years ago – all without a single physical sample. This is how the core was revealed."
[/quote]

Nice. More about the Bore-Hole-
[url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz6v6OfoQvs"]https://www.youtube....h?v=zz6v6OfoQvs[/url]

Edit:
Fun stuff about space to kill a ton of time-
https://www.youtube.com/user/scishowspace

[Gamble Gamble]

[quote name='Sonny217' timestamp='1425080886' post='11043627'][b][size=6]STAND BY FOR MAXIMUM MIND-BLOWIFICATION!!![/size][/b]


[size=4]My fellow space nerds, I humbly present for your consideration, the Hubble eXtreme Deep Field image (XDF)[/size]

[attachment=2638955:Hubble_Extreme_Deep_Field.png]

Why this image is mind blowing:

With the exception of a few stars (3 or 4 from what i can see) every speck of light in this image is an entire galaxy.

There are about 5,500 galaxies in this image

Each galaxy contains hundreds of billions of stars (at least)

The faintest galaxies in the image are one ten-billionth the brightness a human eye can see

The total area contained in this image is less than one thirteen-millionth of the total area of the sky!!!!!

[attachment=2638995:XDF-scale.jpg]


[url="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/xdf.html"]http://www.nasa.gov/...cience/xdf.html[/url]

[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_eXtreme_Deep_Field"]http://en.wikipedia....reme_Deep_Field[/url]

[attachment=2638997:844.jpg][/quote]

After seeing that picture it kind of makes you wonder how primitive we are, fighting for minuscule fractions of a single planet rather than using our collective minds to get even one inch closer to those far off worlds.

[NV825]

[quote name='Gamble Gamble' timestamp='1440740083' post='12222660']
[quote name='Sonny217' timestamp='1425080886' post='11043627'][b][size=6]STAND BY FOR MAXIMUM MIND-BLOWIFICATION!!![/size][/b]


[size=4]My fellow space nerds, I humbly present for your consideration, the Hubble eXtreme Deep Field image (XDF)[/size]

[attachment=2638955:Hubble_Extreme_Deep_Field.png]

Why this image is mind blowing:

With the exception of a few stars (3 or 4 from what i can see) every speck of light in this image is an entire galaxy.

There are about 5,500 galaxies in this image

Each galaxy contains hundreds of billions of stars (at least)

The faintest galaxies in the image are one ten-billionth the brightness a human eye can see

The total area contained in this image is less than one thirteen-millionth of the total area of the sky!!!!!

[attachment=2638995:XDF-scale.jpg]


[url="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/xdf.html"]http://www.nasa.gov/...cience/xdf.html[/url]

[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_eXtreme_Deep_Field"]http://en.wikipedia....reme_Deep_Field[/url]

[attachment=2638997:844.jpg][/quote]

After seeing that picture it kind of makes you wonder how primitive we are, fighting for minuscule fractions of a single planet rather than using our collective minds to get even one inch closer to those far off worlds.
[/quote]

We may be a centimeter closer

[url="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/space/11769030/Impossible-rocket-drive-works-and-could-get-to-Moon-in-four-hours.html"]To the moon in four hours (Telegraph UK article)[/url]

[360_CS]

Anyone seen this. Pretty mind blowing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgNDao7m41M

[Argonne69]

[quote name='Qqq123xx' timestamp='1423277735' post='10903365']
Pluto is no longer a Planet. Space is not awesome.
[/quote]

Mary's Violet Eyes Made John Sit Up Nights...what? What did John do sitting up nights? The tension is killing me!

[Argonne69]

Imagine Edwin Hubble looking at his data in 1929, scratching his head. It just don't make no sense. These "stars" are millions of light years away. Wait a minute. That's no star!

At that moment the universe "grew" from thousands of light years in size to [b]billions [/b]of light years in size. Those fuzzy clouds were in fact galaxies, each containing [b]billions [/b]of stars each.

I bet he took an aspirin, and had a stiff drink. Wow.

[Argonne69]

As amazing as space is, my mind gets blown thinking about the scale of the subatomic world. If the nucleus of an atom was the size of a tennis ball, the nearest electron would be ~1.2 miles away!

Neutron stars are so densely packed that their atoms have been crushed to the point that the electrons get pushed into the nucleus, where they pair with protons to form neutrons. A neutron star that weighs twice the sun's weight is smashed into a sphere 14 miles wide!

[i*windows]

I work here http://www.eso.org, and space is what we do

[Halebopp]

While not exactly space, I thought this might be a suitable thread for this one as it is awesome. :D Pictures are not mine, they were published here (don't peek before figuring this one out :D ): http://www.taivaanva...ions/show/47474 It's in Finnish so you won't understand it but one should always post the source.

 

So what is this (the answer is in the spoiler)? Aurora Borealis?

 

 

Can you guess what it is? The answer is below.

 

 

Look at this:

 

 

It's the map of a town called Eura here in Finland. The snow on the ground reflects the street lights back into the sky where ice particles reflect the light back once more. The light pillars are quite a common phenomenon but the map is a bit special. How cool is that? :)