- ryan213 ( @ryan213@lemmy.ca ) English76•1 month ago
#4 Op’s mom
- Avid Amoeba ( @avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ) English16•1 month ago
rip
- Evil_Shrubbery ( @Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee ) English6•1 month ago
The ultimate orbs, and I shall ponder them hard.
- Hupf ( @Hupf@feddit.org ) English3•1 month ago
Would have been, but she didn’t fit in the picture
- observantTrapezium ( @observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca ) English47•1 month ago
Astrophysicist here. Yes, space is crazy, but interesting things to keep in mind:
- The size of a star is determined by something called the photosphere. With those extremely massive stars, you can be hundreds of millions of kilometres “inside” and not yet know it.
- Similar story with supermassive black holes, from the perspective of an astronaut falling in, they wouldn’t really be able to tell when they cross the horizon because the tidal forces there are very small (they will inevitably fall towards the centre and get spaghettified at some point)
- KillingTimeItself ( @KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English10•1 month ago
as a non astrophysicist, or just a non astronomer in general. it weirds me out every time i remember that there is literally a part of the universe that apparently exists, of which we will never be able to see, because the light from that part of the universe, quite literally hasn’t reached us yet.
The observable universe is inconceivably massive. But it just keeps going.
And to think it’s not an improbable concept for humanity to recreate the physics behind a big bang in a controlled setting, somewhere down the line from here, is certainly an interesting thought.
- psud ( @psud@aussie.zone ) English2•1 month ago
the light hasn’t reached is yet
The light will never reach us, space is expanding faster than light between here and there
- KillingTimeItself ( @KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English1•1 month ago
perhaps some day we will figure out how to travel faster to light, and the metaphorical light will be capable of reaching us. Though thats also another really bizarre fact.
- solsangraal ( @solsangraal@lemmy.zip ) English44•1 month ago
what’s crazier: you’d need many side by side monitors to show our solar system at this scale
https://www.joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html
- flora_explora ( @flora_explora@beehaw.org ) English2•1 month ago
Oof, this was wild!
- Björn Tantau ( @bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ) English23•1 month ago
Pondering orbs again, are we?
- Evil_Shrubbery ( @Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee ) English6•1 month ago
What tf do you mean again?? Explain yourself heretic!
- Ton the Supermassive ( @ton618@lemm.ee ) English15•1 month ago
I’m in this picture…and I like it.
- MelodiousFunk ( @MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net ) English10•1 month ago
I knew lemmy was growing but this is far out, man.
- Ton the Supermassive ( @ton618@lemm.ee ) English8•1 month ago
Yes… approximately 18.2 billion light-years out (☞ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)☞
- PhlubbaDubba ( @PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee ) English9•1 month ago
Every time I see these ultramassive black holes all I see is the megastructure uber planet you can build around them, or if organic life has gone out of fashion at that point, the megastructure uber computer.
- umbrella ( @umbrella@lemmy.ml ) English9•1 month ago
i can never comprehend these
You’re nothing and nothing matters and that’s ok. It’s beautiful.
- umbrella ( @umbrella@lemmy.ml ) English8•1 month ago
the scale is absurd for my monkey brain, its impossible for me to “get” it at all.
- Che Banana ( @The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org ) English2•1 month ago
We are stardust, we are golden
We are billion year old carbon
And we got to get ourselves back to the garden
- Evil_Shrubbery ( @Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee ) English4•1 month ago
Yes, and you are very correct.
It’s not really possible with our minds.
Much like with numbers, anything beyond small numbers/points our minds just turn into representative idea (a meme) which we tend to perceive on a logarithmic scale (like how people tend to think a thousand, a million, and a billion are apart by about the same-ih or only a bit differently). Thats even how our biosensory bits work, along with how we interpret/perceive information from them.It’s great for achieving practical stuff, but it’s not real.
- xrtxn ( @xrtxn@lemmy.sdf.org ) English5•1 month ago
I had a stroke trying to understand this
- BeanGoblin ( @BeanGoblin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English17•1 month ago
Big things big. Bigger things VERY big.
- tiramichu ( @tiramichu@lemm.ee ) English15•1 month ago
The problem is the layout.
It needs horizontal dividing lines to show that the bodies are presented in pairs at the same scale.
When you first look at it, it seems like all six are in one picture at the same scale, then you start noticing things appearing twice, and think “hang on that’s not right” and work it out, but just two lines would have solved it immediately.
Design, people! Design!
- DigitalNirvana ( @DigitalNirvana@lemm.ee ) English2•1 month ago
You are, of course, quite correct. And for me today, it was the meme I needed. Dealing with the US medical system, requires perspective.
- underwire212 ( @underwire212@lemm.ee ) English2•1 month ago
Bigger thing even bigger than very big thing
- steal_your_face ( @steal_your_face@lemmy.ml ) English1•1 month ago
I’m stroking right now too
- OsrsNeedsF2P ( @OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml ) English4•1 month ago
- don ( @don@lemm.ee ) English3•1 month ago
Now compare TON 618 with Phoenix A.
- NigelFrobisher ( @NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ) English3•1 month ago
Why doesn’t the big star simply eat the smaller stars?
- psud ( @psud@aussie.zone ) English1•1 month ago
Look up “the great attractor”.
The “big crunch” is the (probably incorrect) hypothesis that there’s enough mass to pull the universe into a single black hole - where everything is eaten by black holes, even all the black holes (nothing to do with the great attractor). The big bang in reverse
- KillingTimeItself ( @KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English2•1 month ago
ok so, this post reminds me, a while ago i archived all of the older Vsauce content, and i binged through the vast majority of it, and i can swear there was a video from him about the scale of the universe, or the scale of things in the universe, but i can’t for the life of me find it.
Either it’s hiding somewhere, or i’m making some shit up and it isn’t real lol.
- dumbass ( @dumbass@leminal.space ) English1•1 month ago
Not Vsauce, but corridor crew did a video like that.
Or maybe its this from the D!NG channel hosted by Vsauce Jake
- MindTraveller ( @MindTraveller@lemmy.ca ) English1•1 month ago
Maybe it was by a different educational YouTuber. I’m thinking Veritasium.
- KillingTimeItself ( @KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English1•1 month ago
that’s possible, but vasuce has a very specific video style, i guess i should probably go watch a couple veritasium videos to be sure lol.
The obvious answer is that it’s actually something related to “the scale of the universe” which is another really cool project, but i don’t think it’s that one either.
- Blastboom Strice ( @BlastboomStrice@mander.xyz ) English2•1 month ago
I was just thinking of such a similar comparison today with a similar way of comparing them! (Earth<
- kureta ( @kureta@lemmy.ml ) English1•1 month ago
I read it as “stepson” and thought it was a low res picture of pizza. I guess I am a bit sleep deprived.
- MonkderVierte ( @MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ) English1•1 month ago
There’s always a bigger, uh, sun.