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Katie Mack@astrokatie.com |
Please join me in appreciating this galaxy, which, while technically unremarkable and randomly selected from a database of tens of thousands, is an unimaginably vast and distant structure with its own unique and breathtaking beauty
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Oden
@odense.bsky.social
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It is amazing that some hundred millions of stars and planets and possibly the most friendly, attractive, and funny aliens with utopian civilizations (or the exact opposite) that we’ll never meet exist in what to us can fit inside a pinprick in a piece of paper held up to the night sky.
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@stephenpburke.bsky.social
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It's a cool account, and the loopback time has blown my completely insignificant mind.
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John Sandy
@shand.bsky.social
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So I guess we’re looking at something from a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away… WAIT A MINUTE!
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True Tourtillott
@truet.bsky.social
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Pretty
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HL_fan
@bigshot1997.bsky.social
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i wonder what it looks like now instead of 114m years ago
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Simply Ed
@gojira65.bsky.social
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All spiral galaxies are remarkable to me. So fucking beautiful.
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Bothered Boy 🚩🏴Back on my Bullshit
@botheredboy.bsky.social
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Out of curiosity, why do galaxies have "bars?" How are those maintained?
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Hawaiian-ish Kelly🌺
@hawaiian-ishkelly.bsky.social
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😮
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Wright-o
@chazrunner.bsky.social
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Just the idea that a bunch of random junk falls together and is able to reflect on the universe is why I breathe. Multitudes of stars mean nothing without a witness
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Malcolm RF 💚🇳🇿
@p-no-nwa.bsky.social
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Happily.
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Thad Szabo
@astrothad.bsky.social
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It looks like a pretty decent Milky Way analog. And since Apache Point likely means this is from SDSS, the total database exceeds 200,000,000 galaxies. Basic data for all of them with good photometry are sitting on a hard drive on my desk.
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Gov
@govindmohan.com
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Is our galaxy "technically unremarkable and randomly selected from a database of tens of thousands"? I guess not because it has us?
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Alice Sheppard
@penguingalaxy.bsky.social
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Pretty sure I saw that one on the zoo a lot and I just love it. Such a gorgeous structure, as if you could turn it.
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@agtmadcat.bsky.social
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Gorgeous! Just think of the civilizations that might be creeping out along those gorgeous spiral arms, unsure but hopeful that they might someday meet another thinking species.
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John Scalzi
@scalzi.com
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For a second my brain read that as "a bored spiral galaxy"
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Dread Pirate Zed
@dreadpiratezed.bsky.social
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Obligatory:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=buqt...
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James Petruzzi
@hawaiianimages.bsky.social
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Am again reminded how profoundly strange it is we live on a sphere of rock orbiting an ongoing explosion amid billions of others, all floating in nothing at all. The only thing weirder is that no one thinks this is weird. :) It's absolutely wonderful.
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Flyingblueice
@jackhemsworth.bsky.social
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Who knows. Maybe there's a small blue planet on a spiral arm with a telescope on it over there too.
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Jason T. Kocher
@jasontkocher.bsky.social
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I bet it's just crawling with giant spiders.
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southpaw
@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
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I like to imagine there’s a super advanced civilization somewhere over there looking back at us 114 million years ago and thinking to themselves, “hunh, big lizards.”
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Gabrielle
@irmaghad.bsky.social
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Is it naturally that lovely golden colour, or is that human artistry?
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Adam Thornton
@athornton.bsky.social
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So, yeah, I work for Rubin Observatory, and...the sheer number of "collections of dozens-to-hundreds-of-billions-of-stars, most with planetary systems" flabbergasts me every day. My brain is not built to deal with numbers this large.
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John P. Needham
@johnpneedham.bsky.social
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It is mind-boggling to me that what we are seeing in this image, today, happened some 114,000,000 YEARS ago. I mean, local fossils are on thing. But this? Just astonishing. 😲
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Riverdaleboy
@riverdaleboy.bsky.social
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Is there an accepted explanation for bar formation?
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Rev. Jesus “H" Christ, KSC
@reverendjesus.com
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What a fantastic gimmick account; thank you for sharing!
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Brandy Schillace
@bschillace.brandyschillace.com
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Lovely
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Ryan Cavanaugh
@searyanc.dev
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You've talked to more people about this than I have: is crushing existential dread a common reaction to really thinking about the size of the universe? I have awe too but also a lot of dread
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Red Lantern Supergirl Superfan (she/her)
@kaliahshedevil.bsky.social
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it is nearly impossible to wrap one's mind around the enormity of possibility contained within galaxies that we see as barely more than a few bright pixels. When I was a child all we saw were bright dots. Look how much closely we can see! I love where humanity's sight is headed.
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Andy Beaton
@aiabx.bsky.social
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They’re all good galaxies
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andyroz Go Green
@andyroz.bsky.social
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And very decent of it to be at a nice angle for viewing from Earth.
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Diane Duane
@diane.dianeduane.com
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I love the bar. So demure. 😀
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𝕜𝕦𝕣𝕚𝕧𝕒𝕚𝕞
@kuriva.im
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On a very different scale, every leaf or flower petal that's emerging this spring, while technically unremarkable, contains a fantastically beautiful and complex structure
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Coyote
@goldencoyote.bsky.social
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I swear every time I look at photos of other galaxies I want to cry. I want to Go There and I CAN'T and it isn't fair 😭
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Colin Danby
@cdanby.bsky.social
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So we're looking at a supermassive black hole in the middle?
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Jeph Jacques
@ass.golf
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I don’t know what it is about galaxies in particular that hecks me up so bad but, damn,
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Satadru Pramanik
@satmandu.bsky.social
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I saw this the other day and it made me pause. A gorgeous galaxy in the background, unimaginably distant, and yet somehow just out of reach, next to a star in our galaxy, also unimaginably distant.
Sometimes my brain just struggles to comprehend.
arstechnica.com/space/2024/0...
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Deceased Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist
@rigamarock.bsky.social
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spent way too much time trying to map this into “please allow me to introduce myself i’m a man of wealth and taste”
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Katie Mack
@astrokatie.com
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If you follow @allthegalaxies.bsky.social you can appreciate a new galaxy several times each day
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Enough of a Girl
@minarising.bsky.social
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Spiral galaxies make for excellent tattoos. They really do.
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9500
@blueskyuser9500.bsky.social
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I can imagine a more beautiful galaxy.
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⚡Pawmi-Power!⚡
@pawmipower.bsky.social
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Wish I lived there!
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Entery Potivon
@goodguyprime.bsky.social
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I am ceaselessly amazed that immense formations have visible signs of rotation.
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