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[dartel]

What really blows my mind, is that some, perhaps most of the stars we see are not stars, but galaxies. Filled with billions of stars.

Like this picture.

You know the old Hubble Deep Field photo from 1995 that contains over 3,000 galaxies? You know how large an area of the night sky that image represents? Hold a dime at arm's length and look at Roosevelt's eye. That's the size of the area of sky seen in that image, which prior to that image was believed to be empty.

 

[humananimal]

Because you can’t look directly at the sun, giving a big glare around, it seems bigger.
Hold an object with a 5 mm hole (1/5 inch) out at arm's length and you can see all the sun through it. But from this ‘little’ dot, 150 mill. kilometer (93 mill. miles) away, the earth receive about 1000 W/m2 (about 92 W / square feet).

 

[Knottyme78884]

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Great image.

 

[humananimal]

Rodeo Girl. By Banksy, from a festival in 2008

 

[humananimal]

Fat Girl Hilda by Duane Bryers

 

[Barrry]

It's a star cluster.

I know, thanks. Hence the question where, not what.

 

[Valkiria]

You know the old Hubble Deep Field photo from 1995 that contains over 3,000 galaxies? You know how large an area of the night sky that image represents? Hold a dime at arm's length and look at Roosevelt's eye. That's the size of the area of sky seen in that image, which prior to that image was believed to be empty.

There are roughly more than 100 billion of galaxies in the observable universe, each one containing hundreds of billions to trillions of stars.

 

[goosehonkgoosegoose]

Random tumblr post that made me laugh

 

[knotazoo]

 

[k9b34stuk]

Don't mess with British ducks

 

[wishboner]

 

[Valkiria]

 

[Oldman]

And the selfie of the decade award goes to: this person.

 

[Calydon]