26 space pictures that will blow your mind. GIH

[Desi_guy]

1. This is the Earth! This is where you live.


2. And this is where you live in your neighborhood, the solar system.


3. Here’s the distance, to scale, between the Earth and the moon. Doesn’t look too far, does it?


4. THINK AGAIN. Inside that distance you can fit every planet in our solar system, nice and neatly.


5. But let’s talk about planets. That little green smudge is North America on Jupiter.


6. And here’s the size of Earth (well, six Earths) compared with Saturn:


7. And just for good measure, here’s what Saturn’s rings would look like if they were around Earth:


8. This right here is a comet. We just landed a probe on one of those bad boys. Here’s what one looks like compared with Los Angeles:

[poopman123]

whoa

only counted 11 pics *******

[Desi_guy]

9. But that’s nothing compared to our sun. Just remember:


10. Here’s you from the moon


11. Here’s you from Mars


12. Here’s you from just behind Saturn’s rings


13. And here’s you from just beyond Neptune, 4 billion miles away.


14. Let’s step back a bit. Here’s the size of Earth compared with the size of our sun. Terrifying, right?


15. And here’s that same sun from the surface of Mars:


16. But that’s nothing. Again, as Carl once mused, there are more stars in space than there are grains of sand on every beach on Earth

[morrison816]

Damn in for more op

[Desi_guy]

17. Which means that there are ones much, much bigger than little wimpy sun. Just look at how tiny and insignificant our sun is:


18. Here’s another look. The biggest star, VY Canis Majoris, is 1,000,000,000 times bigger than our sun


19. But none of those compares to the size of a galaxy. In fact, if you shrank the sun down to the size of a white blood cell and shrunk the Milky Way galaxy down using the same scale, the Milky Way would be the size of the United States:


20. That’s because the Milky Way galaxy is huge. This is where you live inside there:


21. But this is all you ever see:


22. But even our galaxy is a little runt compared with some others. Here’s the Milky Way compared to IC 1011, 350 million light years away from Earth:


23. But let’s think bigger. In JUST this picture taken by the Hubble telescope, there are thousands and thousands of galaxies, each containing millions of stars, each with their own planets


24. Here’s one of the galaxies pictured, UDF 423. This galaxy is 10 BILLION light years away. When you look at this picture, you are looking billions of years into the past.

[Desi_guy]

25. And just keep this in mind — that’s a picture of a very small, small part of the universe. It’s just an insignificant fraction of the night sky.

[fingerbreaker10]

Can confirm mind is officially blown. Reps

[Ayudha]

Wish we had rings....

[Shakes14]

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[danielmoo]

So gyat dayum fascinating.

[OniichanJoe]

think of all the alien species we could smash if we had ftl travel

[TalkinDaHardest]

we have telescopes that can view 10 BILLION light years away?

[JACrawford]

Very scary if you really think about it. Good stuff OP. Size of the the sun compared to the largest known gave me goosebumps.

[Kozlicek]

Even you can help explore the universe with your computer

visit http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/

Einstein@Home uses your computer's idle time to search for weak astrophysical signals from spinning neutron stars (also called pulsars) using data from the LIGO gravitational-wave detectors, the Arecibo radio telescope, and the Fermi gamma-ray satellite. Einstein@Home volunteers have already discovered more than three dozens new neutron stars, and we hope to find many more in the future. Our long-term goal is to make the first direct detections of gravitational-wave emission from spinning neutron stars. Gravitational waves were predicted by Albert Einstein almost a century ago, but have never been directly detected. Such observations would open up a new window on the universe, and usher in a new era in astronomy.

[ausurfer]

we have telescopes that can view 10 BILLION light years away?

yup

dat dere hubble

[BenD4Me]

wheres 26 fggt

[ThatLankyGuy]

Don't masturbate.

[Roody12]

Pluto was discovered as a planet and rejected as one before one year had passed on its surface.

A day on venus is longer than a year on venus. (LOL women .. Even their planet is wrong)

Its rains diamonds on saturn and jupiter.

Just a few facts I like..

[TheMusicMan]

Where have I seen these pictures before?

http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/the-universe-is-scary

[Deezenutz]

I love space man. So many unknown things out there, it's phucking mind blowing. I was watching Interstellar and when they first went into space it felt like I was actually in the movie since I was high as fuk. TFW reality hit me and none of us will get to experience it and I actually started to full on cry srs.

Astronomer/astronaut would be the GOAT job.

[Aahl]

fuk feels lolsy as fuk worrying about passing my final tomorrow in retrospect.

[schoobs]

definitely aliens out there, statistically speaking there HAS to be.

[BBallRob]

mindblowing stuff op!

[RICHSTRONG]

17. Which means that there are ones much, much bigger than little wimpy sun. Just look at how tiny and insignificant our sun is:


18. Here’s another look. The biggest star, VY Canis Majoris, is 1,000,000,000 times bigger than our sun

Lets take an even bigger step back. If you think the Canis Majoris is big, you should see Marlenes Labia Majoris.

[young23]

26. This is what planet pakistan looked like before all the apes came over and ruined it

Lmao

[RaibeartBruis]

Wish we had rings....

Lol this. Would be GOAT.

[weddingsoup]

i think about this stuff when i'm in a "different state of mind" and i get so fukin scared.

[jackflag]

"We're alone in the universe"

[ausurfer]

i think about this stuff when i'm in a "different state of mind" and i get so fukin scared.

is not scary brah, is beautiful:

Where a star is born:


When a star sheds off its outer layers:


And when the star dies:



*Note: All images are real. Colours are the result of using different filters to disentangle the different emission.

[OliverHeldens]

Hopefully this post puts things into perspective for the Forever Alones in the MISC. There is all this stuff out in the universe, and you are worried about possible rejection from talking to a female?!?

You just gotta move onto the next, because eventually one will say yes.