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big glasses that can see into the past
this pic is of a star I saw forming in the Orion Nebula when I looked through a telescope last month (I cried)
Jan 19, 2024
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I live in a Bortle class 9 area (inner-city/ terrible light pollution) so taking pictures of the night sky is a lot of trial and error, pointing my camera in a general direction and blindly shooting at sub-200 iso and screwing around with varying lengths of exposure.
Last night I sat in my driveway for three hours with a mug of tea and finally captured a very cruddy image of something mildly interesting: That little pinkish half circle in the middle is M42, the Orion Nebula. Itâs a cloud of hydrogen gas and dust 8 quadrillion miles from my back yard, which means that the picture youâre looking at is actually from 1,500 years ago. The nebula is 12 times larger than our entire solar system and has around 700 baby suns incubating inside it.
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hubble has been capturing some of the most beautiful images of space since 1990 and yesterday images of messier 44 were released. so beautiful and so interesting to read about. I love reading about the pockets of space it captures. astronomy is one of the coolest things ever.
Mar 9, 2024
you can spot aldebaran (a star in taurus, 65 light years away), jupiter under it, mars in that spot between the roof and the tree, orionâs belt, and next to it bellatrix and betelgeuse
Nov 12, 2024
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i put a moratorium on international travel for myself last year and it has frankly made me a patriot
u can see the badlands of South Dakota, the oldest exposed rock in the world (1.8 billion y.o) at the Grand Canyon, ancient pueblos in New Mexico, the pristine boundary waters of Minnesota âall accessible without a passportâwhat a privilege, what a gift
âO beautiful for spacious skies / for amber waves of grain / for purple mountain majesties / above the fruited plainâ they were not kidding
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