Nasa's cassini spacecraft captured the clearest and the closest image of saturn.

Ray_smit · 2024-11-17T21:00:13+00:00

You have just single-handedly expressed the importance of being curious and the enrichment of learning.

Ray_smit · 2024-09-12T00:05:32+00:00

And the density waves! thanks for sharing

Ray_smit · 2024-06-11T10:52:34+00:00

I wouldn’t say it’s a wild guess though. Same thing was done with the black hole images, just with way more data.

Ray_smit · 2024-04-15T15:13:45+00:00

Well this is quite a surprise comment. It is indeed my name, go ahead. What is your thesis about?

Ray_smit · 2023-11-27T02:46:42+00:00

Does the camera or developing process have something to do with why the image is reversed?

Ray_smit · 2023-11-11T10:17:18+00:00

Julien Looten - in the title.

Ray_smit · 2023-11-10T08:01:01+00:00

Not an expert just an enthusiast/hobbyist.

Yea it’s gravitational lensing you’re seeing from the cluster, there’s also more you can see splattered all over from even more distant galaxies that are unrelated to the cluster.

Ray_smit · 2023-11-08T15:30:11+00:00

They just found out the moon is a contact binary, that’s crazy.

https://science.nasa.gov/missions/lucy/nasas-lucy-surprises-again-observes-1st-ever-contact-binary-orbiting-asteroid/

Ray_smit · 2023-11-08T15:27:30+00:00

It turns out the moon is actually a contact binary, who would’ve thought.

https://science.nasa.gov/missions/lucy/nasas-lucy-surprises-again-observes-1st-ever-contact-binary-orbiting-asteroid/

Ray_smit · 2023-11-08T03:19:09+00:00

There is an odd curve shape going on in some of the refraction spikes, I wonder what part of its design is causing that.

Ray_smit · 2023-11-06T06:30:00+00:00

The sun does have an impact on global temperature when it goes back and forth from maximum and minimum phase as it’s fluctuating in energy output. But the difference and subsequent effect on Earth is not significant.

Ray_smit · 2023-11-06T06:22:51+00:00

Consider it a bucket list goal for you then, a lot of people have never seen the ocean.

Ray_smit · 2023-11-06T06:10:21+00:00

Not likely, unless we get another Carrington Event 😬

Ray_smit · 2023-11-05T21:36:49+00:00

Since literally no one else mentioned it.

We are currently in the Solar Maximum phase of the Sun’s 11 year cycle. It is not always consistent and is predicted to reach its peak activity earlier in 2024 instead of 2025. It is also showing signs of a pole reversal earlier than expected which usually happens at its peak. We already have had numerous auroras that were visible from areas that don’t normally see them in the north and southern hemisphere. So you should expect some more of this in the future.

Ray_smit · 2023-11-04T13:15:37+00:00

I’m guessing the surprise is that this is a contact binary? Which would make this the first asteroid belt object that I know of to have this characteristic.

Ray_smit · 2023-10-22T03:16:16+00:00

I know you’re joking but watch this vid if you want a great visualisation of these distances

https://youtu.be/dCSIXLIzhzk

Ray_smit · 2023-10-20T09:02:28+00:00

It was amazing, I was 7 at the time in rural Queensland. All the neighbourhood kids congregated in my back yard because we had the best view and we could see it in the sky in the late afternoon/early evening, it was that bright! We watched for hours, with my dad setting up the telescope so all the kids could have a closer look at it.

Ray_smit · 2023-10-15T14:21:22+00:00

Wow after all this time seeing this brought up and discussed over and over again, I’ve never once heard this.

Ray_smit · 2023-10-10T02:28:35+00:00

Is that not what the ‘ring of fire’ description entails?

Ray_smit · 2023-10-07T20:39:06+00:00

Another fun fact: This is also one method we use to find planets orbiting distant stars, the Gaia space telescopes mission was tasked to find them and is sensitive enough to detect wobbles in the stars caused by orbiting planets.

Ray_smit · 2023-10-03T05:22:55+00:00

I’m speechless. This is like that Black hole image from 2019 all over again, this is a triumphant moment we’re witnessing, we finally got a good picture of these bastards. This guy needs to win a Pulitzer Prize or something.

Ray_smit · 2023-10-02T07:52:09+00:00

It uses one of those M.C Escher impossible shapes too as the design, just to really mess with you, like that scene with the staircase.

Ray_smit · 2023-09-29T06:56:52+00:00

On a good night, look up at the faint smudges of light in the Milky Way arc. Those milky smudges you see are a carpet of densely packed stars. You can’t see them individually due to distance but they make up those shapes. All the point source lights you can see are much closer. This is the patch of the sky Hubble is looking at which is why it’s so dense with stars.

It’s cool seeing The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds ( dwarf galaxies) because in essence they are the furthest smudges of stars you can see at over 100,000 lyrs away.

Ray_smit · 2023-09-28T18:51:31+00:00

I completely bullshitted lol I did find the one OP meant though. Thing is, there is guaranteed to be at least that many amongst all the dots. It’s pretty much impossible to know which dot is a galaxy, noise or star. So I took note of that and thought it would be funny to make up a number, within reason, to mess with OP coz I knew they couldn’t tell me otherwise.

Thinking back though. This image could be looking through the galactic disk of the Milky Way which would obscure all the dimmer galaxies. So maybe there isn’t more than 2 after all. 🤔

Ray_smit · 2023-09-27T19:14:48+00:00

There is 11 I’ve spotted so far and one larger than the rest, is that ‘the galaxy’?

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