The largest known star in the Universe

[DontDoIt]

https://www.cnet.com/news/the-milky-way-is-flush-with-habitable-planets-study-says/

 

[Music Fiend]

pet peeve of mine with people saying black holes. Black holes will kill you immediately no question. What you are thinking of is called a worm-hole, two different things.

Lol breh I was messing around. U right tho!

Idk shyt about space. Are we sure black holes would kill tho? Gravitational pull I'm guessing? Pressure?

 

[KodeBlue]

You'd have to maybe hit up Montana. Or Northern Canada. Sky Pollution is crazy in the states. A light source can't even be on the horizon. Clear pictures of the Milky Way you see are usually done with long shutter photography though.

I was in Georgia for Christmas a couple years ago and tried to go out in the middle of nowhere to see it, but it was the wrong time of year, when the northern hemisphere is facing the outer arm of the galaxy. I've NEVER seen that many stars before that night tho.

 

[Donald J Trump]

If there is life way more advanced and smarter than us far away, what makes anyone think they woulda wanna even fukk with us?

 

[hayesc0]

If there is life way more advanced and smarter than us far away, what makes anyone think they woulda wanna even fukk with us?

You guys keep reminding me of things from star trek first contact.

 

[Breh13]

Even if there was life, we would probably never find each other.

Universe is so goddamn big brehs, can't even fathom or understand it that's what.






About that why would fukk with us situation. Why wouldn't they? If they are more advanced than us why wouldn't they come and fukk with us, they could wipe us out in seconds.

You think humans wouldn't do the same? Look at how we fukk with each other.

 

[Recca Gatsby]

Love this shyt

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

Well, a sattelite escaped the galaxy friend.

Equipped with super duper camera lenses, an indvidual would assume they could zoom in on a planet well before reaching it. Maybe our cameras are still as they say, a tad on the flabby side. A tad sick as it were, friend.

no satellite has left the galaxy.
one may have left the solar system but that is still debatable.
scientists are not sure when our sun's sphere of influence stops.

 

[mbewane]

Of course if there is alien life in the universe, you're a naive c*nt if you think otherwise, it's only a matter of time before we have proof.

The real question is, is there intelligent life out there? Or did there used to be but it has now been wiped out? Or maybe it'll be millions of years before another intelligent civilization appears?

Think of it this way, the Universe is 14 billion years old (estimation), and the human race is only 10000 years old, and most likely won't see another 10000.

Maybe there are lots of intelligent life but they die out quickly

Yeah this is what I think too. I strongly believe there is something/someone out there, but there's no certainty that it's there NOW. Who knows, maybe in a whole other part of the universe there was a massive war between two civilizations 6 millions years ago and they destroyed each other already

Or maybe there's another form of life somewhere with limited means and they wondering the same thing as we are, alien brehs typing on their version of the Coli

 

[Mr. Somebody]

no satellite has left the galaxy.
one may have left the solar system but that is still debatable.
scientists are not sure when our sun's sphere of influence stops.

How do they have photos of the Milky way friend

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

How the fukk do they know that? :whatthefukk:

 

[morris]

How do they have photos of the Milky way friend

I think it's a combination of Earth telescopes, orbiting satellites, and artist's rendition based on photos

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

for reference, this is earth compared to the sun.

pretty big right?











this is the sun compared to UY Scuti (open in new tab to zoom in)

yeah...

edit: to put it in perspective, "The star is so immense that if the Earth were the size of a 20 cm (8 in) diameter beach ball, the diameter of Jupiter would be about 2.1 m (7 ft), the Sun would be about 22 m (73 ft) in diameter (around the height of a 7-story office building), while UY Scuti would have a diameter of 38,000 m (125,000 ft), over four times the height of Mount Everest"
UY Scuti - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

blackholes >*

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

How do they have photos of the Milky way friend

Because we are inside the Milky Way, we don't get to take any pictures of it from an angle "above" the Galaxy—for example, like this beautiful picture of M31, the Andromeda Galaxy. (However, we can make an educated guess as to what the Milky Way might look like from such an angle—for example, see this artist's illustration.)

Instead, we only get pictures in which we see the structure of the Milky Way edge-on, from inside of it. Examples of these pictures in many different wavelengths of light can be found here. Each picture is a panoramic photo—if you want an idea of what we really see, imagine taking each picture and wrapping it in a big circle around you. The photographer has simply chosen to "cut" and "unfold" this circle such that the Galactic Center (the brightest part of the Milky Way) is in the picture's center. This might give the illusion that we are looking at an edge-on picture of the Milky Way from the outside, but in reality we are not—the left and right edges of this picture simply represent material in the Milky Way that is located in the opposite direction of the Galactic Center from our point of view, and since we ourselves are pretty close to the edge of the Milky Way, there isn't much to see in this direction.

You can also see from these pictures how much "stuff" there is in the Milky Way which prevents us from seeing through to the opposite side. For example, the optical picture has a bunch of dark dust clouds that almost completely block our view of anything within the galaxy. Luckily, these dust clouds are much more transparent to other types of light (for example, infrared and radio) so we can use these wavelengths to look at objects on the other side of the galaxy from us.

How can we see the Milky Way if we are inside it? (Intermediate) - Curious About Astronomy? Ask an Astronomer

 

[KodeBlue]

When they show pics of the milky it's either artist rendition, as someone previously stated, or its a picture of the Andromeda Galaxy, which is eventually going to collide with our galaxy. By the time that happens, though, the sun would have become a red giant, engulfing earth, so all life will have ceased to exist, and the sun then collapse in on itself to become a dwarf star. Also, theoretically speaking, the two galaxies can collide with no effect on our solar system since stars and planets are so far apart from one another. Milk-Dromeda will then form one elliptical galaxy instead of what they currently are: two spiral galaxies. This will take place over the next 10 billion years tho, so we won't see any of it. Andromeda can be seen with the naked eye, as can the galactic center of the milky way.

Back in the Early 90s LA had a massive outage, and people were calling 911 about strange clouds in the sky. They were in fact seeing the galactic center of the milky way.