Spectacular Image of M83

[L'Emmerdeur]

"M83, Writ Very, Very Large" | Slate



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[pErvinalia]

Such a stunning galaxy!

[Svartalf]

belle photo, merci l'ami.

[cronus]

Overselling it saying 'spectacular' isn't it? Looks much the same as ones in books and astronomy mags. They are all of a kind.

[piscator]

The asshole of God, gentlemen.

[Hermit]

Overselling it saying 'spectacular' isn't it? Looks much the same as ones in books and astronomy mags. They are all of a kind.

Photos like this one are the result of radio-astronomic and other devices that capture signals which are not in the range of visibility to the human mind. The signals are massively manipulated to create a representation of what we might see if our eyes were capable of sensing a far greater range of frequencies than they do and if we could get as close to the objects as the various non-optical telescopic instruments make them appear to be.

That said, I still find them spectacularly awesome, and they fill me with wonder and amazement. I also imagine that if some more advanced life form got hold of one of our astronomic coffee table style books it would probably regard it as a quaint and primitive interpretation of what is out there.

[cronus]

Overselling it saying 'spectacular' isn't it? Looks much the same as ones in books and astronomy mags. They are all of a kind.

Photos like this one are the result of radio-astronomic and other devices that capture signals which are not in the range of visibility to the human mind. The signals are massively manipulated to create a representation of what we might see if our eyes were capable of sensing a far greater range of frequencies than they do and if we could get as close to the objects as the various non-optical telescopic instruments make them appear to be.

That said, I still find them spectacularly awesome, and they fill me with wonder and amazement. I also imagine that if some more advanced life form got hold of one of our astronomic coffee table style books it would probably regard it as a quaint and primitive interpretation of what is out there.

Take a tab of LSD and you'll begin to see the wonder and amazement of things everywhere.

[pErvinalia]

Except it wouldn't be real.

[cronus]

Except it wouldn't be real.

Never satisfied.

[Hermit]

Take a tab of LSD and you'll begin to see the wonder and amazement of things everywhere.

Been there. Done that. It was fun every time except on the occasion where I finished up ameliorating my girlfriend's bum trip. That went on for ten hours. While she got the works, shrivelling limbs, vomiting, panic attacks and all, all I got was a pink elephant at dawn. It looked a bit like an adaptation of a pink panther cartoon when it entered from the right hand side of a series of windows in the sunroom I lived in. Halfway through its leisurely walk on the sill to the other end, it stopped, turned its head to look at us, straightened out again, and resumed its stroll, finally disappearing at the other end.

While the other trips were thoroughly fascinating and enjoyable, none ever filled me with the awe of looking at an approximate representation of a gigantic celestial feature thousands of light years from this mote of dust.

[cronus]

Further away it is the less likely it is actually there. Could be painted on something? Maybe it is one of your braincells looking back at you through the incomprehensible mirror of some strange strange odd odd reality? Too far away to be sure.

[pErvinalia]

It could have actually ceased to exist in the time it took the light get here.

[rainbow]

Take a tab of LSD and you'll begin to see the wonder and amazement of things everywhere.

Been there. Done that. It was fun every time except on the occasion where I finished up ameliorating my girlfriend's bum trip. That went on for ten hours. While she got the works, shrivelling limbs, vomiting, panic attacks and all, all I got was a pink elephant at dawn. It looked a bit like an adaptation of a pink panther cartoon when it entered from the right hand side of a series of windows in the sunroom I lived in. Halfway through its leisurely walk on the sill to the other end, it stopped, turned its head to look at us, straightened out again, and resumed its stroll, finally disappearing at the other end.

That is why the Good Lord gave us BZP

[cronus]

We have a mysterious confluence in our data....

[Hermit]

Further away it is the less likely it is actually there.

No chance at all, actually. By the time the data of its appearance reach us the object would have travelled to an altogether different location.

And you keep demonstrating that you need no hallucinogenic drugs in order to be thoroughly nonsensical.