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Tuff indeed!A tough Northern Canadian cat that lost its eye to an owl
Actually, a beautiful winter day going to take my walk Cookie and I’m going to get high high high
Astronomy Picture of the Day
APOD: 2024 December 26 - Grand Spiral NGC 5643
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.
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2024 December 26
Grand Spiral NGC 5643
Image Credit: ESA / Hubble & NASA
Explanation: Viewed face-on, grand spiral galaxy NGC 5643 has a festive appearance in this colorful cosmic portrait. Some 55 million light-years distant, the galaxy extends for over 100,000 light-years, seen within the boundaries of the southern constellation Lupus. Its inner 40,000 light-years are shown in sharp detail in this composite of Hubble Space Telescope image data. The galaxy's magnificent spiral arms wind from a yellowish central region dominated by light from old stars, while the spiral arms themselves are traced by dust lanes, young blue stars and reddish star forming regions. The bright compact core of NGC 5643 is also known as a strong emitter of radio waves and X-rays. In fact, NGC 5643 is one of the closest examples of the Seyfert class of active galaxies, where vast amounts of dust and gas are thought to be falling into a central massive black hole.
When I see space photos, I can't help myself from thinking how much I'd like to travel in deep space. I'm drawn to it like a magnet to steel. There must be so many incredible things to experience in the universe or universes
saw it last night !
as I was driving on interstate 88 W. in New York proximately 7 PM. (around exit 96 in the town of Roscoe) didn’t know what I was looking at at first I thought it was some kind of weird reflection of light off my window shield Causing this chain of stars (until I remembered you had mentioned it.) seemed almost completely vertical from my Vista…
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used to think about it all the time and often still do it’s incomprehensible almost even wrap your head around what interstellar distances really are … I don’t know if you’ve ever heard of the Fermi paradox ? basically >>> The Fermi paradox is a conflict between the argument that scale and probability seem to favor intelligent life being common in the universe, and the total lack of evidence of intelligent life having ever arisen anywhere other than on Earth. …. https://www.britannica.com/story/the-fermi-paradox-where-are-all-the-aliens Enrico Fermi was an Italian and naturalized American physicist, renowned for being the creator of the world's first artificial nuclear reactor, the Chicago Pile-1, and a member of the Manhattan Project. He has been called the "architect of the nuclear age" and the "architect of the atomic bomb".
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Awesome man!! That’s the one.saw it last night !
It’s a trip seeing it first time hey if you didn’t know what it was you’d be wondering if the aliens had finally arrived.
First time I saw them I was driving too down in the South Island nz(great star watching) and I had to pull over thought I was having a flash back
The lack of life in the universe would be more surprising to me than an abundance of life forms.
Civilizations could be so far advanced that we would have no idea how to communicate with them.
Civilizations could be so different from us that we might not even recognize them as life forms.
The potentials are unlimited in my mind. I won't be around to see what happens, I don't think.
Maybe next week the unthinkable could happen, there here.
Actually, I believe we have already been visited.
When I look at photos from the James Webb telescope, it makes me feel like I belong out there.
It’s impossible to communicate. We are so very far away from each other. Tens ,dozens, hundreds, thousands, millions of light years could pass in the “time” it takes to say “hello how are you?“ … before we get one syllable into the conversation, the point will become mute
Perhaps there are advanced civilizations that communicate in a completely unknown technology to us.It’s impossible to communicate. We are so very far away from each other. Tens ,dozens, hundreds, thousands, millions of light years could pass in the “time” it takes to say “hello how are you?“ … before we get one syllable into the conversation, the point will become mute
In the scheme of things we are toddlers in space.
We humanity could also be specimens in a zoo being viewed from afar 
Pretty cynical of me
