Astronomy and Space related matters thread

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By God

4.5 billion years back this telescope can see equivalent of

@TreatyStones has gone very quiet

Like a pint of Guiness settling on a winters evening

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The yoke never even got into Orbit. NASA are just generating sci-fi pictures with cgi.

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Sure space doesn’t exist its only a holographic image projected onto the sky to fool people that the earth is rpund. Saw it on tiktoc so must be true

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There are more stars in the sky then grains of sand in the deserts

When this thing starts sending back pictures of Mr & Mrs J.B. Alien sitting out in their back garden on Kepler-186f it’s going to be the most seismic moment in human history.

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You haven’t been to Tipperary in a while I take it

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Mars, new footage form NASA

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If you held a grain of sand on the tip of your finger at arm’s length, that is the part of the universe that you’re seeing—just one little speck of the universe," Nelson said.

Webb is the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, which transformed science’s understanding of the vastness of the universe. One of Hubble’s most famous images, the eXtreme Deep Field, shows flecks of light representing some 5,500 galaxies, the faintest of which enable us to look back in time 13.2 billion years.

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Pretty spectacular Moon tonight. A sort of Orange colour

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I only heard about all of this recently on Newstalk of all places. 2024 the target for a manned return to the moon. Seismic.

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How did they put a man on the moon in the 60s and they hadn’t even invented the walkman?

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Fellas just got on with it back in those days.

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You would wonder alright.