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[–]mei9ji 4 points5 points ago

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The galaxy is on orion's belt.

[–]DasStorzer -1 points0 points ago

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Thank you agent M.

[–]toThe9thPower 2 points3 points ago

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And some people would have you believe that we are the only intelligent life form in this Universe. Look at all those stars in just this tiny section of space... if you ever want to feel small, mess around with scale of the universe.. there is no possible way we are alone. Not with galaxies out there that make the Milky Way look like a tiny meaningless dot.

[–]memefilter 0 points1 point ago

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Relevant: The Scale of the Universe 2 (takes a while to load).

[–]SCSweeps 1 point2 points ago

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Not pictured: Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.

[–]PixInsightFTW 0 points1 point ago

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This is by RBA, processed in PixInsight! The guy is an amazing image processor... check out his website.

[–]alexmetal 0 points1 point ago

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There are no words for how visually stunning our universe is..

[–]sortofSufi 0 points1 point ago

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[–]citationmustang 0 points1 point ago

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Are those the stars of Orion's belt? Or is this magnified many more times? Also, if this is roughly macroscopic, how do they get images of the rest of that material?

[–]yummycello[S] 0 points1 point ago

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yes, those three big stars on the left side are what make up Orion's belt

[–]PixInsightFTW 0 points1 point ago

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In reference to the above question, here are screenshots from Stellarium (free, awesome) for reference: http://i.imgur.com/XVRJB.jpg

[–]makemejelly49 0 points1 point ago

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Am I looking into the Warp?

[–]Macmoo 0 points1 point ago

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Is that the Horsehead Nebula I see to the right of the 3rd star of the belt?

[–]random19 0 points1 point ago

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yep.

Looks like the knight chess piece.

[–]carlsaischa 0 points1 point ago

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Alot of stars.

[–]ParallelDementia 0 points1 point ago

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For some reason that photo terrifies me.

Especially the right hand side of it.

[–]illmatic707 0 points1 point ago

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I don't know anything about astronomy, so can anyone tell me what that black wispy shit is on the right?

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[–]yummycello[S] -1 points0 points ago

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yes it is today's APOD. i reuploaded it because the link you gave won't bring people to this same picture tomorrow. It's the Astronomy Picture of the Day, genius; people clicking on this link tomorrow will see a completely different photo and it will, therefore, be irrelevant

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[–]yummycello[S] -1 points0 points ago

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wow you fail to understand what i just said earlier... let me put it in laymen's terms: yes the link will always lead to the APOD but by tomorrow the APOD will not be the picture I am linking to today but rather whatever picture they choose for tomorrow. The same goes for every single fucking day following. Therefore, anyone who clicks on the link after today will not see the picture I'm referring to in the title unless they go through the process of navigating to whatever the picture was for the day I posted this.

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[–]yummycello[S] -1 points0 points ago

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umm no. The link is http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html which only leads to the APOD. They change the links for the archives. And in any case, reuploading it as opposed to linking it won't change the amount of views soo.... idk where you get your karma whoring idea from

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[–]yummycello[S] 0 points1 point ago

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umm who gives a fuck about the link YOU posted? I was showing you the link I got from the site. Are you the submitter? No? I didn't think so. You may kindly fuck off now.

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[–]yummycello[S] 0 points1 point ago

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Pompous much? TBH i don't think I ever asked for your credentials for posting on reddit of all places... In any case, this is just getting stupid now. Downvote away. I honestly don't care and you doing so will only prove that no matter how high your (declared)IQ and (declared)height or education, petty people always stay petty.

[–]C_M_O_TDibbler -1 points0 points ago

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[–]eztarget896 -2 points-1 points ago

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better look at orion's belt http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSndn8E5FRY