The sharpest ever view of the Andromeda Galaxy from the Hubble Space Telescope

May 18, 2021 11:40 AM

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The sharpest ever view of the Andromeda Galaxy from the Hubble Space Telescope. Located 2.5 million light years away, the Andromeda Galaxy is the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way and contains an estimated one trillion stars.

Credit: ESA/NASA. Source: https://twitter.com/wonderofscience/status/1394268948640768001?s=11

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Still expecting Dickbutt/ Master and Commander/ Poorly photoshopped whats name.

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Seeing these things makes me feel alone and lonely.

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Can't wait for the James Webb telescope.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Not milky enough. 4/10

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Maybe it's 2% milk.

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It's simply mind boggling to see this, also quit unsettling as to the enormity of it all. ..

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Hey yall got any aliens?

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There's at least 12 stars in there.

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What's the star comparison between Milky Way and Andromeda?

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Milky Way: 300 billion stars. Andromeda: 1 trillion https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/earths-night-sky-milky-way-andromeda-merge

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This is getting close to the Total Perspective Vortex. It may melt my brain.

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Well, when you see the images the James Webb telescope will provide your penis is going to explode!

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I always wondered, if we do develop interstellar travel, will space ever look as colorful as this?

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We are a speck of nothing floating in the infinite everything

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[Laughs in Kett]

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Hope ME5 doesn't retcon that game out of existence.. I quite liked it.

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Me too!

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I see Meridian!

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My god. It's full of stars

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I got that reference.

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Unsure if photographic noise or all stars at the end O.o

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Phew, that put me in that weird thought spiral about humankind, all existence, wtf is life.

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Ever wonder if the reason we haven't found other life out there, is because there's only 1 intelligent lifeform per galaxy, and we are 1/2

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Meant to expand? Like this whole milky way is for humanity to explore.

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We are not alone

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Statistically, no. But with the scale of the universe and the whole light speed barrier we might as well be.

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Gonna need at least an eighth chevron for that..

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Thats got to be at least 17 stars.

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Literally dozens

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This is who we are going to collide with right?

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Yes, and the fused Galaxy is creatively being called Milkdromeda.

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Yes

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Correct... I think the prediction is in about 4.5 Billion years.

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So please, please, please let me get what I want…

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What's this from?

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Ferris buellers day off

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This is perfect on every level. I can even hear the music

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Dream Academy covering the Smiths? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR9NI778Iww

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Somewhere in there is a Dickbutt, I just know it.

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I was waiting for it to be a hidden 3d image thingny with dickbutt.

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There’s one somewhere in the comments.

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It may even be a species somewhere there. And they are coming here.

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We should have a nicer view in the future...

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Will also be harder to get pictures like this with all the satellites being launched especially starlink.

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I goddamn love VSauce.

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Andromeda won’t appear any brighter in the sky due to the inverse square law of light.

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This is from a VSauce video entitled "What will we miss". One of his best IMO.

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So I set a reminder in my calendar for this stellar event. Can’t wait to see it!!!

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If they have a way to reconstruct me in 2.75billion years. Send me to this spot and I'll die again looking at that.

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(Earth's surface conditions are similar to Venus by now because of the Sun's warming)

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If they reconstructed me from a piece of hair maybe they can give me a Mr freeze suit too. Lol

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Amazing that this galaxy has literally hundreds of stars

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Ken M, is that you?

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Shame the is no intelligent life.

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proved my own point I guess with "the there"

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Dozens, even!

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At least 3 for sure.

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I don’t think so, this picture sucks, it’s super pixelated.

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At least hundreds. Technically true...

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And not a single one has any form of life!

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Yeah, life on a star would be tricky considering it's helium and hydrogen and what not

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Why can't life have volcanic monsters loving in the molten seas of the Sun?

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There could be life forms out there that eat carbon monoxide and huff helium for all we really know, to be fair.

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