When I look up into the stars it reminds me how insignificant I am, and we are. If there are beings on Jupiter or Neptune or some other planet, I wonder if they care about what Kanye did to Taylor Swift? Like does it really matter? Just a question. New photos taken by the Hubble Space Telescope have been recently released. They’re icy. Featured to the left, is the globular star cluster known as Omega Centauri, it’s 16,000 light years away in the constellation of Centaurus. Now check this, Omega Centauri is 12 billion light years away, and contains several million stars that are packed together with average separation distance estimated at 0.10 light years (Environmental Graffiti). Can you even fathom that? I can’t…
This jet of stellar gas is a young stellar object in the constellation Carina and is only 7500 light years away. The Carina Nebula is one of the brightest objects in sky, but is not well known because it must be observed from deep in the southern hemisphere. Contained within this nebula is Eta Carinae, the most massive star in the Milky Way that can be studied in detail. Photo by K. Noll (STScI), C. Proffitt (STScI/CSC), D. Leckrone and M.Niedner (NASA/GSFC), and M. Livio and Z. Levay (STScI).
The NGC 6302 is a planetary nebular known as the Butterfly or Bug Nebula. It is 3800 light years away in the constellation Scorpius. An extremely dense equatorial disc has prevented direct observations of the central star. Photo by K. Noll and H. Bond (STScI) and B. Balick (University of Washington)
A diagram of the Hubble Space Telescope. Damn, the things humans can create…
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stars are ridiculous and incomprehensible. beautiful. and unreal what we have created, what we can do, that we can look at those images on our computer screens, but in reality those are HUGE and HOT, sooooo much energy, pulsing, gasses, and farther away than we can ever physically go. the magnitude. damn.
I think it’s kinda silly to think that there’s not life on these other stars. And what makes a star a star and not a planet? Too many questions.. not enough time.
I wonder if they care about what Kanye did to Taylor Swift? Like does it really matter?
nothing matters and nature is infallible and persistent
thats about it
datsu. i feel you. i was on mushrooms when i realized nothing really matters..
A star is constantly reacting to the air/gasses around it as it speeds through the universe, making it burn brightly until it will eventually diminish. A Planet, although from far away will shine bright due to the light it absorbs and reflects from its surroundings, is not reacting to a point of burn out. More just floating along until….a star hits it? A meteor? A shooting star is so because when it hits the earths atmosphere it over-reacts like crazy (with the atmosphere) and burns out before it hits the earth. Really it is the death of a star.