Space Explained

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🚨: This is not our galaxy!

You’re staring at billions of stars in the Andromeda Galaxy—and almost every one likely has planets.

Let that sink in.

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🚨: Study claims Earth’s population may need to fall to 4 billion to save the planet

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🚨: The size of Phobos, the larger of Mar’s two moons, compared to the size of New York City.

Phobos is only about 14 miles across — small enough to fit within a major city.

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@alecsbutt tuff squidward

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🚨: The Milky Way and thousands of other galaxies are being pulled toward a mysterious region of space known as the Great Attractor at around 2 million km/h.

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🚨: The black hole ‘Garguanta’ in Interstellar was so accurate, it took about 100 hours for a single frame to render.

It was so scientifically accurate it literally generated new physics discoveries and helped publish scientific papers.

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@thewearson @KaiCenat Tuff

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This is what the night sky on Mars could look like.

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@pineapplecoco84 No problem man, let me know if you need clarification on anything anytime.

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Well, what I find interesting is that you’re putting more trust in Russia or China when it comes to space imagery. If NASA were regularly posting fake or heavily manipulated images and videos from space, wouldn’t Russia or China have a strong incentive to call them out? They’re both major rivals of the U.S. in space exploration.

Secondly, the video I posted was taken from the International Space Station, which is operated by multiple countries. Russian cosmonauts are part of the ISS crew as well, so the idea that everything coming from the station is simply NASA-produced footage is incorrect

You can also find NASA’s raw mission imagery here: https://t.co/J6204QkUfl

As for edited images of deep-space objects, there’s an important distinction between editing and fabricating. Telescopes such as James Webb observe wavelengths that aren’t visible to the human eye, including infrared. Scientists can map those wavelengths to visible colors in a process often called representative color, allowing us to see information that our eyes otherwise couldn’t detect. The resulting image is processed, but the underlying data comes from actual observations.

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🚨: SpaceX’s Starship has just reached orbit for the first time.

The historic Flight 14 marks a major milestone for the world’s largest and most powerful rocket system, successfully delivering 26 next-generation Starlink V3 satellites into orbit.

Congratulations @SpaceX!