| Just to put things in perspective on 14:19 - Apr 24 with 833 views | Catullus |
*'m not supposed to go out but it drives me potty so last night, late on, I took the dog for a walk. It was after 10pm and there was nobody around so I went to our local park. The dog had a good sniff around and it was pitch black out in the middle of the pitches. I stood there and looked up, it never ceases to amaze.
I could clearly see Venus, a not very interesting fact is that if you got in a car and did 70mph all the way, at it's closest point it would take nearly 15000 days to get there. |  |
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| Just to put things in perspective on 14:43 - Apr 24 with 815 views | Highjack |
| Just to put things in perspective on 14:19 - Apr 24 by Catullus |
*'m not supposed to go out but it drives me potty so last night, late on, I took the dog for a walk. It was after 10pm and there was nobody around so I went to our local park. The dog had a good sniff around and it was pitch black out in the middle of the pitches. I stood there and looked up, it never ceases to amaze.
I could clearly see Venus, a not very interesting fact is that if you got in a car and did 70mph all the way, at it's closest point it would take nearly 15000 days to get there. |
The Voyager 2 spacecraft that launched in 1977 has been travelling at 35,000 mph for 43 years and has only just reached the outer regions of our solar system.
Unless of course you are a flat earther in which case you can see it being loaded into a lorry by the government and NASA if you use a special camera from Argos. |  |
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| Just to put things in perspective on 14:50 - Apr 24 with 805 views | Joe_bradshaw |
Hubble is astonishing. It looks like something they used to make on Blue Peter with an old can of beans, some sticky backed plastic and some Baco Foil. |  |
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| Just to put things in perspective on 16:14 - Apr 24 with 746 views | Highjack |
| Just to put things in perspective on 14:50 - Apr 24 by Joe_bradshaw |
Hubble is astonishing. It looks like something they used to make on Blue Peter with an old can of beans, some sticky backed plastic and some Baco Foil. |
It is remarkable. And that deep field image is probably the most important and wondrous image ever taken in the history of man. To look at an apparently empty and unremarkable area of sky to reveal hundreds of millions of galaxies twinkling back at us twelve billion years into the past.
It’s mind blowing. | |
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