[HN Gopher] NASA's Webb depicts structure in 19 nearby spiral ga...
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       NASA's Webb depicts structure in 19 nearby spiral galaxies
        
       Author : FergusArgyll
       Score  : 25 points
       Date   : 2024-01-30 22:06 UTC (54 minutes ago)
        
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       | FergusArgyll wrote:
       | Immediately set as my laptop background
        
       | neverrroot wrote:
       | Every time I dive into the virtual endlessness of deep space, I
       | feel so blessed knowing we're part of something beautiful. Cold.
       | Brutal. Terrifying. Not even a pale blue dot, just a nothing but
       | still something.
        
       | baal80spam wrote:
       | Finally!
        
       | holoduke wrote:
       | Does anyone have an estimation if the amount of pixels if james
       | web would make a full 360 degree image?
        
       | dheera wrote:
       | I saw the title and thought it was Markarian's Chain (not to be
       | confused with Markov's Chain) but it's not.
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       | I thought I'd share this picture I took of 19 galaxies rising
       | over Mt. Lassen with a 500mm lens. It is stacked and tracked
       | (separately for ground and sky) but the composition is unaltered.
       | Many of these galaxies are 1/4 to 1/2 the size of a full moon,
       | just too dim to see with the naked eye.
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       | https://dheera.net/photos/calnight/#&gid=1&pid=15
        
       | ggm wrote:
       | I find the unity of structures here quite re-assuring. It tends
       | to say that large spinning masses of largely undifferentiated
       | neutrons (or whatever) become structures which reflect both their
       | spin, and gravity, and how the neutron stew decays as it cools.
       | 
       | If there was only one, I'd be surprised. If we see many of more
       | detailed forms but they tend to a common pattern, "thats physics"
        
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