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kaijuno

Logarithmic map of the entire known Universe in one image

Surrounding the Solar System are the inner and outer planets, Kuiper belt, Oort cloud, Alpha Centauri star, Perseus Arm, Milky Way galaxy, Andromeda galaxy, other nearby galaxies, the cosmic web, cosmic microwave radiation, and invisible plasma produced by the Big Bang at the edges

the-wolf-and-moon

M31, Andromeda

weltenwellen

Andrea Gibson, You Better Be Lightning

woundlight

okay so. does anybody remember this creepy image? and yes, it's real, by the way.

this is barnard 68, a dark nebula that does not allow light to pass through. it's quite close to us too, and so dense that the stars behind it can't be observed from earth. it's just a molecular cloud, though! looks like a tear in the fabric of existence itself, but it's just a very big dark blob of gas floating in space. barnard 68 is often confused with the boötes void, which is also referred to as "the great nothing".

what's that, you say? oh, well... it's a region in space about 330 million light years wide. this is about 0.27% of the width of the entire observable universe. an area this large is expected to have around 2000 galaxies, but this one only has 60. everything else is just... dead, empty space.

okay, what if i told you that we actually are within a void ourselves? it's called the kbc void. another name is uhh.. local hole. anyways. it's theoretically the largest void we know of, about 2 billion light years across. it's extremely speculative, but it might account for the hubble tension; that is, shit seems to be flying away from us faster than it should be.

some people claim other things cause the discrepancy in our observations of the hubble constant, some debate whether it's consistent with our current cosmological model at all. it isn't completely accepted by the astrophysics community, but it's not a preposterous claim to make either. i personally think it's cool.

maybe shit does fly away faster from us because we live in a local hole. the rest of the universe is an intergalactic party, and we're not invited.

cymbaline72

Hannigram as biblical Lucifers

la-novellista

Teatro La fenice, Venezia

celebritiesandmovies

Everybody ready to say goodbye to our solar system? To our galaxy.

ilikethisacompletelynormalamount

*Sound up*

darktraumabomba

Life.

what-iz-life

After a while you get tired of telling people how they make/made you feel. you eventually just go ghost and never speak again.

visual-infinity

limerehce

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James Horner • Hymn to the Sea

weltenwellen

Louise Glück, from “Otis”, Poems 1962 - 2012

odinsblog

NASA Data Sonification: Black Hole Remix

In this sonification of Perseus. the sound waves astronomers previously identified were extracted and made audible for the first time. The sound waves were extracted outward from the center. (source)

angryschnauzer

No, thank you. I did not need to hear the souls of a universe calling to me from the afterlife.

ursulaismymiddlename

Someone needs to make a space thriller/horror/whatever with this mixed into the music

headspace-hotel

why does it sound exactly like what it feels like a black hole should sound like

justsomeectoplasm

But wait, if you think that sounds terrifying:

The planet Saturn makes noise. The planet emits signals through plasma waves, which can be converted into sound.

So, in 2017, after recovering the Cassini spacecraft that literally fell through Saturn, scientists recovered the recordings the spacecraft made of the planet.

And you know what it sounds like?