Astronomy / Space Galaxy in pictures

[PIXEL]

Not a bad first post on the Elite Dangerous game forum (-; Excellent image sir.

As a very amateur astronomer I'm v-impressed.. would love to know how you took your photo..

...and wouldn't it be amazing to be able to fly; left, right, up, down and into that (from a distance obviously) within a game? I recon gamers need to dream on for a while yet

 

[Xules]

I have enjoyed this thread. Here are some similar videos.


Comparison of planets and stars

Star Size Comparison

Cosmic Voyage

 

[mikelowndes]

Still the best visualisation of the size of the universe: http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/12lys.html

This is unlikely to blow the mind of you lot though: been there, done that 8^).

 

[Cody]

... been there, done that...

... used the t-shirt as an oily rag!

 

[Bikky]

What I'd like to see is our solar system, but then to have other stars super-imposed over our's to show how many planets would be gobbled up by each increasing size.

I remember in the 80's, maybe tomorrows world or something like it, saying if our sun was the size of some certain sun then Jupiter would be as close to it as we are to ours now.

 

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