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wowsosquare t1_j99y89i wrote

Reply to comment by Kossimer in The Tadpole galaxy by Hubble, Its eye-catching tail is about 280,000 light-years long. Also known as UGC 10214 and Arp 188, it is a disrupted barred spiral galaxy located 420 million light-years from Earth in the northern constellation Draco. Credit Image: NASA/ESA/HST/STScI. by Davicho77

What about all the dust and hydrogen that's in the interstellar medium and maybe More dense in solar aysi... could the relative speeds of colliding galaxies give you all those dangerous effects of traveling at high speeds?

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wowsosquare t1_j99cnp1 wrote

Reply to comment by Davicho77 in The Tadpole galaxy by Hubble, Its eye-catching tail is about 280,000 light-years long. Also known as UGC 10214 and Arp 188, it is a disrupted barred spiral galaxy located 420 million light-years from Earth in the northern constellation Draco. Credit Image: NASA/ESA/HST/STScI. by Davicho77

>When two galaxies come close to each other...

I thought this was going to be The Talk about when the Mommy galaxy and the Daddy galaxy give each other a very special hug. Was disappoint.

THAT SAID, when galaxies collide, how does it effect what's happening on a any given planet or solar system in the colliding galaxies? Because for the most part everything just zips right past everything else, right? There's very little matter actually colliding

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wowsosquare t1_j2qc6o6 wrote

Reply to TIL The largest diamond ever found was the Cullinan Diamond, which was discovered in South Africa in 1905. It weighed 3,106.75 carats (over 1.2 pounds) and was cut into nine separate stones, including the Great Star of Africa, which is the largest clear-cut diamond in the world at 530.2 carats. by mic3ttaa

>Due to its immense value, detectives were assigned to a steamboat that was rumoured to be carrying the stone, and a parcel was ceremoniously locked in the captain's safe and guarded on the entire journey. It was a diversionary tactic – the stone on that ship was fake, meant to attract those who would be interested in stealing it. Cullinan was sent to the United Kingdom in a plain box via registered post.

Sneak 💯

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wowsosquare t1_j2qbx2e wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in TIL The largest diamond ever found was the Cullinan Diamond, which was discovered in South Africa in 1905. It weighed 3,106.75 carats (over 1.2 pounds) and was cut into nine separate stones, including the Great Star of Africa, which is the largest clear-cut diamond in the world at 530.2 carats. by mic3ttaa

That HUSSY!! Her ignominy should be immortalized in a movie, so that subsequent generations can know of her shameful behavior, and take warning never to comport oneself in such a disgraceful fashion.

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wowsosquare t1_j2cq82d wrote

Reply to comment by robertojh_200 in SpaceX launches Israeli reconnaissance satellite and lands rocket, marking 61st and final flight of 2022 by marketrent

>opens up the solar system for cheap.

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wowsosquare t1_j1qmb7q wrote

Reply to comment by Astrofishisist in A group of galaxies called "Stephan's Quintet" was featured in the opening scene of the Christmas movie "It's A Wonderful Life" (1946), where angels were speaking from. Left is from the movie, right is from the James Webb Space Telescope. by Yoprobro13

YOU are the best thanks for the perfect explanation!

I'd like to ask another question in the form of an ill informed statement

>infrared light isn’t just looking at how ‘hot’ these space objects are

Isn't it though? I mean I suppose an we could say that in the visible spectrum, we are looking at how bright things are (amplitude), but also what color they are...so in the IR we are looking at how hot things are (amplitude/ brightness), but also which frequency (color) they are emitting. And so the false color added by computer processing is assigned based on something like higher frequency IR = closer to blue, and lower frequency IR= closer to red?

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wowsosquare t1_j1qej6d wrote

Reply to comment by Astrofishisist in A group of galaxies called "Stephan's Quintet" was featured in the opening scene of the Christmas movie "It's A Wonderful Life" (1946), where angels were speaking from. Left is from the movie, right is from the James Webb Space Telescope. by Yoprobro13

EXTREMELY STUPID QUESTION PHRASED AS A STATEMENT FOLLOWS sorry

Since all these pictures are of the infrared spectrum... aren't they kind of fake in a meaningful way? As in there's no way you could see this, it's just a CGI of a bunch of heat data points? Isn't this all essentially false color images cooked up in a computer and made to look cool?

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