Space (and the scale of the universe)

dave1983

dave1983

dave1983

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iv'e become interested in astronomy however im just shocked how
small we are

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local group

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The great wall :eek:

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Ive got into it too and its amazing the things that are out there.
I bought some skywatcher 15x70 binos and been amazed at looking at
the moon and orions belt. You can clearly see the orion nebula which
is a fantastic site. I will soon step up to a telescope but i want to find my way
around the stars first before i move on to that.
 
Scarecrow said:
Ive got into it too and its amazing the things that are out there.
I bought some skywatcher 15x70 binos and been amazed at looking at
the moon and orions belt. You can clearly see the orion nebula which
is a fantastic site. I will soon step up to a telescope but i want to find my way
around the stars first before i move on to that.
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i currently own a dobsonian 8' Skywatcher and deep sky objects are amazing i was able to see the ring nebular and you can you also see the andromeda galaxy with the naked eye if you know where your looking.
 
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space


Had to be said..
 
dave1983 said:
i currently own a dobsonian 8' Skywatcher and deep sky objects are amazing i was able to see the ring nebular and you can you also see the andromeda galaxy with the naked eye if you know where your looking.
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Im looking at getting the skywalker 200p but not sure on the lenses at the moment.
 
The frustrating thing is even at the speed of light it would still take us thousands of years to get out of the milky way, and laws of relativity that nothing can go faster than the speed of light.

so in a nut shell we are just on a peice of rock hurtling through space, and when you caculate how long it takes our rockets to go to the moon, think how long it would take our ships to get outside the solar system.
 
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of,
every human being who ever was, lived out their lives.
Thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines,
every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every hero and coward,
every creator and destroyer of civilization,
every saint and sinner in the history of our species,
think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that,
in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance,
the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe,
are challenged by this point of pale light,
and underscores our responsibility and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot.
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5 points to anyone who tells me where this is from ;)
 
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