What?! Does that include our moon as well?
You can actually spot Jupiter in the night sky with a modest telescope.
If you want to get suuuper technical we have six.
I thought we had 2 moons technically.
Apparently there are quite a few, although they're not actually moons--they don't orbit Earth. They're more moon...ish.
Only our one Moon counts, but the Earth has had various other natural objects that temporarily enter orbit around Earth and then either leave or crash into Earth. But they don't last that long compared to our Moon, which has been around for billions of years.
And besides, the Moon can be traced back to Earth itself (same isotopes in rocks, unlike other planets), so it is technically a child of the Earth; any new natural satellites would be adopted.
Apparently there are quite a few, although they're not actually moons--they don't orbit Earth. They're more moon...ish.
Earth possesses one known trojan, a small Solar System body caught in the planet's gravitationally stable L4 Lagrangian point. This object, 2010 TK7 is roughly 300 metres across. Like quasi-satellites, it orbits the Sun in a 1:1 resonance with Earth, rather than Earth itself.
Loved the fact that the music reminds me of something out of a Bond film. Very moonraker.
isnt this what it really looks like though?
https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam/processing?id=1276
https://d2xkkdgjnsfvb0.cloudfront.n...=960&OutputFormat=jpg&Quality=90&t=1495461558
(happy to be wrong if not)
I always get slightly bummed at the enhancements done to space photo's to make them much more colorful than they really are. Anyone that has more info on that, please correct or add to this.
EDIT: I am aware that they often use cameras that see different spectrums than the human eye
Like a Van Gogh painting come to life
I feel you. It's intense when you think of the things out there, like Jupiter, that exist without purpose nor capability of reason. Space is always such wild stuff.That's what makes it scary.
It's a real shame NASA never did a flyby composite like in that old gif. I guess the video in the OP is just a 3D model extrapolated from a few pictures?Amazing
Such a bright star. This really shows how far Jupiter is from Earth... And I didn't even know that Jupiter had an asteroid ring.
It does save us from asteroids and comets with its awesome gravity.It scares me to death that this unfathomably huge thing is just out there churning and grinding without any purpose.
I feel you. It's intense when you think of the things out there, like Jupiter, that exist without purpose nor capability of reason. Space is always such wild stuff.
If it was as close to us as Sirius, it would give the moon a run for its money in the night's sky.
Like a Van Gogh painting come to life
Yeah my mind starts to freak out a bit when I start to think about it more. I just don't know if I have to mental capacity for any of it lolIt's mind blowing to me that the universe and all celestial objects within exist. We can't comprehend how big it all is, how it started and how or everything exists at all but we can't deny it because we see it.
I was just thinking about how some classical artists would have LOVED to have this level of detail to work with.The Van Gogh planet.
You know what freaks me out the most? That we, as a species on this solar system, that can "see" it. I wonder if other civilizations exist/existed/will exist that also can. I mean, how meaningless or a waste all this would be if there isn't anyone to notice it and blow his mind?Yeah my mind starts to freak out a bit when I start to think about it more. I just don't know if I have to mental capacity for any of it lol
The Earth exists without purpose nor capability of reason.
Am I misreading this? Sirius isn't anywhere close to us compared to Jupiter.
I feel you. It's intense when you think of the things out there, like Jupiter, that exist without purpose nor capability of reason. Space is always such wild stuff.
I doubt anything that far would have an effect on us, let alone cause us to be "fucked". I mean, the star is massive and all but come on, 8 light years is very far.Imagine if it was only 8lys away when it goes BOOM?! We would probably be fucked.
I doubt anything that far would have an effect on us, let alone cause us to be "fucked". I mean, the star is massive and all but come on, 8 light years is very far.
A near-Earth supernova is an explosion resulting from the death of a star that occurs close enough to the Earth (roughly less than 10 to 300 parsecs (30 to 1000 light-years) away to have noticeable effects on its biosphere.
Astronomers estimate that, on average, about one or two supernovae explodes each century in our galaxy. But for Earth's ozone layer to experience damage from a supernova, the blast must occur less than 50 light-years away. All of the nearby stars capable of going supernova are much farther than this.
I doubt anything that far would have an effect on us, let alone cause us to be "fucked". I mean, the star is massive and all but come on, 8 light years is very far.
I doubt anything that far would have an effect on us, let alone cause us to be "fucked". I mean, the star is massive and all but come on, 8 light years is very far.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GymNeFJbPxsWatch this while listening to Doom menu music
I'm just waiting for the title screen to load in.
It does save us from asteroids and comets with its awesome gravity.
That looks like terrifying weather.
That planet looks terrifying.
Why can't we moon photos of that quality?