Posted on 07/02/2019 10:12:43 AM PDT by Red Badger
Looks like a big oops in space.
Videos of fireworks usually have a technical delay challenge to synchronize the sound with the picture.
The sound here will come after we’ve been dead for a gazillion years.
There is no sound in space..................
I can’t hear you ... is there space between you and me ?
In outer space no one can hear you scream..........................
There is no sound in space..................
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That’s only for if you’re trying to scream.
ping
Old movie promo line: In space, no one can hear you scream.
Just to demonstrate the incredible optical power that made that picture possible, here is a picture of Eta Carinae in its surrounding environment (it's near on the horizontal centerline of the picture, about two-thirds of the way from the vertical centerline to the left edge, directly under the letter 'I' in the word MOSAIC2 at picture's upper left):
The line labeled "3 arcminutes" (at upper right) is about one-tenth the apparent diameter of the full moon as seen from Earth.
Little Johnny Q plays with matches
So the entire picture is about the length of the Kessel Run?
Yeah, like someone finally got the cold fusion cell tuned to exactly the right frequency, after years of thankless effort.
One of my big sailing goals is to get far enough south to see this in a telescope. It won’t look the same, but, I still want to see it.
Very large stars, 100 solar mass or more, tend to blow off outer layers due to their overall brightness, before finally going supernova. This limits the maximum size of stars as well as their lifespans. Small stars live trillions of years, longer than the current age of the universe. Eta Carinae will only live a few million.
So, it's NOT SUV's???
The brightest stars were designated by letters of the Greek alphabet, in order of apparent brightness. (Sometimes they got it wrong--Beta Orionis is brighter than Alpha Orionis, for example.) The designations were made before Argo broke up, so Eta Carinae was perceived to be the seventh-brightest star in all of Argo, not the seventh-brightest star in Carina.
Did it sink?...................
Technological civilizations develop until they get their big honkin’ particle accelerator/collider working at peak efficiency ...
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