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I watch a lot of science stuff from documentaries to movies and YouTube vids, particularly Mark Rober and Learn Something New Every Day. And I remember seeing this Hubble telescope image from years ago, but I just saw something that explained how big this image actually is in our sky if we were to look up at it. Any guesses? Oh, and all but 3 of these things in this image are galaxies, with billions of stars in each. Can you find the 3 single stars in this?
I am fascinated by all this stuff, and hope we get someone walking on Mars in my lifetime. I have seen somewhere in the 2030's they hope to make that happen. In fact, they are working on the way to get there right now. Breydon and I have our names going to Mars in 2026, which is pretty cool. You can put your name up there too here...
https://mars.nasa.gov/participate/send-your-name/
But despite all the cool things out there to discover, there are also a lot of people that feel we are wasting money trying to get to the next rock up there. I mean, just to get to the next solar system is ridiculously far in our future. And there aren't many options in our solar system to step foot on, so some feel "why bother"? What are your thoughts? Any other science nerds here?
Oh, the answer to how big the image is in our sky above, if you held a dime out at arms length, it would fit inside this red dot.
I am fascinated by all this stuff, and hope we get someone walking on Mars in my lifetime. I have seen somewhere in the 2030's they hope to make that happen. In fact, they are working on the way to get there right now. Breydon and I have our names going to Mars in 2026, which is pretty cool. You can put your name up there too here...
https://mars.nasa.gov/participate/send-your-name/
But despite all the cool things out there to discover, there are also a lot of people that feel we are wasting money trying to get to the next rock up there. I mean, just to get to the next solar system is ridiculously far in our future. And there aren't many options in our solar system to step foot on, so some feel "why bother"? What are your thoughts? Any other science nerds here?
Oh, the answer to how big the image is in our sky above, if you held a dime out at arms length, it would fit inside this red dot.
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