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Heyya people, I thought that I'd make a Thread about discussing Space - because Space is indeed a fascinating theme to talk about. And because the forum is themed around space, so yeah.

Anyways - "Andromeda". Some of you guys surely have heard this name before - and well, it's close to our galaxy, "Milky Way". In fact, it's our neighbor galaxy, as far as I am aware.
Andromeda-Galaxy.jpg

Look at this picture - it's fascinating, isn't it? That's Andromeda. It's twice the size of the Milky Way - as I have read.
In a few billion years, Andromeda and Milky Way will collide. We'll miss it - but I am sure that it'll be very beautiful.

[Just mute the music if you think it's unfitting. It was the most beautiful video of the both collapsing that I found on Youtube. Apologies.]
Anyways, if you want to, you can discuss things about space down below. I'd love to read your replies.
 
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Space is the most fascinating thing, it trumps everything else really.
To bad we were born to early for some good space travel bruv.
 
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To be honest, I find myself fascinated by space myself.
I thought a discussion like this would be fitting, hence the forum is around Space. And Space is just so beautiful and so big. I'd love to see another planet at some point - while I'd love to think that it would happen, I don't think it will.

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I thought a discussion like this would be fitting, hence the forum is around Space. And Space is just so beautiful and so big. I'd love to see another planet at some point - while I'd love to think that it would happen, I don't think it will.
At least we can just go out in night and stare at it; looking directly up, craning your neck, really makes the sky look domeish.
I remember when the moon went red over here back in September 2015; had a whole group watching it go from a nice white to bloody red. I think a few clowns got fucked up there.
 

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At least we can just go out in night and stare at it; looking directly up, craning your neck, really makes the sky look domeish.
I remember when the moon went red over here back in September 2015; had a whole group watching it go from a nice red to bloody red. I think a few clowns got fucked up there.
Hm. Well, yes. It is rather fascinating looking up into the sky in the night, just seeing the beautiful stars. If you have a microscope you can see 'em even better, more beautiful in all their glory.
 

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I prefer to just bask in the night's whole sky instead of zoomed in sight with a telescope.
That and I don't wanna lug a telescope out.
 

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It's nice to look across as long as there is not a shit load of light pollution; in my area there is very little.
I'd love to tell you how much we can see here.. but I don't want to go out this late at night while it's so cold, y'know?
 

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I'd love to tell you how much we can see here.. but I don't want to go out this late at night while it's so cold, y'know?
Ye, summer is always a nice time to do so.
I remember doing some in the winter, I just kept staring up ignoring the cold and letting my leg just spasm to stay warm.
 

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Ye, summer is always a nice time to do so.
I remember doing some in the winter, I just kept staring up ignoring the cold and letting my leg just spasm to stay warm.
Lucky it's summer soon.
I really want to just at some point look up into the sky and see lots of stars - just relaxing for a bit.
 
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May be a bit off topic, but I heard there's a star made of solid diamond and a few grams of it is worth trillions.
 

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I think the recent speculation about a ninth planet is interesting. Planet 9 is a hypothetical world roughly the mass of Neptune that orbits our Sun in a giant ellipse, at a distance of 40 to over 100 billion miles. Although astronomers have proposed hidden ninth planets for years, this latest version has gained quite a bit of traction since it was announced in January 2016. Some have speculated that it may look like this: http://i.imgur.com/Wh3KwzR.jpg

Seriously though, it's assumed that there's an actual planet we haven't discovered yet in the outer Solar System of our own Milky Way - which is called Planet Nine. It's quite astonishing and discerning if this were true, how little we truly know.
 
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May be a bit off topic, but I heard there's a star made of solid diamond and a few grams of it is worth trillions.
Unless it's special mega diamond dust, it wouldn't be worth much- they can make diamonds in labs, plus they're relatively common naturally anyway. I wonder if it acts as a really really big lens though...
 

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May be a bit off topic, but I heard there's a star made of solid diamond and a few grams of it is worth trillions.
*planet
Just to fix your terminology a star is an object in space in which fusion occurs. They fuse hydrogen into helium. It physically can't be a sun with pure carbon in it.
 

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I think the recent speculation about a ninth planet is interesting. Planet 9 is a hypothetical world roughly the mass of Neptune that orbits our Sun in a giant ellipse, at a distance of 40 to over 100 billion miles. Although astronomers have proposed hidden ninth planets for years, this latest version has gained quite a bit of traction since it was announced in January 2016. Some have speculated that it may look like this: http://i.imgur.com/Wh3KwzR.jpg

Seriously though, it's assumed that there's an actual planet we haven't discovered yet in the outer Solar System of our own Milky Way - which is called Planet Nine. It's quite astonishing and discerning if this were true, how little we truly know.
On other cases like 2-3 years ago we discovered this.
hbuAz6u.jpg

The image shows two supermassive black holes on a collision course with each other. And that another one not far off is heading for both of them.


[EDIT] The galaxy with these I've forgotten unfortunately. But it is about 4.2 billion light years away from us.
 
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