For your space buffs

[K. Wolfe]

Soak this image in for a moment:

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And then have a looksie here:

http://www.space.com/18522-super-jup...net-photo.html

I love reading up on this sort of stuff. Our universe is just absolutely inconceivable.

[Pullo]

That's an interesting link.
If you're into that kind of thing, this is worth a watch (if only to blow your mind): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4iD-9GSW-0

[r937]

http://reddit.com/r/spaceporn for tons of universe awesomeness

[K. Wolfe]

http://reddit.com/r/spaceporn for tons of universe awesomeness

Niiice! Pullo I'll have to check that out when I get home tonight.Another cool one: http://workshop.chromeexperiments.com/stars/

[Pullo]

Wow, that's cool, too.
I'm meant to be working and I've just spent 20 minutes playing around with that.
Very trippy

[K. Wolfe]

Wow, that's cool, too.
I'm meant to be working and I've just spent 20 minutes playing around with that.
Very trippy

Haha. Yeah I've had my days like that. The most fascinating articles to me are the ones that put in perspective how far some of these galaxies are that we've spotted, and then how big our own is. Closest star to our own sun, 4 light years. Milky way roughly 100,000 light years across, and the furthest galaxy we've spotted, 13.3 billion light years away.

Bam: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-f...niverse-2012-9

Be sure to understand what that pic of 5,000 galaxies is zoomed in on with that second image of the moon.