The Astronomy Thread

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Cybsled

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What the heck is that odd artifact looking thing in the first photo? The chunk with stuff around it
 

meStevo

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Meh, was a good brief explainer I came across after I saw someone else share the tweet.

I'll take whatever access to smart people I can get :p
 
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Loser Araysar

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"here's a 13.4 billion year blurry red blob"

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its just gets gayer and gayer
 
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I'm with Araysar. How many pixels of a red blob do you need for me to get an interdimensional blowjob?
 

Loser Araysar

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They should call it the Ketchup Stain galaxy.

Disband NASA.
 

Void

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I love getting my astronomy news from cringe tiktoks.
She's what someone on this board famously called a factory 10. In normal society, a 5 or 6 or so depending upon your tastes. Not bad, bangable, worth considering for more if she's really cool and not too crazy. But if she's the one decent female at an almost all-male workplace, she automatically rockets to a 10. Sort of looks like it translates to TikTok too.
 
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Kharzette

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Lensed superdistant quasars could add a bit more weight to the distant star light being used as random elements in bell tests etc. My brain isn't big enough to know for sure, but I think superdistant stuff we can only see by lensing couldn't have crossing light cones in the past, making them perfect for the test.

I only just learned about this in:

 
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Loser Araysar

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Any new lens smudges from JWST?
 
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