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Looking through old snorkeling photos. Here's a few more. Amazing visibility in the first one, sometimes easily 30+ meters.

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NGC 2903 is an isolated barred spiral galaxy located approx 30 million light years away from earth.

Processed using Siril , Starnet ++, and GraXpert and using 1.3 hours of stacked images from a ZWO SeeStar S50.

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Kajiimagi said:
NGC 2903 is an isolated barred spiral galaxy located approx 30 million light years away from earth.

Processed using Siril , Starnet ++, and GraXpert and using 1.3 hours of stacked images from a ZWO SeeStar S50.

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I don't think I will ever really comprehend what we are looking at here. Too mind-boggling. And that is just one of... a lot of them. Here is something more down to earth.

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I don't think I will ever really comprehend what we are looking at here. Too mind-boggling. And that is just one of... a lot of them. Here is something more down to earth.

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Yeah I initially googled what earth would have been like 30 million years ago (when the light in that picture left that galaxy and started it's journey to us) but it was too weird to even post. If you were really into geology it was the Oligocene epoch?

I enjoy the hobby and love posting the pics but it does really remind me how utterly small and insignificant we all are here.
 
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Kajiimagi said:
Yeah I initially googled what earth would have been like 30 million years ago (when the light in that picture left that galaxy and started it's journey to us) but it was too weird to even post. If you were really into geology it was the Oligocene epoch?

I enjoy the hobby and love posting the pics but it does really remind me how utterly small and insignificant we all are here.
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Light travels 7,5 times around the earth in one second. 30 million years of traveling to reach us… and this is a rather close one. The universe is ridiculous.

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Related vid/short documentary? I came across
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Scale is crazy. And then how about this, lol. 100.000 billion years. That would mean we are 0,013% of the way towards the end. What could happen in all that time...

Red dwarf stars live fantastically long lives, gently sipping on hydrogen to power a slow but steady fusion reaction. But eventually, all stars, including the red dwarfs, will come to an end. In roughly 100 trillion years, the last light will go out
 
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Scale is crazy. And then how about this, lol. 100.000 billion years. That would mean we are 0,013% of the way towards the end. What could happen in all that time...

Red dwarf stars live fantastically long lives, gently sipping on hydrogen to power a slow but steady fusion reaction. But eventually, all stars, including the red dwarfs, will come to an end. In roughly 100 trillion years, the last light will go out
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Much, much later on:

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M1 (The Crab Nebula) is a supernova remnant approx 6,500 light years from earth.

Processed in Siril, Starnet ++, GIMP 3.0, and GraXpert using an hour of stacked images from a ZWO SeeStar S50

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Messier 101 - 21 million light years from Earth

Messier 106 - 25 million light years from Earth

These have been previously posted but I redid them with more images and an improved workflow.


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pwe said:
Light travels 7,5 times around the earth in one second. 30 million years of traveling to reach us… and this is a rather close one. The universe is ridiculous.

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Someone posted a video a week or two ago about black holes, their mass and size. Space is incredible. I think the biggest black hole they showed in that video was the mass of 30 billion of our Sun, and dwarfed our entire galaxy.

When I think about space and what’s out there.. we are so insignificant. There HAS to be intelligent life out there. There’s too much possibility for Earth in the Milky Way to be the only intelligent life in the universe.

Its depressing to think about because in the grand scheme of things, what does my life matter? My entire bloodline isnt even a blink of the eye in the timeline of our cosmos, or our planet for that matter.
 
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Valorath said:
Someone posted a video a week or two ago about black holes, their mass and size. Space is incredible. I think the biggest black hole they showed in that video was the mass of 30 billion of our Sun, and dwarfed our entire galaxy.

When I think about space and what’s out there.. we are so insignificant. There HAS to be intelligent life out there. There’s too much possibility for Earth in the Milky Way to be the only intelligent life in the universe.

Its depressing to think about because in the grand scheme of things, what does my life matter? My entire bloodline isnt even a blink of the eye in the timeline of our cosmos, or our planet for that matter.
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Crazy... But does it matter if it matters? I can't think of a scenario where it would. That said, we could be like ants to Einstein. Not even having the capacity to comprehend what we don't know. Which is a crazy thought in itself. I feel like we could at least observe, and be amazed, unlike the ants (I assume). But who knows...
 
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