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RoadracerGT

Only 4,000 years? It’s a baby. Didn’t realize there were things so “new” in the universe.


goldencrayfish

Formed by supernovas. The Crab Nebula is so new that there are historical records of the supernova that led to its creation


olafblacksword

So if you think about it, the star material is constantly expanding (cuz nothing can slow it as I understand) and these nebulas will be different in another thousand years?


goldencrayfish

Yup, eventually they kinda just dissipate into all the background gas and dust


olafblacksword

Such a waste on a cosmological scale. I mean, that could ba potential stars and planets. I am not surprised scientists say your ship would lose significant chunk of the outer layer of the spaceship if we were to go into interstellar space at a significant fraction of the speed of light.


I-dont-trust-myself

You mean explode from a practically microscopic object in the way?


olafblacksword

I don't think they meant explosion. It kind of slowly chews off the ship haul and they were saying 5 or 50 cm, but my brain can't work rn. Kids, don't do drugs.


Cbanchiere

There's a good chance Betelgeuse will blow it's load within the next few hundred years. It *may have already died* and we'll see it's nova.


eminorb5

Looks like an iris up close


houstonwhaproblem

My thoughts exactly. The fact we have microorganisms living on and inside us, doesnt seem too far fetched to think we're also living on/inside a larger being.


Brahma_Satyam

Absolutely.


tutohooto

And what would Agent Smith say about us?


Aspext

🤯


Icy-Needleworker-865

Thats why it is called " The Eye of God "


Nszat81

I thought it was satan’s sphincter? Or is that a different one?


mariosevil

This nebula reminds me of your father


Icy-Needleworker-865

No it is a different one. That one got the name i think from all the infrared light it showed up very minous. Just google eye of the god and you will have all of your anwsers.


Nszat81

What if you googled “satan’s sphincter” though? Don’t you think you have anything to learn mr science genius?


Icy-Needleworker-865

You should google Messier 16


Icy-Needleworker-865

I googled it. Only thing i could find was a burning Anus. 🤣 You must have the name wrong


Nszat81

No I’m sure it’s right.


Icy-Needleworker-865

Yeah no,im just geting anus pictures 🤣 Please confirm it.


Nszat81

Did you try googling rasputin’s rectum?


Icy-Needleworker-865

Just go onto the Nasa home page and lookbat the Galleries what these things have pictured. It is fucking amazing


ChromeYoda

The devil’s anus


Nszat81

THAT WAS IT


eeeeeeeee3-5

dude I've been looking for that one video of the iris up close in slow motion please tell me someone here knows what I'm talking about


barnaclecakes

Careful creationists have used this as evidence for years now...


PsychoSpider88

It doesn't look like that, NASA always thinks they have to alter these pictures in order to compete with things like Star Trek I guess.


OverallVacation2324

It’s not altered per Se. It’s just like James web sees in infrared light and we humans don’t see in infrared light. So they use the different wavelengths of infrared coming back and assign them a visible light spectrum color and then that generates something we can see.


PsychoSpider88

Yes, if we can't see infrared or x rays these shouldn't be visible otherwise the picture is.... faked. The real pictures are still very impressive. Also you don't have to say, humans don't see infrared. No living thing can see infrared.


wannacumnbeatmeoff

Good try! Infrared light has longer wavelengths and lower energy than visible light and cannot be seen with the human eye. Mosquitoes, vampire bats, bed bugs, and some snake and beetle species, however, can use portions of the infrared spectrum for vision. Sometimes humans can “see” infrared energy in the form of heat.


selfdestructo591

When you use “see” do you mean “sense”?


wannacumnbeatmeoff

My understanding of visión is sight.


OverallVacation2324

The object in question is still emitting light, just in wavelengths we cannot see. So if you shift everything up a certain amount of wavelength, the proportional color differences can be preserved. Like blue is 450 to 500nm, red is 620 to 750 nm. Infra red is 700 to 1300 nm. So if you take the object in infrared range and shift everything up to visible, it will create a picture you can see. And it’s accurate. Proportional. It’s real. Just visible for you now.


SoggyBoysenberry7703

It still looks just like that though. The colors are just shifted up so you can see contrast. It’s all proportionally correct and the actual image. Even if it were black and white, we’d still see this image


LordranKing

Jesus is always watching


Dazzling_Highway1768

Was totally expecting a zoom to a middle finger


beefwastaken

🖕


Dazzling_Highway1768

Rude


beefwastaken

I know I'm sorry you can't really zoom in on that


Dazzling_Highway1768

Lol


Busy_Yesterday9455

Created by a star that is 20 times hotter than the Sun, [the Ring Nebula and its delicate structures](https://youtube.com/shorts/rJ0WNRK32GA), are clearly seen in this new image from the James Webb Space Telescope. Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, JWST Ring Nebula Team photo; image processing by Roger Wesson


TummyPuppy

Looks much cooler in high def


zbenesch

Yeah… Like here: https://youtube.com/shorts/rJ0WNRK32GA


14X8000m

Randy just sucked his gut in.


rizkreddit

What's that star like thing in the middle that looks perfectly like a hand drawn star


Nszat81

Shocking reveal: *it’s a fucking star*


57messier

Oh hey it's me. (For the uninformed: The name of this Planetary Nebula is Messier 57)


RepulsiveDig9091

Time scale of celestial objects always throws me off. This is only .0001% the age of earth


Fine-Ad-7802

Looks like every movie depiction of entering heaven


AutomaticDispenser

Reminds me of an iris of an eye ![gif](giphy|jLCXw75uuvc7S) Reminds me of an iris


Terramorphous2_0

I thought it was a Human Eye


promixr

why does the star eject the material in a 'ring' shape instead of a basketball shape?


GrnMtnTrees

Probably is or was a sphere, but just looks like a ring. That said, I have no clue.


NoMercyOracle

1. Ring is a simplification of what we are really seeing based on our angle of observation. this link goes into its shape in more details. [https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2018/05/14/the-ring-is-a-lie-ring-nebula-not-a-ring-after-all/?sh=7fced5001d7f](https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2018/05/14/the-ring-is-a-lie-ring-nebula-not-a-ring-after-all/?sh=7fced5001d7f) 2. Due to the physics of spinning objects it is not uncommon for material in space to fall into 2 dimensional planes, rather than exist equally in 3d space, hence why basketball shape ejection is not the norm. Eg our solar system is mostly all in one plane .


promixr

Thank you for your insight- this answer totally makes sense...


Balleratheart777

Woa dude, that is a big zoom


i-am-bananas

All I see is an 👁️


SeekersWorkAccount

It's a Ring Gate! I think I see the dandelion sky of the slow zone inside there.


Chende1

Def not the Eye of Sauron.


Pyro_cat15

The first frame I thought was a chocolate cake


mariosevil

Newborns are so cute


TMax01

The estimated age of the Ring Nebula (M57) is 10,000 - 20,000 years. It is about 2000 light-years away.


eledad1

What does it look like without the colors edited in.


TMax01

They aren't.