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Space exploration: Where do we go from here?

Kepler said:
The tweet has been removed. What was it?
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It was a graphic showing that the distance between the Earth and the moon would comfortably fit all eight other planets (yes Pluto) AND also including a chunk of rock named Ceres in the asteroid belt beyond Mars.

Depending how much room you wanted to give each planet, Jupiter and Saturn would have to be turned on their sides thanks to their oblong shape.

A follow up graphic showed that the diameter of Saturn's rings is bigger than the distance from the Earth to the Moon.


The money tweet about if they actually did somehow get placed into orbit between us and the moon was this though:
"What would happen to them? They'd start to accelerate into Jupiter while Jupiter itself slowly moves to the right. There'd be intense explosions as they collide and lots of super heated devastation as the planets form one mass, but it's the stock market that'd suffer the worst."
 
aparch said:
It was a graphic showing that the distance between the Earth and the moon would comfortably fit all eight other planets (yes Pluto) AND also including a chunk of rock named Ceres in the asteroid belt beyond Mars.

Depending how much room you wanted to give each planet, Jupiter and Saturn would have to be turned on their sides thanks to their oblong shape.

A follow up graphic showed that the diameter of Saturn's rings is bigger than the distance from the Earth to the Moon.


The money tweet about if they actually did somehow get placed into orbit between us and the moon was this though:
"What would happen to them? They'd start to accelerate into Jupiter while Jupiter itself slowly moves to the right. There'd be intense explosions as they collide and lots of super heated devastation as the planets form one mass, but it's the stock market that'd suffer the worst."
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My favorite is comparing star size. There are stars so large if they were our sun Saturn's orbit would be within the star.

So maybe we should stop thinking god cares about where we put our winkies.
 
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What about observing celestial bodies? Of course, the surface of Mars cannot be examined in detail, but with a sufficiently powerful telescope, you can follow the storms that occur in the atmosphere of Mars, you can follow the surface of the Moon, and with sufficient skill and experience, you can also follow the Sun. Not so long ago I became interested in observing space, I have already bought my first telescope. Chose the Celestron Computerized Telescope model.
 
Highest resolution photograph of Mars yet taken:

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Earth and Moon, taken from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in orbit around Mars.

We are getting really good! :-)

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The star V1400 Centauri has a planet J1407b nicknamed Super Saturn.

If the planet was in the position of Saturn in our solar system, this is how it would look in the day sky:

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Bear in mind that is at a distance of 919 million miles, about 9 AU. In other, in that picture it is 9 times farther away than the Sun.

The planet itself would be an invisible point of light washed out by the brightness of the rings.
 
Kepler said:
The star V1400 Centauri has a planet J1407b nicknamed Super Saturn.

If the planet was in the position of Saturn in our solar system, this is how it would look in the day sky:

jydl9nbbuww61.jpg


Bear in mind that is at a distance of 919 million miles, about 9 AU. In other, in that picture it is 9 times farther away than the Sun.

The planet itself would be an invisible point of light washed out by the brightness of the rings.
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I'd pray to that shit if it were moving back and forth across the sky.
 
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