dang
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 30 January 2020 17:02 (four years ago) link
i was looking into this (no pun intended) last night, and couldn't manage to find the most important detail that every account has left out.
what is the scale of this image? is that hundred of miles wide or like a square foot? i seriously have no idea
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!๐ (Karl Malone), Thursday, 30 January 2020 17:20 (four years ago) link
oh wait, here we go:
The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope has produced the highest resolution image of the sun's surface ever taken. In this picture, taken at 789 nanometers (nm), we can see features as small as 30km (18 miles) in size for the first time ever. The image shows a pattern of turbulent, โboilingโ gas that covers the entire sun. The cell-like structures -- each about the size of Texas -- are the signature of violent motions that transport heat from the inside of the sun to its surface. Hot solar material (plasma) rises in the bright centers of โcells,โ cools off and then sinks below the surface in dark lanes in a process known as convection. In these dark lanes we can also see the tiny, bright markers of magnetic fields. Never before seen to this clarity, these bright specks are thought to channel energy up into the outer layers of the solar atmosphere called the corona. These bright spots may be at the core of why the solar corona is more than a million degrees....The NSF's Inouye Solar Telescope images the sun in more detail than weโve ever seen before. The telescope can image a region of the sun 38,000km wide. Close up, these images show large cell-like structures hundreds of kilometers across and, for the first time, the smallest features ever seen on the solar surface, some as small as 30km. Background image: NSO Integrated Synoptic Program/GONG
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The NSF's Inouye Solar Telescope images the sun in more detail than weโve ever seen before. The telescope can image a region of the sun 38,000km wide. Close up, these images show large cell-like structures hundreds of kilometers across and, for the first time, the smallest features ever seen on the solar surface, some as small as 30km. Background image: NSO Integrated Synoptic Program/GONG
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!๐ (Karl Malone), Thursday, 30 January 2020 17:22 (four years ago) link
I heard โas big as Franceโ - is Texas really as big as France??
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 30 January 2020 17:29 (four years ago) link
a little bigger, actually! honestly i was surprised france was as big as texas (almost)
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!๐ (Karl Malone), Thursday, 30 January 2020 17:44 (four years ago) link
that seems insane to me. I guess because most of Texas is basically unvisitable lol
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 30 January 2020 21:16 (four years ago) link
the sun on the other hand
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 31 January 2020 06:13 (four years ago) link
pretty big. I've seen bigger.
― Paperbag raita (ledge), Friday, 31 January 2020 08:52 (four years ago) link
space is the size of about 5 to 10 states of texas
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!๐ (Karl Malone), Friday, 31 January 2020 15:53 (four years ago) link
citation required
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 31 January 2020 15:56 (four years ago) link
common sense and some research skills, that's all
https://i.imgur.com/X4RY9QH.jpg
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!๐ (Karl Malone), Friday, 31 January 2020 16:02 (four years ago) link
you recognize those constellations, don't you? that's texas
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!๐ (Karl Malone), Friday, 31 January 2020 16:03 (four years ago) link
now we can gerrymander the entire multiverse
― I wanna publish memes and rage against machimes (rip van wanko), Friday, 31 January 2020 16:16 (four years ago) link
there are going to some sliiiiiiight changes to the galactic trade federation's district lines this year guys. earth is no longer in the same district as the rest of the solar system. the district covering earth also goes through a wormhole and connects to a much larger district in a different dimension. turns out that they are actually really really anti-earth, too, so you're going to have to work across the aisle with your representation. thanks!
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!๐ (Karl Malone), Friday, 31 January 2020 16:18 (four years ago) link
lol
― I wanna publish memes and rage against machimes (rip van wanko), Friday, 31 January 2020 16:20 (four years ago) link
earth voters are more than welcome to exercise their right to vote in the upcoming elections, especially since so many of the proposed measures involve destroying the earth, and how to distribute the earth's remaining consumer goods among the rest of the galaxy. however please note that all voting locations are in the other dimension, and remember to bring your new multidimension ID card (only available in other dimension, and you need it to get to the other dimension). thanks!
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!๐ (Karl Malone), Friday, 31 January 2020 16:20 (four years ago) link
gotta drill for quarks
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 31 January 2020 16:36 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/tYEVP6D.jpgburn baby burn! burn baby burn!
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!๐ (Karl Malone), Friday, 31 January 2020 16:39 (four years ago) link
alright guys enough already!! *pumps mossberg 12 gauge*
― I wanna publish memes and rage against machimes (rip van wanko), Friday, 31 January 2020 16:43 (four years ago) link
i'm sorry, i just galactic politics. as a peace offering, i really like this underrated twitter account
...el canal azul estรก muy cortado que conste... no es color "natural" ASTEROID #BENNU๐ #OSIRIS-REx๐ฐ๏ธ MISSIONInstrument OCAMS W+V+B filtersTARGET = BENNUDistance 2.4 kmDetailed Survey Mission Phasehttps://t.co/LD6RPmiWoVNASA/Goddard/UoA/j.Roger pic.twitter.com/iiNTVSQ2Jq— landru79 (@landru79) January 28, 2020
this person digs through publicly released space imagery as it comes out and makes little animations to connect together the different stills in a visualizing pleasing way (this is something i always thought someone should do at NASA, in house)
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!๐ (Karl Malone), Friday, 31 January 2020 16:51 (four years ago) link
azul es un color natural iirc
― I wanna publish memes and rage against machimes (rip van wanko), Friday, 31 January 2020 17:00 (four years ago) link
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wxexwz/something-in-deep-space-is-sending-signals-to-earth-in-steady-16-day-cycles?
― (โขฬชโ) (carne asada), Friday, 7 February 2020 21:33 (four years ago) link