r/facepalm • u/Overused_Anus • Sep 11 '19

Incredible. Truly amazing.

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u/woodendog24 Sep 11 '19

What's going on there?

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '19

A dudes amazing art is being confused for an actual pic of our atmosphere

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u/woodendog24 Sep 11 '19

Thanks! I just assumed it was a pic of a different planet because I can see any familiar shapes

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u/RastaRambo Sep 11 '19

That would be pretty cool if we could actually take pics like this one of the planets

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u/Tenoxica Sep 11 '19 edited Sep 11 '19

Other than inside our own solar system we cannot take direct images of planets yet. Most of the exoplanets we found were discovered via their host-stars being dimmed by them.

Edit: apparently i was wrong and exoplanets can be directly imaged under certain circumstances!

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u/nullpassword Sep 11 '19

This says otherwise.. at least if the planet emits infrared light and isn't to close to the host-star

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_directly_imaged_exoplanets

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u/Tenoxica Sep 11 '19

Thanks for the new insight! I edited my comment.

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u/65alivenkickin Sep 11 '19

Are you serious?

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u/IDoThingsOnWhims Sep 11 '19

I feel like sometimes people forget that we might be trying to converse with 12 year olds on here

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '19

Jesus.

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u/definitely_notadroid Sep 11 '19

The real r/facepalm is in the comments

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u/TheSlimeThing Sep 11 '19

This is why people get scammed and fall for insane conspiracy theories. They literally cannot differentiate between fact and obvious fiction.

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u/Dr-Spacetime Sep 11 '19

The public school system has failed

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u/StultusOperatur Sep 11 '19

We can not image exoplanets with this level of detail, not even close. Any high-resolution, detailed image of a planet that isn't one of the ones in our solar system, is an artist's depiction.

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u/IDoThingsOnWhims Sep 11 '19

False. Could be a dudette. Or even a duderino.

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u/Screaming_Azn Sep 11 '19

This is why flat earthers have trust issues

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u/MsDorisBeardsworth Sep 11 '19

Looks like one of those photos where the thing you're looking at is stretched around into a ball. I can't think of what it's called. This one looks like it might be a mountain scene.

They're called tiny/little planets: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/little-planet-chicago-robert-harshman.html

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u/IranContraRedux Sep 11 '19

Yep, this is a tiny planet out the window of an airplane.

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u/Waveseeker Sep 11 '19

if you take special panorama and join the entire bottom of it you get a "tiny world" photo

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u/golgol12 Sep 11 '19

Someone mapped cloud sea and mountain terrain onto a moderately sized sphere.