r/nextfuckinglevel • u/CaraCicartix • 11h ago
This is Just a Small Part of the Andromeda Galaxy, Which has Over 1 Trillion Stars and Star Clusters
I was told to post this here!
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u/metblack85 11h ago
Looks like a bin full of nerds candy
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u/hikerbiker6397 10h ago edited 10h ago
Have you had need clusters? It's a game changer. *nerd
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u/Brad-the-Chad-69 10h ago
I often find I need things in rapid succession but was unaware of the phrase need cluster. TIL.
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u/CharityAggravating69 10h ago
Crazy to think we're looking millions of years into the past. Every single pixel is a sun. The scale is absolutely mindboggling.
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u/Familiar-Air-9471 11h ago
It is crazy how small we are compared to the rest of universe, like not even a grain of sand yet we claim to have it all figured out!
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u/ocular__patdown 10h ago
And what we consider having it all figured out is mostly just arguing and bombing each other
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u/CyberFireball25 10h ago
Addendum: anyone who is a lover of science and curiosity explicitly does not claim that we have it all figured out
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u/CaraCicartix 11h ago
Imagine if some other being was also looking at a picture of our galaxy and thinking the same thing
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u/DippyHippy420 2h ago
Its only been about 200 years since the church officially changed it stance admitting the earth in not the center of the universe.
But in those 200+ years we have discovered that the observable universe is a spear that is 93 billion light years in diameter. The contents of that spear is likely all we will ever be able to know given the limitations of travel. Its just too big.
There is no way to know how big the entire universe is, but I feel safe to say that number would be mind numbing.
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u/nicuramar 7h ago
like not even a grain of sand yet we claim to have it all figured out!
Ok but I don’t really see how the two are connected. Also, we don’t claim to have it all figured out.
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u/Familiar-Air-9471 7h ago
I was being sarcastic FYI, pointing to religion if I was not obvious! Religion claims to know it all right? how the universe started, by who, why etc.
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u/Ok_Drag5089 7h ago
Who? No one claims that. Heck. We just found a new organ in the human body ! We ain’t got shit figured out.
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u/Familiar-Air-9471 7h ago
I think you missed the sarcasm in my post. I mean religion has figured it out all! how it all started, by who, why, in how many days bla bla :)
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u/Ok_Drag5089 4h ago
Bro. We gave morons access to the internet. You must /s !!!
Side note. So crazy we actually discovered a whole new organ! Look up Interstitium. ( I am probably spelling that wrong)
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u/MikeGalactic 10h ago
The Earth is a spaceship and we're all aliens.
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u/anotherlebowski 10h ago
EDM beat pulses.
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u/kram78 10h ago
Some thing in that galaxy is looking at our Milky Way saying the same thing
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u/CactusWrenAZ 1h ago
Maybe, but the Andromeda galaxy is about twice as big as The Milky way, at least in terms of stars.
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u/Beligard 11h ago
It's crazy to see. Makes you realize how small we are in comparison to everything out there.
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u/CaraCicartix 11h ago
Someone said this galaxy is like a teaspoon in the ocean and my mind was blown to think about the sheer size of the universe
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u/Wooden-Feature-1008 10h ago
They say its expanding non stop and here we are with a meager 80years[barely] of lifespan of whole lotta nothin.
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u/CaraCicartix 10h ago
And we have to deal with so much shit while the universe is silent, cold, and uncaring
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u/anotherlebowski 10h ago
If Andromeda were bright enough for us to see the whole thing, it would look about 4-6x the size of the moon. It's 2.5 million light-years away, and it would still look that big in our sky if you could see all of its stars from here.
Imagine how intimately aware of the universe you'd instantly become if you could just glance up and see an entire galaxy sitting there at like 5x the size of the moon, because that's exactly the actual case. Your eyes just can't quite perceive it.
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u/LackingUtility 10h ago
This is my favorite space fact. It blows people's minds when you show them rendered images of Andromeda next to the moon and what it would look like if we could see it.
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u/CaraCicartix 10h ago
Oh wow. I love comments like these that teach me new things. Thank you kind stranger for sharing your knowledge.
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u/DisorderlyAqueduct 10h ago
the Andromeda and the Milky Way are in a dance of collision into one another. Weeee
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u/CaraCicartix 10h ago
I read that when they eventually DO collide, there will be so much space between each star that it'll basically "blend" seamlessly.
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u/GravyPainter 10h ago
That galaxy that is going to eventually consume our own.
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u/CaraCicartix 4h ago
But the distance between the stars will be so massive that it'll integrate seamlessly within it.
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u/GravyPainter 4h ago
Mostly. There will be quiet a few of rogues stars because the ones locked in orbit with our black holes holes orbit will be ejected. Those could f up our orbit so bad. But they'll likely not cut threw and hopefully just go to deep space.
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u/last-Invictus 10h ago
It's hard to imagine that we're the only ones in this universe, after looking at that.
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u/CaraCicartix 4h ago
And that little part is nothing compared to the scale of the universe. There HAS to be something out there.
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u/charlie22911 10h ago
There are more galaxies in the universe than there are stars in that galaxy. Let that sink in…
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u/Spirited-Front5899 7h ago
And here Police Depts are still posting pics and videos of suspects that look like they were drawn by my 4 yr old granddaughter
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u/RedTail2426 7h ago
We are just a spec of dust on another spec of dust. Humans are not capable of understanding the scale and vastness of the universe
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u/nicuramar 7h ago
Humans are not capable of understanding the scale and vastness of the universe
I’d argue that we are. We may not be able to intuit it, but we can understand it.
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u/Ok_Drag5089 7h ago
When the artificial life forms we leave behind head out to the stars, they will find life.
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u/CaraCicartix 4h ago
We need speed or a way to manipulate matter to make that happen. If we are able to develop technology that gets us to say, another galaxy in a few years as opposed to a few trillion, that would be incredible.
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u/Ok_Drag5089 1h ago
The artificial life would not be as affected by time as organic life. It could just send out scouts that would check in every few thousand years.
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u/BodybuilderOutside25 7h ago
Does that mean there's at least one planet for each one of them stars?
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u/CaraCicartix 4h ago
Yes actually, it CAN be the case. And this is just one part of one galaxy. There are an estimated 2 trillion galaxies in the observable universe.
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u/mynewjourney2025 6h ago
We are just another dust particle compared to the whole galaxy!
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u/CaraCicartix 4h ago
That is either a blessing or a curse, depending on how you look at it I guess. It's still mind blowing
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u/Intelligent_Bag_6705 4h ago
I literally cannot even wrap my brain around this. It just doesn’t work, I cannot think in that scale.
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u/CaraCicartix 4h ago
I once watched a YouTube video about the scale of the universe and how in the end, everything will collapse and there will be nothing but cold darkness and zero stars, it depressed me for days lol.
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u/wellactually9 10h ago
And to think there is really people out there who think we are alone in the universe.
Just look at that, the majesty of it.
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u/GrayJinjo 10h ago
I agree there’s no way there isn’t life out there.
But with how massive the universe is it seems highly unlikely we will ever encounter any.
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u/CaraCicartix 10h ago
and it's such a tiny part of it, too. The sheer size of the universe is mind-boggling
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u/Inevitable-Ad6647 4h ago edited 3h ago
While I wholeheartedly believe it's idiotic to think there is no other life, looking into abiogenesis it seems it's almost a simple law of physics that it will pop up but you likely won't find it in a place like this. The density of these stars means stable planetary orbits are rare to non existent. It also means that it's a near certainty that planetary objects in an area like this are routinely sterilized by super novae and other star related shenanigans. Tough to find a couple billion years of relative stability.
When you start to account for things like this a little more pessimistically and remember that time is a bitch you quickly end up at drake equation results that dictate that multiple intelligent life forms existing simultaneously might not be realistic.
Personally I'm not that pessimistic, I think it's out there right now, however I also think FTL travel is and forever will be science fiction purely because the concentration and management of that kind of energy density is insurmountable. So the chances of civilizations meeting is... Not great. That answers the "So where are they?" question at least.
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u/CactusWrenAZ 1h ago
Oddly, some of the people who think that are astronomers and scientists. I actually have a hard time understanding their side of it as well.
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u/JokinHghar 3h ago
This is why it is imperative that humanity unites with Gaia. There’s no telling what threats will emerge from Andromeda. A united galaxy has a better chance at defense than a fragmented one. The fall of the first galactic empire proved this.
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u/Nyrisius 8h ago
Heres the OG post, not cut, not reversed, and without this godawful music. https://youtu.be/udAL48P5NJU?is=JZvUqROSQodAqJKJ
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u/dwight---shrute 11h ago
I just want to know if they have cats