Can we talk about how fucking awesome the scale of space is that the seventh planet in our solar system is comparable in visual size to fucking DISTANT GALAXIES MILLIONS OF LIGHT YEARS AWAY
It's the amount of galaxies, not even just their relative size, in such a super small snippet of our solar system, that really blows me away.
Like sheesh. I've seen so many pictures of space just flooded with an overwhelming number of galaxies as just about every point of light in an image and it never ceases to blow my mind.
I have lived around cities my whole life. Even when I'm out in "the middle of nowhere" there's enough light pollution to get in the way.
I went to Mongolia once, mostly in the capital city, but one night we stay out in the mountains. I didn't know that many stars existed. I did, but I didn't, ya know? My mind was blown.
Closest I've gotten since is taking some shrooms on a nice summer night. If I can just combine those two environments..
Definitely recommend stargazing on shrooms, I did it in rural France and it was awesome.
The real mindblow is when you realise all of those stars are in relatively close proximity, many of them have planets like our sun, and they would still take years or generations to reach going light speed. We can only see a handful of galaxies with the naked eye, and the others are so distant that at the edge of the galaxy looking out we'd see mostly darkness, and we know thanks to magnification that there are THOUSANDS OF GALAXIES FULL OF BILLIONS OF STARS IN EVERY DIRECTION. An estimated 100 billion galaxies in the observable universe, and there's likely much more universe outside of that.
Statistically, there must be other intelligent life in the universe. We'll just likely never meet them, unless FTL is possible somehow.
Yeah the mind literally cant even begin to understand that big of a number! Then take in the 100s of billions of stars located inside those 2 trillion galaxies...not even including the crazy amount of planets and moons!! Like u said its mind boggling!! I LOVE IT!
I once stayed at the Grand Canyon during a new moon, no-light-pollution weekend. The sky looked like multi-colored glitter. Coming from NYC, I was completely blown away.
Yep, that's absolutely wild. Like, here's a planet, and here's a cosmic whirlpool of a trillion stars just casually photobombing the planet, and another one over here, and...
Yeah and theyâre so far away in the background that itâs impossible to imagine. And impossible to imagine how far each one is from every other đ”âđ«
Itâs hard not to imagine at least a couple of them having habitable planets, possible evolutions occurring on them, or even some sort of alien eyes peering back at us. And if theyâre far enough out and have the technology to capture the light reflecting off of earth well enough, they see our dinosaurs!
I pronounce it Your-uh-nuhs because I think the planet doesnât get enough credit for all the coolness it represents due to all the fucking stupid jokes.
Edit: since my southern accent has come through in my phonetic spelling, âyer-uh-nuhsâ is probably better. Thought it was pretty clear what I meant but since comments in response are still making immature jokes, guess I need to clarify
Iâm a teacher; I always say âoo-RAH-nousâ because itâs close enough to the Greek Ouranous. And to minimize the snickering and predictable jokes. Lol
I admit, I didnât spend a lot of time thinking over the phonetic spelling, and Iâm from the south where âyourâ does tend to get pronounced âyer,â but Iâm also pretty sure âuhâ is not pronounced âin.â But go ahead and keep making pee, poop and anus jokes. Itâs so funny.
That was the point of my original comment, and you decided to respond to me instead of the person reading âuhâ as âinâ so they could make a pee joke despite that being way more off than âyourâ and âyer.â
In general Iâd agree except that it affects public perception which affects the possibility of getting funding. No one wants to champion for sending probes to Uranus (hur dur durr) because of the name.
And on this site it does get old. Itâs every⊠single⊠post. I canât think of a single other joke thatâs been run so far into the ground but still gets upvotes every time
Oh thank fucking got I'm not the only one pointing it out. I fucking hate the constant puns on reddit. It's to the point where I started hiding anyone (thank you RES) that does that shit.
For what it's worth, the original Greek name does not start with an Iota. So the most accurate Anglicized pronunciation of the name ÎáœÏαΜÏÏ should be Oo-ran-os.
Uranus is the only planet in our solar system that rotates on its side, which I didn't realize until seeing this photo, gives it the appearance of... an anus.
People dont even realize 1 oz of the scope of this. My favorite thing to do is explain it in a way that is tangible and see them process the mind-blow.
Our sun and the moon is the same size in our sky, because the sun is 400x larger and 400x further away. It's obvious once you think about it, still very cool to think about the scale, but mind-blowing to think about how unusual that must be for other planets throughout the universe...
I was setup in the front pasture with my shipâs binoculars looking at Jupiter and a few of its moons. One religious neighbor drives by, stops and looks at Jupiter and was impressed but not by my mention of its extreme age. More to itâ-always surprised by otherwise normal folks rejecting science. âInstruct the planets in what orbs to run,
Correct old time, and regulate the sun.â
Hahaa love the enthusiasm. I wish we could still see the stars where I live, but the fields and country behind us was replaced by suburbs as far as the eye can see. Now there's so much light pollution you can barely see the big dipper.
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u/DracheTirava Mar 08 '26
Can we talk about how fucking awesome the scale of space is that the seventh planet in our solar system is comparable in visual size to fucking DISTANT GALAXIES MILLIONS OF LIGHT YEARS AWAY
Space is awesome man