#October2021
Most powerful space telescope ever will look into the “dark ages” of the universe. Careful, brother!
We must be careful when we peer into dark ages of the universe with the most powerful space telescope ever. For when we do, that motherfucker will peer back. Seriously though, I’m fucking stoked for what the James Webb telescope is gonna discover.
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There is growing evidence that the Universe is connected by giant unseen structures. Bruh, don’t get me excited.
Man, maybe! Just maybe. The Universe is connected by a cosmic web. or some shit Why are we even talking about this? It’s due to the fact that scientists have noticed that “some galaxies move together in odd and often unexplained patterns, as if they are connected” by some sort of fucking unseen force. How fucking sick is this?
World’s first AI Universe simulator learning things it shouldn’t be able to. Well, ain’t that grand!
If I’m being honest, I’m ready for our AI overloads. We’re cooking the planet and wasting one another. Let it put us into comfortable cages (we’re already there!) and maybe solve climate change. Or, you know. The origins of the universe.
Hubble confirms the Universe is expanding faster and faster. To the Heat Death, friends!
Well, the Universe is expanding faster than we thought. Proving, once again, we have a specious grasp on reality at best.
There Are *Way* More Galaxies In The Universe Than Previously Thought
An AstronomerWizard and his team have crunched the numbers and figured out something fucking staggering. There are *at least* 10 times as many galaxies in the Universe than previous thought. Motherfucker, we’re talking 700 billion trillion stars.
Video Shows Relative Size Of Planets, Stars, Universe. We Are Nothing!
This video starts with the Moon and then scales out and out and out until it reaches the largest known star. It’s a staggering moment of cosmic awesomeness. One of those “holy shit – this place the Universe is enormous!” type things.
Hit the jump for the video. Try and not existentiapuke.
We’re Small: The Universe Is AT LEAST 250x Larger Than It Looks.
Alasdair Wilkins over at io9 has some existential nausea for you. The universe? Apparently it is at least 250 times larger than it looks. Does that make no sense to you? Yeah, me either. Until! Until some elucidation:
So just how far can we see into the visible universe? Since the universe is about 14 billion years old, it seems obvious that we can only see within the nearest 14 billion light-years. But that isn’t quite right, as cosmic expansion has expanded the distance between us and the most distant cosmic objects to as much as 45 billion light-years. That means that there’s just about 90 billion light-years worth of visible universe that we can see.
But even that can’t compare with the full size of the universe. Of course, if we can’t see part of the universe, then we can’t actually know anything about it, because no other information will have had time to reach us either. But the trick is that the structure of the universe we are able to see can reveal its overall size. Basically, the universe can have one of three structures: a closed shape like a sphere, a flat shape, or a completely open one. Either of the last two would mean the universe is infinite, but a closed spherical shape would mean the universe has a definite volume.
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…here’s what they found – in all likelihood, the universe is flat, which means it has an infinite size. But if it is a closed sphere, then we have a lower limit for its size, which is about 250 times the size of our visible universe. Obviously, 250 times to infinite is a pretty big range, but it’s by far the tightest constraints ever put forward, and having an actual lower limit for the universe’s size could prove hugely useful in other areas of cosmology.
The nausea! The nausea.
