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Wonder of ScienceA beautiful timelapse of the Milky Way galaxy over the ESO 3.6-metre telescope at La Silla in Chile.
Credit: ESO/S. Brunier
Hamish Buchanan@wonderofscience It’s been far too long since I’ve been in a sufficiently dark place on a clear night to see the Milky Way.
Maj - 🇨🇦@wonderofscience I wonder if we're all going slightly mad because we never see the stars.
PeterWe live on the road, and one of the greatest pleasures I have is to wander outside at night and just look up. It's beautiful and awe-inspiring, out there. The worries just melt away. Being stuck somewhere for a while where the stars are hidden by light pollution is horrible.
Martin Vermeer FCD@maj @wonderofscience Reasonable suspicion. Remembering this old classic
https://www.astro.sunysb.edu/fwalter/AST389/TEXTS/Nightfall.htm
@martinvermeer @wonderofscience That's one of my favorite stories!
@maj @wonderofscience The argument is actually somewhat the opposite of what you suggested. But I think you are also right: the stars are what uplifted mankind to civilization.
Remembering this book from my childhood, that eloquently defended precisely that understanding.
Martin Vermeer FCD (@martinvermeer@fediscience.org)
@AnnFinkbeiner@sciencemastodon.com @jab01701mid@mastodon.social This was one of the first things I learned, from my father's astronomy book when I was still in primary school. The last figure in this chapter. Wonderful book! https://www.gutenberg.org/files/59744/59744-h/59744-h.htm?page%20=55#chapter08
enoch_exe_inc@wonderofscience You know, it’s striking how much debris there is in space that just intersects with the atmosphere and burns up as meteors. You don’t even have to wait very long to see one; just stare up at the skies on a clear night and a brief streak of light will just happen every so often.
Su_GIt is a beautiful time-lapse; of the Milky Way; I'm richer for having watched it. Thank you for sharing it. 🙂
Are those streaks falling stars - I wish, I wish - or are they spacejunk like xSpaceXyuckYuck - do you know? Does anyone know? 😐
@Su_G @wonderofscience To me they look like ordinary satellites passing, like you will see when you spend half an hour outside and let your eyes adapt. Be aware that this time lapse is considerably sped up.
Karna Samarium@wonderofscience I always wonder if this is camera tricker with exposure and such or if this is how naked eyes see, can someone clarify
@Fakepivot @wonderofscience This shows way more stars than the naked eye can see, I would guess down to a limiting magnitude of 10, when the unaided eye goes down to 6. More like what you would see with binoculars, but with a spectacularly wider field of view.
@wonderofscience I really want to see a sequence of these from different years, showing the difference in how much satellites affect the view