/sci/ - Science & Math

>>7381070
I find that strangely satisfying, most space photos are so perfect they almost look like rendered pictures.

Picture related, looks like a low quality render, it's simply too perfect.

It's comforting in a way, you know how these things are supposed to look like, there isn't any strange physics that take place. It's just a directional light source and a sphere, and it make sense.

How scary would it be to be on a moon looking out at Jupiter?

Bumping with an old favorite. Appreciate the threads OP.

>mfw JWST and EELT will bring unprecedentedly detailed APODS and astronomy in general in the near future

Glad to see this thread, OP. Here's a favorite of mine:

2012 April 8

How big is Jupiter's moon Io? The most volcanic body in the Solar System, Io (usually pronounced "EYE-oh") is 3,600 kilometers in diameter, about the size of planet Earth's single large natural satellite. Gliding past Jupiter at the turn of the millennium, the Cassini spacecraft captured this awe inspiring view of active Io with the largest gas giant as a backdrop, offering a stunning demonstration of the ruling planet's relative size. Although in the above picture Io appears to be located just in front of the swirling Jovian clouds, Io hurtles around its orbit once every 42 hours at a distance of 420,000 kilometers or so from the center of Jupiter. That puts Io nearly 350,000 kilometers above Jupiter's cloud tops, roughly equivalent to the distance between Earth and Moon. The Cassini spacecraft itself was about 10 million kilometers from Jupiter when recording the image data.

Bumping with APOD

http://www.futuretimeline.net/index.htm

Warning: past 2030, this spirals into kurzwiel/kaku singularity stuff pretty quick. Awesome up to then though

thinking she might be different and opening up.