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This does happen sometimes, the orbits intersect.

>>3745732
Indeed, this was the case for a good chunk of the nineties

Before Charon was discovered (1986) people didn't realize how small Pluto really was.
Uranus and Neptune were also shrouded in mystery before Voyager 2 reached them in 86 and 89 respectively.
Kuiper Belt Objects and the like were discovered even later.

/vr/ solar system thread

>>3745765
>That Moon orbit.

>>3745723

https://youtu.be/4A9n14uvsYo

>>3745723
https://youtu.be/Sh2-P8hG5-E

https://youtu.be/qDIW4RHwebk

>>3745765

well that didn't pan out

>>3746170
I want that link.

>>3746191
http://en.nikon.ca/nikon-products/product/compact-digital-cameras/coolpix-p900.html

https://youtu.be/abLKzCaenvE

http://radiocomunicazioni.org/files/pdf/Santilli_ITE-paper-12-15-15.pdf

>>3746175

>>3746280

>>3746274
https://youtu.be/A1G3EG9SgIg

>>3746307
https://youtu.be/XAHprLW48no

It s happening

https://youtu.be/H7NaxBxFWSo

>>3746170
Can I get a link to that video

>>3746658
>>3746263

>>3745723
If that game was made between 1979 and 1999, it is accurate. Pluto was actually (temporarily) closer to the Sun than Neptune (as it is for a couple decades every three centuries or so). Pluto's orbit is much more elliptical than any of the large planets.

>>3746170
Stars don't look anything like those images. You can see some pretty amazing and complex forms in space, such as uniquely distorted galaxies and nebulae, but they are many millions of times larger than stars.

Anyone can download raw image data from most of the world's most capable observatories, including the Hubble Space Telescope (which has a clearer view of stars than most earthbound observatories, because it is above the distorting effects of the atmosphere). Here's a published and captioned image (not the same thing as the raw data you can download, but you could reconstruct this image if you did) showing the first observation to actually resolve a star (to see it as more than a single pixel or point of light).

Betelgeuse is a very large star that is also nearby compared to other large stars, giving us a better view of it.

>>3746696
https://www.youtube.com/shared?ci=c06KvpYu-XM

https://www.youtube.com/shared?ci=bqnFgFQliFA

https://books.google.ca/books/about/Worlds_Beyond_the_Poles.html?id=A_6GwBXIHJoC

>>3746696
https://www.youtube.com/shared?ci=6cxnO3686kM

>>3746770
That's not a picture of anything except noise. You can magnify an image as much as you want but you won't be able to pick up more detail that way. Astronomical instruments operated by knowledgeable astronomers (many of them are amateurs by the way--you don't have to trust "establishment" scientists) are calibrated so that the digital images they record have a resolution that matches the smallest resolvable feature recoverable by their optics. Generally speaking the bigger the lens, the smaller the smallest detail you can see. Note that this has nothing to do with the magnification. I could use a series of small lenses to magnify an image of a star many thousands of times, but the picture this would produce would only show atmospheric noise and flaws in the lenses or the detector on top of some blurry, shifting light from the observed object.

Or you could just try looking through a telescope. You can even build one yourself (with much more resolving power than a telephoto lens on a commercial DSLR).

/vr/ is going /sci/ today? Sure, why not.
Picture taken through the eyepiece of my own telescope of the last transit of Venus.

>>3745723
I'm thinking of making a completely unscientific game just to fuck with people obsessed with scientific accuracy.

>Earth is flat
>Earth is 6000 years old
>Heavy objects fall faster than light objects
>People have never gone to the moon

>>3747181
Good, Good, but add:

>People can breathe in space and on other planets
>You can speak in space
>Aliens speak english
>The sun is the biggest star ever.

>>3746179
sounds just like strong wind recorded with a broken mic

am I in /x/ right now?

>>3746818
cool stuff anon!

>>3747181

Use the greek pre-gravitational theory explanations for why things fall, as in 'things tend to return to their natural place'. Rocks tend to come back to the ground when you throw them into the air because they naturally belong on the earth and not in the sky.

>>3746818
I didn't have any fancy pants telescopes of filters, so I took a small mirror, covered it in tape except for a fraction of a cm^2, and then reflected the sun's rays onto my house; the tiny bit of exposed mirror acted as a pinhole camera. I couldn't see Venus as clearly as you, but I unmistakably saw it.

>>3748931
How was the weather for you? As you can probably tell from that photo, it was cloudy as fuck that day for me, and I only got a precious few breaks in the clouds which each only lasted about 30 seconds. The day was a bust, sadly, and it's literally a twice-in-a-lifetime event too. Oh well.

>>3745732
Came here to say this exact thing. Thanks anon for being educated!