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The Antipop posted:
Here's a zoom-in on Jupiter's rapeface: http://i40.tinypic.com/34gspk2.jpg (3mb)
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| # ¿ May 2, 2010 16:16 |
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| # ¿ May 21, 2013 19:56 |
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Kippling posted:Can anybody provide some information on the picture on the right? The caption says it's the output of some sort of model but... can anybody elaborate?  It's just a neat looking coincidence.
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| # ¿ May 5, 2010 08:33 |
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cadex posted:It's pretty short sighted to call it a coincidence. I'll agree to disagree in the case of galaxies. I think it's governed more by randomness and gravity (there's no proof yet one way or the other). Also, The Witch Head Nebula: 
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| # ¿ May 5, 2010 23:34 |
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NoEyedSquareGuy posted:Io: I always thought Io was kinda gross looking, and this view ain't helping.
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| # ¿ Aug 15, 2010 01:37 |
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HAND SOLO posted:Why can black holes emit radiation - or emit anything at all? I know that waves are not quite the same as particles, but I did think that an extremely strong gravitational force distorted waves as well. When a black hole is absorbing large amounts of gas (like the giant holes at the center of galaxies pretty much always do), the gas will start forming a giant disk around the equator, that heats up and radiates... radiation. There's also Hawking Radiation(first theorized by what's-his-name), that can slowly be emitted due to weird quantum effects and probability. Eventually even black holes should 'evaporate' after the universe pretty much burns out.
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| # ¿ Aug 25, 2010 10:14 |
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Stare-Out posted:I don't know what the current consensus on this is and I can't remember where I read about this but one theory is that there are massive amounts of these groups of two particles in the Universe that blink in and out of existence, more specifically by spinning around each other and then cancelling each other out by colliding, and when this happens near the event horizon of a black hole, one half of the pair gets sucked into the black hole and the other half gets launched into the opposite direction which, considering the amount of these particles, would show off as being something being emitted from a black hole. That sounds like Hawking Radiation, I think.
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| # ¿ Aug 25, 2010 15:30 |
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Leandros posted:Are you serious? Pretty much every picture from space is composited one way or another. The fact that this one is made just from actual photos rather than rendering poo poo on a computer is pretty loving amazing. Yeah, they're about as "fake" as a Google Maps close-up.
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| # ¿ Mar 20, 2011 00:19 |
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| # ¿ May 21, 2013 19:56 |
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bimmian posted:
Oh come on, that is clearly a turtle: 
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| # ¿ Jun 13, 2011 09:20 |
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