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1. tocs3 · 1790949784 · focus · HN ↗

   Amazing. Scrolling down one of the comments has an animation of starts around the center of the Milky Way. I have seen a few short ones of nebulae. There should be much much more of this sort of thing.

   I appreciate that scientist are not always after the pretty pictures. They can be expensive, do not always give the data needed, and the experiments do not always produce data that has obvious pretty picture potential. Still, for the average non professional scientist (me) the pictures are about all I will ever get out of the science.

   1. pavel_lishin · 1791036622 · focus · HN ↗

      Direct link: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bsky.app&#x2F;profile&#x2F;sagastar.bsky.social&#x2F;post&#x2F;3mwucitftzs2o" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bsky.app&#x2F;profile&#x2F;sagastar.bsky.social&#x2F;post&#x2F;3mwucitft...

      Imagine living on a planet circling a star circling a black hole. This thing in the sky just growing bigger and smaller in your sky on a 12 year, or longer, cycle.

      I wonder what Sag A* would look like in the night sky.

      1. mr_toad · 1791055031 · focus · HN ↗

         A million solar masses of stuff (stars and gases) orbiting within a parsec of the black hole would be quite a view even without the accretion disk.

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