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5715, w Milky Way may not be destroyed in galactic smash-up after all

Much more likely is that the galaxies will zoom relatively close to each other – say, a little under 500,000 light years away.

In To Sleep In A Sea Of Stars by C. Paolini, there is a group that aims to prevent or circumvent the heat death of the universe, although the post-human civilisation has barely touched a few star systems (<30 ly). In a similar fashion, I recommend to take the necessary steps to build up a galaxy defense force soon.

Timecircleline, w Milky Way may not be destroyed in galactic smash-up after all

The one thing I had to look forward too. Dang.

Nougat, w Milky Way may not be destroyed in galactic smash-up after all

Even when the galaxies do collide, the number of stars passing close enough to each other to disturb any planetary systems is zero.

LodeMike, w Milky Way may not be destroyed in galactic smash-up after all

Near nothing in the galaxy would be destroyed anyway because most of space is empty.

CidVicious,
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True but the aesthetics of the galaxies would be totally wrecked.

LodeMike,

😭

Grimtuck, w Milky Way may not be destroyed in galactic smash-up after all

Glad to hear it, I’ll uncancel my milk delivery.

keepthepace, (edited ) w Johannes Kepler's accidental marriage equation – ParallaxNick (15:42)

Everytime he is mentionned this webcomic en tête springs into my mind, and I can’t help giggle out of it.

j4k3,
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https://web.archive.org/web/20250531115053im_/http://www.harkavagrant.com/history/tychosm.png

Took me a minute… I have to jump through many self made hoops to get new websites through my firewall’s DNS filter and I don’t enable http. It is however on archive. I’m probably the only nerd here with such masochistic network, but whatever. Thanks for the comment. Tycho was a character, that’s for sure.

Zachariah, w The New, Farthest Galaxy has Been Found by Webb. Only 280 Million Years After the Big Bang
@Zachariah@lemmy.world avatar

The JWST has done it again. The powerful space telescope has already revealed the presence of bright galaxies only several hundred million years after the Big Bang. Now, it’s sensed light from a galaxy only 280 million years after the Big Bang, the most distant galaxy ever detected.

Prior to the JWST, we had no infrared telescopes with large enough mirrors to detect light from the early galaxies. The Hubble can see near-infrared light, but only has a 2.4-meter mirror. It found only one galaxy from the Universe’s 500 million years. The Spitzer Space Telescope was a dedicated infrared telescope, but it only had an 85 cm mirror. Not only does the JWST have a much larger mirror, but detector technology has advanced so much that the veil obscuring the early Universe is being lifted one ancient galaxy at a time.

MonkderVierte, w New dwarf planet spotted at the edge of the solar system

How do Sedna and that new one have a stable orbit? Are they that fast, to be able to compensate the movement of Pluto?

edgemaster72, (edited ) w New dwarf planet spotted at the edge of the solar system
@edgemaster72@lemmy.world avatar

Obviously there’s a Planet X out there, where else would Chemical X come from

https://comicvine.gamespot.com/a/uploads/scale_medium/11/111746/3010576-4549542249-Chemic.jpeg

MadMadBunny, w New dwarf planet spotted at the edge of the solar system

So, draft planet 8.1 ? 8.3 because of Pluto and Charron?

collapse_already,

Don’t forget Eris. Weighs more than Pluto.

MadMadBunny,

Oh shit yeah… So, 8.4 then?

JadenSmith, w New dwarf planet spotted at the edge of the solar system

They prefer to be called little planets, tyvm.

Assian_Candor, w New dwarf planet spotted at the edge of the solar system
@Assian_Candor@hexbear.net avatar

Pluto defenders in shambles

But I am not sure how to process this as a planet X fan

TankieTanuki,

planet X

my-hero 🪐

Edit: Also, Pluto would totally whoop Planet X’s ass one-to-one!

NigelFrobisher, w New dwarf planet spotted at the edge of the solar system

When we hit the floor you just watch them move aside
We will take them for a ride of rides
They all love your miniature ways
You know what they say about small boys

MasterBlaster, w New dwarf planet spotted at the edge of the solar system

dibs

tiny_hedgehog, w New dwarf planet spotted at the edge of the solar system

“The object is currently about 90.5 astronomical units (AU) away from us, or roughly 90 times as far from Earth as the sun is.”

This sentence pissed me off so much and I stopped reading after it.

It is 90.5 times as far from the Sun as the Earth is from the Sun. Why’d you have to go and change the frame of reference to Earth?

AlbinoPython,

I mean, they said “roughly”.

corsicanguppy,

Like, give or take one AU, throughout the year.

tiny_hedgehog,

Fair, but annoying to the pendantic.

powerofm,

“It’s 20.5°C outside or roughly 20 notches on your thermometer (except for americans)”

ThermonuclearEgg,
@ThermonuclearEgg@hexbear.net avatar

Here’s another article that doesn’t do this for anyone else that would prefer it:

phys.org/…/2025-05-extreme-cousin-pluto-dwarf-pla…

Etterra,

Well it’s a good frame of reference because it’s where most of us keep all our stuff.

Zos_Kia,
@Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com avatar

Talk about putting all our eggs in the same basket smh

Kichae,

It didn’t. It’s 90.5 AU from us, and us is Earth. Or do you live on the Sun?

tiny_hedgehog,

If we are 1AU from the sun, and this planet is 90AU from the sun, then it is between 89 and 91 AUs from earth depending on the progress of our orbits (assuming perfectly circular orbits). So they did change the frame of reference.

lud,

This dwarf planet is 90 AU from US not from the sun. They just said that the dwarf planet is 90 AU away from us and that 1 AU is equal to the distance between the sun and the earth.

But since the dwarf planets orbit is extremely eccentric that varies heavily.

tiny_hedgehog,

You are right. I stand corrected.

remotelove,
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They didn’t change the reference, they defined an AU.

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