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If intelligent design were true they would have made the labels bigger

A Star Trek convention once asked our astronomy club to set up our scopes. It was so muggy that no stars were visible. I set an Astronomy magazine across the tennis court so they could look at something in my SCT. One lady was impressed that the telescope identified the galaxies. Sheesh!

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But, unfortunately, it is blocked by Starlink satellites.

Duh, my phone can do this for years. Unbelievable how powerful mobile phone cameras have become…

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Alternative title text: “One remaining problem is when the label makers neglect to include a unit next to the distance value. It has caused a great deal of angry letters from the Catalina Sky Survey; one among several organizations.”

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I needed the chuckle.. Thank you

Twinkle twinkle litttle...*squints, adjusts fiddly bit on new telescope*

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Then the star is moving away from you and you can mark it as red on your star map.

you might be using a reflecting telescope instead of refracting

And that deserves a follow! 😂😂😂

So THATS what those are! I thought I just had a smudge on the lens!

Okay, that's cool. But can they read the Best By or Use By dates on food products?

cosmic sans

That means we really are living in a simulation 😂

Yep

Don’t kid yourself. Some of those “little” labels are like 20 miles wide.

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And they still can’t take pictures of the lunar lander in high res?

The downside being that since the universe is expanding the text is only valid at the time the measurement was taken, and no longer.

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Enjoy it while it lasts… 😔 english.elpais.com/science-tech...

Is there a time stamp on that?

The people who wrote those labels were considerate enough to use English.

red shift is when you press shift to make the text bigger

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Still can't find the close button on an ad.

It would take a Type III Kardashev to construct actual visible distance labels in orbit around every star in the Milky Way. Better than a planet of paperclips. The paperclip apocalypse ought to be renamed the star label apocalypse. Whole solar systems would have to be rearranged.

I told you all the firmament was real.

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They look the same because of how the Earth spins. At least until it lands on heads or tails.

Day 3 of factoring xkcd comics 3066 = 2×3×7×73

Finally, some clarity!

Twist: the distances are in multiples of the atomic diameter of an element we haven’t discovered yet.

U should use Nibiruan ones

And we though it would never be possible

Standard candle measurements are almost total bollocks just like the big bang just my opinion

The one I’m looking at says, “If you can read this, you are too close.”

James-Webb shows that the labels are made of rocky planetary matter that also have tiny labels made of asteroids.

If the green light is on the left, the star is moving toward you.

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Was that a SpaceX telescope? I heard they lean to the Xtreme Right so their calibrations must be off...

I had one of those once, read it and my neighbors cat died.

Except they wasted the quantum state on whether it shows you Imperial or Metric

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Super engaging post!

Those crosshairs though!

Why would people even want to read the boring labels wtf lol

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I've noticed this with my large scope and goto app.

If I was in astronomy instead of data science, this is exactly how my managers would sound 😬

Smart asses.

Cosmic humor

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Wow!

I was wondering when the big G was gonna update 😕 Been a long time since light

Cool

Finally!

But are they strong enough to read the fine print on drug labels?

Red shift ...

I needed a chuckle!

I actually laughed out loud at this.

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youtu.be/EqsUEakFVuQ?...

No doubt the first tier of graduates from the reordered public school system under the Trump.

Searching "night sky" on YouTube brings many results of the stars, in time lapse and real time. When you said "deep space," I assumed you meant images of far away objects like the photos NASA posts of nebulae and such. Those are not possible to make videos of.

looking forward to the day when we can read the care labels. My red dwarfs keep bleeding into my supernovas

Title text: "This is the biggest breakthrough since astronomers noticed that the little crosshairs around red giant stars starting to burn helium are all the same size." Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3066#Transcript

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Distance or time since the the photons set off?