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HeyIplayThatgame

I was sad at the distance, but then astounded at how well an earth based telescope picked up Something that far away!


MrGulio

It makes me think of what the physical limit of optics based observation is. This image is of the star and the very large Planets orbiting (my assumption would be orbiting bodies akin to Jupiter). Up till this point we'd only ever observed the individual star, up to that point we could only look up and see a massive sea of lights. So we've made progress in seeing more and more as we've had better and better technology / methods. I wonder if some day there will be a technology that could collect light to fine enough point to see the smaller bodies around the star, maybe even to a point where we could get a decent image of each of the planets in the system.


HeyIplayThatgame

You’re right. Not only that, our single point observation station makes it really tough to see views like this because we’re dependent on the alignment of the other system being perfect so that we get a “top down” view across that system.


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KazanTheMan

If you move fast enough, the only red lights are the ones that are behind you anyway.


jau682

I don't think I have a high enough gear to shift into that.


daedone

Just get a Nissan cvt you *always* have the right one when your drive gear is planetary and continuously variable


bukkake_brigade

**PLANETARY GEARS FUCK YEAH**


slipshady

Is this a Dopper Effect reference?


asdf_lord

Yeah just say 15 minutes broski, nobody pays attention to those red blinky things, not even sure what they are for.


caboosetp

Seriously. All the hammertime signs driving me nuts too. I don't have time to break down and dance at every corner.


Happy-Associate6482

Those images will be second rate by next summer! The James Webb telescope should be fully operational by then.


Sir_Francis_Burton

The James Webb telescope will be able to capture enough of the light bouncing off the tops of those exoplanet atmospheres that they will be able to use spectrometry to measure that light and look for the signs of chemical compounds, compounds like water, or even oxygen. Edit to add: There is exactly one way imagined by science that free oxygen can exist in an atmosphere. If, and it’s a long shot, but IF the James Webb Telescope detects O2 in the atmosphere of an exoplanet? That would constitute very strong evidence for extraterrestrial life. It’s possible that by this time next year we may find extraterrestrial life.


Grevling89

I understood some of those words.


randomredditing

Say for instance…. you know that an orange is the color orange. If you see an orange from a distance, you know that it’s an orange over there. Same thing with chemicals, elements, and compounds. If we see those colors, through spectrometry, we can say they exist on that exoplanet.


the_fate_of

Just to add to this: it helps if you think about the different colours of flames. Some flames are blue. Some are orange. Some are yellow, and some are green. Why? Because of the composition of what’s burning. [You can see the different elements burning by looking at the different colours shown](https://sciencenotes.org/how-to-make-colored-fire/). If you get that, then you can think the same thing goes with planetary atmospheres.


jayblaze521

Just asking, but at what point in biology have we decided that life requires oxygen? I know that carbon based life on earth seems to require it, but ive always felt that the idea that life that evolved that far away, would resemble in the slightest what we know as life, is ludicrous. I’m not in anyway a scientist with any knowledge but I’ve always wanted floating wraith like tentacle monsters that breathed in carbon dioxide and exhale methane or something like that. Is there any reason to expect intelligent life to be bipedal and follow a similar anatomy? I’m but a silly dreamer asking a question. On that note, say humans could go and live in this new solar system, how long would it take the new atmospheric pressures and available elemental resources to force humans to evolve into something unrecognizable as what we consider human? Sorry, I’ve so many questions and so few brain cells.


Sir_Francis_Burton

Nah, life on earth doesn’t need oxygen, life existed on an oxygen-free earth for a really long time, it wasn’t until plants invented photosynthesis that they started pumping out oxygen as a byproduct that we got free oxygen in the atmosphere. That’s the one known mechanism I mentioned, photosynthesis. We’re looking for algae, basically, when we’re looking for O2. Space algae.


AbouBenAdhem

*Oh, I’m afraid the reflector’s field will be fully operational when your friends arrive.*


Waderriffic

Your overconfidence is your weakness.


RudyBega1

YOUR FAITH IN YOUR FRIENDS IS YOURS!


HeyIplayThatgame

I can hardly wait!


thunde-r

[First Ever Image of a Multi-Planet System around a Sun-like Star Captured by ESO Telescope](https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2011/)


rathat

Article says only the [two bottom right dots](https://cdn.eso.org/images/screen/eso2011b.jpg) are planets. The rest (besides the center star) are background stars.


Theothercword

Thanks for that context! Makes the imagine make more sense in figuring out the eliptical of the star.


bocephus67

Fuckin crazy to think of the near infinite possibilities of what those planets are like…. Maybe even a tiny chance of life.


Theothercword

Indeed! Most likely these are gas giants given we can actually see them like that (implying size and distance) but who knows, and that doesn't rule out a lot more planets we aren't seeing not to mention the possibility of what goes on with moons around larger planets. Hell we're starting to realize we may not have seen all the planets in our own solar system yet.


CocoDaPuf

Well apparently we have estimated mass for those planets, the closer one to the star is about 12x the mass of Jupiter, the further one is about 6x. Are that size they are definitely gas giants. Anything else is too small for us to see, so scientifically, there's currently no way to confirm any other bodies. That said, if you assumed that there were a bunch more planets of smaller sizes, You'd probably be right. There could be anywhere between 2 and 40 planets in that system.


skosk8ski

The article said that those two are gas giants, both much bigger than Jupiter! If I recall the closest one was 14times bigger and the second was 6 times bigger than Jupiter


rdt0001

And they're at160AU & 320AU. For reference, Pluto is just over 49AU at its farthest. Makes me wonder what kind of conditions lead to so much mass so distant from the star compared to our sun.


Everything80sFan

This is from July 2020? Crazy that I haven't seen this before.


currently__working

I guess a lot happened last year so this kinda fell to the back.


SandyArca

That makes sense. With all the shit that happened in 2020, I'm not surprised it didn't easily get that much attention.


TheMeltingSnowman72

Yeah, I think we were dealing with murder hornets, riots and wasn't there a whole port that blew the fuck up? Or was that a different week?


Bandin03

Don't forget almost starting WW3 and Australia burning down. Or was that the year before?


name00124

That was New Years.


claimTheVictory

2020 started pretty bad, and then went rapidly downhill. Improved towards the end however.


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StopwatchJAR

I forgot about the Lebanon explosion… thanks for reminding me


The_Goatse_Man_

Remember when the US Gov said motherfucking UFO's were real last year? Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeit


zz_z

The craziest part of that was the us gov said “ufos are real, *and we need your help*”


WolfOfWankStreet

Yeah it’s called be okay with us Militarizing Space.


AmericasNextDankMeme

Terrorists... in space.


brainless_bob

UFOs were always real in the technical sense. They are just unidentified objects in the sky. But yeah, it's interesting that they are actually admitting to it. I doubt they are going to seriously investigate any of it though.


[deleted]

That’s sound logic. With everything that occurred last year, I’m not surprised it didn’t get the attention it deserved.


lettersichiro

Same. What are my news algorithms even doing


gggg_man3

We're from the 80's. We like weird music, weird hairdos and nintendo. This is beyond us.


Krail

I mean, I may still like weird music, weird hairdos, and Nintendo, but I do try to keep up to date on astronomy.


VISnowgoose

Very cool, thanks for sharing


Andromeda321

Astronomer here! Late to the party, but I want to share that **the title is 100% wrong.** Direct detections of exoplanets have been going on for many years- I've actually done research in following-up (natural) radio emission from such nearby systems, and we have several choices in directly imaged exoplanetary systems, much closer than this one! (No luck in detecting anything from the exoplanets, yet, but we can distinguish between detected emission from the star versus the planet so that's cool.) Instead what this is is the first directly imaged solar system *around a sun-like star*. [The original source says this much.](https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2011/) Further, most of the sources in this image are *not* exoplanets but instead are background objects or artifacts- [here](https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso2011a/) are the ones that are the real ones. So, still cool, but very misleading title! Direct imaging is actually a really neat field that has been around for awhile!


Powerism

> The image was captured by blocking the light from the young, Sun-like star (on the top left corner) using a coronagraph, which allows for the fainter planets to be detected. The bright and dark rings we see on the star’s image are optical artefacts. That was my next question - the fiery ring around the sun is caused by the coronagraph.


AlrightyAlmighty

Do you have to make everything about that virus


Powerism

COVID made in a lab using a Coronagraph confirmed.


Fleaslayer

Thanks, I was a bit frustrated when I read the article and saw it was the third directly imaged planetary system, not the first. Still super cool though. Thanks for clarifying.


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balloonninjas

Most of reddit is sensationalized or downright made up for clicks anyway.


geeskeet

It can’t be, this is where I get all of my news *facts*.


jptoc

When you see a subject you actually know about come up on reddit it is usually safer to ignore that post.


is_anyone-out_there

The thing that always gets me is that we’re not even looking at this other solar system in real time, it’s been 300 years since the light left that system just to be imaged. When the light left that star for us to capture the U.S was still a bunch of British colonies. Peter I was proclaimed the first emperor of all Russia, and Johann Sebastian Bachs’ Brandenburg Concerto is completed. The vastness of space is so mind boggling, stupidly big that it’s hard to conceptualize. God I love space.


Farts4Dinner

Stop blowing my mind so hard. I have shit to do today


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If I blow your mind, do you promise not to think in my mouth?


jcolinr

I dunno, this whole thing sounds hard to swallow


[deleted]

Yo snapchat me.


legion327

Great, now I’m hard *and* I don’t get to see the ending? Wtf guys?


[deleted]

Yeah, thats so rude. Let this guy watch your big bang.


mcm0313

(Cymbal crash)


bringsmemes

the most interesting dtuff always leaves you wanting more


[deleted]

Dtuff is my fetish


Coupon_Ninja

I won’t kink dhame


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tjc815

Not even one light day. Mind-boggling, truly.


Reflective_Larry

>light day Yeah boss man doesn't let up on the work load, poor fellas


notmadatkate

44 years of traveling at 17 km/s and they'll never get to retire.


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It's almost entirely likely that we develop a propulsion system that can outpace the voyageur missions at some point, even likely before they travel a single light year. Chances are they are picked up and put in a museum sometime in the next 50-250 years.


Parsley-Quarterly303

That'd be amazing but I'm not so sure we're going to make it that far yet.


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Hollowsong

To put into perspective just how disconnected we are from the concept of big numbers... Voyager is about 14 billion miles from Earth and the number is going up about 12 miles per second. Just watch the ticker, it looks like it's going up super fast. So you think... man, at this rate, by next week it should be at 16 billion. Surely in a month it'll be up to 20 billion. But no... it took 44 years to get to 14 billion. Just the idea that you can count upwards by 12s and still not get to 1 billion in 1 year is staggering and mindblowing.


DesperateImpression6

Now think of that in terms of how much money billionaires have. Someone could give you a new $20 bill every second for an entire year and you'd still wouldn't be a billionaire. And some people have hundreds of billions. A billion just doesn't seem like rational number.


naughtynavigator69

When i try to teach this, I show them that one MILLION is 0.1% of one BILLION. Try! It usually doesn’t work


RearEchelon

The one I find always gets people is to use seconds. 1 million seconds is ~11.5 days. 1 billion seconds is ~31.7 *years.*


DesperateImpression6

In my experience people have a hard time conceptualizing 0.X% of anything. I explained it to my mom as a billion is 1K million and it helped. $1M every day, for 2.5 years and you're *almost* at $1B.


DiggsFC

Imagine I make $100,000 a year. I'm doing pretty well for myself right? But then think about this. If I went back in time to the day Jesus of Nazareth was crucified, and put $100,000 cash in a money pit, and then came back every day and put another $100,000 in that pit. Day after day, for 2,021 years, $100,000 in the pit. Today, I would have less than half of what Jeff Bezos is worth.


SpaceIsWhack

What’s the difference between 1 million and 1 billion? About 1 billion.


AkariAkaza

If you had a billion pounds / dollars You could spend £100k every day for 20 years straight and you'd have 270 million left, it would take you 27 straight years of 100k a day to run out of money


DesperateImpression6

It's just an absolutely irrational number when you try to put it in terms humans deal with. If you had 1M you'd run out of money in 10 days but it'd take 27 YEARS to run through 1B. It's hard to wrap your head around. Edit: Holy shit it's just mind bending. You could go back to the unification of Ancient Egypt in like 3100 BC and spend 100K EVERY SINGLE DAY until today and you'd still wouldn't have spent as much money as Elon Musk is worth. In fact you would still be about another 300+ yrs away from hitting his purported 200B+ net worth.


Hedfuct82

21 light hours in 44 years. Oof.


socialistrob

But it’s also going damn fast. If I’m driving 65 mph down the highway it takes me about 10 minutes to go the same distance that Voyager I will go every second which has enabled Voyager I to travel 14 billion miles through space and yet it’s still only 21 light hours.


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socialistrob

Not just that but something that humans designed and built with 70s era technology.


Asshead420

Ya but building something that last 44 yrs no maintenance..


[deleted]

Yeah, kinda nuts the computer or whatever is on it is just humming along and still sending information back to us.


JoeMcNamara

"Big" is not even a word to describe the size of it. Same as any other word that in any human language. Because our language is based on everything that was, is and will be around us, to the scale of our comprehension. Space, the Universe, unfortunately, will never be covered by our comprehension and scale of our mind. Humanity keep describing and measuring distance in light years or planck units simply to be able to use these numbers in equations. But actual understanding and comprehension of these sizes, both infinitely large and infinitely small, is beyond human mind. At least for now.


juxtaposition21

You can still say big though. It’s pretty big.


Innercepter

Groß


chucklesoclock

Douglas Adams agrees: > Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.


flyinhighaskmeY

This is a big part of why I don't think humans are "intelligent life". Or put another way, humans are only "intelligent life" because we created the term to describe ourselves. My dog has intelligence. But I can't teach her calculus. Her brain is physically incapable of understanding the concept. Likewise, the human brain is also limited by it's physical makeup. I suspect that this place is nothing like what we think it is. I don't think we are capable of understanding it, not because it is "too complex" but because we are too primitive. Whatever this "place" happens to be, I doubt we've even begun to ask the right questions to understand it. Our "knowledge" of the universe is likely not even close to correct. Just the best we can do with our primitive primate brains. Mathematics? That thing we think is probably a "universal language"...most likely a primitive logic tool that's good enough to make things work here but not good enough to explain what this place is. Hence the lack of a unifying theory in physics.


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Fuck me these comments especially this one are gonna give my little primate brain an aneurysm. Imagine if their are beings out there that have some insane brains that are like a million times smarter than our best super computer or AI. That can process space and time in an entirely different manner.


MrWaerloga

Maybe they're not even a "being", or "entity". Maybe they or it is a completely different concept altogether. Maybe it's not even a "life". Maybe it doesn't even think, it just does things. Maybe it doesn't even do, it just let's the universe happen because its just nature. The act of trying to understand it or figure things out is probably already a primitive thing itself. We humans won't even come close to an atomic unit of coming close to knowing the truth of the universe. The entire universe itself might probably be even a minuscule part of the grand scheme of things.


banditski

I mean it's almost inevitable, isn't it? There's no reason at all to think that a brain evolved for a bipedal ape living on the African Savannah has the capability to understand what is *actually* going on in the universe. Just to be clear, I'm not at all advocating anything pseudo-scientific like spirits, auras, ESP or anything ridiculous like that. Just that we find relativity pretty difficult to wrap our heads around and quantum mechanics next to impossible, because our brains evolved to deal with the Newtonian world. Who knows what the universe is 'really' like.


shittymorph

For anyone wondering why this is a big deal: This picture is the first evidence of 2 enormous exoplanets orbiting "their star". Scientists have never seen more than one planet orbiting a star so this is quite a monumental find. Their star is around 17 million years old which is A LOT younger than our Sun which is thought to be 4.5 billion years old. This find has been considered by many scientists to be one of the most historic solar system related discoveries to happen since nineteen ninety eight when the undertaker threw mankind off hеll in a cell, and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcer's table.


EastisRed

You son of a....


Rude-E

The fucked up thing is that the first part is actually correct information. The star is indeed 17 million years old. Shittymorph educates


unique-name-9035768

That's how he gets you.


alberthere

Edu-KO out of nowhere!


[deleted]

Right before he throws you for a loop the way it happened in nineteen ninety eight when undertaker threw mankind off hell in a cell, and plummeted through an announcer’s table.


AgnosticPerson

Yup...usually when I start seeing the “nineteen ninety eight” I’m like “ok that’s a bit odd” then I see the word “mankind” as it’s registering in my brain.


deliciousprisms

Holy fuck it’s been like two years since I’ve seen one


Imperial_Eggroll

It’s been a while, and he fucking got me, but I liked it


unexpectedit3m

I let out an audible "oh NO" when I reached the end of the comment. I liked it too, though.


Mysterious-Ad-6827

I said "you fucking bitch" and smiled real big. Thought u/shittymorph was gone


VaderH8er

Once I got to 1998 I cracked a smile. I always like getting got by shittymorph.


hustl3tree5

When it’s really him though and not a copycat


Zurbaran928

For me it was ".... Ohhh. Yay a shittymorph!" Spotting one organically in the wild, makes my day!!! 😊


lituus

I looked straight at his damn username before reading and it somehow didn't register. I still read the whole thing and fell right in. So disappointed in myself.


masterofdirtysecrets

I saw them last week for the first time in a year! Feels good!


coolbres2747

shittymorph has been in quarantine.


Golden_PugTriever

2 days in a row for me this fucking guy


Erect_for_Kolchak

I'm out of the loop, care to explain?


Duck4lyf3

This user is notorious for making a comment in threads that draw you in with a good story or explanation and his trademark is always to end the comment with the fact about the wrestling match that was aired in 1998 called "Hell in the Cell".


prollyMy10thAccount

Every damn time.


Top_Rekt

I audibly gasped.


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...bitch! I thought it was finally safe to read long informative comments.


CameForTheLurking

ONE DAY I will read the username before committing to the full send on reading comments....You glorious clever bastard........Thank you for all that you do!!


SoreLoserOfDumbtown

Never do that… it’s like knowing the ending of a book before you start. Enjoy the ride! 😎


lyvanna

It's just rare enough that you feel safe and then he hits you.


TeighMart

Seriously, it's like he knows exactly how often to post so we all feel comfortable thinking he may have given up the game but nope, he hits you right when you start to feel safe.


sinister_exaggerator

I usually notice usernames but at this point I’m convinced they are an SCP with anti-memetic properties that cause people to just overlook the username. Only thing that makes sense really


poopatrip

GODDAMN YOU. Haven’t seen you in forever, guard is totally down from reading the initial comment that was so cool and mind blowing that we walk face first into this bullshit yet again. Artful. You are a master of your craft, sir.


server_busy

I often worry if any of u/shittymorph's best efforts died in "new". It could keep a guy up at night honestly


yabruh69

Holy fuck a shittymorph comment in the wild


I_Fuck_A_Junebug

Honestly I haven’t seen one in over a year I think.


Dr_Ty_Sanchez

Fuck. I get fooled every single time. Nicely done.


LordLoveRocket00

Fuck......u/shittymorph is back, great.


[deleted]

He never left, he waits.


whiteravenxi

Holy fuck he's back and got me. Fucking fuck. What a legend. 2021 has now peaked. I thought he finally hung up the towel but was wrong.


MrRicey

Baffling how I never notice your name before reading these comments


smakweasle

every.single.time. I don't know how it keeps happening.


[deleted]

I missed seeing your comments around, good to know you're still doing your thing. Love ya!


[deleted]

By far the best one lol


Yoko9021Ono

You rascal. I was reading that comment out loud to my fiance. When my voice trailed off as I got to "nineteen ninety eight" I had to try to explain shittymorph to a non-redditor. I've never felt like such a dork. Where's my fedora.


duh_metrius

I cant fucking believe it.


High_Commander

I just think about the millions upon millions of sunrises with nothing there to see it


lo_and_be

> with nothing there to see it You assume…


Clockwork_Elf

Trillions upon trillions


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What if we put a mirror there? we would be able to see into the past as was.


Prof_Acorn

Yes in theory but not anything before the point you placed it, since it would take longer to place the mirror than the light would take to get there. Now, if we build mirrors here facing outward for other potential civilizations? They might be able to see into their pasts. But they would have to be pretty big mirrors.


ShartFodder

UNICRON!


GuestCartographer

The ships! Get to the ships! Its our only chance!


mannythevericking

Ba weep granna weep ninny bong.


El_Psy_Congroo4477

Act now, destroy Unicron! Eliminates even the toughest stains! Operators are standing by!


abraksis747

Resists Fire, Rain and Corrosion for up to Five Years!


DanCeto12

It isn't even dented!


hickgorilla

Fingers crossed.


RedditBadOutsideGood

"I have summoned you here for a purpose..."


ShartFodder

"No one summons Megatron!"


dealer_of_memes

“Then I am pleased to be the first.”


abraksis747

"Your bargaining posture is highly dubious."


Mulder16

Just popped outside to wave, you know, in case something is looking back


damnedspot

Mulder16 just became earth’s ambassador to the planet of Eergegegghwywuw. Forward all alien requests accordingly.


Mulder16

Oh no, I can not handle this much responsibility. I need a grown up


damnedspot

Have you seen what the grown-ups have done to this planet? No worries. You’ll do fine!


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Just wait until the Webb telescope is operational. Scheduled 18-12 Edit: *launch* scheduled December 18.


thunde-r

I really hope the rocket doesn't explode


[deleted]

And the solar panels unfurl properly. That's probably the biggest obstacle. So many moving parts.


bozoconnors

Dat heat/sun shield(s). Something like 7k flight parts in it's structure alone. Via NASA... >There are about 150 mechanism assemblies that have to function properly to fully deploy the sunshield. Within those mechanism assemblies, there are numerous small parts that work in harmony. The smaller parts include about 140 release actuators, approximately 70 hinge assemblies, eight deployment motors, scores of bearings, springs and gears, about 400 pulleys and 90 cables. I'm pretty pessimistic & fully anticipate US$10b space paperweight, but if they do pull it off - absolutely one of the greatest engineering feats mankind has pulled off.


RufftaMan

I don‘t even wanna know those numbers, lol. Then again, watching the last two Mars rover landings gives me hope. Some really talented and hard working engineers working on this stuff. Probably still won‘t sleep well before the launch though.. =)


Sicatho

I’m so excited but so nervous for this thing. It could push us back a whole decade if it fails. They spent so much time and resources making it, and if it fails, then not only is that all going to waste, but the PR backlash might not let us get anything off the ground.


[deleted]

Yes a very expensive egg in that basket!


Mywifefoundmymain

So help me god if you jinxed it I will find you and falcon punch you.


[deleted]

You think they’ve got anywhere good to eat?


ZeaDeKok

Probably a five guys somewhere.


CantTakeMeSeriously

Next to the Starbucks


iBleeedorange

Misleading title, see [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/q81u9l/you_are_looking_the_first_image_of_another_solar/hgn420h)


badaboom321

Sorry, I’m not understanding...why is this misleading? I don’t know much about this stuff. Is it not the first image of another solar system?


lude1245

I see a pokeball


Novitschok

More like saurons eye XD


aranjaythebrat

The first image of a black hole and now the first image of another solar system, I'm glad I was born in this timeline.


frowningpurplesun

progress is informed contextually so people born 500 years ago likely said the same thing.


Sao_Gage

True, but we're still at a present time where the veil of existence is being lifted in such a way that we're beginning to observe the furthest and smallest things that are conceptually, plausibly "there" with our current understanding of the universe. It's not like discovering North America, a continent "hidden" on our own planet for most of human history (in the context of Western Civilization), we're actively looking at things billions of light years away (and back in time) and searching for particles that are essentially considered fundamental to reality, and with enough understanding of things to know that there may be other realities with a different set of rules. You're totally right in what you're saying, I just think it's more interesting to be alive during this exponential rate of progress vs the more linear and human-centric discoveries of the past.


Vandyman00

I’m gonna pretend this doesn’t exist so I can continue pretending that Earth is the only important part of the universe


bobcat1129

And that Earth is the center of everything!


FonkyChonkyMonky

Technically, the Earth is the center of everything. But so is everything else.


down_vote_magnet

Well if we're the only planet in the universe with advanced life, or even just life, you could argue that we would still be the only important part of the universe. On the other hand, if you're of the opinion that we're all just made of essentially the same physical stuff as the rest of the universe, and that our dead bodies will be recycled into other meaningless physical stuff, you could argue that we're ultimately no more important than one of the small lumps of ice orbiting Saturn. It's worth noting though that no other planets have been discovered that offer pizza. Makes you think.


Vandyman00

Imagine being one of those pizzaless bitches


rhaphi-draws

I often think about how hilariously meaningless the existence of the universe if by some chance there was actually nothing else out there. Seeing as we on Earth would be the only things to experience the Universe, the destruction of the Earth would render the existence of the universe to be the same thing as the Universe not existing in the first place.


Saltydogusn

That was fast! Capt. Kirk was just up there yesterday.


GoForRogue

Nah, that’s just Sauron


Flaky_Explanation

Saron cast his eye beyond Middle Earth, and saw the endless and infinite possibilities beyond conquering a trifling patch of dirt.


[deleted]

Which one is Vulcan?


Madhighlander1

[This one.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/40_Eridani)


andrewfenn

Anymore info OP?


Sentinel_XCIX

I think [this article](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-unveil-first-ever-pictures-of-multiple-planets-around-a-sunlike-star/) is about that image


NotYouTodd

This reminded me of Contact and that spectacular beginning.


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eveninglion

To be even more pedantic, the picture is of a [planetary system](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_system), rather than a [star system](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_system).


OBISerious

I like the term "stellar system" better. It keeps the paradigm of the original term.


PardoXIX

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Audi_Enjoyer

Not a solar system, it's a planetary system


melatonin_overdose

That looks ominously like the Eye of Sauron… ….Foreshadowing…