Science!
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Pretty cool, but at the same time also a bit lame...
To get the picture the eight telescopes had to co-ordinate so closely “in a process similar to everyone shaking hands with everyone else in the room”, said astronomer Vincent Fish of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The project cost nearly US$60 million with US$28 million coming from the US National Science Foundation.
“What’s more cool than seeing the black hole at the centre of our own Milky Way,” said California Institute of Technology's Katherine Bouman.
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@taniwharugby said in Science!:
Pretty cool, but at the same time also a bit lame...
To get the picture the eight telescopes had to co-ordinate so closely “in a process similar to everyone shaking hands with everyone else in the room”, said astronomer Vincent Fish of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The project cost nearly US$60 million with US$28 million coming from the US National Science Foundation.
“What’s more cool than seeing the black hole at the centre of our own Milky Way,” said California Institute of Technology's Katherine Bouman.
The cool bit was the work they used to achieve it, they should have big up that!
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@booboo Hard to say how tall that tree is given it's surrounded by relatively small trees.
Hyperion's precise location is a secret. Unless you have access to the internet and enter 'location of Hyperion'. In which case you will get the precise geo coordinates and a handy may to get there. Hint: You walk in from the end of Tall Trees Access Road...
Really well hidden.
Hopefully not too many can be bothered.
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@booboo Hard to say how tall that tree is given it's surrounded by relatively small trees.
Hyperion's precise location is a secret. Unless you have access to the internet and enter 'location of Hyperion'. In which case you will get the precise geo coordinates and a handy may to get there. Hint: You walk in from the end of Tall Trees Access Road...
Really well hidden.
Hopefully not too many can be bothered.
Have to try that for the Wollemi Pines...
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@booboo Hard to say how tall that tree is given it's surrounded by relatively small trees.
Hyperion's precise location is a secret. Unless you have access to the internet and enter 'location of Hyperion'. In which case you will get the precise geo coordinates and a handy may to get there. Hint: You walk in from the end of Tall Trees Access Road...
Really well hidden.
Hopefully not too many can be bothered.
it's not insta-worthy ... so probably safe
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In geometry, a 65537-gon is a polygon with 65,537 (216 + 1) sides.
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@Stockcar86 said in Science!:
In geometry, a 65537-gon is a polygon with 65,537 (216 + 1) sides.
The maths is bad 216+1 is not 65537….
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@Machpants my bad I couldn't work out how to represent (2 to the power 16) +1. Oh wait, I just did...
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@Stockcar86 said in Science!:
@Machpants my bad I couldn't work out how to represent (2 to the power 16) +1. Oh wait, I just did...
Haha
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@Stockcar86 said in Science!:
@Machpants my bad I couldn't work out how to represent (2 to the power 16) +1. Oh wait, I just did...
2^16 + 1
where ALT+94 = ^
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@taniwharugby you're Chinese?
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First deep field image from James Webb has just been released!
This first image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date. Known as Webb’s First Deep Field, this image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 is overflowing with detail. Thousands of galaxies – including the faintest objects ever observed in the infrared – have appeared in Webb’s view for the first time. This slice of the vast universe covers a patch of sky approximately the size of a grain of sand held at arm’s length by someone on the ground.
Higher res image here
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