Girl Talk on Sidechat | Y’know what’s really fucking cool? That we’re able to see exoplanets like this. 1781, first planet discovered by telescope (Uranus). Not even 100 years ago, we couldn’t get anything into space. Now we’re photographing exoplanets. I love science.

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Y’know what’s really fucking cool? That we’re able to see exoplanets like this. 1781, first planet discovered by telescope (Uranus). Not even 100 years ago, we couldn’t get anything into space. Now we’re photographing exoplanets. I love science.

22 upvotes, 2 comments. Sidechat image post by Anonymous in Girl Talk. "Y’know what’s really fucking cool? That we’re able to see exoplanets like this. 1781, first planet discovered by telescope (Uranus). Not even 100 years ago, we couldn’t get anything into space. Now we’re photographing exoplanets. I love science."

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Anonymous 3w

130 light years away… Here’s the same system, HR 8799, in 2025. We can detect carbon dioxide and that they’re similar to our four gas giants!

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Anonymous 3w

The Voyager probes, launched in the late 70s, would take about 18,000 years to travel 1 light year… 2,340,000 years to get there, if that’s how that worked out. 😵‍💫

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