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1. Wonder of Science (wonderofscience@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 07:36:38 JST Wonder of Science

   The Andromeda galaxy in ultraviolet.

   Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, GALEX

   • Wonder of Science (wonderofscience@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 07:58:03 JST Wonder of Science

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     Read more about this image and view the full-size original here: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/galex/pia15416.html

   • Sable Shade 🇦🇺 ☮️4️⃣🇺🇦🇵🇸 (sable_shade@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 09:02:49 JST Sable Shade 🇦🇺 ☮️4️⃣🇺🇦🇵🇸

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     @wonderofscience thought this was pic. Was expecting one of those annoying cut off pics that you wish was just a little bigger, showed a bit more.
     Really nice. Thanks

   • MegatronicThronBanks (megatronicthronbanks@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 10:08:53 JST MegatronicThronBanks

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     @wonderofscience It's coming right for us!!

   • Six Grandfathers Mountain (6g@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 18:31:12 JST Six Grandfathers Mountain

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     @wonderofscience

     This is the #MilkyWay about 110 ly wide, #andromeda is about 152 ly wide

     See that BLUE DOT?

     That's 200 #lightyears in with. Military radio beams have traveled about 60 ly so far.

     The nearest #exoplanets are about 12 and 41 ly away from Earth, so they are inside that BLUE DOT

     You can't travel hyperfast in space, bc of the dust, but going kinda fast, it will take a LONG TIME to get to 12 ly away.

     About 300,000 years, so there will NEVER be visitors, like never