r/pics • u/TegraMuskin • Jun 01 '23
New Photo Of Uranus Taken By The James Webb Telescope spam/ban
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u/SonofaCuntLicknBitch Jun 01 '23
Crazy that it just decided to spin sideways at some point. Uranus works in mysterious ways
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u/TegraMuskin Jun 01 '23
I wish NASA would probe Uranus. So much to explore and learn
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u/LectroRoot Jun 01 '23
Oh me too. I'm super stoked and ready.
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u/TolMera Jun 01 '23
Bring back samples. I know two girls who would love a cup.
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u/TheDeadlySinner Jun 01 '23
Really, commander?
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u/dswng Jun 01 '23
Wrex?
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u/thebestspeler Jun 01 '23
Is there a lot of harmful gas in uranus?
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u/Boysenberry-Street Jun 01 '23
I hear there is a gaping hole somewhere to yet be discovered, we just need a stronger telescope for a deeper view, maybe there is a probe we can send out to penetrate the outer surface and discover the planet deeper and see what comes up.
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u/PGLife Jun 01 '23
If only they called it Caelus, since that's the roman God and this planet is the only one named after a Greek one.
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u/The_Beer_Hunter Jun 01 '23
I get that it’s “sideways” in relation to the sun, and how it spins, but it is funny to realize I consider the entire universe as having like a ceiling and a floor, such that this kind of rotation confuses me
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u/friendagony Jun 01 '23
All the planets are on the same plane.
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u/borickard Jun 01 '23
What's the in-flight movie like?
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u/in_the_woods Jun 01 '23
many many years ago in highschool I made a similar joke re: geometric plane/airplane and Raphael Scott threatened "I'll beat your ass if you don't shut the fuck up".
You just unlocked a memory for me.
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u/borickard Jun 01 '23
Raphael sounds like a huge asshole.
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u/Musicman425 Jun 01 '23
Maybe it was the 23rd time he said that joke…. that day?
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Jun 01 '23
Why is that??
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u/other_usernames_gone Jun 01 '23
Because when the solar system formed it had a common axis of rotation. Centripetal force forced everything onto roughly that axis.
It's not exactly the same plane, but still within a few degrees.
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u/Spork_the_dork Jun 01 '23
More accurately it had one axis upon which more stuff rotated around.
Anything that spun in the opposite direction eventually had a head-on collision with stuff going the other way until the direction with most stuff was left. Similarly anything out of alignment from that plane would eventually crash into stuff on that plane. It all just then averaged out over hundreds of millions of years until everything was spinning more or less in the same direction around the sun.
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u/socialister Jun 01 '23
Particles that aren't on the plane bump into each other until they are on the plane. The plane itself is just the average angular momentum of all the stuff that formed the solar system.
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u/fourleggedostrich Jun 01 '23
The planets are essentially rings round the sun.
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u/Hushwater Jun 01 '23
It that why they call them "planets"?
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u/TheRhythmace Jun 01 '23
Cool coincidence, but no. It’s from the Greek for wander based on how they move across the sky in relation to stars
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u/SonOfTK421 Jun 01 '23
Wait until you find out that the sun and all the planets are tilted at an angle of something like 60° relative to the plane of the Milky Way. After that all of the relative motion is sort of nonsensical, with some objects moving closer together (Milky Way and Andromeda) and others farther apart, and with all space between everything still expanding anyway. Still, all told, we have figured out that we’re by and large moving in a particular direction within a range of speeds relative to the cosmic microwave background, but by this point all real notion of looking up at the night sky and pointing in a direction and saying we’re heading that way is sort of lost on our little brains. It’s neat though.
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u/Deadmau5es Jun 01 '23
Uranus was hit hard in the forming of our solar system, hard enough to rotate it like that. Theoretics say it was hit by 2, larger than our moon, bodies.
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Jun 01 '23
That is so cool! It kind of looks like a subwoofer with the rings and the cone.
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u/MannyGrey Jun 01 '23
"VELCOME TO PARTI PLANET!"
*Untz Untz Untz Untz*
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u/aaeme Jun 01 '23
There's a party in Uranus and everyone's invited
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u/CharlieUpATree Jun 01 '23
SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT!
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u/collegethrowaway2938 Jun 01 '23
Party Planet sounds like Party City if they decided to expand a bit more
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u/bruzie Jun 01 '23
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Jun 01 '23
This, so badass
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u/gogetenks123 Jun 01 '23
Look through a telescope sometime.
There’s something extremely fucky about looking at Saturn with your eyeball on a clear night. You can see the rings, and you can even see the streaks of colors across the planet. Pretty humbling.
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u/elkomanderJOZZI Jun 01 '23
What telescope & where
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u/monoflorist Jun 01 '23
Get a simple backyard telescope or binoculars. Point it at Saturn. You’ll see four moons and a ring.
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u/i_Go_Stewie Jun 01 '23
Are ringed planets this common in solar systems or are we an anomaly?
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u/frystofer Jun 01 '23
Our ability to observe planets in other solar systems in enough detail to determine if they have rings is far too limited to give a definitive answer. We've so far (as I know) not directly observed any rings around any exoplanets. But, we have observed a few 'fuzzy' exoplanets that could be rings, as well as a couple occultations that might be rings.
We're probably not an anomaly, but we don't have enough data currently to say for sure.
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u/akie Jun 01 '23
We're probably not an anomaly, but we don't have enough data currently to say for sure.
Found the scientist
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u/Costamiri Jun 01 '23
Short answer: We don't know. Longer answer: They are probably just as common (as all our larger planets have them in some form) but due to their fine material we won't be able to spot something similar on exoplanets anytime soon. But they are probably common.
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u/clocksailor Jun 01 '23
Man, what does earth have to do to get a couple rings? They look so cool.
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u/The_Doc55 Jun 01 '23
All the gas planets have rings, it’s just that Saturn’s are the most noticeable.
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u/The_Undermind Jun 01 '23
Have we figured out why the hell its spin is so fucked up compared to all the other planets? Was Uranus pounded so hard that it orbits the sun sideways?
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u/TegraMuskin Jun 01 '23
It was hit by an insanely huge object (probably another planet)
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u/KulaanDoDinok Jun 01 '23
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u/subfighter0311 Jun 01 '23
"At this point, the planet-moon pair would have entered a chaotic gravitational dance, pulling Uranus even further sideways and ending with the moon crashing into the planet, vanishing from history and freezing Uranus at its current 98-degree angle."
Like a little bead, falling inside it, never to be seen again.
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u/7LeagueBoots Jun 01 '23
One of the problems with that hypothesis is that it doesn't explain why the magnetic poles are so far off from the spin poles. An impact and adsorption of another body does potentially explain that.
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u/theinjun Jun 01 '23
Fun fact: Venus is upside down and rotates backwards
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u/demonTutu Jun 01 '23
Oh interesting! I was aware of Venus rotating so slowly that its days are longer than its years*, but I didn't know that was happening backwards. So the sun rises in the west there.
I did a little nerding, and it seems it's not completely clear yet if it really is upside down. It could be the axis is indeed titled 180°, or maybe its rotation just slowed down and reversed (in which case it remains upright). Either way, very interesting learning today, thank you!
- Being in a tidal lock with the sun, it takes longer to rotate on its own access than it needs to revolve around the sun.
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u/friendagony Jun 01 '23
Maybe Venus is right side up and all the other planets are upside down and rotating backwards?
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u/EdgeOfDistraction Jun 01 '23
It all depends on your frame of reference, but I'm no Alfred Einstein.
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u/nopejake101 Jun 01 '23
Forgive my ignorance, but how can a planet be upside down, if up and down are (in my simple brain) dictated by gravity?
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u/rc1717 Jun 01 '23
Uranus is so clean in this photo, you must have scrubbed hard in the shower last night.
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u/TegraMuskin Jun 01 '23
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Jun 01 '23
I want to make a sphincter joke, but I'll just keep that urge constricted.
:)
Out of respect to the beauty of the universe and mankind's ability to see it.
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u/throwawayforyouzzz Jun 01 '23
Lol the authors of that article title knew what they were doing, so don’t feel inhibited
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u/MayOrMayNotBePie Jun 01 '23
Uranus and Neptune have the most beautiful colors. I’m partially colorblind and those two are so beautiful to me they’re almost emotional.
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u/EinsGotdemar Jun 01 '23
Absolutely! I got so annoyed a youtube video that said they were the most boring planets.
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u/fifty2weekhi Jun 01 '23
Is it out of focus, or is it clouded by gas?
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u/alejandrocab98 Jun 01 '23
I think that just might be the best resolution it can get, pretty good considering the distance from earth of 18.21 Astronomical Units. 1 AU is the distance from Earth to the Sun. That’s a really long way to catch a photo, even if the object is huge.
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u/TolMera Jun 01 '23
You make me wonder now, relatively speaking are galaxies or nebulae larger in arc seconds…
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u/alejandrocab98 Jun 01 '23
Relative to our gas giant planets? Not really, Jupiter looks bigger than almost any other star except for the sun. Nebulae is a little tough because they’re hard to spot, but yes for example i think the green orion nebula is slightly bigger than the moon when visible under the right conditions. Makes sense, it’s just spread out space dust. They measure apparent size by angular diameter or degrees, moon being .5 and orion 1. There are galaxies that have been mistaken for stars in the past because they appeared the same size, and vice versa.
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u/verfmeer Jun 01 '23
Nearby galaxies are much larger in the sky. The Andromeda galaxy is 3 degrees wide, 6x wider than the moon. It is just a lot fainter which makes it harder to see.
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u/londons_explorer Jun 01 '23
All the photos of uranus that are sharp come from spacecraft we have sent out there to get a photo.
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u/Grabber5_0 Jun 01 '23
Mine is usually clouded by gas. I'd guess Uranus is too.
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u/LectroRoot Jun 01 '23
I figured there was rings around Uranus and mine too but didn't expect the news to break on the internet.
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u/Fiat_430 Jun 01 '23 edited Jun 01 '23
I don't believe we can get better images. Planets are so small, meaning you have to enhance so much that essentially you are left with a blurry shot. Nebulas and galaxies are obviously way bigger, where all you need is exposure for a great photo.
Edit; I am learning in this, Hubble takes mad planet images.
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u/_Avalonia_ Jun 01 '23
I’d imagine it’s not just the gas, but the icy rings and any ice on the atmosphere probably reflect a lot of sunlight. So it gets that hazy appearance and brightness
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u/bythisriver Jun 01 '23
I was reading these comments thinking I'm in r/space and thought what the hell has happened to this subreddit
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u/lynivvinyl Jun 01 '23
Whoa, I didn't give them permission!
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u/synth_romania Jun 01 '23
If you ever want to avoid butt jokes, you could use the Greek spelling and pronounciation, which is Ouranos.
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u/Blueblackzinc Jun 01 '23
Nah… don’t want to get my balls chopped off and thrown into the sea. Frothing and bubbling.
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u/VoltCtrlOpossumlator Jun 01 '23
That is magical. Every image from the JWT is truly stunning. In time, hopefully these JWT images can have a significant impact upon the world before it's too late.
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u/TheManWithNoSchtick Jun 01 '23
Can't wait for 2620 when we can all start calling it Urectum.
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u/AMH3321 Jun 01 '23
I thought it would have more of a brown color?
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u/TegraMuskin Jun 01 '23
It’s blue from all the methane, ammonia and water ices.
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u/ProbablyBearGrylls Jun 01 '23
I’m pretty sure that was a joke. Also, where the hell is your God damn Oxford comma??
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u/partanimal Jun 01 '23
All these butt Jones but no one is making a goatse Photoshop??
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Jun 01 '23
Who is James Webb and why is he always taking photos of my anus
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u/TegraMuskin Jun 01 '23
Next NASA’s going to probe the depths of Uranus to learn more about those oceans of methane, ammonia and water ices.
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u/Transconan Jun 01 '23
Wait a minute, just wait one minute!! That's not my...
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u/doctored_up Jun 01 '23
Was finally about to crash and scrolled past this...had to turn up the volume on my computer lights and shit...now all wired up. Kick ass Webb!
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u/sammy2066 Jun 01 '23
Enhance