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A blend of many deep sky objects, All set to scale.
🕑 Added 2020-09-04 04:10:01 +0000 UTCThis is approximately how large these objects are in relation to each other. Nebulas are all on a very similar scale. Stars and planets would be smaller than a pixel at this scale. Galaxies would be so large the image would be thousands of times larger.
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Planetary nebulae! They're caused by dying stars shedding their outermost layers
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So awesome Andrew 🔥thank you. One question what are the small nebulae? Like in the upper left corner. From your description I’d imagine a type 1a ... our solar system mostly is empty space
The second one! It's their respective ACTUAL size, not angular size (which is how we see them from here.)
Hey Andrew, “stellar” job as always! Question though - could you clarify whether you adjusted the objects to be the same scale as they appear in the sky (e.g. tiny Jupiter next to our giant moon), or whether you adjusted them as if they were aligned next to each other in actual space (e.g. gigantic Jupiter next to our microscopic moon)?
