ha next time somebody really grinds my gears I'm going to make a comment about their mother being the size of 20,000,000 suns
I know its commonplace now, but watching those boosters land perfectly every time and remembering all the failed attempts just makes me feel good about humanities resilience.
Those pictures of Uranus are wild and of great quality (click the tweet) For comparison, a past picture of your anus
Amateur question I know we're seeing the remnants from "340 years ago," and light takes an incredibly long time to get into our solar system But, when the star actually explodes, is it like instantaneous for the planets in the area? Like when our sun explodes, will it just be a flash of light and then a violent explosion that just incinerates everything in its vicinity?
If I recall the first stage of our suns demise has it expand dramatically in size to mercury / venue orbit for a time but not quite to earth, it would be enough to kill us anyway
Moon, Venus, and Jupiter, shot from the Space Station. Looks like something from 2001: A Space Odyssey