Cool! I missed getting to see it tonight…er…last night.
Went to the SpaceWeather site and here’s a few from their gallery:
Just want y’all to know that in these images Saturn is ~450 million miles farther from Earth than Jupiter is. Also, because the speed of light is finite, you’re seeing Jupiter as it was 48 minutes before the picture was taken, but seeing Saturn as it was 89 minutes before the picture was taken.
That’s insane that we can actually see Saturn with it’s rings in the nightsky with a telescope, I didn’t know that was a real thing! I thought all the planets you could only tell by their movements in the sky but they otherwise just looked like points of light, indistinguishable from stars, but i guess its different between the naked eye and an actual modern telescope
If I didn’t look up all these photos everyone seemed to have taken with their own backyard telescopes I’d call bull but this looks like its actually real
that’s so amazing
I once had the privilege of looking at Saturn through the Lowell Telescope in Arizona.
On the one hand, this would explain why Trump felt the need to establish a Space Force as part of the American military (which I still heavily disagree with because I don’t think sending military into space is the right approach but whatever, not the point).
However, there is no way in hell that Trump would ever be able to prevent himself from tweeting about this. None. So that blows a big hole in this story from the get-go.
Also, why just the U.S. and Israel? Why not, idk, the United Nations?? How does the Galactic Federation think the U.S. and Israel are the best countries to speak to regarding the entirety of the human race knowing about aliens?
I do sincerely believe that aliens exist simply because the universe is too vast for our planet to be the only one with sentient life, and I long to see evidence of them at some point before I die.
So altogether … Galactic Federation, if you’re out there—
ifesbob 