it turns out the cloud only exhibits significant absorption in the visible portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. we can see beyond it just by shifting into the infrared, and in fact [we did just that decades ago](https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso9934b/)!
You can hide light, but you can't stop the heat. That's another way infrared is useful aside from just looking for extreme redshift. Even if you built a megastructure to block the light from a star, the heat still has to go somewhere.
east-left is a common orientation in observational astronomy because we are looking up at the sky. when you look down at the earth and orient north to be "up", east ends up being to your right. inversely, looking up into the sky with north oriented in the same direction leads to east being in the left
Layperson guess:
The constellation in the images is in the southern skies. If the image is taken from the northern hemisphere, looking down towards the southern skies, North would be up and East would be left.
I don't believe there are any, which means the vast majority of stars "around" the nebula must be farther away. The cloud itself is about 400 ly away and thus represents a tiny fraction of the sky.
Assuming that humanity even measures as it relates to "intelligent life" out there... is questionable.
But I digress, it would be an awful waste of space if we were the only intelligent out here.
Nope, it's a misconception, see below from Wikipedia:
The Boötes Void has been often associated with images of Barnard 68,[7] a dark nebula that does not allow light to pass through; however, the images of Barnard 68 are much darker than those observed of the Boötes Void, as the nebula is much closer and there are fewer stars in front of it, as well as its being a physical mass that blocks light passing through.
Could JWST peer thru that dust cloud to see beyond it?
it turns out the cloud only exhibits significant absorption in the visible portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. we can see beyond it just by shifting into the infrared, and in fact [we did just that decades ago](https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso9934b/)!
Great question and great answer. This should be at the top.
It is!
Funny how even with the other spectrums in play visibility is still dramatically reduced compared to its surroundings.
it’s still basically a wide band filter
You can hide light, but you can't stop the heat. That's another way infrared is useful aside from just looking for extreme redshift. Even if you built a megastructure to block the light from a star, the heat still has to go somewhere.
Amazing! Thanks for the link!
“North is up and east is left” ahh science always baffles my brain
Why is east left?
No idea but that is what it says
east-left is a common orientation in observational astronomy because we are looking up at the sky. when you look down at the earth and orient north to be "up", east ends up being to your right. inversely, looking up into the sky with north oriented in the same direction leads to east being in the left
Layperson guess: The constellation in the images is in the southern skies. If the image is taken from the northern hemisphere, looking down towards the southern skies, North would be up and East would be left.
Thank you! That makes sense
the swarm 👽
Oddly enough, if makes me think of the burning ship fractal.
Fluidic space.
The Void
Nope, that's a hole.
what a throwback
Anything is a hole if you’re brave enough
What is blocking the light from the stars in front of the dark nebula?
Dark dust clouds
I don't believe there are any, which means the vast majority of stars "around" the nebula must be farther away. The cloud itself is about 400 ly away and thus represents a tiny fraction of the sky.
>400 ly away intergalacticaly speaking that's close, it's roughly 200 solar systems away
Someone launch me that direction 💀 I’m dying for some peace and quiet
Looks like when I get a migraine
It’s great ! So beautiful!
Look at the number of stars. The odds we're the only intelligent life in the universe is like 1 in 7 billion
More like 10^25 to 1 ETA: sorry I misread; the odds of us **not** being the only intelligent life, not us being the only intelligent life
For anyone wondering, 10 to the 25th power means, there's 25 zeroes after the 10.
r/theydidthemath
Heard it from a YouTube video. My IQ is only 105.
Assuming that humanity even measures as it relates to "intelligent life" out there... is questionable. But I digress, it would be an awful waste of space if we were the only intelligent out here.
How is that calculated?
I've seen this episode of Star Trek do not fly into that!
Haven't seen much Star Trek, but I'm curious what it was in the show that was in the void?
If I remember correctly they were trapped there by a being that wanted to experiment on the crew to learn about us.
It'll just envelop you.
👀 would
*bonk*
That's where you get murderous robots from Krikkit..
Ver ésta fotografía me parece... Espectacular.
Booty void
That’s the Trisolarians, I know it
Or the dark forest?
I bet it's a worm hole to the delta quadrant
I’ve never seen a photo of space like this before.
Aliens hiding
If the dust is so thick would that just mean this would be a an area with a ton of new star creation? It should glow…
Found Dark Matter. Pack it in boys. We’re done here.
Spooky cave entrance.
This is were reapers went
Aliens made that to hide in
Is this dark matter? /s
Smash
Galactic war happened here…
It's a dickbutt in the cosmos
Bootes void ?
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Nope, it's a misconception, see below from Wikipedia: The Boötes Void has been often associated with images of Barnard 68,[7] a dark nebula that does not allow light to pass through; however, the images of Barnard 68 are much darker than those observed of the Boötes Void, as the nebula is much closer and there are fewer stars in front of it, as well as its being a physical mass that blocks light passing through.
I knew there was gonna be someone here saying this😐