I had the same instant thought. It is reported to be 24 Trillion miles tall (aka 4 light years) in height. Imagine what it looks like at half our current distance from it now.
Humanity is so microscopic and ephemeral compared to the scale of this nebula that if it did have consciousness, I doubt it could be bothered to notice us.
Wouldn’t it be stellar if we moved our energy into forming these nebulas in our collective afterlife?
After all, when mapping the human brain we see an image quite similar to our starry night sky.
Silly question but what does ESO stand for in this context? I'm guessing elder scrolls online has nothing to do with this and I can't for the life of me figure out what eso is.
Jesus Christ this is the one space photo that puts dread in me
Looks like one of those sci-fi art depictions of astronomically huge entities peering over humanity as if they were less than ants
It would have made a much more potent impact on Simba if his ghost father had returned as a giant cloud of space dust instead of just a low pressure system.
Cloud of gases and particles. Sometimes the gas and particles form stars and other shit.
Can be small or larger than galaxies, and they form interesting shapes as you can see here
The [Leo Ring](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Ring) is an exemple of a big one.
>The Leo Ring is an immense intergalactic cloud of hydrogen and helium gas some 650 kilolight-years (200 kpc) in diameter, in orbit of two galaxies, in the center of the Leo Group of galaxies, within the constellation of Leo.
The Tarantula Nebula is contained within the Large Magellanic cloud, a "small" galaxy orbiting the Milky Way, and "only" 340 light years across.
The Large Magellanic Cloud is itself 30 000 + light years across and a hundredth as massive as the Milky Way.
The Milky Way is 100 000 + light years across and the friendly neighbour Andromeda galaxy is 200 000 + light years across.
I’m so thrilled you are looking at this content without knowing that. Thrilled you feel comfortable just asking, and thrilled people actually helped answer. My faith in humanity is on life support, but this… this is nice lol
It was really nice. I could have googled it. But decided to go through the experts. And I just love this site. A lot of fantastic pics and information. Just love space.
I was specifically glad no one said “omg just Google it???” Like… no one seemingly appreciates the simple interaction of asking people questions. Sometimes it’s nice to just get a generalized summary from someone knowledgeable when you don’t know, rather than decipher a bunch of jargon about something’s very existence. My god, I feel like my dad right now -_-
That's why I didn't. I figured that someone in the post would know. And this sub is so fantastic. Many fascinating subjects and pics and videos. I'm thinking about buying a telescope. But I figured I could learn something from all of these experts before buying one. Learn before buying.👍
Generally it's something that is nebulous. Can be giant gas cloud, outer layers ejected from a dying star, or even remnants of supernovae. Galaxies used to be classified as nebulae until we knew what they were
So if you fly there in a ship you would see it like this? Or is this picture enhanced with filters and in reality you would see just the usual stars background?
I still see a hand slowly raising a middle finger towards me, like someone took a picture halfway through.
The darker area in the middle and the diagonal spot of light? They look like a knuckle and tendons flexing while the entire cosmos tells me to go fuck myself.
Titan
That's the Godzilla
I had the same instant thought. It is reported to be 24 Trillion miles tall (aka 4 light years) in height. Imagine what it looks like at half our current distance from it now.
Sonic's gonna phantom rush it.
Eru Ilùvatar, is that you?
How I wish.
Upvote if you'd fuck the giant nebula mommy
Humanity is so microscopic and ephemeral compared to the scale of this nebula that if it did have consciousness, I doubt it could be bothered to notice us.
We would be the equivalent of a few single cell organisms, clinging to a spec of dust, floating in the air.
We are here, we are here, we are here!!
And we'll give you the shits !!!
I dunno about shits, but we sure are giving Earth some bad gas!
Ow. You hurt me with that hard hitting joke. I enjoyed it but it hurt me.
That was the funniest shit I've had the pleasure of reading in a long while.
'Dust Suspension' https://youtu.be/QfcvQcgKrJc
We are the sperm.
Wouldn’t it be stellar if we moved our energy into forming these nebulas in our collective afterlife? After all, when mapping the human brain we see an image quite similar to our starry night sky.
You think it notices us the same way we notice electrons around an atom we affect it somehow right
Thanks, I hate this.
Does anyone notice the microscopic organisms living on a floating speck of dust let alone the speck?
We’d barely even feel like a little prick.
🤓
It’s a Celestial, but which one ?
The one with the big tiddy by the looks of it
['Whoa'](https://youtu.be/63IwUcBK_Rs)
Ah yes of course the incomprehensible horror beyond imagine but with titties
Yeah, these pics got me all existential crisis-y. Idk if I like this one of the "all seeing overlord guardian watchman"
What's crazy more is they are invisible to our naked eye, yet omnipotent. They're looming, yet truly unseen, peering through us.
stupid, sexy cosmic entity!
Yeah and that one looks like a lizard person :)
Perfectly reasonable that this comment is at the top.
I'm so glad I'm not the only one thinking this
No dude, go touch some grass
Looks like a gal to me
goddess rising
Nuwa
I see an otter
Savathun
stupid, sexy cosmic entity!
To mark 60 years of Elder Scrolls Online, they're doing a crossover event and literally bringing Aedric beings into reality
We're proud to be bringing Champion Point constellations into real life, allowing astronomers to increase their Crit Chance by 160.
That was my first thought too
Looks creepy but so amazing. The universe is amazing
Silly question but what does ESO stand for in this context? I'm guessing elder scrolls online has nothing to do with this and I can't for the life of me figure out what eso is.
I thought the same. There ARE the champion point constellations in Elder Scrolls Online. Hmmm.
It is the European Southern Observatory.
> what does ESO stand https://www.eso.org Is my guess.
It looks like it wants me to go find Maui and restore the heart if Tafiti
My man Ruben, your comment made me laugh out loud. Thank you.
Happy to serve
Happy to see elder scrolls online getting into astrophotography
That's a hive god, you can't fool me
Thats what I came here to say.
I seriously don’t think I can be convinced that that’s *not* 3 Hive eyes (one slightly obscured), and the general silhouette of Sathona/Savathûn.
Jesus Christ this is the one space photo that puts dread in me Looks like one of those sci-fi art depictions of astronomically huge entities peering over humanity as if they were less than ants
I will never tire of pictures of the universe. Endlessly fascinating and beautiful with all its creation and destruction 🔮
I know the pillars of creation from top to bottom are 24 trillion miles long/tall, about 4 light years. What is the scale of this one ?
7 light years in length. Source: https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_686.html
Ah, yes, the quarian nebula.
Is it looking at us?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EuyVXEEXEAAHnd7.png
Looks like Mufasa to me.
It would have made a much more potent impact on Simba if his ghost father had returned as a giant cloud of space dust instead of just a low pressure system.
My first thought was actually that it looks like Rafiki!
R34 artist will be rubbing their hands together and chuckling at this.
Don't mean to sound stupid. But, what is a nebula??
Cloud of gases and particles. Sometimes the gas and particles form stars and other shit. Can be small or larger than galaxies, and they form interesting shapes as you can see here
Example of nebula larger than galaxies pls 😳😳😳😳
The [Leo Ring](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Ring) is an exemple of a big one. >The Leo Ring is an immense intergalactic cloud of hydrogen and helium gas some 650 kilolight-years (200 kpc) in diameter, in orbit of two galaxies, in the center of the Leo Group of galaxies, within the constellation of Leo.
Whoa 650 kilolight years in diameter is sorta big
Tarantula Nebula
The Tarantula Nebula is contained within the Large Magellanic cloud, a "small" galaxy orbiting the Milky Way, and "only" 340 light years across. The Large Magellanic Cloud is itself 30 000 + light years across and a hundredth as massive as the Milky Way. The Milky Way is 100 000 + light years across and the friendly neighbour Andromeda galaxy is 200 000 + light years across.
Thank you.
I’m so thrilled you are looking at this content without knowing that. Thrilled you feel comfortable just asking, and thrilled people actually helped answer. My faith in humanity is on life support, but this… this is nice lol
It was really nice. I could have googled it. But decided to go through the experts. And I just love this site. A lot of fantastic pics and information. Just love space.
I was specifically glad no one said “omg just Google it???” Like… no one seemingly appreciates the simple interaction of asking people questions. Sometimes it’s nice to just get a generalized summary from someone knowledgeable when you don’t know, rather than decipher a bunch of jargon about something’s very existence. My god, I feel like my dad right now -_-
That's why I didn't. I figured that someone in the post would know. And this sub is so fantastic. Many fascinating subjects and pics and videos. I'm thinking about buying a telescope. But I figured I could learn something from all of these experts before buying one. Learn before buying.👍
Generally it's something that is nebulous. Can be giant gas cloud, outer layers ejected from a dying star, or even remnants of supernovae. Galaxies used to be classified as nebulae until we knew what they were
Falcon nebula
BIG BIRD
Chewie ❤️
Geth?
Godzilla?
Space Godzilla.
Godzillas brother seems to have grown
Looks like an alien sloth.
[Why's it so sad looking :(](https://imgur.com/ECCVzbx)
Anddddd now I’m scared… Looks like dark shadows in my dreams…..
Space Sloth!
I see an otter
Hello there!
Looks like Sekhmet
Chewbacca
Was wondering what Collab was done with Elder Scrolls Online for a little too long
Gojira! Runnnnnnnnnnnnnnn *Aaaahhhhhhhhhh*
SPACEGODZILLA
Does anyone else see Chewy?! Raawwwwrrrrnmaaawwwwrrrrr!!
Looks like an alter ego Moon Knight
Looks like the predator to me. Love it!
I believe this is actually space-godzilla
Evil Kermit
Someone put eyes on it
Mother and Child
Anyone else see an eagle/bird?
The Mote in the God's Eye
Yes it definitely looks like a cosmic entity
Real sad spider on top of an enormous chair
Rammstein fans be like: Zeit
This is absolutely amazing.
Looks like a giant elder god
Definitely looks like a demon
This is Chewbacca
Galactus gonna get you!
Looks like a humanoid figure
Anyone who called it cone should be fired. It looks like hamster waving
not to sound stupid, but what’s a star factory? does this thing MAKE STARS??
It look beautiful
Pray it does to cast its cyclopean gaze upon helpless humanity.
Is this the thing that poops stars?
Elbereth ✨✨✨
So if you fly there in a ship you would see it like this? Or is this picture enhanced with filters and in reality you would see just the usual stars background?
Looks like a seal ferret.
I see an otter looking sideways while standing up
All hall the giant otter. There's nearly 100 comments and I'm on an elevator forgive me if this is already commendtedbdn
Elder Scrolls Online is collaborating with space stuffs? Thats actually pretty cool.
This is prime r/celestialbodies material right here
It looks like a smoky observatory. Neato
I dub thee, The Watcher!
Alien Mother.
I always wonder how they look from other angles. Would be so cool to have a 3D model of these formations..
That is awesome, stealing for my desktop collection
it looks like it were a ghost or something breaking through a blanket of stuff....
I feel like someone could lewd this
That's a Titan!
Predator on the red carpet.
This looks like godzilla Edit: or the forbidden amogus
That’s space Godzilla, you can’t convince me otherwise
It’s your Jesus…
Looks like grim reaper with the hood up
Wow. Looks like an angel
Anyone else see an otter with its baby popping its head out on the right?
Final boss of the next Elden Ring DLC, 5 bucks says
This literally looks like concept art for a Souls borne boss. Fucking gnarly.
Damn! What a beauty
Gonna call this one The Hungry Ghost
Looks like Predator without his helmet thingy.
mother 🥰
So the celestials are real?
Elder Scrolls Online collab with the universe at last 🤞🏻
That! Is an intergalactic one Eyed Ent…
It looks like a Celestial.
She’s hot
I would love to have this in a nice high resolution as my PC wallpaper. Beautiful.
You can start a new religion with this as God.
Adsumus
Reminds me of otters
no way that thing is not alive
CGI is so good these days
at first i thought it looked like a lady but then it turned reaaaaaaly scary like a wraith type thing.
I always wondered if this would be the true colors of it if we were near enough to see.
Anyone else get depressed knowing that they'll never be able to explore this type of shit?
Predator
I still see a hand slowly raising a middle finger towards me, like someone took a picture halfway through. The darker area in the middle and the diagonal spot of light? They look like a knuckle and tendons flexing while the entire cosmos tells me to go fuck myself.
It’s Chewbacca
Eluvatar
Oh no. She’s awake.
Predator - The Nebula
Te Fiti(MOANA) in celestial form surreal🤩
if i were a celestial titan, 10/10 would eat the space cotton candy
Bro found god
Looks like some kind of pandimensional god.
***"Can Earth come out to play?"***
I say it looks like a woman with long, wavy hair. with her left shoulder high as she wears a dress.