Here's an image series from the Juno spacecraft, which is currently orbiting Jupiter. A thruster malfunction left it in a highly elliptical orbit, so scientists get image series like this that go from far to near as it orbits the planet.
What's your favorite photo of the universe we live in?
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FearlessFly
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Apr 12, 2020
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I'd thought that elliptical orbit was intentional. My favorite photo has always been the Hubble Ulta-Deep Field shot. Every one of those specks of light is an entire freakin' GALAXY (like our Milky Way, with billions of stars), not merely a single star. Makes you feel a little small. Think of all the civilizations that likely evolved from slime, grew, lived, space-traveled and died-out over the billions of years represented in the one photo. Boggles the mind.
mtnhome
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Apr 11, 2020
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@Omnedon Yeah, but 99.99999% of what's going on in the photo, happened many billions of years ago. But yeah, "A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away..." there were, no doubt, thousands, millions, of such Star Wars-type civilization histories playing -out. Then, Poof! Supernova. Or, maybe they're still continuing. Fun to think about.
@mtnhome Technically yes and no. It was supposed to be in a much smaller elliptical orbit than it is. (14 days intended, 53 days currently.) One source linked below:
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