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THIS WEEK, HUMANITY got to see a photograph of a black hole for the first time.
But how much do you remember about some of the other famous space shots from down the years?
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8/10 good quiz. Another mad fact about the Andromeda Galaxy is that it contains 1 TRILLION stars.
@Padraig: and each of those stars could jave planets orbiting them!
@Padraig: and it’s on course to collide with the Milky Way to create an even larger galaxy with the black holes at the centre of both merging.
@Brian Ó Dálaigh: How cool would it be if the end of our universe resulted in the ‘big bang’ and creation of a whole new universe…
@Padraig: name them
@Brian Ó Dálaigh: And the chances of any of the stars in either galaxy bumping each other is close to zilch!
Think about Eamo’s comment for a minute or two. It’s all well and good seeing pictured but to understand the scale of what you’re saying is almost beyond our capabilities.
@Padraig: You know nothing John Snow … 9/10
@Ben Jamen: That would be convenient but the latest science points to an excruciatingly long existence where the stars eventually burn out and it gets really cold when the lights go off.
@Padraig: There’s statistics and then there’s the Universe.
The mechanics behind them taking that photo of the black hole was unbelievable.
@Billy Big Baws: The biggest problem that they had to overcome was the fact that it was down in a bit of a hollow.
https://www.universetoday.com/21914/the-closest-galaxy-to-the-milky-way/
The closet known galaxy to the Milky Way (the question that was asked) is the Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy. The closest spiral galaxy is Andromeda.
@Garrett Kelleher: And M31 has a 100 million solar mass supermassive Black Hole at its centre, in fact most spiral and elliptical galaxies have supermassive Black Holes in their centres. But I still got the the question right, I knew what the right wrong answer would be.
https://www.universetoday.com/65180/andromedas-unstable-black-hole/
3/10 is a ‘D’.
Is the last answer not U.S.S Voyager no?
@Ben Jamen: I was thinking that too but I think that screenshot was taken from First Contact and it’s the Enterprise E
@Ben Jamen: zefram cochrane from Star Trek First Contact
@Captain Ireland: True, it does indeed..just at first glance it looked like Voyager from ‘Future’s End’
I just went “that’s the Star Trek one, the answer is the Star Trek one”
@Dave O’Keeffe: In fairness you can’t go wrong with that answer
@Captain Ireland: and I didn’t. I’m just glad for the rest of you that it was the last question and therefore didn’t distract you from other questions ;)
You scored 7 out of 10!
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Lovely result
Bloody Moon landing…
8/10 , got last 1 wrong ( sad face )
@David Washington: that’s not how math works!
@ThatGuy: That’s not how language works! (He never used the words ‘only’ or ‘just’)
It looks nothing like a horse’s head
10/10, I guess I am a big nerd after all
9/10. Damn you Pluto! You’re not even a real planet. I thought it was a trick question :(
@Toomasu Sumitsu: They didn’t use the word ‘planet’, it was ‘celestial body’.
@bopter: which I took as a hint
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