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LittleCorndawg2 t1_iud5hp6 wrote

Reply to comment by tei187 in Pillars Of Creation MIRI + NIRCAM - The colors of MIRI + the detail of NIRCAM (OC Edit) by butchiebags

It's 6500 light years away.

Probably looks more or less the same.

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Dicer214 t1_iudj3ng wrote

It’s kinda weird to think that, even though it’s “only” 6500 light years away, theoretically a giant alien space hoover could have come along and sucked everything up, and we’d have no way of knowing. It’s along the same vein of the sun could actually have exploded right this very second, but we wouldn’t know about it because the light hasn’t gotten here yet. Sorry for the random thought diarrhoea.

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LittleCorndawg2 t1_iudjxwz wrote

No worries I live for random thought diarrhoea my man.

That's true but 6500 years is not a long time at all in these matters.

6500 years ago people were already using agriculture and shit. Sun has barely burped in that time.

It takes hundreds of millions of years just for earth to go around our galaxy one time. And earth has done it plenty of times while life goes on. Pretty crazy shit.

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Dicer214 t1_iudkxb8 wrote

> 6500 years ago people were already using agriculture and shit.

But the earth is only 6000 years old?

Ha! I jest. Yeah it’s absolutely mental to think about how insignificant of a blip we are in comparison to the universe.

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PhoenixReborn t1_iuejime wrote

There's a cloud that's theorized to be a shockwave from a supernova heading towards the Pillars. If correct, it was destroyed 6000 years ago.

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