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“IC 1101 has spent most of its life colliding with other galaxies and owes its size to these collisions. Over billions of years, galaxies about the size of the Milky Way and Andromeda, have been merging together to sculpt and shape this titan of the cosmos. This galaxy is bereft of star making gases, here rapid star formation has long ago ceased.

IC 1101 is dying a slow death. While not entirely devoid of new stars, unless it continues to merge with newer younger galaxies, IC 1101 will slowly fade to oblivion.”

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Solving the data processing alone is mindnumbing…

The amount of sensory information collected pose a huge storage problem and require real-time signal processing to reduce the information to relevant data. In mid 2011 it was estimated the array could generate an exabyte a day of raw data, which could be compressed to around 10 petabytes.

Square Kilometre Array

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is a radio telescope project that will be built in Australia and South Africa. It will have a total collecting area of approximately one square kilometre. It will operate over a wide range of frequencies and its size will make it 50 times more sensitive than any other radio instrument.

The Square Kilometre Array SKA

GALAXY DONUTS!!! inspired by @insertdisc5‘s animated short Galactic Donut!! and a twitter exchange where she said i shouldn’t eat the galaxy donut because that didn’t work out well in the animation. so i made my own.

aaaaand now they’re too pretty to eat. truly this is the worst possible ending???

i tried very hard to make one of them look like the Actual Donut but? it turns out?? that edible spray paint is about as precise as a bucket of glitter??? oh well.

💕 We made you some scientific valentines because we love you. 💕

And yes, you can print them out for the geeks in your life.

Watch: If you miss tonight’s supermoon lunar eclipse you won’t get another glimpse for a long time.

Imagine if Blank Space had been recorded back in the 40′s…what might that have sounded like? I put an amp filter on PMJ’s version of it, and I gotta say, the 40′s sounds good with some taylorswift :)

fyeahastropics:

THAT STAR IS NOT DEAD. 

Im sure you’ve seen the post or heard the quote “when you wish upon a star, technically that star is a million light years away and it’s already dead, just like your dreams”

This is false. That star is not dead, it is not millions of light years away! the Milky Way galaxy is 100,000 light years across, so the oldest light reaching us from a star in our galaxy would be less than 100,000 years old (because we aren’t on the very edge). Stars live for millions and billions of years! Sure that supernova we viewed from another galaxy is from a star that had been dead for ages, but the stars you see at night are much closer and very much still burning brightly! 

The light you are seeing of a star is old, but the star itself is not dead and neither are your dreams! 

-this has been a slightly uplifting rant by janestreetdog (who is peeved by this misconception) 

When you wish upon a star