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[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Now it *looks like.

It really feels like a game of forced perspective, in a very literal sense. I think it was prior to Edwin Hubble that we thought certain fuzzy blobs in the sky were nebulae, until the type 1a supernova discovery tweaked our angle of view, the fuzzy blobs turned out to be distant galaxies in their own right, and suddenly the whole damn universe got deeper.

Space is a jerk. It's my favorite. MOAR secrets, pls

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