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Shoutout to the random guy at the Griffith Observatory who blew my mind about the Andromeda Galaxy photo
He pointed out that the blue dots in that famous shot aren't stars, they're actually globular clusters. I always thought they were just regular stars far away. Anyone else find out they were looking at a photo totally wrong for years?
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kellyr1821d ago
Man, I had the exact same thing happen but with the Pillars of Creation. Spent years thinking those little fuzzy spots were just camera noise or whatever until someone told me they're whole protostar systems. Like cool, thanks universe, nothing like realizing I've been looking at space pictures like a caveman staring at fire for the first time. Now I'm paranoid about every space photo I see, probably going to find out tomorrow that the moon landing photos are actually just cheese gradients or something ridiculous.
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ryan_sanchez21d ago
Must be one of those things that makes you reconsider everything you thought you knew about space. I had a similar moment years ago when someone told me the Hubble Ultra Deep Field isn't just empty black space with galaxies sprinkled in, but that nearly every single speck is a galaxy. It really changes how you look at those pictures.
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