#Extragalactic

[deus-primordialis-eternatus]

"And I looked upon the great hive beast, and knew that hope was lost."

— attributed to Hector Prime, commander of the Tower of Adamant, Hethgard, executed for cowardice

𝕾̸̫̦̔̕̕͜𝖜̵̡͍͚̓̒͊𝖆̴͎̪̙̓̾͒𝖗̸͎͔͉͛̈́̓𝖒̴̦̻͉̈́́̕𝖑̸̪͚͕͐̒͛𝖔̴̟̝͎͑̐͆𝖗̴̼͍̟͒̐̿𝖉̸̢̼̫̓͛͑ 𝕮̵͇͇̾͊͋͜𝖔̸̼̦͎̒̽̀𝖑̸̼̫̈́̓͜͠𝖔̸͓̻͓͒̒͘𝖗̵͇̫͉̾͊͝𝖊̴͍̦̝͐̀͝𝖉̸̞͖͇́͘ //  MajesticChicken

#swarmlord #swarm lord #hive beast #hive mind #tyranids #warhammer #warhamemr 40k #warhamer 40000 #hive tyrant #nephilim king #hive fleet behemoth #behemoth #leviathan #the great devourer #the endless swarm #endless swarm #awakened tombs #extragalactic #one body #one mind #colored #karl kopinski #games workshop #2010 #nov 10

[sudden-stops-kill]

the 'eye of sion' tho

#star wars #eye of sion #hyperspace transport ring #extragalactic #ahsoka #holy #badass

[pluralzalpha]

Galactic Gazetteer: Zonama Sekot

Type: rogue planet/living planet

Location: variable

Origin: Yuuzhan Vong Ancestral Galaxy

Inhabitants: Yuuzhan Vong, Ferroans, Langhesi, humans

Affiliation: Yuuzhan Vong

First appearance: "Rogue Planet" by Greg Bear (2000)

Fun fact: a single sentient organism, the seed of the original Yuuzhan Vong homeworld Yuuzhantar.

Another fun fact: name means "World of Body and Mind" in Ferrian.

Fun fact 3: travelled to the main galaxy as part of the Yuuzhan Vong invasion in Legends continuity.

#galactic gazetteer #star wars #star wars legends #star wars novels #extragalactic #rogue planet #living planet

[moonmovies]

Extragalactic (2022)

#extragalactic #2022 #movie #animation #screenshot

[astraiox]

The radial magnetic field around NGC 4631 (Golla and Hummel 1994)

#astrophysics #astroblr #radio astronomy #interstellar medium #magnetic field #physicsblr #extragalactic astrophysics

[spockvarietyhour]

the comics i'm reading refer to events in the 2013 PS3/XBOX 360 game Star Trek and fam I have no memory of this game at all.

this was a game that was released? What if any impact did it have? cuz i'm betting very little.

The ONLY thing that even rings a distant bell is this ad:

that tickles something in the back of my brain.

#A game was released as a tie in to Into Darkness #with extragalactic gorn? okay sure. #Abrams blaming the failure of STID on this game FEFrgtsdfredw yeah bud. sure. and not the...the bad movie you made #Star Trek #Star Trek 2013 #video games

[kazemi-archive]

do you love me ? 🥺

get to know the blogger <3

was gonna be kinda nice and say "yeah most of the time"

but nooooow since you wanna come at me with the "u suck" bc i "exist" ..... ✨no✨

#☾ extragalactic ☽ #𓇻 games

[punkpresentmic]

listen my job is to know things about black holes & bring the ‘weird little guy’ energy to spaces. WHAT is a final exam.

#thoughts.c #press release from the event horizon telescope on Thursday lads #with an update on the sgr a* data #they’re cagey abt it as they are but PRESUMABLY my dudes #we are getting the 1st ever pic of the supermassive black hole in our galaxy :-) #also just turned in my extragalactic astronomy final that I spent WAY more time on than necessary #i was just supposed to write a multi-step problem & what i ended up w could count as creative writing #with math #lmao

[harrelltut]

iThank EXTRAGALACTIC ENERGY [iTHEE] GOD JEHOVAH [ME] on Earth [ME = U.S. Michael Harrell = TUT = JAH]… 4 ILLUMINATING Dark [I.D.] Matter [I'M] WAR WEAPONS from Lost 2022 [VI] America's Most Darkest [Occulted] Subterranean Earth ALTITUDE [SEA] KINGDOM of MESOAMÉRICA’s Antediluvian [MA] 900 A.D. MU Amurika [MA = ATLANTIS]

MU:13

CELEBRATE THE PROPHETIC FALL OF LOST AMERICA

U READY 4 WAR AMERICA???

2023 WAR IN AMERICA

#quantumharrelltech #America the Slowest Nation on Earth #America is Powerless #MU:13 Occult Tech Illuminati #I AM EXTRAGALACTIC GOD JEHOVAH

[michaelgabrill]

NGC 6744: Extragalactic Close Up #NASA https://ift.tt/QbAtBjo

#NASA #Michael Gabrill #NGC 6744: Extragalactic Close Up

[inbabylontheywept]

"I think we underestimated the human population by eight or nine orders of magnitude."

The war room was reeling. The human population had been estimated in the mere hundred billion range. They should barely have had enough of an economy to field two light cruisers, least of all the goddamn armada that was ravaging the inner worlds. After the alpha strike, the human flotilla should’ve been completely crippled. Instead the number of ships they were fielding kept growing.

Tan-Hauser was the first target struck by a human attack, and they reported seventeen craft before they lost comms. Attican was hit just three days after that, but their reports already showed numbers above ninety. Any doubts that the fleet was growing were eliminated when Outpost Batan reported 1,217 FTL pings two days before the loss of Kira.

The number reported was so big it was written off as a sensor malfunction. Twenty-five billion souls lost, all because nobody in the war room could face reality.

They were going to face it now. The Kirarian in front of them was the primary sensor engineer for the Batan outpost, a specialist with more expertise in analyzing space lanes than warships. He’d been up for at least the last two days, poring over the sensor data, and only now was ready to begin to share his findings.

From the pain in his multifaceted eyes, it was clear he was still reeling from the loss of his homeworld.

Seeing that he had the room’s attention, he began to speak. The translation units each member of the war council had implanted experienced a moment of lag as they struggled to convert the almost musical tonal humming of the Kirarian tongue to more common galactic speech.

"The simplest data that can be analyzed from an FTL ping is the distance that the ship traveled before dropping to sublight. The contracted space in front of the craft traps small particles, even light itself for a short period, compressing its wavelength and then releasing it when the field disengages."

The war room nodded along. The explanation was mildly technical, but anyone that had traveled on an FTL shuttle before knew the hazards of exiting FTL directly in front of your home destination. Blasting your home station with a wave of alpha, beta, and ultraviolet rays was hardly a warm welcome.

The engineer continued.

“The… issue with this is that we’re used to the majority of the ping being in the UV spectrum. We aren’t entirely sure what the spectrum of the signals we got from the ships were because Batan station can only detect up into the low gamma range, but that’s still what the majority of the human’s FTL pings were detected in. That’s at least ten billion times the frequency that we’re used to. Since the frequency of the burst can be roughly modeled by multiplying the mean radiation per unit distance by the length of the path, that implies one of two things: That the human ships are either traveling through areas with ten billion times the standard background flux, or that they are traveling extragalactic distances.”

The engineer paused for a few seconds at that statement. The pain of loss still shone in his gemstone eyes, but something more immediate was beginning to take center stage: Fear.

“Because the craft is essentially throwing… well, normally it would be the next three or four days worth of cosmic background radiation at you. In our case it’s more like several decades. But because it’s just giving you an advance on your normal cosmic background radiation, you can track the void in the next several days' worth of background noise to determine the ship's approach vector. The 1,217 crafts that arrived weren’t coming from the same spot. There were actually hundreds of converging vectors, but more importantly…”

He trailed off, a small 3D model of the local space appearing in the center of the holo table. A spiked ball of vectors protruded from the galactic disk, each piercing cleanly through his former homeworld.

His voice cracked a little, the hum turning into a hiss. The translator tech paused a moment too, struggling to convey the subtle emotional cues into the message.

“They’re all coming off the galactic disk. That doesn’t just mean that we’re surrounded, that doesn’t just mean that we’re outnumbered… It means that each attack that we’ve seen up to this point is from an entirely separate group. What we’ve been mistaking for fleets, I believe, are simply the beginning trickles of their exploratory forces. Each of the sites that they’ve targeted hasn’t been of significant strategic importance; they’ve just been sites with unusually strong output signals. I think they’re just using our transmission stations as makeshift beacons for their FTL jumps." He took a deep breath to steady himself before providing his final thought. "I think we underestimated the size of the human population by eight or nine orders of magnitude.”

There was a heavy silence in the war room as that last sentence was processed. The engineer was already out the door before he heard the panic begin to set in.

Part of him felt a little guilty. It would’ve probably been kinder for them to go out not knowing what was about to hit them. Still, it wasn’t often you could force people with this much power to realize that they’d just lost everything.

There was a bitter satisfaction in that.

#hfy #humanity fuck yeah #humans are space orcs #science fiction #we are the swarm #scifi #writing #writblr #we are the cosmic horror #The goal was to imply that we have colonized hundreds of other galaxies

[apod]

2024 February 18

Hoag's Object: A Nearly Perfect Ring Galaxy Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble; Processing: Benoit Blanco

Explanation: Is this one galaxy or two? This question came to light in 1950 when astronomer Arthur Hoag chanced upon this unusual extragalactic object. On the outside is a ring dominated by bright blue stars, while near the center lies a ball of much redder stars that are likely much older. Between the two is a gap that appears almost completely dark. How Hoag's Object formed, including its nearly perfectly round ring of stars and gas, remains unknown. Genesis hypotheses include a galaxy collision billions of years ago and the gravitational effect of a central bar that has since vanished. The featured photo was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and reprocessed using an artificially intelligent de-noising algorithm. Observations in radio waves indicate that Hoag's Object has not accreted a smaller galaxy in the past billion years. Hoag's Object spans about 100,000 light years and lies about 600 million light years away toward the constellation of the Snake (Serpens). Many galaxies far in the distance are visible toward the right, while coincidentally, visible in the gap at about seven o'clock, is another but more distant ring galaxy.

∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240218.html

[itstimewehavesomesoliddick]

Warhammer 40K: "the biggest threat is huge chaos invasions and extragalactic hungry aliens that eat planets and stuff and-"

Warhammer fantasy:

[blueiskewl]

Spiral Galaxy M83

This month, Webb presents a spectacular treat… for the eyes. The barred spiral galaxy M83 is revealed in detail by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. M83, which is also known as NGC 5236, was observed by Webb as part of a series of observations collectively titled Feedback in Emerging extrAgalactic Star clusTers, or FEAST. Another target of the FEAST observations, M51, was the subject of a previous Webb Picture of the Month. As with all six galaxies that comprise the FEAST sample, M83 and M51 were observed with both NIRCam and MIRI, two of the four instruments that are mounted on Webb.

#james webb space telescope #james webb images #Spiral Galaxy M83 #NGC 5236 #space #space exploration #nasa #nasa photos #nasa picture of the day #galaxy #galaxies

[clericofshadows]

KAIDAN ALENKO - 2/???, FEAT. REGIS SHEPARD MASS EFFECT 1 - NIGHT BEFORE ILOS "I don't know… I mean, the regs against fraternization seem kind of petty now. Taking a stolen ship to face a giant extragalactic war machine…"

#mass effect #kaidan alenko #mshenko #male shepard #commander shepard #mass effect 1 #gamingedit #dailygaming #dailyvideogames #vgedit #gamingnetwork #meedit #regis shepard #cleric's gifs: KA series #cleric's gifs #this dialogue fits their 10 year+ relationship the most #but I'm also in love with his team milky way line #flashing gif #for the background door icons #videogamemen

[talonabraxas]

Laniakea “immense heaven.” Talon Abraxas

Laniakeа is a supercluster of galaxies, which, in particular, contains the Virgo Supercluster (which includes the Local Group, containing the Milky Way galaxy with the solar system) and the Great Attractor. In turn, Laniakeya is a member of the Pisces-Cetus supercluster complex.

The Laniakea Supercluster contains about 100 thousand galaxies. It is 500 million light-years across. For comparison, the diameter of our Galaxy is only 100 thousand light-years. To make it even clearer, one light-year equals about 9.46 trillion kilometers.

Translated from Hawaiian, Laniakea means “immense heaven.” That, in general, accurately reflects the fact that in the foreseeable future, we will hardly be able to fly to the edge of these “heavens.”

Artwork of the supercluster, Laniakea (yellow), which includes our own Milky Way. Scientists at the University of Hawaii have examined the velocities of galaxies in unprecedented detail, showing in the process that Laniakea is much bigger than originally thought. It weighs in at 100 million billion solar masses and spans over 500 million light-years of extragalactic space. Each dot in this image is a galaxy - 100, 000 in all - each containing in turn millions to trillions of stars. The contour lines are velocity flows: they indicate the direction that galaxies are moving through the supercluster under the combined gravity of all of that matter. The red dot shows the location of the Milky Way, our own galaxy, on the edge of the supercluster