Our Solar System Jupiter

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These two images illustrate the progress in space exploration in the past century, taken one hundred years apart.

The first image was published in Andrees Handatlas 8th Edition, 1922. The second image NASA 2019 (Hubble space telescope).

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loldier
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This belongs in the troll lounge.

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On 1/20/20 11:20 PM, name at domain wrote:
> This belongs in the troll lounge.

How do I get the troll lounge in my mailing list form?

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> How do I get the troll lounge in my mailing list form?

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> This belongs in the troll lounge.

It's not a troll post, it's a very serious and good post.

It's not just amazing how far we've come, but also amazing how much detail they knew about in 1922 with much smaller and simpler telescopes. Jupiter is at least 628 million km away.

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New York public library's digital collections include scans of early astrophotographic prints.

The planet Saturn: Observed on November 30, 1874, at 5h. 30m. P.M.
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dd-e823-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

The planet Jupiter: Observed November 1, 1880, at 9h. 30m. P.M.
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dd-e821-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

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FACE :D

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loldier
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That's funny.

By the way, your avatar reminds me of Maya glyphs.

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If it does, thanks, that's nice to hear; I wasn't thinking of those.

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This is a previously unknown planetoid in the Astroid belt, just behind Ceres. It was discovered accidentally when my pea soup was burned in the kettle early this morning.

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Looks a lot more like burned corn soup. And we all know that there's no corn growing behind Ceres, so I say this is NOT a planetoid.