FlockOfCats,
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I had a couple things come across my timeline that made me think about how far science, especially space science, has come during my lifetime.

For example, when I was younger, Pluto was not much more than a few blurry pixels of a planet, now it is a richly detailed world (and dwarf planet).

When I was a kid, there were 9 planets, now we know thousands, most exoplanets outside the solar system. Wild to think about. 1/3 🧵

mircoxi,
@mircoxi@corteximplant.com avatar

@FlockOfCats My favourite thing about stuff like this is that we almost know more about whats outside our own solar system than we do our own. We've seen all these exoplanets, new classes of stellar phenomena... and we still haven't conclusively ruled out Planet X/Nine ( in fact, last I checked, there were new measurements that gave the theory more credibility) and it's SO awesome that we still have so much more to learn!

me,
@me@jacobwhite.us avatar

@FlockOfCats where’d all that yellow come from in 2002?

FlockOfCats,
@FlockOfCats@famichiki.jp avatar

@me

Those are not necessarily true color images. I’m not sure the details of that image, but it could be a signal outside the visual region that was assigned yellow, or some other false color added in processing to make features clearer

gullevek,
@gullevek@famichiki.jp avatar

@FlockOfCats The Pluto photos. The long time deep space Hubble photo withe thousands and thousands of galaxies. Seeing exoplanets traverse their star

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