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https://xkcd.com/2849

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If you live in Los Angeles (around 33°52'N, roughly the latitude of Hermosa Beach) the black hole in V404 Cygni passes over you each day. On Christmas Day it will be directly overhead around 2pm.

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[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 year ago

As per the Planet-building show room on Magrathea, it's big things that help me recognize the magnitude of the universe around us (or rather our infinitesimal presence in it). I have a 12K x 12K image of the sun (our astronomical societies take them daily) that I look at the details of when I want to be reminded how teeny tiny I am. (The sun alone is 99.8% of the mass of the solar system.)

And there are stars hundreds of times more massive.

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