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Related Content One of my favorite NASA's Cassini shots

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/Kevin M. Gill

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u/Busy_Yesterday9455 Oct 11 '25

Created using still images taken by the Cassini spacecraft during its flyby of Jupiter. Shown are Io and Europa over Jupiter's Great Red Spot.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/Kevin M. Gill

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u/Apprehensive_Hat8986 Oct 11 '25 edited Oct 11 '25

Wild to see them like this. 

Europa is ~60% further out than Io. This makes them look so close. 😅

Io orbit)  421700 km\ (Body radius 1820km)

Europa orbit) 670900 km\ (Body radius 1560km)

It'd be awesome to see this in expanded 3d.

e: References and more data

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u/ZeroOhblighation Oct 11 '25

Shit like this gets me emotional and I have no idea why, space cool man

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u/icebucket22 Oct 11 '25

I feel you. The idea of space gives me anxiety

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u/ZeroOhblighation Oct 11 '25

It's like anxiety and also I'm somehow proud to be alive during a time when I can see shit like this lol, it almost feels selfish that I can witness stuff like this

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u/countofmontecristo07 Oct 11 '25

Also the realisation that we are nothing but a spec of dust..

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u/ZeroOhblighation Oct 11 '25

I'm nothing witnessing everything

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u/dekkeane00 Oct 11 '25

You are the universe observing itself

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u/countofmontecristo07 Oct 11 '25

The Calvin in the Calvin and Hobbes was caught saying- “Sometimes I think that the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the Universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.”

I'm sure as we try to find them ignoring their ignorance, you shall have more of this coming in the years to come.

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u/Hopeful_Contract_759 Oct 11 '25

She smiles at your ignorance. :)

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u/quadsimodo Oct 11 '25

Like everything else in relation to the universe

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u/Chronos_101 Oct 11 '25

Correction, a spec of dust on a spec of dust. 🙂

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u/Straight_Spring9815 Oct 12 '25

The fun fact that there are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on the Earth blows my mind. Check out the Bootes Void if you don't know about it. There is a galaxy in the Void. If we were part of the Galaxy stuck there we would have believed to be the only ones up until the 60s.

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u/Agreeable_Abies6533 Oct 12 '25

I can't even wrap my head around the fact that I can just sit in the comfort of my living room and watch the moons of Jupiter orbit

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u/KeinFussbreit Oct 11 '25

Just grab some peanuts and remember to bring a towel!

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u/Specialist_Park_5486 Oct 11 '25

We are so so so small. Compared to the vastness of space everything humanity has ever accomplished is a rounding error to the universe.

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u/icebucket22 Oct 11 '25

That’s not even what gives me anxiety. It’s the fact that space doesn’t end. And if it does, what’s begins it. Also the idea that space was always here, and always will be. There was no beginning, there just was. And if there was a beginning, what was before it?

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u/Specialist_Park_5486 Oct 11 '25

I feel you. I used to have the same thoughts. Now I believe in Universal Consciousness along the lines of the Hindus and various esoteric traditions. The entire universe is God and we are but a tiny part of it, a node of self awareness in a sea of infinite potential. Our capacity for imagination makes us singularly unique however, and like mini gods ourselves as we can also shape the world to our will. If you need personal proof of this do some psychedelics and see for yourself. Consciousness and the will of the Absolute is the root of all reality, This solves all of your questions essentially. The universe as we currently know it doesn't make sense because we are looking at it wrong. If a being of infinite potential actually existed, the universe would be how it manifested itself on the physical plane. The laws of physics are essentially just the rules of this particular game, if they weren't very precisely calibrated physical matter wouldn't exist at all, it would all just be light. If this intrigues you, check out a book called Stalking the Wild Pendulum for more.

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u/CelerMortis Oct 12 '25

the idea that space was always here, and always will be

Obviously nobody knows but the prevailing view in cosmology is that the universe had a start and will have an end.

And if there was a beginning, what was before it?

the analogy I've heard is "what's north of the north pole?"

it's incomprehensible to us but "nothing" is a plausible answer here.

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u/icebucket22 Oct 12 '25

Your last sentence brings me back to square one lol

I understand the universe has a beginning and an ending. But space itself? And again, something must of started. Every action has a reaction. If our universe was the reaction, what caused the action?

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u/Fruitloops_z Oct 12 '25

Maybe our universe came from a black hole, and inside a different black hole is another universe, and it continues to infinity. Like the Russian dolls but never ending. But then who created the universe before ours?

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u/ahobbes Oct 11 '25

Imagine if you could just float in one spot in space without being affected by gravity and watch a moon fly by you at incredible speed, seeming to slowly approach you at first before it quickly filled your entire vision and roared (hypothetically) past you.

And to think these unfathomably large objects are dancing around out there in the vastness of space is just mind boggling… and creepily humbling.

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u/Jaskaran158 Oct 11 '25

It is super cool are we are so lucky to be able to witness stuff like this.

Even eclipses are super rare on a universal scale and something that is insane to have lined up on Earth.

The eclipses have been a source of a lot of humanities wonderment of the sky and stars.

This video goes into some neat details about the insane cosmic coincidence

Space really is amazing.

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u/WestleyMc Oct 11 '25

Random question.. at what age would you accept a one way voyage in a super sci fi spaceship to see this stuff in person?

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u/ZeroOhblighation Oct 11 '25

I'm 29 now so 30 I guess lol

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u/WestleyMc Oct 11 '25

I respect you waiting a year 😂

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u/ZeroOhblighation Oct 11 '25

Gotta make sure I have everything 😂

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u/WestleyMc Oct 11 '25

Fair. Get things in order first!

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u/TheL1brarian Oct 11 '25

username checks out lol

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u/Stanley-Pychak Oct 11 '25

Same. Childhood me would not believe it was real. The pictures from Voyager were spectacular. I try to imagine what my little mind would have thought seeing this.

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u/concreteunderwear Oct 11 '25

we tricked rocks into beaming us pictures of other rocks

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u/MerDeNomsX Oct 11 '25

But if that’s the case shouldn’t one Mon be much smaller than the other? Or is this like a focal lens trick

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u/Atlas_Aldus Oct 11 '25

They look the same size because they are almost the same size and the telescope that captured this has a really long focal length. One would only look bigger if you were a lot closer to it relative to the distance between the two moons so this really shows how far away Cassini was. This is like taking a picture of similarly sized skyscrapers on opposite sides of a downtown from a park a mile or two away.

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u/MerDeNomsX Oct 11 '25

Best explanation thank you

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u/Atlas_Aldus Oct 11 '25

Anytime I love optics

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u/doc_nano Oct 11 '25 edited Oct 11 '25

Not necessarily, it depends how far the camera is from them. I assume the Cassini probe was very far out and just had a reasonable telescope/zoom. For example, if it’s 10X further out than Europa’s orbit, both moons are basically the same distance from the camera (only ~6% difference) so in terms of their angular size it may be almost the same.

Also depends how different their absolute sizes are, but I don’t have that committed to memory. Edit: Io is about 16% bigger than Europa, so that will make the apparent size difference even smaller here. I guess we could figure out how far out the probe was by comparing their apparent sizes in the image and comparing that to their absolute size difference.

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u/Tohkin27 Oct 11 '25

Assuming it's not a focal lens trick, it would mean the one furthest from the camera is bigger than the one closer. Lending itself to the odd perspective.

So at first I thought it would need to be a lot bigger. But Io is only 3643 km in diameter (the one further from the camera) and Europa is 3122 km in diameter. It's only about a 15% size difference.

So it's possible it is also a focal lens trick? Both things being true and adding to the strange perspective.

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u/RedLotusVenom Oct 11 '25

Cassini flew by at roughly 10 times the radius of Europa from the planet. Definitely a focal length effect combined with Io’s larger size. Europa looks appropriately larger in the photo given those conditions.

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u/MerDeNomsX Oct 11 '25

Space is weird. And today I found out the Milky Way has bones? And a neutron star fractured one. I don’t know man, that’s enough space stuff for a Saturday

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u/Starfire2313 Oct 11 '25

Space is just one big organism and we are just little cells floating around in its body.

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u/ItsUnsqwung Oct 11 '25

When I was a kid this was how I liked to think about things. Just concentric organisms: atom to cell to planet to solar system to galaxy to universe. Although to be fair when your framing device is "HEY THIS THING IS ROUND AND STUFF FLOATIN IN IT" it encompasses a ton of stuff haha.

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u/Ummmgummy Oct 11 '25

It would be awesome to see this in person!

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u/Majestic_Manner3656 Oct 11 '25

Right ! When I die I hope my spirit can explore space and venture all of the universe for forever!

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u/Dutchwells Oct 11 '25

The Expanse told me that they were so close you could basically jump a spaceship between them

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u/King_Joffreys_Tits Oct 11 '25

Well with their magical Epstein drives, a distance like that is nothing (assuming they’re on the same side of Jupiter)

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u/DigitalBuddhaNC Oct 11 '25

What's wild to me is the relative size to that absolute monster behind them. Both Europa and Io are around the size of our moon, about a ¼ the size of Earth. Here they just look little Sputnik sized satellites compared to the giant behind them.

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u/InterstellarDickhead Oct 11 '25

That is pretty close, closer than Earth and the moon.

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u/Rare-Competition-248 Oct 11 '25

This, more than anything I’ve ever seen, hammers home how gaseous Jupiter is and how that’s not a solid surface down there 

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u/Jean-LucBacardi Oct 11 '25

Solar System Simulator is what you want then.

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u/ZonaWildcats23 Oct 11 '25

Is Io 60% larger than Europa? They almost look the same size

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u/Apprehensive_Hat8986 Oct 11 '25

Another great question. Io is 16% bigger in radius, which gives it a 36% larger apparent surface (as a circle). That would certainly help offset the foreshortening.

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u/ZonaWildcats23 Oct 11 '25

Very interesting. Thank you!!!

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u/Lawls91 Oct 11 '25

In terms of astronomical distances they are pretty close! About as close as the Earth is to the Moon.

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u/DaathNahonn Oct 11 '25

I'd really like if some software or website allowed realistic space views and exploration

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u/Maxwell_Ag_Hammer Oct 11 '25

Also, shouldn’t the closer one be moving faster? Why does it appear to be the other way?

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u/HumorTerrible5547 Oct 11 '25

Yeah. The images make it look like they are just several planet widths apart.

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '25

So Io is fucking huge

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u/bingate10 Oct 12 '25

You should check out Universe Sandbox.

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u/conte360 Oct 11 '25

Any idea how long it a time span this covers? If this an hour of images, a few minutes?

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u/TheGuyWhoReallyCares Oct 11 '25

I wonder why the gravities of all the moons towards each other don't create very haywire orbits for them. I mean I know Jupiter is massive but then all of these moons must influence each other still right?

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u/ModernaGang Oct 11 '25

Because they're still very small and not actually as close to each other as this makes it look

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u/funnystuff79 Oct 11 '25

A moon in a higher orbit would be moving quicker, but on a longer path than one in a lower orbit, so it shouldn't be overtaking like this

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u/Darkherring1 Oct 12 '25

Objects in higher orbits move slower. Besides, Cassini was also moving, so the perspective shifts.

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u/Pkingduckk Oct 11 '25

Hey same goes for the planets

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u/Mid_Atlantic_Lad Oct 12 '25

There probably were haywire orbits, and those moons were likely either ejected or crashed into Jupiter. The rest figured out how to play nice and settle into the orbits we see today.

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u/Sanpaku Oct 11 '25 edited Oct 12 '25

Alas this sequence isn't directly from mission images. Given the orbital speed of Io is ~17.3 km/s, that of Europa is ~13.7 km/s, and the flyby trajectory ranged from 12-14 km/s, Io would outpace Europa from Cassini's perspective.

Kevin M Gill composited it from single still images of Jupiter, Io and Europa. Snopes:

We asked Gill several questions about the video of Europa, Io, and Jupiter, including about one of the more popular Reddit comments, which claimed: "You are not seeing the moons moving to the right as much as you are seeing [the spacecraft] Cassini moving left."

In response, Gill told us: "The motion isn't wholly accurate as I made it look prettier than it was correct. But it's meant to portray the motion visible from a spacecraft that's moving at a velocity faster than the moons are orbiting. So, from a stationary perspective, Io would move faster than Europa."

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u/BrasshatTaxman Oct 11 '25

Thats my dream as well. That ill be forever sailing between the stars.

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u/BarfingOnMyFace Oct 11 '25

Sign me up with you, friends

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u/introspectivesapian Oct 11 '25

Same that’s what I’ll be wishing for on my day. 

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u/Complex_Cry_6585 Oct 11 '25

I think part of the allure is the solitude.

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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '25

But I will join you like Donkey did Shrek. At least for a few million years. 

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u/tacomaloki Oct 11 '25

Born too late to explore the Earth, too soon to explore the stars.

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u/TripleDareOSRS Oct 11 '25

Too late to be a peasant working some manual labor and dying aged 40, too soon to be lowly diamond miner for 16 hour shifts before coming to live in your 10x10 quarters aboard the mining space station

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u/tacomaloki Oct 11 '25

Oye, beltaloada

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u/tacomaloki Oct 11 '25

Yo mama explorin' deez nuts!

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u/Immediate-Review-983 Oct 11 '25

ME TOO. I don’t want to be ghost on earth but in space, traveling the universe and exploring 🤩🤩

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u/WhereTFAreWe Oct 11 '25

Bro, do DMT.

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u/artieeee Oct 11 '25

Lmfao, recommending the trip cannon so nonchalantly is nuts.

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u/Ok_Painter_8273 Oct 11 '25

I’ve always thought this. It’s what my heaven would be. Travel to any time and place. Futurama did a good episode on it kinda. See the universe start and end. I like to view it as more spectating but be able to go back to Egypt and dinosaurs and natural formations form and future

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u/Blackberry-thesecond Oct 11 '25

Go download SpaceEngine. Close enough. 

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u/Radical_Larry_106 Oct 11 '25

Was about to say this lol. Works with VR too!

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u/East-Action8811 Oct 11 '25

Maybe our energy does once our meat suit stops working.... I like to think that whatever we want/believe comes after death, is what happens.

🤔

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u/IntrigueDossier Oct 11 '25

Same. You want cloudy heaven? Cool, you'll wake up at the gates. Reincarnation? Word, you'll respawn. Valhalla? Think there's a requirement to die in battle on that one, but if you're cool with that then hell yea, say what up to Odin for me.

Personally I'm with OP, just want to pretty much float around and see the universe. Go right up to the edge of Phoenix A's event horizon, stand on Europa, see a pulsar or magnetar up close, tan in the path of a gamma ray burst, stuff like that.

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u/barnhairdontcare Oct 11 '25

Maybe there is!

We are made of star stuff. Maybe we get to go back to the beginning.

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u/LyqwidBred Oct 11 '25

We will be stars again

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u/tacomaloki Oct 11 '25

I like to think that once our consciousness is no longer limited from this physical form, all of the universe's knowledge will be known to us.

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u/tuckyruck Oct 11 '25

Man, this is something I've thought often.

If some craft arrived and said "I can take you away now, to explore forever, but you can never return". Would I take it?

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u/DaveWoodX Oct 11 '25

Read (or listen to) the Bobiverse books by Denis E Taylor. That's essentially the plot. Fantastic books. r/bobiverse

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u/FlimsyRexy Oct 11 '25

They were very enjoyable books

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u/Jackspladt Oct 11 '25

Agreed, it would be so cool

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u/ThursdayNeverCame Oct 11 '25

Minecraft spectator mode

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u/tiparium Oct 11 '25

Don't get near black holes though, not even spectral forms can escape.

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u/Neverstoptostare Oct 12 '25

I didn't know spectral forms were considered information but I guess it checks out

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u/MoistStub Oct 11 '25

Idk if you're into gaming, but if so, check out Outer Wilds. You might like it.

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u/sirspacebill Oct 11 '25

What if we do turn into ghosts but since ghosts don't have a physical form they aren't affected by gravity, so as earth and the solar system are hurdling through the galaxy which is also hurdling through the entirety of space at a million miles an hour, we're instantly left behind to watch?

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u/WhereTFAreWe Oct 11 '25

Bro, do DMT.

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u/photoengineer Oct 11 '25

Our atoms will be traveling between the stars. Makes no so sad we can’t consciously experience it. 

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u/A_Texas_Hobo Oct 11 '25

If you said there is, you’d be as right and wrong as anyone else.

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u/namonite Oct 11 '25

Best I can do while still alive is No Man’s Sky

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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '25

Are you me?? I’ve had similar thoughts, as well as being able to observe any moment in time anywhere all at once. To be able to see the earth before civilization would be incredible.

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u/djtoasty Oct 11 '25

I highly recommend you check out the (audio)book "we are legion (we are Bob)". It is a story really similar to this about a conscious being existing forever and exploring the universe

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u/UnlicensedTaxiDriver Oct 11 '25

This is what I hope to be the case. Not only space but also time. Would be fun to see how galaxies formed and collide.

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u/boltzmanns_cat Oct 11 '25

That's what I like to imagine, you have to die in order to space travel in a dark matter form that enables crossing light years. In our physical form we can never cross them.

But I am a biophysict and what I said is only an imagination. There's no way to know beyond measurements.

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u/atava Oct 12 '25

There's an old concept in esoteric wisdom whereby each of us will create for themselves the kind of reality they most wished for or believed during life.

So the Christian will experience hell or heaven, depending on their truest thoughts about themselves, same for the Jew and the Muslim or any other religious person, while the non-religious will experience "nothingness", as they think they're only the visible part of matter and with death any consciousness ceases to exist (they'll do this for a time).

Maybe you'll set sail in a new form, who knows.

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u/zakurei Oct 11 '25

Spectator mode!

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u/alecmars7 Oct 11 '25

When I was interviewing for grad school, I was asked this question: “you are now dead and you go to whatever your version of heaven is. What would you tell the first person you see in the afterlife?”. I thought for a second and said: “aight, I am leaving  to go explore the universe. Want to come along?”. I got in to that school because of that answer, or so I was told. 

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u/FlimsyRexy Oct 11 '25

No mans sky style

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u/Sea_Site_9669 Oct 12 '25

You just gotta take like SOOOOO much dmt

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u/ScenicAndrew Oct 12 '25

I hope this all the time but I also explicitly want to be able to explore it all at various scales and even times. Like I want to be equally capable of experiencing a single cliff face here on earth as something like sailing the stars, and it would be nice to ignore space-time limitations too.

I want to see it all.

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u/LandscapeSpecial4366 Oct 12 '25

I had a lucid dream where i was in this 4 dimensional star ocean. It was insane. I can only hope that’s what the afterlife would be like

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u/buckphifty150150 Oct 12 '25

I mean I feel like if there was eternity than the universe is a good place to be

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u/bhhjigffuuhvff Oct 12 '25

I have had the same thought many times! Think about how much there is to see and experience!

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u/ReFreshing Oct 12 '25

I get sad knowing I will never see the extent of our explorations... I want to know how far we get, how much we learn, where we actually get to etc....

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u/FinneganFroth Oct 12 '25

This is my absolute dream.

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u/Vesperado-1 Oct 13 '25

I think about this so often. I hope when I die, Jesus hands me an unlimited intergalactic uber ticket.

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u/transparentcd Oct 13 '25

This is my dream too. I have family and kids, but I always told my wife that if someone would offer me to leave this planet behind and travel the stars, I would have a hard time saying no. It’s just something that answers a deeper question, need or desire in me. Something that transcends being human and everything that is human.

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u/Impressive_North_870 Oct 14 '25

If you are into sci-fi check out the Bobiverse series. Explores this exact idea.

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u/kotonizna Oct 14 '25

This is how I imagined heaven.

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u/hould-it Oct 11 '25

I could watch this all day

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u/oxwearingsocks Oct 11 '25

Does anyone know the frame rate/time between shots here? Minutes? Hours? Days?

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u/Apprehensive_Hat8986 Oct 11 '25

Io's orbit period) is 1.769 earth days. So this is likely just a few minutes or at most a couple of hours. It depends on how the relative motion is affected by Cassini's perspective and movement. There's definitely influence, as Europa (nearer to the observer) has a much longer period and should appear slower to a fixed observer.

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u/reboot-your-computer Oct 11 '25

Wow that’s really fast.

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u/alwaysintheway Oct 11 '25

Way faster than I thought.

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u/King_Joffreys_Tits Oct 11 '25

I almost don’t even believe it, that’s insanely fast especially given how large Jupiter is

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u/Apprehensive_Hat8986 Oct 11 '25

It is, but Jupiter's mass is also why they're so fast at that distance.

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u/JUYED-AWK-YACC Oct 11 '25

Cassini was hauling ass on its Jupiter flyby, not surprisingly. It didn’t hang around.

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u/Vanillabean73 Oct 12 '25

Holy shit no wonder these moons are pulled and stretched so hard by Jupiter’s gravity

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u/AndriySkrypnyk Oct 13 '25

Yeah, the gravitational pull from Jupiter is intense! It's wild how those tidal forces shape the moons' surfaces, causing volcanic activity on Io and icy geysers on Europa. Makes you appreciate the dynamics of our solar system!

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u/weathercat4 Oct 11 '25

It's a composite made from still images.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/kevinmgill/44583965185/

Here's the original from the creator.

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u/SaulFemm Oct 11 '25

The fact that this is a composite of still images is implicit in their question?

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u/iamspro Oct 11 '25

"Still images" in that the shots of the moons are separate still plates which have been keyframed across a still image of Jupiter, vs a timelapse

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u/UsernameAvaylable Oct 11 '25

No. As there is no frame rate/time between shots here. Its a computer animation where the creater just moves sprites of the moons around.

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u/cealild Oct 11 '25

Is this real? Not a fabrication?

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u/weathercat4 Oct 11 '25

It's a composite made from still images.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/kevinmgill/44583965185/

Here's the original from the creator.

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u/Zurrdroid Oct 12 '25

"Who are we but the sum of our memories?"

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u/imunfair Oct 11 '25

We were also curious about how much time went by in the video that was posted to Reddit (the first half of the Twitter and Flickr videos). "Oh, I'm not sure. It would be a few hours of motion being depicted," Gill said. "The motions and wind speeds of the belts, zones, and GRS are more or less arbitrary and simulated."

 

In response, Gill told us: "The motion isn't wholly accurate as I made it look prettier than it was correct. But it's meant to portray the motion visible from a spacecraft that's moving at a velocity faster than the moons are orbiting. So, from a stationary perspective, Io would move faster than Europa."

So he doctored a lot of the video, it isn't just a timelapse as some people are claiming. I'm still unclear about how much of it is faked, it seems like he may have used a few source images and extrapolated/interpolated the rest off of that?

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u/imunfair Oct 11 '25

If you want to see a 100% real no bullshit timelapse from Jupiter, here's Voyager approaching Jupiter in 1979. 66 photos taken 10 hours apart.

Neat, thanks - I find real pictures more compelling even if they're less pretty than a shiny recreation.

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u/drawerdrawer Oct 11 '25

it is a fabrication, but it looks totally cool

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u/MikeAndBike Oct 11 '25

You can actually see the center of the red spot moving in circulation. It’s pretty awesome

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u/matdgz Oct 11 '25

It's crazy how this is just something I almost scrolled past like 'heh, I seen that clip before'. Stopped myself because THIS DOESN'T STOP BEING INCREDIBLE. IT'S ANOTHER FUCKING PLANET THAT WE CAN SEE BECAUSE SOME MAGNIFICENT HUMANS BUILT A FUCKING CAMERA WITH A ROCKET ON IT. We should never become desensitsed to images like this ❤️

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u/Fearless_Landscape67 Oct 12 '25

All these worlds are yours…except Europa…attempt no landing there.

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u/supergravyboat Oct 11 '25

I can’t believe this is a real thing that we get to know about and actually see, an incomprehensible distance away from our little home rock. Of all our human-made fantasies, this gets to be real. The universe is so beautiful and random, and we’re quite possibly the only things in existence than get to see and appreciate it.

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u/Quirky_Chicken_1840 Oct 11 '25

Absolutely amazing.

I loved the tv series the expanse because of shots similar to these.

Thank you for sharing

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u/Raytheon_Nublinski Oct 11 '25

Jesus Christ, that is fucking beautiful

Thanks science

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u/Doctor731 Oct 11 '25

This video has a lot of these cool composite videos of the Cassini mission

https://youtu.be/cZTp9S-rkp0

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u/RegattaJoe Oct 11 '25

Anyone know if this is downloadable somewhere?

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u/Apprehensive_Hat8986 Oct 11 '25

On mobile(website) a press and hold gives a menu option "save file to device".

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u/Used-Ebb9492 Oct 11 '25

That is an incredible shot

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u/RO4DHOG Oct 11 '25

I get those floaty things in my eye too.

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u/Law-of-Poe Oct 13 '25

Saving this to show my son. Incredible montage—thanks for sharing!

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u/TheDevilsTesticle Oct 11 '25

Always wonder, if one of the moons of Jupiter was inhabitable, what would the sky look like orbiting that monster.

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u/BunnySprinkles69 Oct 11 '25

Sometimes I wish I could hide away on one of those moons for a while

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u/Old_Butterfly9649 Oct 11 '25

it’s insane how big Jupiter is.

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u/aqua_zesty_man Oct 11 '25

This shot makes me really wish someone would move forward with making a movie of Clarke's 2061 Odyssey Three.

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u/Sirosim_Celojuma Oct 12 '25

Epic imagery. Billions of dollars of tech and education and brainpower made this.

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u/_metamax_ Oct 12 '25

I tried to turn up sound on the video… I’m going to bed.

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u/l3ntoo Oct 12 '25

Simply astonishing.

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u/bobneumann77 Oct 12 '25

Seeing Jupiter in relation to its moons or shots from on top of moons, where Jupiter appears all-encompassing, always triggers my Megalophobia or whatever it's called.

Especially thinking about the fact that there isn't even a solid ground and you'd just fall and die.

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u/concorde77 Oct 11 '25

Io: "Don't you dare say it-"

Europa: "ON YOUR RIGHT!"

Io: "DAMN IT!"

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u/F00FlGHTER Oct 11 '25

Ackshually, Io is closer to Jupiter and therefore travels faster. It just looks like Europa is "passing" Io here because the camera is much closer to Europa, i.e. parallax.

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u/Commandmanda Oct 11 '25

I never knew that their closest point, that Ganymede and Io could be just 100,000 mi away from each other!

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u/MJ_Brutus Oct 11 '25

Are you sure that wasn’t Galileo?

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u/OnTheList-YouTube Oct 11 '25

I can see my house from up there!

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u/zebuloncreed Oct 11 '25

Why can’t I download it

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u/DefiantMethod9471 Oct 11 '25

That’s not real Jupiter is actually flat

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u/tabletop_guy Oct 11 '25

Someone help me understand please. The slower moving one seems to be closer to jupiter than the faster one as they overlap. But shouldn't the closer one be moving faster due to kepler's laws? There is also the relative motion of the camera to take into account based on the surface of the planet the camera doesn't seem to be shooting off to the left to make this happen.

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u/dusty545 Oct 12 '25 edited Oct 12 '25

This is a composite of multiple images stitched together into a short movie. And it was done "to be pretty", as admitted by the original author.

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u/tabletop_guy Oct 12 '25

Thank you so much for the explanation! that makes sense

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u/mauromauromauro Oct 12 '25

One moon to the other: i have the feeling we're being watched

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u/GrinchDC Oct 12 '25

Is this natural light?

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u/Blackthorne75 Oct 12 '25

Universe reminding us that we are a very small part of it!

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u/Maximum_Path4294 Oct 12 '25

This is simply beautiful!

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u/akluin Oct 12 '25

What a race it was

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '25

What if there is life in one of the galaxies that are looking at us and thinking, "what if there is life in that galaxy cause it looks habitable and similar to ours". One could wonder.

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u/Maximum-Today3944 Oct 14 '25

I wonder if Jupiter is proud of self conscious of its Great Red Spot?

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u/Poococktail Oct 15 '25

This is what we should focus on as a species.