Hey Pandas, What Is Your Favorite Stellar Object In The Night Sky

Just give me a few. I don’t care, just as long as they are worth it.

Although I've never witnessed them firsthand, I'm intrigued by the Milky Way Galaxy and the Aurora Borealis. Experiencing these breathtaking phenomena is a dream I hope to fulfill someday.

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CascadedFalls

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Cosmologist wannabe 1 year ago

They are absolutely beautiful. I once went to a bortle 2 sight. I was just shocked. Aurorae are also extremely beautiful. The modern age sucks.

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Shooting Stars/meteorites
Does this count I don't know a lot about the night sky.

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Julie S

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Cosmologist wannabe 1 year ago

Yes. But meteorites are found on the ground. I am going to assume that was a mistake.

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Saturn and Jupiter ...... First time I viewed them both through my telescope, just blew my mind!! ( also the fact that you're looking through time as well as space just freaks me out!)

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K- THULU

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If I could see everything like the Webb or Hubble, I’m sure I’d have a different answer. The moon is my favorite! That it’s so close (respectively) that we can see mares and certain craters with the naked eye; that it has phases of reflective solar light that we can watch and admire; that through the course of a night, we can watch it travel across the sky, often enhanced by back-lit, passing clouds; that under our own atmospheric conditions, it takes on beautiful, different colors. I prefer silver.

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Sleestak

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Seonag Udell 1 year ago

The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas. Alfred Noyes "The Highwayman" I love it when the moon appears like this.

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Pleiades. It is the closest known cluster, and visible throughout winter. It is easily visible with the naked eye.

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Cosmologistinterntobe (human)

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There’s so much light pollution where I live that the moon and Venus are the only things even remotely visible. I like watching the moon through a telescope and I once saw an orbiter go around it

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Stardust she/her

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Cosmologist wannabe 1 year ago

Ye. That sucks. People don’t need that much light. There is this book that I have recently read called “the end of night” (I forgot the author) . One of the most depressing book that I have ever read.

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I just enjoy being able to see the stars. I was in the Boundary Waters (lakes and islands in the area between Michigan and Canada) a few years ago and the entire sky was filled with stars, and it was so beautiful. I also got to see the International Space Station fly over from my house, and while it's not technically a stellar object, it was very cool to see.

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mysterious(he/they, maybe?)

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Going with the one I've seen through a telescope. Orions Nebula. There's a free telescope in Gilbert, Az every Friday and Saturday and got to see it a couple of times. Like a blue hazy horseshoe.

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Red Foreman

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Cosmologist wannabe 1 year ago

Yeah. I have actually been there one time. Shame that it is surrounded by light pollution ☹️

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I live in a small town no light or smoke! I love it all.

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Rat Jesus

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Cosmologist wannabe 1 year ago

Lucky. The things I would do to visit a bortle 1 site, or even a bortle 2 site

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Light Pollution! Its giving cyberpunk 2077

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lustrous..xx

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Cosmologist wannabe 1 year ago (edited)

Light pollution is not a stellar object. It is a curse

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The Southern Cross, just makes me smile. Best idea ever that it was incorporated into our National flag. Love being Australian, love lying under a star filled sky and seeing the Southern Cross.

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Libstak

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LadyHermit 1 year ago

If I'd have a long-range telescope my answer would be far different (Eagle Nebula) As it is I was lucky enough - and downright dumbass to not appreciate it properly back then, I was 8 or so - to see the Milky Way from a 700m altitude remote village in my country, shown by my dad who was a huge cosmos, science, philosophy and spirituality enthusiast. I realise now it was breathtaking seeing all those myriads of stars and the interstellar gas, never again saw anything like it IRL. But I think that was the basis for my subsequent fascination with the very same things my dad enjoyed.

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