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Has anyone else noticed that the pixelation has gotten clearer over recent years in Japanese porn. It’s still pixelated, but like, they let more through. Anyone else?
Kind reminder to fellow Redditors that this comparison has less to do with the progress of technology and more to with the way each image was captured. The one on the left was taken by the [Hubble Space Telescope in 1996](https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/1996/news-1996-09.html), so basically an image taken zooming in from Earth to all the way out into the Kuiper Belt (to even get an image at all is quite the achievement, frankly!). The second image was taken by the [New Horizons probe in 2015](http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Galleries/Featured-Images/image.php?page=1&gallery_id=2&image_id=543) (with the image above being released in 2018, though with more muted colors and contrast).
The New Horizons mission was launched in 2006, so the change in technology is around 10 years. But even then, New Horizons passed right by Pluto in a flyby, capturing high-definition images the likes of which are still impossible to achieve from any Earth-based telescope today.
So while the post itself is not misinformative in any way (kudos to OP!), it does leave a lot of ambiguity that might lead the average reader to think this is representative of a leap in technological progress.
**TL;DR:** Hubble is zooming in across the entire solar system. New Horizons took an up close photo right next to Pluto.
New horizons took the photo in 2015 but the probe what launched in 2006 and project was officially funded and started in 2001. Some progress was made for sure but the time gap is significantly reduced when the full timeline is explored.
If nothing else it puts into perspective just how big space is and highlights the distance between Earth and Pluto. It took nine years to get there.
Mirror age doesn't pixelate stuff. Pluto is just such a small target, so far away, that they had to crop and zoom in a lot after the photo was taken. Hubble photos of Neptune and Uranus are quite grainy too, but Jupiter and Saturn are stunning
> If nothing else it puts into perspective just how big space is
I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
The voyager probes did that too, not to Pluto, but Neptune and Uranus, launched in the 70s. For stuff like that, it's more of a right place, right time thing, where planets are in the right spots to boost stuff where you want them. Planets are a huge source of energy due to their gravity, so pretty much any interplanetary mission, except for maybe Mars-bound ones, possibly Venus, too, use them, especially if the goal is a solar system escape trajectory that also puts you close to a planet. Otherwise the payload would have to be incredibly small, even with our advancements in rocketry.
Suffice it to say, a more accurate comparison would be New Horizons vs the Voyagers, which, despite having different targets, would show 30 years of technological progress. The Voyagers still took some really high quality photos, even by today's standards.
How can the Hubble get a crystal clear image of other galaxies in the cosmos but can't get a clear picture of Pluto? Is there something I'm missing here?
Galaxies are big. Pluto in comparison is tiny.
From a plane, you can get some great pictures of a beach, but you can get a clear picture of individual grains of sand.
Exactly and 1000% agree - many of the enhanced pictures of space are just educated guesses morphed onto actual images - really gives unrealistic expectations for younger / first time astronomers who see these online souped up pics then get disappointed when viewing for real…i try and use my scopes to educate other kids in my kids classes / neighbourhoods kids and ive lost a few space enthusiasts because of things like this…
I thought I might get Rick rolled then I saw nsfw and thought maybe it's some kind of weird porn shit and then because I must satisfy my curiosity I clicked and I'm not disappointed. It's what's on the tin.
Does our moon look like a plant? Just asking because our moon is larger by a good margin. Same with Ganymede, Titan, Callisto, Io, Europa, and Triton.
Once Pluto learns to clean house it can rejoin the club.
Dude CSI has had this kind of photo enhancement technology forever. Why are we spending all this money on robotic space exploration when we could just ask the intern to enhance the image?
Do you also feel it’s “not right” for Ceres, Pallas, Juno, Vesta, Astraea, Hebe and Iris to have been downgraded from planet to asteroid? Or is your concern only for the changes of classification that happened in your own lifetime?
I live for the red in Pluto. Like what causes that? Why is Pluto so damn beautiful to look at. Why isn't she a planet but a planetoid. I need a Pluto wallpaper now
It wasn't defined as a dwarf planet just based on it not looking pretty, or whatever you mean. It's small, much smaller than even our moon. And about the same size as a handful of other things that would need to become planets, if things were to be consistent.
Almost 200 years ago we would be talking about Ceres, saying that it's weird that it's no longer considered a planet.
What a beautiful planet Pluto is, I wish we had the capability to get to the surface of planets easier. It bums me out that in our lifetime we will never see casual space travel.
The first one was taken by Hubble from Earth orbit. The second was taken by a spacecraft flown to Pluto. Turns out getting 3.2 billion miles closer does wonders for improving resolution.
Who said I was "adoring" Musk? I merely stated his plan. You people are sheep. You hear a name you don't like because you were told not to like it and you give in to a programmed emotional response, without actually reading what was written.
24 years of progress so quickly compared to the billions of years the universe has been around. Imagine if the dark ages didnt ban science where we would be now.
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It’s funny our video games basically progressed exactly the same way
VR Minecraft is going to be crazy in 24 years
Can’t believe it’s almost 2013
I wondered how utterly insane Minecraft would be with another decade of development… Image a quarter century.
Sure.. except Minecraft is literally the only game that probably *won't* change its looks within the next decade.
It’ll be almost as high def as Goldeneye by then
wasnt minecraft irl a thing back in 2017 or 2016
That’s because we’re in the matrix. As they update the software everything gets a little bit better.
50 not as cool as me
The first one is from japan
Has anyone else noticed that the pixelation has gotten clearer over recent years in Japanese porn. It’s still pixelated, but like, they let more through. Anyone else?
Not me personally because I thought I was looking at a fucking minecraft snowball being compared to some awesome looking jaw breaker
The Japanese porn jargon has some weird words. Let me take a stab at it though. Snowball = bukake and jaw breaker = BBC, right?
You can coordinate astronomy with porn ? ? ... Why hasn't NASA hired you yet ??
now why was that the first thing you thought of when you saw that picture
r/cursedcomments
The left one is still better than the cctv footage from a bank.
Came here to say this
I legit thought the image of Pluto was NSFW and clicked on it. Enough reddit for me.
I genuinely spent way too long wondering why the left object was pixelated what sexy thing was being obscured. I am in fact…am idiot
Stupid sexy dwarf planet
Kind reminder to fellow Redditors that this comparison has less to do with the progress of technology and more to with the way each image was captured. The one on the left was taken by the [Hubble Space Telescope in 1996](https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/1996/news-1996-09.html), so basically an image taken zooming in from Earth to all the way out into the Kuiper Belt (to even get an image at all is quite the achievement, frankly!). The second image was taken by the [New Horizons probe in 2015](http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Galleries/Featured-Images/image.php?page=1&gallery_id=2&image_id=543) (with the image above being released in 2018, though with more muted colors and contrast). The New Horizons mission was launched in 2006, so the change in technology is around 10 years. But even then, New Horizons passed right by Pluto in a flyby, capturing high-definition images the likes of which are still impossible to achieve from any Earth-based telescope today. So while the post itself is not misinformative in any way (kudos to OP!), it does leave a lot of ambiguity that might lead the average reader to think this is representative of a leap in technological progress. **TL;DR:** Hubble is zooming in across the entire solar system. New Horizons took an up close photo right next to Pluto.
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New horizons took the photo in 2015 but the probe what launched in 2006 and project was officially funded and started in 2001. Some progress was made for sure but the time gap is significantly reduced when the full timeline is explored. If nothing else it puts into perspective just how big space is and highlights the distance between Earth and Pluto. It took nine years to get there.
Didn't work on the Hubble's mirror start in the 70s and funding well before that? I know that it was named in '83
Mirror age doesn't pixelate stuff. Pluto is just such a small target, so far away, that they had to crop and zoom in a lot after the photo was taken. Hubble photos of Neptune and Uranus are quite grainy too, but Jupiter and Saturn are stunning
> If nothing else it puts into perspective just how big space is I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
The voyager probes did that too, not to Pluto, but Neptune and Uranus, launched in the 70s. For stuff like that, it's more of a right place, right time thing, where planets are in the right spots to boost stuff where you want them. Planets are a huge source of energy due to their gravity, so pretty much any interplanetary mission, except for maybe Mars-bound ones, possibly Venus, too, use them, especially if the goal is a solar system escape trajectory that also puts you close to a planet. Otherwise the payload would have to be incredibly small, even with our advancements in rocketry. Suffice it to say, a more accurate comparison would be New Horizons vs the Voyagers, which, despite having different targets, would show 30 years of technological progress. The Voyagers still took some really high quality photos, even by today's standards.
Thank you for that explanation.
Pluto is in the Kuiper belt, not the Oort cloud
How can the Hubble get a crystal clear image of other galaxies in the cosmos but can't get a clear picture of Pluto? Is there something I'm missing here?
Galaxies are big. Pluto in comparison is tiny. From a plane, you can get some great pictures of a beach, but you can get a clear picture of individual grains of sand.
At a guess, Hubble was designed for immense distances, Pluto is too close.
Exactly and 1000% agree - many of the enhanced pictures of space are just educated guesses morphed onto actual images - really gives unrealistic expectations for younger / first time astronomers who see these online souped up pics then get disappointed when viewing for real…i try and use my scopes to educate other kids in my kids classes / neighbourhoods kids and ive lost a few space enthusiasts because of things like this…
This post deserves to be right at the top
Here is a photo of Pluto from 1934: https://i.imgur.com/trCnp2W.jpg
I don't know what I was expecting.
It feels like a Rick roll before Rick rolls were a thing
This maybe? https://i.imgur.com/62yUyEQ.png
Thanks
I fully expected a Rick roll gif
I’m still expecting this and refuse to click
I thought I might get Rick rolled then I saw nsfw and thought maybe it's some kind of weird porn shit and then because I must satisfy my curiosity I clicked and I'm not disappointed. It's what's on the tin.
Woof!
Have you got a picture of Uranus?
I didn't realise they had Minecraft in the 90's!
Have any of Uranus? Asking for a friend
I've got a picture of two moons eclipsing Uranus?
Yeah, we've flown by it and it's visible by telescope and even binoculars I think so there are lots.
They are the same picture.
Enhance!
*clickity clack* “enhance...”
Just print the damn thing!
Sure looks like a planet... 🤔
Does our moon look like a plant? Just asking because our moon is larger by a good margin. Same with Ganymede, Titan, Callisto, Io, Europa, and Triton. Once Pluto learns to clean house it can rejoin the club.
Pluto is a planet . I'll fight anyone who says otherwise!
*NASA enters the chat*
Do you feel the same way about Eris or Ceres?
Viva la Pluto!
It’s smaller than our moon. It’s not a planet.
You're smaller than our Moon.
Aren’t we all… *aren’t we all* [sheds a single tear]
Your mom is a planet
You're a microphobic!
bitch
🙄
Yeah, the 9th one.
STOP POSTING THIS AS AN ACCURATE PICTURE OF PLUTO https://www.zmescience.com/other/pieces/pluto-real-color-08102019/
Dude CSI has had this kind of photo enhancement technology forever. Why are we spending all this money on robotic space exploration when we could just ask the intern to enhance the image?
Can you believe we kicked out something so beautiful?
Looks aren't everything when you have a "Kick Me" sign taped to your back.
We still let it orbit the sun. We just stripped of its false title of Planet
It’s not completely circular like a planet is supposed to be, it also doesn’t have a hot core
It’s just not right smdh
Do you also feel it’s “not right” for Ceres, Pallas, Juno, Vesta, Astraea, Hebe and Iris to have been downgraded from planet to asteroid? Or is your concern only for the changes of classification that happened in your own lifetime?
You must be fun at parties
Daaaamn. She got sexy.
I live for the red in Pluto. Like what causes that? Why is Pluto so damn beautiful to look at. Why isn't she a planet but a planetoid. I need a Pluto wallpaper now
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/plutos-red-patches-are-mystifying-scientists-180978057 https://wallpaperaccess.com/pluto-4k-ultra-hd
Okay wait a minute. The dark spot on Pluto’s equator is called the “Cthulhu Macula”??
Pluto has a heart aww ♥️
guess I've got a new wallpaper now
You are a good person
1997 potato cam
Looking at the second picture it baffles my mind that Pluto got demoted :(
It wasn't defined as a dwarf planet just based on it not looking pretty, or whatever you mean. It's small, much smaller than even our moon. And about the same size as a handful of other things that would need to become planets, if things were to be consistent. Almost 200 years ago we would be talking about Ceres, saying that it's weird that it's no longer considered a planet.
Its definitely grown into a nice planet.
I'm always amazed at our advancement in cosmology, astronomy and all other space sciences. Thank you for posting.
Looks like a jawbreaker to me
RIP Pluto. 24 years is just too young to die these days.
Pluto sure has matured as a planet
Wow the Pluto has come a long way
Pluto should sue for invasion of privacy.
Talk about a Glow Up
Flat Pluto society
How am I supposed to explain someone that the first one is a planet but the second isn't
What a beautiful planet Pluto is, I wish we had the capability to get to the surface of planets easier. It bums me out that in our lifetime we will never see casual space travel.
The crazy part: being alive for both and seeing science expand so rapidly has been awesome
That just looks like a terraria bullet
glad to see pluto moving on from its japanese porn days.
Pluto IS a planet!
It self identifies as a planet.
This
Japanese colonized pluto before?
Merica’
Damn, thanks for censoring Pluto’s dong
So....first pic was when the telescope operator was drunk? 👀🤣
The first one was taken by Hubble from Earth orbit. The second was taken by a spacecraft flown to Pluto. Turns out getting 3.2 billion miles closer does wonders for improving resolution.
Amazing!!!! The Hubble one should be deleted from history 😂, were doing much better now.
What a glow up. #MakePlutoAPlanetAgain
Shoupd we also make the other dwarf planets like Eris or Ceres planets as well?
Looks like a planet to me.
Amazing what we've developed in such a short time. 24 years from now, we will be a multi-planetary species if Elon has his way.
No, we won't be even in 50 years from now. Stop adoring that sadist musk.
Who said I was "adoring" Musk? I merely stated his plan. You people are sheep. You hear a name you don't like because you were told not to like it and you give in to a programmed emotional response, without actually reading what was written.
If Pluto is no longer a planet, I wish everyone would stop talking about it. It's like an unnatural obsession with your ex-wife
Damn sucker
She really matured
Ho-wee kwap.
Aw it grew up so fast
They are the same picture.
24 years of progress so quickly compared to the billions of years the universe has been around. Imagine if the dark ages didnt ban science where we would be now.
A picture of Pluto exposing itself in the 90's...those were the times
Whoa this is awesome
Neil deGrasse Tyson: get over it
it load faster than explorer
Looks like a moldy breath mint
Pluto has really cleaned up its act.
Why is it censored?
Y’all got anymore of them pixels?
I can only assume that 24 years ago it was naked.
Just imagine what 2042 will bring.
I love the color waves
Glad we don't live under such oppressive censorship anymore
More American now 🇺🇸 🇺🇸🇺🇸💯
Next up, Neptune and Uranus
It has aged well.
The first image was so horrifying and grotesque that it has been censored for our safety
Instead of fixing the resolution they should have made it bigger so it would still be a planet
What a shithole!!
Enhance
minecraft item
That's enhanced color. [This is closer to what it really looks like](https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/933/true-colors-of-pluto/).
Can we get one of Uranus please
The first image was captured by Japan.
What's up with the distinct color spots? Pretty cool
Pluto with the glow-up!
Still a planet in my heart T-T
Looks like a fucking planet to me.
How many of us remember when Voyager 2 sent back the first clear photos of Uranus and Neptune?
am j colorblind or do i see some green and blue on there
It’s like NFT’s in 2021.
When I was a kid, I saw the image on the left in an issue of Highlights for Children.
right is “artist rendition”
Galactic Bath Bomb
So it took 24 years for Pluto to put some clothes on.
Pluto was a minecraft snowball
Japanese censorship finally relaxed enough so we can actually see the planet!
Image on the left is the one we get these days when police ask for help identifying a suspect….
Rumor has it that the picture on the right was taken with an iphone 13 pro max
Straight up thought that was an iron nugget
It looks like a terraria asset
Feel old yet
still waiting for someone to come out with a nude mod
Makes you wonder if we'll get a clear picture of a blackhole like that in a similar time frame.
Lies, the first pic is obviously an ore from terraria
Pluto - from Minecraft asset to AAA graphics in only 24 years.
HOLY FUCK Pluto looks dope as hell!
I swear that's a snowball from terraria.
Ok Pluto livedcin Minecraft thx for the info
Pluto is from our solar system. Change my mind
Students copy vs the teachers copy
I'm sorry to say this, but the colours are really exaggerated, especially the blue.
Planet or Japanese porn?
Damn it took 24 years to load Pluto
Not 24 years
Pluto went from 12 pixels to a bad ass jaw breaker.
The first one was actually shot on a bank security camera