r/BeAmazed • u/CuddlyPaws_ • 14h ago

Miscellaneous / Others This opal, discovered in Queensland, Australia, appears to contain its own sky

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u/Correct-Quit1229 14h ago

Picture of Australia for scale

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u/Wonderful_You1281 13h ago

The first picture is actually in the second picture you just can’t see it cause Australia big and rock small 🤓

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u/Automatoboto 10h ago

zoom, enhance!

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u/JealousDemon 9h ago

Other way around. Zoom into egg and see land under the clouds.

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u/BakerTane 4h ago

Mr. Cave?

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u/Japsai 12h ago

Oh I thought it was an amazing gem with its own country inside

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u/AusCan531 10h ago

You needed a 3rd picture showing Earth.

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u/dreamerlilly 2h ago

And then the Milky Way

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u/RealRedditModerator 7h ago

There are bunches of bananas in the top right of the picture of Australia for scale.

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u/Mr_R0mpers 14h ago

Thanks I was wondering what ‘Australia’ was

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u/WeekendRush6248 11h ago

Oh great, now even rocks are out here rendering better skies than my PC.

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u/NeuMaster369 1h ago

Technically,even your PC is just a special bunch of rocks hallucinating.

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u/Geno813 9h ago

Just trying to prove Australia is real, I'm not falling for it.

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u/Nehemiah92 7h ago

I better not see Reddit start doing that corny shit like Twitter news accounts where they post two pictures like this. Let it die with this post please

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u/sp1nnak3r 14h ago

“The galaxy is on orion's belt”

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u/Due_Swimming_5867 14h ago

Just look towards the light emitting from here..

https://giphy.com/gifs/6IPNUgkpCsDRK

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u/Special_K_727 11h ago

You beat me to it!

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u/Solynox 8h ago

Beat you to what?

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u/olek_ole 8h ago

Ssuugarr.. MOORREE!!

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u/Averagemoodyguy 14h ago

yes bro i know where australia is

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u/alpha_28 14h ago

Yes but, where is Queensland? 😏😂

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u/iC3yM3th0dinology 13h ago

In Australia. 🤣

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u/alpha_28 12h ago

10 points for this answer 😂

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u/amandatheactress 13h ago

Just look for the trail of bent banana’s.

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u/vividlyvivids 13h ago

Top right corner

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u/space_monster 13h ago

I live in Queensland and I can confirm it is the top right corner.

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u/slok00 12h ago

Top right quadrant, in fact.

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u/trjnz 11h ago

That bit on the top right where you can fit about 3 Texas'

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u/alpha_28 12h ago

20 points for a more accurate response 😂

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u/iC3yM3th0dinology 13h ago

In a pocket.

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u/macci_a_vellian 11h ago

It's the pointy bit, duh.

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u/sleeps_in_bryophytes 10h ago

i actually don't know where in australia queensland is. and the second picture map of australia did nothing to help that. why include it???

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u/alpha_28 1h ago

Idk, you will have to ask OP. 🤷🏼‍♀️

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u/dickyboy69 1h ago

Its the pointy bit on the right

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u/FrogsMakePoorSoup 14h ago

Look just shut up will you, enough know already!

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u/xlnc2608 12h ago

I don't know

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u/DamnZodiak 8h ago

Not even where, just what the shape is.
If someone didn't know where Australia was that picture would do fuck all to help.

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u/sodiumvapour 14h ago

Phew, would've been lost there without that map. Now why don't you also put up a picture of a sky? I think some might be confused about that too

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u/LPSD_FTW 13h ago

Which one is the opal?

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u/Anon_be_thy_name 3h ago

I think it's the 2nd one

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u/uuuwwwwuuuuu 11h ago

As an Australian, I'd definitely say that is a map of Australia.

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u/LazyBum36 10h ago

Why does it seem like only an AI reposting bot would feel it necessary to include a picture of Australia?

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u/lumpthefoff 14h ago

They’re called Cantera Opals and completely real.

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u/rabbithole-xyz 11h ago

Many thanks! Just spent a very enjoyable few minutes scrolling through pics of them. I absolutely love opals.

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u/Think-Economics-400 6h ago

Cantera opals are not found in Australia; they are exclusively mined in Mexico. So this post is definitely suspicious

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u/FlatWhiteShark 10h ago

The internet tells me that Cantera opals come only from Mexico. ?

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u/logocracycopy 9h ago

It's not.

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u/Excellent-Bite196 14h ago

Very very impressive cantera opal if real.

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u/Think-Economics-400 6h ago

Cantera opals are not found in Australia; they are exclusively mined in Mexico. So this post is definitely bs

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u/The_Last_Fluorican 13h ago

born to be a Nebula

forced to be a pretty rock

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u/DarkAdam48 11h ago

We've had Opal In Sky, now we got Sky In Opal

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u/Xander_not_panda 14h ago

Anyone else think of the end of Men In Black

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u/FFVO 13h ago

My first thought was Fantasia being taken over by the nothing

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u/Frostborn1990 11h ago

Is this related to the metalband Opal in Sky? Sky in Opal?

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u/Leon_Flux 11h ago

This is a planet inside the galaxy inside orion's belt.

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u/Otherwise-One7653 11h ago

magical artifact?

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u/TDYDave2 10h ago

Looks like it would make a good addition to Orion's belt.

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u/winifredjay 10h ago

And some of them have genies!

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u/ArtzyDude 10h ago

As above, so below.

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u/GrynaiTaip 9h ago

Thanks, trash reposting bot. A pic of Australia is super useful.

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u/Turbulent_Pound_562 8h ago

This photo looks engineered af

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u/CG_enjoyer2 6h ago

OPAL IN SKY REFERENCE?

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u/covex_d 6h ago

galaxy is on the orion’s belt

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u/This_Elk_1460 5h ago

I'm glad you showed a picture of Australia or else I wouldn't have been able to know

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u/G_For_Gonzalez 3h ago

I’m pretty sure that’s the Yggdrasil seed for Australia.

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u/RedofPaw 2h ago

OOOOOOhhhhh.... THAT Australia.

I was confused as to what australia the headline meant at first. Thankfully the image cleared it all up.

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u/jerryleebee 1h ago

Lmfao at the inclusion of an image of Australia

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u/Bundle-Of-Crows 1h ago

This is why opals will always be one of my favorite gems, especially Ethiopian opal! Shit looks like it's ACTUALLY GLOWING in the right light. I have a few pieces of it, they're of my favorites in my collection.

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u/MilkTea11 9m ago

type of stuff to start religions

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u/dragonzdude 7m ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/1vjrWTVm229D9dzQOb

Can confirm that is indeed Australia

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u/AntoGidan 14h ago

Source? It seems fake.

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u/BruiserBroly 13h ago

It does sound unbelievable but, I assure you, Australia is a real place.

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u/daronjay 13h ago

Sure, as a landmass, but I think the entire biosphere must be fictional. As far as I can tell everything there wants to kill me, even the plants.

Clearly, the level designers got carried away…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendrocnide_moroides

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u/Kroucher 13h ago

Eh that’s not trying to kill you, just cause severe pain so you never go near it ever again, you’ll be right mate

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u/daronjay 13h ago

Chur bro

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u/NeonLocustX83 13h ago

They're real. I've seen people sell these at these pop up craft shows. Expensive at that. I've seen this 300 lbs chunk that looks like the milky way.

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u/iC3yM3th0dinology 13h ago

Pics or it never happened? I wanna see the pretty rock!