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To: SunkenCiv

I first saw a photo of the Horsehead Nebula in grade school more than fifty years ago.

No change. Must be larger than even our ability to imagine. Awesome.


5 posted on 08/01/2014 6:22:47 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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To: elcid1970

It is immense, about two light years across (from nose to mane). You generally won’t see significant changes to something like that in a human lifespan, except perhaps for the occasional new star lighting up inside a nebula (for example, McNeil’s nebula http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McNeil%27s_Nebula ). To see huge structures like this change rapidly enough to observe the change in human timespans, you have to look at something moving with relativistic velocities, such as a black hole jet. M87’s black hole jet is a good example of this and can be seen at the end of this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIISjVeIYTw


6 posted on 08/01/2014 7:51:19 AM PDT by messierhunter
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