[Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Dalcanton, B. F. Williams, L. C. Johnson (U. Washington), PHAT team, R. Gendler]
1 posted on
01/06/2015 4:47:39 AM PST by
SunkenCiv
To: SunkenCiv
So what yer sayin is that is about a third of it.
3 posted on
01/06/2015 4:59:48 AM PST by
VaRepublican
(I would propagate taglines but I don't know how. But bloggers do.)
To: SunkenCiv
“Of all the class M planets, in all the galaxies, in all the universe, she walks into mine.”
5 posted on
01/06/2015 5:21:28 AM PST by
Flick Lives
("I can't believe it's not Fascism!")
To: SunkenCiv
The image they captured is 2.5 million light years away, meaning the photons from those stars took 2.5 million years to cross empty space and hit the telescope lenses that made the image.
Where were we 2.5 million years ago? Humans didn’t even exist!
Keep in mind that the Andromeda galaxy is in a fixture known as the “Local Group”, of which are own galaxy, the Milky Way, is part of. And the universe has billions of similar sized galaxies spread out for billions of light years! Just amazing!
To: SunkenCiv; GeronL
That’s almost as many stars on Facebook.
10 posted on
01/06/2015 6:29:52 AM PST by
a fool in paradise
(Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
To: SunkenCiv
Someone's done a pretty cool 3.5 minute
"flythrough" on YouTube set to some very appropriate music.
23 posted on
01/06/2015 5:55:12 PM PST by
LibWhacker
("Every Muslim act of terror is followed by a political act of cover-up." -Daniel Greenfield)
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