The image "could almost be a picture postcard of our own Milky Way", said the ESO
Posted on 06/01/2011 5:06:45 PM PDT by decimon
The image "could almost be a picture postcard of our own Milky Way", said the ESO
Astronomers have released what they say is the best-yet picture of NGC 6744, a spiral galaxy described as a "sibling" of our own Milky Way.
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Gem in eye ping.
If you think about it, a certain set of conditions created the Milky Way; it would be funny if that set of conditions only ever occurred once.
Reminds me of Fringe’s “Over there”
Great pic!
Too bad we can’t get a real pic of our own Milky Way Galaxy. I suppose we could put a camera on a rocket, and launch it outside the galaxy, but we probably wouldn’t get any results for 1,250,000 or so years. lol
Maybe off one of those spirals there’s an earth like ours and we’re a black hole to them, like we’re not here anymore.
Hard to tell since you are basically looking at a 30 million year old picture.
The distances and sizes involved are staggering.....
Big black hole right there in the center of all that brilliant light....
However, we know we are here because we are communicating in our ‘present time’, thus we are not presently in a black hole, else, according to the ones who know, we would be dead.
We don't know what space looks like in ‘exactly’ our time.
Such an amazing thing space is. Only God could create it.
You've got me thinking though. Thanks.
I do not pretend to comprehend. Should we ever develop something like warp drive then we can pretend to comprehend our travels.
Majestic nebulae and stars of our Milky Way Galaxy stretch across this panoramic image of the entire night sky. At full resolution, the 5 gigapixel mosaic was stitched together from over 37,000 images, the result of a season following, year long effort and 60,000 travel miles in search of still dark skies in the American west and the western Cape of South Africa.
You’re welcome.
That’s about as good as we’re gonna get from Earth I think.
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For my 50th birthday, my loving wife and daughter got me the newest edition of the National Geographic Atlas of the World.
What is particularly distinctive about it, is that it has a space-based view of every continent and country on the planet. There is an entire section devoted to Space, and an amazing map of the known universe. Its hard to describe, but it uses ever expanding scales in a series of illustrations that vividly show just how far away things are and how much distance is between them.
It gets up to scales in the millions of light years...considering one light year is roughly equivalent to 5 Trillion miles, you can see how staggering a number 900 Million Light Years really is....
And then there is the entire subject of black holes...that’s some mathematics that has scrambled brains for decades, and they are still trying to come to grips with the amounts of energy involved. One rather young black hole makes the combined energy of every single space shuttle ever launched fade into obscurity by comparison....
Just to keep things in perspective...
If you think about it, a certain set of conditions created Obama; it would be funny if that set of conditions only ever occurred once.
More than funny.
Farking hilarious. LOLOLOL
Ow! Ow! Oh! Ow! My aneurism...
National Geographic is good at making things interesting.
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