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To: Conan the Librarian

It sure looks like there are some fairly obvious changes in those two pictures to me...


7 posted on 07/01/2011 9:47:37 AM PDT by Bean Counter (Your what hurts??)
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To: Bean Counter

It’s just that Hubble is that much better.

The originals were taken from ground based scope on a glass plate.

The new ones are taken from space based scope with a CCD camera. The length of exposure would also have an effect.

Your just seeing things better.

Galaxies change over a period of thousands if not millions of years. It takes 250 million years for the Milky Way to complete one revolution. 100 years is just a blink of the eye to a galaxy.


9 posted on 07/01/2011 10:17:58 AM PDT by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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