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1 posted on 05/12/2008 3:06:14 PM PDT by sig226
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nice one. thanks.


2 posted on 05/12/2008 3:06:51 PM PDT by BlueStateBlues (Blue State for business, Red State at heart..)
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3 posted on 05/12/2008 3:07:02 PM PDT by sig226 (Real power is not the ability to destroy an enemy. It is the willingness to do it.)
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I simply don’t have a clue how we get these kinds of pictures.


4 posted on 05/12/2008 3:09:29 PM PDT by wastedyears (The US Military is what goes Bump in the night.)
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To: sig226
The reddish galaxy below M81 is called M82. It is also stunningly spectacular:


7 posted on 05/12/2008 3:31:13 PM PDT by Jeff F
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To: sig226

surperb photography


8 posted on 05/12/2008 3:55:11 PM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: sig226

Thank you!


10 posted on 05/12/2008 4:06:24 PM PDT by EverOnward
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It says here (below) this galaxy group is ~12 million light years from Earth. That's the *distance* light travels in 12 million years---at 186,000 miles per second! Or 12 million X ~6 TRILLION (miles)!!! Thanks for the pix! Amazing.

"This group of galaxies [M81] is one of the nearest to our Local Group, being only some 12 million light-years distant, according to 1993 measurements of the Hubble Space Telescope under the direction of Wendy Freedman of the Carnegie Institution of Washington by measuring the periods of 32 Cepheid variables in M81 with the pre-repair Wide Field/Planetary Camera (WFPC I), and corrected for Hipparcos results."

http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/messier/more/m081gr.html

13 posted on 05/12/2008 4:23:38 PM PDT by Eye On The Left
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Bump.

All those galaxies, all those solar systems, all those planets. Must be hundreds of them.


16 posted on 05/12/2008 6:01:02 PM PDT by Lancey Howard (hundreds of trillions)
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