1 posted on
05/12/2008 3:06:14 PM PDT by
sig226
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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.)
To: sig226
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.)
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
To: sig226
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
To: sig226
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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