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Every Star in the Sky, in One Picture [Help - It's ABSOLUTELY AMAZING]
ABC News/Technology ^ | 24 Feb 10 | Ned Potter

Posted on 02/25/2010 4:28:52 PM PST by XBob

"It's just so amazing to see the band of the Milky Way arcing from one end of the horizon straight above you to the other," he said in an interview with ABC News. "And if you're in a really dark place, the light of the Milky Way can actually cast a shadow."

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Astronomy
KEYWORDS: astronomy; milkyway
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Such a view we have !!

Sorry, I don't know how to put up this new fangled html, so a little help please - this is just amazing.

1 posted on 02/25/2010 4:28:52 PM PST by XBob
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To: XBob

GASP.


2 posted on 02/25/2010 4:31:19 PM PST by La Enchiladita (wise gringa)
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http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/scientist-takes-pictures-entire-night-sky/story?id=9109202


3 posted on 02/25/2010 4:31:38 PM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)
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Here's the link, thanks for the post!

http://galaxy.phy.cmich.edu/~axel/mwpan2/

4 posted on 02/25/2010 4:32:05 PM PST by Textide
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http://galaxy.phy.cmich.edu/~axel/mwpan2/


5 posted on 02/25/2010 4:32:20 PM PST by w1andsodidwe (How can you tell when the President is lying? When his lips move, of course.)
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To: XBob

Wow... big place.


6 posted on 02/25/2010 4:32:56 PM PST by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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To: XBob

..makes a nice screen saver


7 posted on 02/25/2010 4:36:13 PM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)
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Warning: long download time on this incredible image of our Milky Way galaxy.
However, I don't think you'll be disappointed!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/ESO_-_Milky_Way.jpg
8 posted on 02/25/2010 4:36:48 PM PST by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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651


9 posted on 02/25/2010 4:37:43 PM PST by Doomonyou (Let them eat Lead.)
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My house is third star from the right. And I’ll leave the light on.


10 posted on 02/25/2010 4:38:27 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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11 posted on 02/25/2010 4:38:35 PM PST by phrogphlyer (Is it 2012 yet?)
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... and that’s just the visible stars in our own Milky Way galaxy. Billions, and billions, and billions.


12 posted on 02/25/2010 4:40:50 PM PST by 6SJ7 (atlasShruggedInd = TRUE)
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WOW! Thank you for posting this. Great story and beautiful photograph...two years of work and then some!


13 posted on 02/25/2010 4:43:30 PM PST by Republic (I love Rush)
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And they tell us there’s no God...


14 posted on 02/25/2010 4:45:00 PM PST by camerongood210
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That is awesome. Thanks!

The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.

15 posted on 02/25/2010 4:45:53 PM PST by mewzilla (I'm not a socialist. Heck, yes, I hope Barry fails. Sheesh.)
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That’s beautiful. Thanks for sharing!!!


16 posted on 02/25/2010 4:47:32 PM PST by hstacey
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And they tell us there’s no God...

for sure.


17 posted on 02/25/2010 4:48:23 PM PST by EDINVA (Sarchasm (n): The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.)
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Can I get an AMEN?


18 posted on 02/25/2010 4:56:00 PM PST by A Cyrenian
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Thanks...great picture. Actually, with high speed cable internet and lots of gigs of memory it only took 3 seconds.

Sorry to brag! lol


19 posted on 02/25/2010 5:00:44 PM PST by Fledermaus (Welcome to the USSA: United Socialist States of America: Bow to The Obama!)
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"And if you're in a really dark place, the light of the Milky Way can actually cast a shadow."

True! I have walked through the forest by nothing but starlight. It's fun and a little spooky.

20 posted on 02/25/2010 5:03:12 PM PST by TigersEye (It's the Marxism, stupid! ... And they call themselves Progressives.)
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