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Astronomy Picture of the Day -- Another Nearby Supernova in the Whirlpool Galaxy
NASA ^
| June 05, 2011
| (see photo credit)
Posted on 06/04/2011 9:47:23 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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The Whirlpool Galaxy? Is there also a Maytag galaxy, because otherwise, it's just not fair.
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posted on
06/04/2011 9:47:26 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
To: brytlea; cripplecreek; decimon; bigheadfred; KoRn; Grammy; married21; steelyourfaith; Mmogamer; ...
I even grabbed the links this time. A GIF movie is the main image, no freakin' Flash embeds or anything like that.
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posted on
06/04/2011 9:50:03 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
To: SunkenCiv
That’s amazing. A supernova goes from nothing to ginormous in three days? Cool.
Everything’s working fine, Civ. I can’t thank you enough for all you did for me, really.
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posted on
06/04/2011 9:57:26 PM PDT
by
TheOldLady
(Freepmail me to get on or off the ZOT Lightning ping list.)
To: SunkenCiv
What’s with the blinking star at about 7:30 - anyone guess?
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posted on
06/04/2011 10:10:51 PM PDT
by
SatinDoll
(NO FOREIGN NATIONALS AS OUR PRESIDENT!)
To: SatinDoll
“The images are blinked to show the location of the exploded star. “
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posted on
06/04/2011 10:14:16 PM PDT
by
samtheman
To: SatinDoll
Whats with the blinking star at about 7:30 - anyone guess?Holy cow! I think you just discovered a supernova!
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posted on
06/04/2011 10:14:36 PM PDT
by
Junior_G
(Funny how liberals' love affair with Muslims began on 9/11)
To: SunkenCiv
I love how they call a supernova in another galaxy “nearby”. Astronomers...
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
06/04/2011 10:26:25 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: SunkenCiv
M33, AKA Triangulum Galaxy, is humorously, sometimes called the Maytag Galaxy.
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posted on
06/04/2011 10:36:36 PM PDT
by
PeaceBeWithYou
(De Oppresso Liber! (50 million and counting in Afghanistan and Iraq))
To: SatinDoll
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posted on
06/04/2011 11:03:04 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
To: AnotherUnixGeek
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posted on
06/04/2011 11:03:20 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
To: PeaceBeWithYou
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posted on
06/04/2011 11:05:46 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
To: SunkenCiv
Ah, go on! It isn’t, but the following is certainly interesting!
Armchair astronaut discovers Mars ‘space station’ using Google earth
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2729996/posts
Sat 04 Jun 2011 06:19:57 PM PST · 9 of 71
SatinDoll to Free ThinkerNY
Bio Station Alpha on Mars.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTJt0LJZG2k
Place even seems to have a geodesic dome covering a radar array at one end. Structure is highly reflective, as though made of metal.
Go see the youtube video; I dont know what it is.
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posted on
06/04/2011 11:10:32 PM PDT
by
SatinDoll
(NO FOREIGN NATIONALS AS OUR PRESIDENT!)
To: SunkenCiv
It is truly amazing how bright those things are, even from that distance.
To: SunkenCiv
Dang, I’m in Florida and don’t have a scope nearby.
Have to wait til I get home.
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posted on
06/05/2011 6:14:00 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)
To: LibWhacker
I forget, is that from the Hubble images? Regardless, yeah, and we’re only getting part of the light. And it’s old, and attenuated.
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06/05/2011 6:52:50 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
To: SatinDoll
David Hatcher Childress wrote about how Marconi (the fake inventor of radio; radio was invented by and demonstrated by Nicola Tesla, who sued Marconi for patent violations, and eventually won a Pyrrhic victory in court) built spacecraft and colonized Mars. So, it’s probably their domes and stuff. ;’)
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posted on
06/05/2011 6:54:38 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
To: PeaceBeWithYou
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posted on
06/05/2011 6:56:19 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
To: Junior_G; SatinDoll
From here on out, to be known as: the Satin Doll supernova.
To: SunkenCiv
Both pics were taken a couple of days apart with a small scope... Twenty three million light years away, the blast was easily picked up in a small telescope! Just amazing to me. Hubble could've picked it up clear across the universe.
No matter how much math you've had, or how accustomed you are to working with large numbers, the flesh vaporizing reality of it -- what it's really like to be near one of those things when it goes off -- is inconceivable to me. I'm in awe every time I think about 'em.
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