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Astronomy Picture of the Day -- A Wide Field Image of the Galactic Center
NASA ^
| January 06, 2012
| (see photo credit)
Posted on 01/06/2012 2:27:26 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Explanation: From Sagittarius to Scorpius, the central Milky Way is a truly beautiful part of planet Earth's night sky. The gorgeous region is captured in this wide field image spanning about 30 degrees. The impressive cosmic vista, taken in 2010, shows off intricate dust lanes, bright nebulae, and star clusters scattered through our galaxy's rich central starfields. Starting on the left, look for the Lagoon and Trifid nebulae, the Cat's Paw, while on the right lies the Pipe dark nebula, and the colorful clouds of Rho Ophiuchi and Antares (right). The actual center of our Galaxy lies about 26,000 light years away and can be found here.
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TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: antares; apod; astronomy; catspawnebula; falsecolor; lagoonnebula; milkyway; pipedarknebula; rhoophiuchi; sagittarius; science; scorpius; trifidnebula
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posted on
01/06/2012 2:27:30 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
To: brytlea; cripplecreek; decimon; bigheadfred; KoRn; Grammy; married21; steelyourfaith; Mmogamer; ...
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posted on
01/06/2012 2:34:02 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Merry Christmas, Happy New Year! May 2013 be even Happier!)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
01/06/2012 2:42:21 PM PST
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas gerit)
To: SunkenCiv
I don’t see anything which looks like a black hole....
To: SunkenCiv
I've been working on my galactic core. Its funny how tough it is to create the most basic star field. Basically because computers don't do random very well.
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posted on
01/06/2012 2:56:17 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
To: JoeProBono
And I think if you were in the middle of that it wouldnt look like anything, would it?
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posted on
01/06/2012 3:14:30 PM PST
by
brytlea
(An ounce of chocolate is worth a pound of cure)
To: cripplecreek
A basic starfield isn’t hard. A fractal cloud with adjusted scale, brightness, and contrast gives good results. When you start getting into nebulae and brighter stars...THAT gets tough.
What software did you use for your image?
To: Future Snake Eater
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posted on
01/06/2012 3:20:41 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
To: SunkenCiv
question, with everything seeming to move away from everything else, to they know the direction of the center of the universe???
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posted on
01/06/2012 3:22:15 PM PST
by
Chode
(American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: Future Snake Eater
My nebulae are coming along. practice practice practice.
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posted on
01/06/2012 3:25:41 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
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posted on
01/06/2012 3:28:34 PM PST
by
DJ MacWoW
(America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
To: cripplecreek
Very nice work! The edges of the blue nebula could use some softening, but it's looking great!
OK, it's my turn. A little piece I did in Blender:
Inspired by this scene from the movie "Sunshine." My sun still has a long way to go to look that awesome, though.
To: Future Snake Eater
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posted on
01/06/2012 4:06:58 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
To: Future Snake Eater
BTW. I liked the movie “Sunshine” for some reason.
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posted on
01/06/2012 4:09:24 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
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To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
01/06/2012 4:26:30 PM PST
by
TigersEye
(Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
To: JoeProBono; cripplecreek; Future Snake Eater
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posted on
01/07/2012 2:20:16 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Merry Christmas, Happy New Year! May 2013 be even Happier!)
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