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Gigapixels of Andromeda (Cool Vid via Youtube)
NASA Image Via You Tube ^ | January 6, 2015 | daveachuk

Posted on 03/13/2015 12:45:02 PM PDT by beaversmom

Video Link: Gigapixels of Andromeda


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Astronomy
KEYWORDS: andromeda; g42; m31; ngc224
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To: beaversmom

What a great writer, I got to read that book one day. Didn’t he write the book specifically for the movie? I think he worked with Kubrick on the screenplay as well.


21 posted on 03/13/2015 2:10:54 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running like a watercolor in the rain)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Oh cool about HD!

I hear ya. And that’s just one section of the galaxy Andromeda!!!

I like this short space vid (2:10 min) and how the narrator ends it. Gives me chills and cracks me up at the same time. Starts with us on Earth, then MOOOVES outward...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGuUt6xRbqI


22 posted on 03/13/2015 2:13:10 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

I don’t know about that. I should, ‘cause I love that movie and the book...one of the few books I have read. I’ll have to look up about that. Kubrick was also a genius.


23 posted on 03/13/2015 2:14:47 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
I start freakin’ out about size. If we are this small compared to this universe then who’s to say the universe isn’t part of some sub-atomic particle of an atom in some other universe?

I know! And what's holding the universe? Your description makes me think of Horton Hears a Who. ;)

24 posted on 03/13/2015 2:19:05 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: beaversmom

Oh wow that was wild! “This is the Universe...It’s really REALLY big!” LOL! I like when he says “..the visible universe” meaning there’s more we haven’t seen yet. I think that’s because its light hasn’t reached us yet which I believe is one of the pieces of evidence they use for the big bang. If the universe always existed, then the light from every star in the universe would have hit us by now, at least those stars that didn’t form too recently, and it would light up the sky like day. But there are stars that are so far out there that even though the universe is 13 billion years old the light from those stars still hasn’t reached us yet. How freakin’ insane it that? Light travels at 186,000 miles per second and 13 billion years still ain’t long enough for that light to reach us which is mind blowing to me how insanely vast it is.


25 posted on 03/13/2015 2:37:39 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running like a watercolor in the rain)
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To: beaversmom

This was beautiful. And humbling.

I’m so glad you posted it. Thank you


26 posted on 03/13/2015 2:45:16 PM PDT by Gefn ("The world is mud-luscious and puddle wonderful" - e e cummings)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

It hurts my brain GJMY. It really, REALLY hurts my brain. But like how sometimes pressing on owie can be kinda pleasurable, I like “thinking” about it. :)


27 posted on 03/13/2015 2:47:48 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: Gefn

You’re welcome. Thank you for telling me. :)


28 posted on 03/13/2015 2:48:34 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: beaversmom

I actually wanted to be an astronomer when I was young. Everything was fine until Algebra 2. I couldn’t wrap my head around it. Therefore I couldn’t do Physics, so I couldn’t be an astronomer.


29 posted on 03/13/2015 2:52:08 PM PDT by Gefn ("The world is mud-luscious and puddle wonderful" - e e cummings)
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To: Gefn

Ah, bittersweet on you dream. Do you do it as a hobby? You could still try as an adult, maybe?


30 posted on 03/13/2015 2:57:56 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: beaversmom

Oh yes, as a hobby.

Where I live there is too much light pollution but I’m able to go to the local university’s telescope when they have open houses.

You get something to drink, a cookie, and a telescope. Life is good.


31 posted on 03/13/2015 3:11:42 PM PDT by Gefn ("The world is mud-luscious and puddle wonderful" - e e cummings)
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To: Gefn
You get something to drink, a cookie, and a telescope. Life is good.

That's really cute! :) I'm happy for you.

32 posted on 03/13/2015 3:16:36 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: beaversmom

That was cool. Thanks.


33 posted on 03/13/2015 3:28:36 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Lurker

You’re very welcome. Love it when people enjoy something I enjoy.


34 posted on 03/13/2015 3:38:41 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: beaversmom

How I like to think is because it’s so ridiculously over the top vast, then it wouldn’t be crazy to think that it could also be incredibly over the top small as well. If the universe runs by that kind of insane logic/system of being so ridiculously vast, then maybe it also is serving a higher purpose such as being just a sub-atomic particle in an atom of another universe. I mean why not? The universe is already completely over the top ridiculous in size. For all we know we could be traveling in a carbon atom in a bead of sweat down a mans face. I mean the smallest sub-atomic particle they have ever detected? Or ever theorized about? Neutrinos? Well for all we know we could be one of a billion universes inside a neutrino, we are so small we are basically energy and when we come together the Higgs Boson takes over and makes mass in another universe.


35 posted on 03/13/2015 4:18:37 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running like a watercolor in the rain)
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To: CivilWarBrewing
Time is what keeps one damn thing after another from being every damn thing all at once.

"Ceterum censeo 0bama esse delendam."

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)

LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

36 posted on 03/13/2015 4:21:38 PM PDT by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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To: beaversmom

The vastness; the ‘BILLIONS and BILLIONS’ of possible planets; the Possibilities...

It almost numbs the mind, as much as it excites.

I can’t believe that there are not planets out there with intelligent ‘be-ans’ sorta like us - or, intelligent but different.

Everything I know about Earth, tells me that Nature is endlessly prolific, Life is irrepressible, and God adores Creation and Creating.

There has to be other life.

But it’s just so far away...

-JT


37 posted on 03/13/2015 5:20:38 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: beaversmom

amazing


38 posted on 03/13/2015 5:23:51 PM PDT by samtheman
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To: beaversmom

Serious question. I’m not sure what I was looking at there. The stars I can understand, but what were all those small grainy pebble looking things? There couldn’t be that many little moons or planets or asteroids or whatever, could there? I wish there were an explanatory narration along with the video similar to the NASA ones our friend Sunken puts up here on FR frequently.


39 posted on 03/13/2015 6:28:30 PM PDT by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and politics.)
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To: Tucker39

Of course there could!

I’m not an astronomer, or even very smart or educated about this stuff; but from what I’ve been able to find out via Google, there are about 1 Trillion stars in the Andromeda Galaxy.

Just think about that...think of all the planets, moons, asteroids, etc. (Even ‘Space Junk’? :-)

-JT


40 posted on 03/13/2015 7:26:08 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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