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Astronomy Picture of the Day - NGC 6822: Barnard's Galaxy
APOD.NASA.gov ^ | 28 Nov, 2020 | Image Credit & Copyright: Data - Martin Pugh, Processing - Mark Hanson

Posted on 11/28/2020 4:17:41 PM PST by MtnClimber

Explanation: Grand spiral galaxies often seem to get all the glory, flaunting their young, bright, blue star clusters in beautiful, symmetric spiral arms. But small galaxies form stars too, like nearby NGC 6822, also known as Barnard's Galaxy. Beyond the rich starfields in the constellation Sagittarius, NGC 6822 is a mere 1.5 million light-years away, a member of our Local Group of galaxies. A dwarf irregular galaxy similar to the Small Magellanic Cloud, NGC 6822 is about 7,000 light-years across. Brighter foreground stars in our Milky Way have a spiky appearance. Behind them, Barnard's Galaxy is seen to be filled with young blue stars and mottled with the telltale pinkish hydrogen glow of star forming regions in this deep color composite image.

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To: AFB-XYZ
How about this then: We can currently observe galaxies that are an estimated 13-14 BILLION light-years distant!
My brain just shorted out, and it's all your fault. :-)

My brain gets that way considering those galaxies might have long gone dark...the observable photons the only remnant

21 posted on 11/28/2020 5:22:56 PM PST by Covenantor (We are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who can not govern. " Chesterton)
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To: AFB-XYZ
The Flaming Nose:

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Below are a few Photoshops some people made...

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22 posted on 11/28/2020 5:25:39 PM PST by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! DEMOCRAT-Russia collusion!! Click ETL...)
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To: ETL

Yer killin’ me! LOL


23 posted on 11/28/2020 5:28:06 PM PST by AFB-XYZ (Option 1 -- stand up. Option 2 -- bend over.)
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To: Covenantor
My brain gets that way considering those galaxies might have long gone dark...the observable photons the only remnant

But there are "nearby" galaxies estimated to be about that same age, 13-14 billion years. Somehow they can date them through analysis of certain types of stars within them, by their chemical composition.

24 posted on 11/28/2020 5:29:48 PM PST by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! DEMOCRAT-Russia collusion!! Click ETL...)
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To: AFB-XYZ
green woman gifs | WiffleGif
25 posted on 11/28/2020 5:32:24 PM PST by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! DEMOCRAT-Russia collusion!! Click ETL...)
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To: ETL

Outstanding work! And a welcome break from the swirling electoral crapstorm currently in process.


26 posted on 11/28/2020 5:36:33 PM PST by AFB-XYZ (Option 1 -- stand up. Option 2 -- bend over.)
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To: AFB-XYZ
Yes, found those 4 animated photoshops on a "Lost In Space" + "gif" search.

This one below was the actual green girl on that Lost In Space episode...

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27 posted on 11/28/2020 6:03:37 PM PST by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! DEMOCRAT-Russia collusion!! Click ETL...)
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To: ETL
For some reason, your post reminded me of William Blake's 'Auguries of Innocence':

'To see a World in a Grain of Sand

And a Heaven in a Wild Flower

Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand

And Eternity in an hour'

28 posted on 11/28/2020 8:22:47 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

And the craziest part of all, is that with all of these impossibly complex aspects to reality emerged such absurdities as Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, James Comey, and the rest! This is smoking gun evidence that God had a wicked sense of humor!


29 posted on 11/28/2020 8:38:44 PM PST by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! DEMOCRAT-Russia collusion!! Click ETL...)
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To: ETL
This dwarf galaxy is only 42 quadrillion miles across. It probably suffers from an inferiority complex.

The article does not point out that Barnard's Star is not in Barnard's Galaxy.

30 posted on 11/28/2020 8:45:12 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Balding_Eagle
Re: '63 vs '64 Ford Galaxie

Are these correct? If so, they look pretty similar to me, though the 63's rear fenders are more rounded around the tail lights than the '64.


1963 Ford Galaxie


1964 Ford Galaxie


31 posted on 11/28/2020 9:44:42 PM PST by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! DEMOCRAT-Russia collusion!! Click ETL...)
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To: ETL

It’s the roof line that changed halfway though 1963.

A good friend of mine had a 1963 Galaxy, and it had a more square roof line, looked more like a 4 door without the back doors. When you see a 1963 vs 1963 1/2 the difference will be very obvious.

Sorry I don’t know how to post pictures, but here is a 1963 2 door .

https://www.startpage.com/av/proxy-image?piurl=https%3A%2F%2Fencrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com%2Fimages%3Fq%3Dtbn%3AANd9GcQvS2E0I49SWrvYcv0zNZUbZY6Uj8Nt7N03eJ2DlohGOGncyIZk%26s&sp=1606629278T8360f238aa8b568a5356ced0bb04f27b94221bf0b81e10ba1bff627ecb26393b


32 posted on 11/28/2020 9:56:17 PM PST by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon. )
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To: ETL

I can’t speak with certainty to the differences between 63 and 64 models but I think you have them labeled correctly


33 posted on 11/28/2020 9:58:32 PM PST by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon. )
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To: ETL

I see they are called ‘boxtops’.


34 posted on 11/28/2020 10:08:22 PM PST by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon. )
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To: ETL

I think it’s just evidence that He gave us all we needed, and individually we make use of it as we will.

Some of us do far better than others do.


35 posted on 11/29/2020 4:45:01 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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