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Three Dozen New Galaxies Are Found in Nearby Space
NY Times ^
| December 22, 2004
| DENNIS OVERBYE
Posted on 12/24/2004 6:07:04 PM PST by neverdem
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To: winodog
Do all the stars we see with the naked eye belong to our galaxy? The Milky Way.Indeed they do. In fact, they are all pretty close. The universe is one big place! :-)
To: Boiler Plate
Kinda like finding the winning $500,000,000 powerball ticket in your coat pocket. You know it's this kind of stuff that makes you realize that we really don't know that much about the place we live in. Indeed! :-)
To: Joe Hadenuf
Your pictures are awsome!! :-)
Thank you for posting them!
To: edwin hubble
The Geminids were a surprise hit here. All over the sky. WOW! :-)
To: Shryke
No photographs have ever moved me more than the deep field ones. Beyond breathtaking. Indeed! If the Hubble Deep Field images won't overawe you into a sense of personal insignificance, you simply don't comprehend what you are seeing...
The instant I saw my first deep field image, the title of Brian Aldis' book, Galaxies Like Grains of Sand came to mind...
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posted on
12/25/2004 7:50:59 AM PST
by
TXnMA
(Attention, ACLU: There is no constitutionally protected right to NOT be offended -- Shove It!)
To: RadioAstronomer
Thanks for the ping! This is interesting.
Merry Christmas to you and your family!
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To: neverdem
Three Trillion New Galaxies Are Found in Nearby Space?
.........keep looking!
we don't want to miss any.
/sarcasm
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posted on
12/25/2004 9:11:16 AM PST
by
maestro
To: RadioAstronomer
Your pictures are awsome!! :-) Thank you for posting them! Thanks RA. I have lots to learn in that area.
Merry Christmas, and have a happy and safe new year.
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posted on
12/25/2004 9:27:03 AM PST
by
Joe Hadenuf
(No more illegal alien sympathizers from Texas. America has one too many.)
To: RadioAstronomer
Yes and the universe is mind boggling. To think there are millions? of stars in our galaxy and there are billions? of galaxies.
I love sci fi. Is there a good web site that is "short and sweet" that explains in laymans terms the numbers of galaxies and the number of stars in each? I know that we are not able to count them all but there is probaly a web site that has pics such as the "basketball court" analogy.
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posted on
12/25/2004 9:35:04 AM PST
by
winodog
(We need to water the liberty tree)
To: RadioAstronomer
I might be wrong but I have read that the great galaxy in Andromeda can be visible to the naked eye under ideal conditions. Ditto for another in Triangulum although it is much fainter.
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posted on
12/25/2004 9:43:11 AM PST
by
xp38
To: xp38
Yes, basically it appears as a little fuzzy oval. All you really see, for the most part, is the hub.
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posted on
12/25/2004 9:56:02 AM PST
by
inquest
(Now is the time to remove the leftist influence from the GOP. "Unity" can wait.)
To: starfish923
"Fourteen billion years after the Big Bang started it all, there is still life in the old cosmos."
The GOOD LORD is NOT finished with us yet!
To: neverdem
Is GOD cool or WHAT ?
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posted on
12/25/2004 10:23:28 AM PST
by
hosepipe
(This propaganda has been ok'ed me to included some fully orbed hyperbole....)
To: neverdem
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posted on
12/25/2004 10:26:46 AM PST
by
Ciexyz
(I use the term Blue Cities, not Blue States. PA is red except for Philly, Pgh & Erie)
To: xp38
Do you know of a simple web site that shows us the different galaxies in their relationship to ours?
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posted on
12/25/2004 10:35:15 AM PST
by
winodog
(We need to water the liberty tree)
To: Baraonda
why they call it the Milky Way. What do you think galaxy means?
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posted on
12/25/2004 10:35:46 AM PST
by
RightWhale
(Destroy the dark; restore the light)
To: winodog
There are more galaxies than there are stars in the Milky Way. And, that is just the visible universe. The rest of the universe, beyond the light horizon, is at least 1030 times that. Like comparing the size of a baseball to the size of the sun.
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posted on
12/25/2004 10:39:11 AM PST
by
RightWhale
(Destroy the dark; restore the light)
To: RightWhale
Muttly just held a basebell up to the sun, and they look the same size to him.
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posted on
12/25/2004 10:45:59 AM PST
by
PoorMuttly
("The right of the People to be Muttly shall not be infringed,")
To: RightWhale
Its stuff like that that I am talking about. I cannot comphrend how large the universe is. I will have to spend some time at google to find a good site.
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posted on
12/25/2004 11:11:47 AM PST
by
winodog
(We need to water the liberty tree)
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