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Breathtaking Hubble pic: Eagle Nebula (slip the surly bonds of earth & touch the face of God)
NASA photo via Yahoo ^
| 4/26/05
Posted on 04/26/2005 10:52:37 AM PDT by Wolfstar
A new view of the Eagle Nebula, one of the two largest and sharpest images Hubble Space Telescope has ever taken, is released by NASA for Hubble's 15th anniversary April 25, 2005. The new Eagle Nebula image reveals a tall, dense tower of gas being sculpted by ultraviolet light from a group of massive, hot stars. During the 15 years Hubble has orbited the Earth, it has taken more than 700,000 photos of the cosmos.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: astronomy; eagle; eaglenebula; falsecolor; hst; hubble; m16; nebula; pillarsofcreation; science; space; telescope
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To: marine86297
Except 1 Meg just doesn't cut it LOL! See post 26
To: Blood of Tyrants
Yuppers! one pic per CD :-)
(Just to clarify, not all pics are that big, just some of them. :-))
To: Wolfstar
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posted on
04/26/2005 11:44:57 AM PDT
by
Sensei Ern
(Christian, Comedian, Husband,Opa, Dog Owner, former Cat Co-dweller, and all around good guy.)
To: Lekker 1; edcoil
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posted on
04/26/2005 11:45:51 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
To: RadioAstronomer
You would know the composite NASA photograph entitled "Earth at Night." I have a column planned for maybe a month from now which is based on that photograph. It shows a Mercator map of the world, done solely in the lights from cities at night.
Do you know a version of that which is not a bandwidth hog, or a greedy hard disk creature? I hope so, since I need that to send out with my column.
Congressman Billybob
Latest column, "Double Crossing at the Rio Grande II."
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posted on
04/26/2005 11:46:15 AM PDT
by
Congressman Billybob
(Proud to be a FORMER member of the Bar of the US Supreme Court since July, 2004.)
To: Blood of Tyrants
Math whiz. Electrical engineer actually.Oh...sorry. We will speak slower and use smaller words then. (just kidding, just a little inter-discipline ribbing!)
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posted on
04/26/2005 11:49:51 AM PDT
by
Lekker 1
("There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be attainable"- Albert Einstein)
To: Lekker 1; BenLurkin
47
posted on
04/26/2005 11:50:10 AM PDT
by
StrictTime
(Shameless BUMP for Taglinus FreeRepublicus!!)
To: ~EagleNebula~
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posted on
04/26/2005 11:51:50 AM PDT
by
SoDak
To: Congressman Billybob
I had that image (it was on FR about 5 years ago) on my old computer as a wallpaper. It was beautiful! I'll try to find it for you...
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posted on
04/26/2005 11:52:15 AM PDT
by
StrictTime
(Shameless BUMP for Taglinus FreeRepublicus!!)
To: Wolfstar
Are there any Hubble pictures of the moon?
To: StrictTime; Lekker 1
('Mirror image')
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posted on
04/26/2005 11:53:41 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
To: BenLurkin
Uncanny. I feel the hairs standing up on the back o' muh neck!
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posted on
04/26/2005 11:55:14 AM PDT
by
Lekker 1
("There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be attainable"- Albert Einstein)
To: chimera
The Whirlpool is one of my favorites. I liked the Ford Galaxy too.
(ducking...)
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posted on
04/26/2005 11:56:50 AM PDT
by
talleyman
(It takes a village to raise an idiot.)
To: Realism
"The Eagle nebula, M16, lies about 6500 light years away, spans about 20 light-years."
So we are looking at the Eagle Nebula circa 4500 BC huh? The Hubble telescope is a time machine.
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posted on
04/26/2005 11:56:52 AM PDT
by
monday
To: Congressman Billybob
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posted on
04/26/2005 11:57:17 AM PDT
by
StrictTime
(Shameless BUMP for Taglinus FreeRepublicus!!)
To: Hatteras
To: BenLurkin
I actually think that's kinda nice...
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posted on
04/26/2005 12:00:12 PM PDT
by
StrictTime
(Shameless BUMP for Taglinus FreeRepublicus!!)
To: StrictTime; Congressman Billybob
thanks. :-)
That image I don't have.
To: Realism
#####The Eagle nebula, M16, lies about 6500 light years away, spans about 20 light-years.#####
So this is a photo of what Eagle nebula looked like 6,500 years ago! God's universe is certainly amazing!
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posted on
04/26/2005 12:06:21 PM PDT
by
puroresu
To: American Vet Repairman
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