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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: Wolfstar

see 60 and 61


101 posted on 04/26/2005 1:00:11 PM PDT by RadioAstronomer
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To: Publius6961

I will look :-)


102 posted on 04/26/2005 1:00:51 PM PDT by RadioAstronomer
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To: Wolfstar; BikerNYC

Thank you for the explanation. It's so hard to wrap my mind around this! To think of how insignificant we are in the realm of the whole creation!


103 posted on 04/26/2005 1:09:40 PM PDT by queenkathy (A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.)
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To: Wolfstar

104 posted on 04/26/2005 1:14:16 PM PDT by add925 (The Left = Xenophobes in Denial)
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To: queenkathy
To think of how insignificant we are in the realm of the whole creation!

Or to think how insignificant all of creation is. If you spread everything out to a uniform density, you would only have a few hydrogen atoms per cubic meter.

Indeed, inflationary cosmology calculates that the universe could have started with about 20 pounds of matter and a Higgs field in a very small space. When the field finally settled into its lowest possible non-zero value, it released its pent-up energy to create the matter we see today.
105 posted on 04/26/2005 1:17:52 PM PDT by BikerNYC
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To: Wolfstar

Maybe NASA should sell the DVD's and use the money to keep the Hubble going? If they marketed it right, Hubble could pay for itself!


106 posted on 04/26/2005 1:21:10 PM PDT by iceskater ("Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind." - Kipling)
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To: monday
So we are looking at the Eagle Nebula circa 4500 BC huh? The Hubble telescope is a time machine

Yep, Kinda like seeing a flash of lightning, hearing the thunder 5 seconds later. Even though the sound is older than the actual event it doesn't make it less spectacular.

107 posted on 04/26/2005 1:30:14 PM PDT by Realism (Some believe that the facts-of-life are open to debate.....)
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To: Lekker 1
Here's the original image, with the inverted/cropped portion highlighted:

original image

changes to:
The Face of God?

Amazing, huh!
108 posted on 04/26/2005 1:32:34 PM PDT by swamp40
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To: Wolfstar

I thought that Hubble was kept in its orbit by small gas jets, and a gyro, maybe nuc powered. Perhaps it needs some more fuel??

And I thought that a revised shuttle is due to take off very soon, even with a female commander! Hubble should be its first mission


109 posted on 04/26/2005 1:36:21 PM PDT by aShepard
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To: aShepard

I heard they were gonna fly some more gasoline to Hubble, but the price was prohibitive. (/sarc)


110 posted on 04/26/2005 1:38:46 PM PDT by Lekker 1 ("There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be attainable"- Albert Einstein)
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To: aShepard

BUMP!


111 posted on 04/26/2005 1:39:11 PM PDT by Publius6961 (The most abundant things in the universe are ignorance, stupidity and hydrogen)
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To: aShepard
I thought that Hubble was kept in its orbit by small gas jets, and a gyro, maybe nuc powered. Perhaps it needs some more fuel??

Nope. Attitude pointing for hubble uses reaction wheels (spin a wheel in one direction and the spacecraft spins in the opposite), gyros (determines how far you moved), and torque rods (electromagnets that interact with Earth's magnetic field to unload momentum off the reaction wheels). Power is from solar arrays and batteries. No fuel of any kind and no nuclear power.

112 posted on 04/26/2005 1:42:24 PM PDT by RadioAstronomer
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To: iceskater
Maybe NASA should sell the DVD's and use the money to keep the Hubble going? If they marketed it right, Hubble could pay for itself!

Hear! Hear!

The can have dozens of different sets, depending on interests. I think that would work.

113 posted on 04/26/2005 1:42:27 PM PDT by Publius6961 (The most abundant things in the universe are ignorance, stupidity and hydrogen)
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To: Allan
Thanks. I've seen the pic.

I rather like the caption.

114 posted on 04/26/2005 1:51:03 PM PDT by ARridgerunner
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To: Wolfstar

Wow


115 posted on 04/26/2005 1:57:50 PM PDT by petitfour
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To: Publius6961

Who at NASA can we suggest this to?


116 posted on 04/26/2005 2:05:55 PM PDT by iceskater ("Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind." - Kipling)
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To: BikerNYC

This is probably a really technical question here. But you seem up to it! "They" say that our universe is expanding all the time. How fast? and How far?


117 posted on 04/26/2005 2:07:57 PM PDT by queenkathy (A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.)
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To: Wolfstar

Staggeringly beautiful! Thanks!


118 posted on 04/26/2005 2:09:23 PM PDT by mombonn (¡Viva Bush/Cheney!)
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To: Wolfstar

Thankfully we have an eternity in Paradise to look forward to. Space travel may happen.


119 posted on 04/26/2005 2:31:04 PM PDT by jerri
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To: queenkathy

Here ya go. :-)

(I can post more when I get out of the lab)

http://astron.berkeley.edu/~mwhite/darkmatter/hubble.html

http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/HubbleConstant.html

http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmo_02.htm


120 posted on 04/26/2005 2:37:31 PM PDT by RadioAstronomer
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