Sombrero Galaxy is amazing...
Posted by:
Joanne81
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Date: August 18, 2008 07:59PM This image blows me away. It is a real picture of a galaxy called "Sombrero Galaxy". It contains hundreds of billions of stars.
[hubblesite.org] Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/18/2008 07:59PM by Joanne81. Re: Sombrero Galaxy is amazing...
Posted by:
riverhousebill
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Date: August 18, 2008 11:32PM Cool shots, go to space.com, they have a virtual telescope to scan the galaxys, `check out nebulas interstellar gas,dust,and plasma.
Its A Gas! so vast, so many new planets being born,( so many possibilitys.) Nebulas, some bizarre sightings, read the featured news storys on neb what a `trip. What A LONG SPACE TRIP ITS BEEN. Re: Sombrero Galaxy is amazing...
Posted by:
la_veronique
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Date: August 19, 2008 04:52AM shocked
dreamy Re: Sombrero Galaxy is amazing...
Posted by:
Lightform
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Date: August 19, 2008 11:41AM Thats awesome !! Re: Sombrero Galaxy is amazing...
Posted by:
brome
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Date: August 20, 2008 06:00PM Here's the most amazing picture from the Hubble Space Telescope, the Ultra Deep Field, gazing back 13 billion years into the past to a varied field of 10,000 galaxies:
[apod.nasa.gov] Click on the picture to get the dazzling ultra high resolution photo. Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/20/2008 06:05PM by brome. Re: Sombrero Galaxy is amazing...
Posted by:
Joanne81
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Date: August 20, 2008 07:24PM riverhousebill - That website is cool. Thanks.
brome - Gorgeous pictures. The nebula is ethereal. The deep space image is breathtaking. I love it. Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/20/2008 07:25PM by Joanne81. Re: Sombrero Galaxy is amazing...
Posted by:
Lillianswan
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Date: August 22, 2008 05:59AM Space is huge! Where is the edge, I mean: what is it expanding into? Re: Sombrero Galaxy is amazing...
Posted by:
Anonymous User
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Date: August 23, 2008 12:11PM It is a cool galaxy.
I have seen it many times live thru my own 13" reflector. But unfortunately,thru a scope with the naked eye,it looks nothing like the photo. As is true with most celestial objects. Photos, you must remember, gather light over many minutes or hours of exposure. Brian Re: Sombrero Galaxy is amazing...
Posted by:
loeve
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Date: August 23, 2008 01:40PM brome Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Here's the most amazing picture from the Hubble > Space Telescope, the Ultra Deep Field, gazing back > 13 billion years into the past to a varied field > of 10,000 galaxies: > > [apod.nasa.gov] > > "...Staring nearly 3 months at the same spot" Brome's link shows faint distant objects, even with almost 3 months exposure. I wonder what we will see when we pick an even smaller field of view and stare at it for 6 months.. or a year... Will we ever see the "edge" of the known universe.. that is, the edge of the "universe" created by the theoretical big bang? "What is the universe expanding into?".. more of the same? To me the beauty of an infinite universe is its tension.. Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 08/23/2008 01:48PM by loeve. Sorry, only registered users may post in this forum.
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