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A picture of the Milky Way.

post #1 of 48
11/2/09 at 1:14am
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This was created using 3,000 different photographs of the galaxy, along with mathematical models. Absolutely amazing. http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/...Axel+Mellinger
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post #2 of 48
11/2/09 at 1:17am
that's cool. I have more of an appreciation after taking astro 101 and learning just how big the milky way is.
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post #3 of 48
11/2/09 at 1:20am
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that's cool. I have more of an appreciation after taking astro 101 and learning just how big the milky way is.

Did the professor try to express the size of the Milky Way by flailing his arms and running running around the room?
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post #4 of 48
11/2/09 at 1:28am
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Did the professor try to express the size of the Milky Way by flailing his arms and running running around the room?

God I wish.

P.S to Conne, my Astro professor is notorious for wearing a bowtie every single day.
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post #5 of 48
11/2/09 at 3:09am
Get a fn life conne. Who cares about this shit.

dl
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post #6 of 48
11/2/09 at 3:09am
Few of my favorite astronomy pics. They get better the more physics you understand. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Ultra_Deep_Field Read a bit of the article (especially about just how small the patch of sky that that is taken over is and the fact that every patch of light in that picture is a galaxy) then ponder the perspective for a little. Mind will be blown. Baby picture of the universe taken using tiny (and i do mean fucking tiny, as in fractions of thousandths of a degree) temperature variations in a fuzzy microwave radiation that permeate the whole sky.
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post #7 of 48
11/2/09 at 3:19am
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Get a fn life conne. Who cares about this shit.

dl

Lol. You're so deep man.
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post #8 of 48
11/2/09 at 3:23am
Space is the place. Never been there though.

"A parsec is a unit of length that equates to 19 million million miles, or 3.26 light years. Many galaxies are 100,000 parsecs in diameter. There are somewhere around 100 billion galaxies."



























This God character uses a very well developed color palette.
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post #9 of 48
11/2/09 at 3:26am
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This God character uses a very well developed color palette.

So much so that most of those images have to use false-color for stuff outside our visual spectrum
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post #10 of 48
11/2/09 at 3:27am
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"A parsec is a unit of length that equates to 19 million million miles, or 3.26 light years. Many galaxies are 100,000 parsecs in diameter. There are somewhere around 100 billion galaxies."

It's the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs.
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post #11 of 48
11/2/09 at 12:36pm
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Get a fn life conne. Who cares about this shit. dl
Shut up Repiglitard.
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post #12 of 48
11/2/09 at 12:55pm
Space is for gays.
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post #13 of 48
11/2/09 at 1:06pm
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Space is for gays.

+1.

Earth > Space.
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post #14 of 48
11/2/09 at 1:22pm
Love the astronomy pics. Thanks for posting.
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post #15 of 48
11/2/09 at 1:26pm
Needs a poal.

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that's cool..

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Who cares about this shit.


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Space is the place.

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Space is for gays.

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Earth > Space.

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Love the astronomy pics.
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