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Message 1029346 - Posted: 29 Aug 2010, 0:10:51 UTC - in response to Message 1007166.  

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A Strange Ring Galaxy

Is this one galaxy or two? Astronomer Art Hoag first asked this question when he chanced upon this unusual extragalactic object. On the outside is a ring dominated by bright blue stars, while near the center lies a ball of much redder stars that are likely much older. Between the two is a gap that appears almost completely dark. How Hoag's Object formed remains unknown, although similar objects have been identified and collectively labeled as a form of ring galaxy. Genesis hypotheses include a galaxy collision billions of years ago and the gravitational effect of a central bar that has since vanished.
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Message 1074927 - Posted: 7 Feb 2011, 2:17:21 UTC

Found this in an Einstein@home thread:
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Message 1105321 - Posted: 12 May 2011, 1:25:45 UTC

Wow, I just did the teapot thing, so cool. Once you're "locked" if you move your head sideways, te first plane moves too. Thumbs up.
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Message 1112349 - Posted: 2 Jun 2011, 15:29:41 UTC - in response to Message 1033673.  

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haha, i knew it!
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Message 1112664 - Posted: 3 Jun 2011, 13:57:51 UTC

Hi socreative. Welcome:)
Yeah, kinda obvious, that picture...
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Message 1116362 - Posted: 12 Jun 2011, 18:31:47 UTC - in response to Message 1114030.  
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The universe wastes nothing ...all is transformed to it's origin state of Energy ... And once again becomes one with the greater Cosmic soup ...
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Message 1116367 - Posted: 12 Jun 2011, 18:56:05 UTC

Hi Owner wraith fride. Welcome to Set@home:)
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Message 1116607 - Posted: 13 Jun 2011, 10:55:11 UTC - in response to Message 1116370.  

This thread ahs been going since 2005, that is almost as awesome as the pictures! :-)


A real milestone:)
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Message 1127922 - Posted: 15 Jul 2011, 17:48:45 UTC

Celebration 1 Neptunian Year since its discovery.



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The universe wastes nothing ...all is transformed to it's origin state of Energy ... And once again becomes one with the greater Cosmic soup ...


Energy to matter...matter to energy; a love match - so nowt can come between them
...Well, I am a Taurus ...
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Message 1141009 - Posted: 16 Aug 2011, 1:37:20 UTC - in response to Message 1130300.  



Shooting Star Photographed From Space By NASA Astronaut Ron Garan During Perseid Meteor Shower
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Message 1144294 - Posted: 23 Aug 2011, 14:10:08 UTC

Great picture Lynn!
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Message 1144745 - Posted: 24 Aug 2011, 23:27:31 UTC - in response to Message 1144294.  

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Message 1147626 - Posted: 31 Aug 2011, 19:52:39 UTC

Liked this one so much, using it as desktop background.

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Message 1219842 - Posted: 18 Apr 2012, 5:33:14 UTC - in response to Message 1147626.  

These four Hubble Space Telescope views are part of a massive mosaic of the Tarantula nebula released on April 17, 2012. They show: the young star cluster NGC 2070 (top left), star cluster NGC 2060 (bottom left), Hodge 301 star cluster (top right), and the region RMC 136, which is home to massive stars.


Hubble Spies Tarantula Nebula's Starry Web As Space Telescope Anniversary Approaches (PHOTO)




The photo released Tuesday is a mosaic, one of the largest ever built from Hubble images, of a region knows as 30 Doradus, the brightest star-forming region in our galactic neighborhood and home to the most massive stars ever seen, a release from the European Space Agency/Hubble Information Center said.

The image is being released in celebration of the 22nd anniversary of the Hubble telescope, launched April 24, 1990.

The nebula, 170,000 light years from Earth, is close enough that Hubble can resolve individual stars, giving important information about stars' birth and evolution, astronomers said.

Read more: http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2012/04/17/UPI-NewsTrack-Science-and-Technology-News/UPI-61921334704044/#ixzz1sMp0zlPZ



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