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Misfit Send message Joined: 21 Jun 01 Posts: 21804 Credit: 2,815,091 RAC: 0 |
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Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 |
Enjoy! http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/477729main_image_1747_346-260.jpg 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. |
Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34054 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18 |
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Misfit Send message Joined: 21 Jun 01 Posts: 21804 Credit: 2,815,091 RAC: 0 |
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Misfit Send message Joined: 21 Jun 01 Posts: 21804 Credit: 2,815,091 RAC: 0 |
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tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
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Alf Send message Joined: 23 Jul 08 Posts: 1 Credit: 58,934 RAC: 0 |
You can find cool stuff here |
zehcoutinho Send message Joined: 11 May 11 Posts: 122 Credit: 280,227 RAC: 0 |
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. |
socreative Send message Joined: 1 Jun 11 Posts: 4 Credit: 54,073 RAC: 0 |
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Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34054 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18 |
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Owner wraith fride Send message Joined: 9 Jun 11 Posts: 2 Credit: 142,642 RAC: 0 |
The universe wastes nothing ...all is transformed to it's origin state of Energy ... And once again becomes one with the greater Cosmic soup ... |
Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34054 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18 |
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Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34054 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18 |
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skildude Send message Joined: 4 Oct 00 Posts: 9541 Credit: 50,759,529 RAC: 60 |
Celebration 1 Neptunian Year since its discovery. In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face. Diogenes Of Sinope |
Michael John Hind Send message Joined: 6 Feb 07 Posts: 1330 Credit: 3,632,028 RAC: 0 |
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 ... |
Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 |
Shooting Star Photographed From Space By NASA Astronaut Ron Garan During Perseid Meteor Shower |
Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34054 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18 |
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Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 |
Thanks :-) |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24891 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
Liked this one so much, using it as desktop background. |
Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 |
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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