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Thomas Send message Joined: 9 Dec 11 Posts: 1499 Credit: 1,345,576 RAC: 0 
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Thanks Julie, Lynn & aka_Patrice ! :) |
 Lynn   Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 
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Sorry for the delay. Your welcome Thomas Dupont :) |
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Thomas Send message Joined: 9 Dec 11 Posts: 1499 Credit: 1,345,576 RAC: 0
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Sorry for the delay. Your welcome Thomas Dupont :) No problemo Lynn ;) |
Julie  Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34054 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18 
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In April 2010, the Sun produced one of the largest eruptive prominences ever seen. Pictured above, the prominence erupted in only a few hours and was captured in movie form by NASA’s twin Sun-orbiting STEREO satellites. A quiescent solar prominence is a cloud of hot solar gas held above the Sun’s surface by the Sun’s magnetic field. Unpredictably, however, prominences may erupt, expelling hot gas into the Solar System via a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME). As pictured here, many Earths would easily fit under the expanding ribbon of hot gas. Although somehow related to the Sun’s changing magnetic field, the energy mechanism that creates and sustains a Solar prominence is still a topic of research.  rOZZ Music Pictures |
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Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123
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 This festive NASA Hubble Space Telescope image resembles a holiday wreath made of sparkling lights. The bright southern hemisphere star RS Puppis, at the center of the image, is swaddled in a gossamer cocoon of reflective dust illuminated by the glittering star. The super star is ten times more massive than our sun and 200 times larger. |
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Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123
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 NASA has revealed several stunning new images, including a new “hand of God†photo captured by its powerful “black hole hunting†Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuStar) that is uniquely capable of seeing “the highest-energy X-rays.†|
Batter Up  Send message Joined: 5 May 99 Posts: 1946 Credit: 24,860,347 RAC: 0
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NASA has revealed several stunning new images, including a new “hand of God†photo captured by its powerful “black hole hunting†Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuStar) that is uniquely capable of seeing “the highest-energy X-rays.†Point of order; we cannot see x-rays so 99 and 44/100% of the pictures are "Photoshopped". Sorry, carry on. 
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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
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The hand of God, remember that one! Thanx Lynn:) Welcome Julie:-) |
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Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34054 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18
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yo2013  Send message Joined: 9 Mar 14 Posts: 173 Credit: 50,837 RAC: 0 
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Alpha Centauri over Saturn rings.  The distance from Earth to Alpha Centauri, compared to the distance from Earth to Saturn, is like the distance from Earth to Saturn compared to the distance traveled by Columbus in 1492. |
Misfit  Send message Joined: 21 Jun 01 Posts: 21804 Credit: 2,815,091 RAC: 0
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 Click the pic! |
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Thomas Send message Joined: 9 Dec 11 Posts: 1499 Credit: 1,345,576 RAC: 0
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Kepler 186f, le nouveau Monde Illustration Crédit : NASA Ames/SETI Institute/JPL-Caltech, Découvreurs : Elisa V. Quintana, et al.  |
Dave  Send message Joined: 25 Apr 03 Posts: 61 Credit: 27,387 RAC: 0
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Ever feel like you're being watched? This might be why..  ESO's Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy, also known as VISTA, captured this unusual view of the Helix Nebula (NGC 7293), a planetary nebula located 700 light-years away. The Universe doesnt always give you what you want... But it ALWAYS gives you what you need. |
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tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 
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No, it's alive and kicking. Tullio |
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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
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 The Hubble spotted this smiley face in space |
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tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1
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It looks like a gravitational lens. Tullio |
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Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34054 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18
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JaundicedEye  Send message Joined: 14 Mar 12 Posts: 5375 Credit: 30,870,693 RAC: 1
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 Taken by Michael Jäger on February 19, 2015 @ Stixendorf Austria ;D..g  "Sour Grapes make a bitter Whine." <(0)> |
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