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Andromeda Galaxy - largest composite pic ever taken by Hubble
Posted on 1/5/15 at 6:52 pm
Posted on 1/5/15 at 6:52 pm
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The largest NASA Hubble Space Telescope image ever assembled, this sweeping bird’s-eye view of a portion of the Andromeda galaxy (M31) is the sharpest large composite image ever taken of our galactic next-door neighbor. Though the galaxy is over 2 million light-years away, The Hubble Space Telescope is powerful enough to resolve individual stars in a 61,000-light-year-long stretch of the galaxy’s pancake-shaped disk. It's like photographing a beach and resolving individual grains of sand. And there are lots of stars in this sweeping view -- over 100 million, with some of them in thousands of star clusters seen embedded in the disk.
This ambitious photographic cartography of the Andromeda galaxy represents a new benchmark for precision studies of large spiral galaxies that dominate the universe's population of over 100 billion galaxies. Never before have astronomers been able to see individual stars inside an external spiral galaxy over such a large contiguous area. Most of the stars in the universe live inside such majestic star cities, and this is the first data that reveal populations of stars in context to their home galaxy.
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Posted on 1/5/15 at 6:54 pm to Alahunter
Bout time hunter. Grown tired of your shite here lately. :sarcasticemoticonguy:
Posted on 1/5/15 at 6:55 pm to PepaSpray
Holidays are done, things can be normal again. 
Posted on 1/5/15 at 7:10 pm to Alahunter
Amazing 
Posted on 1/5/15 at 8:01 pm to Alahunter
Andromeda is my favorite Galaxy. I'll be glad when The James Webb Space Telescope is launched. It'll give even better resolution of Andromeda.
Posted on 1/5/15 at 8:20 pm to Alahunter
Pics like this are why I love playing Mass Effect!
Imagine what is out there.
Imagine what is out there.
Posted on 1/5/15 at 8:38 pm to Alahunter
It would be so cool if we'd pickup evidence of intelligent life on other planets in my lifetime.
We've come an incredibly long ways since I was a barefoot kid on the farm looking up at the stars at night.
I remember JFK pledging us to go to the moon ... what a big deal that was at the time. I remember exactly where I was standing when we walked on the moon six years later.
Imagine that.
We could not even rebuild the WTC in six years ... took us more than twice as long.
We've come a long ways .... not all of it good.
We've come an incredibly long ways since I was a barefoot kid on the farm looking up at the stars at night.
I remember JFK pledging us to go to the moon ... what a big deal that was at the time. I remember exactly where I was standing when we walked on the moon six years later.
Imagine that.
We could not even rebuild the WTC in six years ... took us more than twice as long.
We've come a long ways .... not all of it good.
Posted on 1/6/15 at 1:03 am to Alahunter
I am absolutely fascinated with any and all things of this nature. It's why I am a SyFi channel addict along with the history channel. I'm also a weather geek!!
Posted on 1/6/15 at 1:31 am to scrooster
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I remember JFK pledging us to go to the moon ... what a big deal that was at the time. I remember exactly where I was standing when we walked on the moon six years later.
In a generation we went from a country of scientists and explorers to a generation of slackers and drones. Never a good transition for a country that desires to remain the alpha dog of the globe.
Posted on 1/6/15 at 6:44 am to Cheese Grits
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In a generation we went from a country of scientists and explorers to a generation of slackers and drones.
This is probably how you feel (and I see where you are coming from), but I'm sure if you actually look at the stats, there are more scientist per capita nowadays than in the 60s. You also have to remember that space race was fueled by a lot more than just pure exploration. More so, rocket superiority over the ruskies.
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Posted on 1/6/15 at 7:11 am to Alahunter
I'm always impressed by the universe and its endless possibilities.
Posted on 1/6/15 at 7:27 am to Alahunter
This is the kind of stuff that reminds us just how small and insignificant we really are in the grand scheme of things.
Posted on 1/6/15 at 7:28 am to Carolina_Girl
quote:So you love reality tv
along with the history channel
Posted on 1/6/15 at 7:47 am to Porter Osborne Jr
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So you love reality tv
H2 still shows mostly history stuff. Ancient aliens is still showing unfortuantely though.
Posted on 1/6/15 at 8:05 am to Porter Osborne Jr
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So you love reality tv
Yep, I do. But only the "realest" of reality TV interests me. shite like the Kardashians can suck it for all I care.
One exception: The Carbonaro (sp?) Effect is the tits fo'real!
Posted on 1/6/15 at 11:02 am to Carolina_Girl
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It's why I am a SyFi channel addict along with the history channel. I'm also a weather geek!!
Same here. I wished I could pay and keep only the sports channels and Science, Syfy, TWC and the History channels and make them about history again.
Posted on 1/6/15 at 2:29 pm to Cheese Grits
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In a generation we went from a country of scientists and explorers to a generation of slackers and drones. Never a good transition for a country that desires to remain the alpha dog of the globe.
Well, that's because we were a nation of exceptionalists that felt guilty about it ... does that make sense?
Or, is it possible that in our attempt to be politically correct, once the communists took over, we lowered our standards and went down to theirs rather than forcing them to come-up to ours?
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