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- fernando26, on 10/12/2007, -3/+27Oh. My. Science.
- crackintosh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15its seven images taken over 5 months. do you even know what your looking at? If you did you would be impressed.
- rationalist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12The most amazing thing about this is the following from the description in YouTube :
"The inner ring is about one light year across."
One light year across. The *inner* ring in the image! Think about it.
I'd bet this is the largest moving [pun intended] phenomenon any of us have ever witnessed before.
[BTW, if folks bothered to read the description before whinin-I mean, before commenting, they would see an explanation about the looping.] - nreynolds, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13funny, I actually read the title as "Time-Lapse Movie of Crab People World"
but I was kind of far away..... - afex, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10if only there was some way we could animate a few frames over and over instead of having to encode it into movie form...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animated_gif - JimmyIkon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8My guess is that it's a time lapse of the nebula over many months or years. In that case it would be impressive because it demonstrates how fluid our seemingly static universe is.
- TheoDork, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8As scientifically amazing as that is, it doesn't do much for the artistic and visually inclined, so...while I'm impressed, I understand why it doesn't appear very interesting.
- pegme, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Yeah, because seeing space act like a liquid over billions of light years through your desktop super computer is totally lame.
Are you kidding me? This is one of the coolest animated gifs I've ever seen.
The left is Chandra X-ray observatory and the right is Hubble's optical light images. It shows matter and anti-matter jets emitting from a pulsar. What is known about pulsars is so limited still, that it's a fascinating topic. - dknighton, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10As usual, the whiners don't have a ***** clue, and show their ignorance.
OF COURSE it's a series of frames looped over and over to animate an image. What the ***** do you think "time-lapse" means? It says it right there in the title, Einstein!
Second, there are very few devices which can give you a real-time view in any detail of astronomical objects, particularly dim ones (also referred to as "dim-fuzzies"). In order to capture images of these objects, you have to do timed exposures to allow the medium to "see" what's there. The Chandra X-Ray observatory (which took this image) is made up of mirrors, just like Hubble and most other telescopes, and is subject to the same limitations. So therefore, real-time video is not exactly an option.
Try educating yourselves a bit before you make stupid statements, or if you're too lazy, don't comment at all. Or better yet, just catch the obvious clues from the title. Retards. - simpleid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2002/0052/hstmovie_lg.mov
*MUCH BETTER* video, same thing only quicktime and high quality, you can see so much more detail.
To try and imagine this kind of motion spanning LIGHT YEARS blows my mind!
Enjoy! - noseeme, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Best. Comment. Evarrrr.
Like clams on my tummy! - thekarmastrike, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4i'm not too sure why anyone would expect too much out of a time lapse of a nebulae.. they re quite large, after all.. i thought it was cool, though.
- NSMike, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Hey, I'm pretty artistic and visually inclined, and although I don't know the size of those objects, I would imagine that the pulsar is at least larger than earth, so easily observable movement on a such a huge scale is pretty damn impressive and interesting to me.
- 177emc2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The waves look like water in a pond.
- andrewd2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3"The more I know, the more I realize I do not know."
- markos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2What's that, you say? You like animated pictures of space?
http://www.digg.com/space/Modeling_The_Mice_galaxies
When galaxies collide! - cpbrown, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Are those rings expanding at the speed of light? it would make sense .. correct me if i'm wrong .. thanks.
- donleyp, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4You don't have to guess, the description says it all.
It is seven observations over six months from November 2000 - April 2001. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The more you admit to not knowing, The smarter i feel..
- lolwtfhaha, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2lol. But the gif standard doesn't support zooming in slowly on your looping frames!
- crilen007, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3It's too bad we can't harness the energy from these kinds of things. Even a tiny³ bit would be enough to power the entire earth easily.
Sucks we have to kill ourselves to live lol - pegme, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Maxfact, Nasa would like a word with you.
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2000/ast29may_1m.htm
Hint: Antimatter exists. The images may show only matter, but there is antimatter present there. Why don't you go to the Crab Pulsar and find out?
Thanks, see you in a few thousand years. - 0crabby0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It kinda looks like a sonogram...
You can see the hooves... - tinkafoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Just to add a little more awesomeness, it needs to be in stereo-vision so I can cross my eyes and get it in 3D.
- technosquirrels, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0We also did a timelapse video. We filmed it in Japan, China, US, Taiwan. Check it and digg it! Search for:
"timelapse video from around the world - Unbelievable"
Hope you'll enjoy!
Lisa & Ryan :) - fatfishy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I can't stand viewing space in low-res
http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2002/0052/movies.html
with stills too - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4My God!, He is full of stars..
- Chilllllion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Shut up
- cagedog, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1For some reason, that reminds me of THE HASSELHOFFIAN RECURSION:
http://www.post-literate.com/gerpunx/archives/2005/01/prepare_to_lose_your_mind.php - Endeavour3d, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It's called Radiation Pressure, the actual light/radiation/solar wind is so strong that it is physically pushing the dust and gas away from the pulsar. Gravity also has an effect, but it's mostly the radiation pressure.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_pressure - maxfact, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Anti-matter? I think not. Anti-matter doesn't exist in our universe except for the briefest of moments. What the images show are all made up of matter.
- DRTED, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I wonder if space aliens surf on the waves?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+4It looks like seven images looped over and over, producing a anticlimactic experience which loosely resembles dripping jell-o and no explanation of what it really is or why anyone should care.
Am I right? Did I win anything? - FidelBlack, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Taste like crab, talk like people.
- mredamon, on 10/12/2007, -9/+4dknighton, you are a significant idiot.
i think that we all know what time-lapse is... the complaint is that there's only 7 images in the time-lapse sequence. I would have liked to see more as I'm sure the others would have. Imagine a headline "TIME LAPSE IMAGE SEQUENCE OF A FLOWER BLOOMING" only to go and view it and see that the sequence shows the flower opening ever so slightly and then starting over. There's enough there to see that it would be amazing to keep watching but then it starts over just as soon as it gets good.
Dick. - dalle, on 10/12/2007, -12/+3Yeah what the ***** is this. It's a couple of frames looped 22 times.
- plnegative1, on 10/12/2007, -19/+5That just looks like 5 images looped over and over. It looks too jerky - I guess I was expecting more.
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