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- sarusa, on 10/12/2007, -4/+82Crap, I can only find 999,999,999,999. Help me out here?
- rauz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+45I found Waldo. He's between 354834545 and 354834546.
- blackb0x, on 10/12/2007, -0/+32That's what NASA does to hide the aliens.
- DarthTurducken, on 10/12/2007, -2/+29My God, it's full of stars!
- jarcoal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+26and this is one of billions, probably trillions of galaxies...
- etruscan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19We don't like the prospect of being alone.
(though I imagine Digg users are getting used to it). - sremick, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19I know you're kidding (and yes, I laughed), but I figured I'd just mention that there are less than 5 million pixels in the image ;)
- mark1372, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16The problem with organized religion is that the followers need to mind their own business and concentrate on making themselves the caring, non-judgemental, open-minded people they profess to be.
The picture only "proves" that stars exist and that the universe is enormous and that we are curious animals. - hodyoaten, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Assuming the galaxy spans roughly 2000 x 700 pixels, that means that each PIXEL, as an average, contains one million stars.
- stoops, on 10/12/2007, -5/+19I believe you can find it in the upper right corner, just above the third sun.
- fascfoo, on 10/12/2007, -5/+19Why is it whenever a christian sees something pretty it automatically *proves* the existence of god? I don't get it.
- aclements, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. "
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-Douglas Adams - PlJack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Up one directory:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/
Lots of images.!! - jarcoal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12well to start, we have a lot of time on our hands
- lizard3k, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Hmmm.. Where have I seen this before?
ZOMG!
http://www.officezombies.com/images/eye.jpg - toxicredm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Your house isn't there, unless you're an alien. That's Andromeda, not Milky Way.
- dogside, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10If you remember in Hitchhikers, there is that machine that shows you in relation to the universe, which then turns your brain into mush from the sheer size of it. We are one step closer to achiving that.
- peregrine, on 10/12/2007, -6/+16Wow times like this makes me wonder why we try to figure everything out. Who are we to try and figure out whatever happened or whoever created this.
Definatly amazing. - somerandomnerd, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Are the line numbers included to help with debugging?
- Dennern, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Tell me that you seriously believe that on all of the billions of stars that there is no life on any single one of them...
- stmiller, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7*wishes he had dual-monitor setup*
- Nameless1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7@rauz well of course this image is false coloured.
Humans cant see in the infra red :) - LandStander, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7We all know that god is an alien and we were created to serve as his slave species.
He's also obsessed with pretty shiny things. - JackHallows, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8*sets as dual-monitor wallpaper*
- DaffyDuck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6A large portion of the overlap in stars is near the center. That's where most of them are. So, it's impossible to actually count. You can only measure the brightness and get an estimate based on the average luminosity of a star which is what the scientists do.
- GliTCH82, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6It's photos like this that make me think of galaxies as a form of life. I think one day we might find out that the cellular systems that make up life extend to planetary, galactic, and even larger systems. This thing looks alive!
- DaffyDuck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/07/22/stars.survey/
"Ever wanted to wish upon a star? Well, you have 70,000 million million million to choose from. That's the total number of stars in the known universe, according to a study by Australian astronomers. It's also about 10 times as many stars as grains of sand on all the world's beaches and deserts." - DarthTurducken, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5@toxicredm
You're not the boss of alien bendebnam! - InTaco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Here's the index:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/lib/aptree.html - somerandomnerd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5What, they can't take infrared pictures in colour?
- joeshlub, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5These images always amaze me.
- dbug, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Wow, counting all these grains of sand must have been a hell of a lot of work...
- Viper007Bond, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Meh, it's not THAT high res, but cool regardless. Hell, 99% of the images found on NASA's site are amazing. :D
- sremick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Yes, I'd have a hard time believing that there is life ON a star, since the surface temperatures range from 2,000 K to 40,000 K.
- justice7, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6@sremick
you do know it is actually 3D, and not 2D right? There are many stars behind those stars - Sumptin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5While I'm not religious, Scarlett Johansson has prompted me to say "Oh God!" on more than one occasion. Does that count as a picture of a star inciting faith?
- samury, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4There could be a God AND it can be an accident too. The God-Chaos Theory. Like Eddie Izzard said, he could be in his kitchen trying to make flan, somehow screwed it up and it blew up and created... the Big Bang. God never got his flan, and well... ***** happens.
- igraham09, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4those are bitchin'
:D - LandStander, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@ dbug
That 'sheep facing left' guy paid everyone 2 cents to do it. - DubbedOver, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"I guess I'd say if it is just us... seems like an awful waste of space."
- mwace, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5You're a dumbass.
If you care to read the description, you'll note it says "...the full mosaic image is composed of about 3,000 individual frames." Now, has it ever occoured to you, that NASA might not take all 3k shots of the galaxy in a rectangular fashion? They're using their resources to build a kickass picture of Andromeda, and not misc forground stars - my apologies to you if Andromeda doesn't happen to be a perfect square to fit your PC screen.
Bloody people can't get out of the ***** rectangle. *breaks a corner off his moniter* - mark1372, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7It's a pretty ***** God that demands you worship him all day long or he'll send you to Hell.
- kohno214, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"Ned, it's coming right at us" (and it will collide with our galaxy in about 3 billion years or so).
- 15charmaxwtf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yes, this "novice" only stitched 3000 images together.
- samury, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4But you're using the Bible to prove something. It's not like it's a hard factual source.
- procyon, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6So, God created all of the universe, but only put man on Earth? That is insane beyond insane. No one in their right mind can look at a picture like this or look at the night sky and honestly tell them self that we are the only life in the universe. Anyone of those trillion stars could have a solar system similar to ours orbiting around it.
I have a right to believe what I want to believe and so do you. The problem with Christians or anyone who is fanatical is that I am not allowed to believe what I want....less I risk going to hell. Then if I voice my opinion I am looked down upon and told that I am less of a person because of my beliefs.
I cannot wait for the final world war...when all of the blind religious sheep fight it out to prove whose imaginary friend is better and then destroy all life as we know it on earth. - WebCester, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4That's what YOU believe.
- lormahoykyd2007, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Makes the Milky Way look like the suburbia.
- danorak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3very sobering... makes you think of our petty squables on this planet as pretty insignificant....
- rauz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3No idea about the lens flare but whenever you see a picture like this you know it's been edited and coloured in afterwards. I read an article about a guy that makes a living colouring images like these for NASA.
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