hubblesite.org— This is a unique view of the disk galaxy NGC 5866 tilted nearly edge-on to our line-of-sight. Hubble's sharp vision reveals a crisp dust lane dividing the galaxy into two halves.
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I think both Republicans and Democrats are responsible for not putting enough money/effort into the space program. The only reason we made so much progress in the 1960's was to beat the Russians. Now that there is no Red threat, we seem to have slackd off. Why have we yet to go back to the moon? Why aren't we on Mars yet? Beyond Mars? One word: Politics. In 1960 or so, we started with nothing, and by 1969 we landed men on the moon and returned them safely to Earth. Thirty years later, what are we doing? Building space stations to orbit the Earth? Taking pictures of far-away objects? Don't get me wrong, this is all very cool and all, but c'mon. Dump some more money into NASA already.
It's not AT the "edge"... we're looking at it ON EDGE... as in directly at it's side. But still, yes, depending on its distance, the light we're seeing from it is likely millions or billions of years old.
Unfortuneatly the color is most of these deep space images is added. Or is a composite of infa red, UV, radio, and all sorts of other images taken of the same object. But yes, it is truely beautiful, no matter the true color.
mfrattJun 9, 2006
I think both Republicans and Democrats are responsible for not putting enough money/effort into the space program. The only reason we made so much progress in the 1960's was to beat the Russians. Now that there is no Red threat, we seem to have slackd off. Why have we yet to go back to the moon? Why aren't we on Mars yet? Beyond Mars? One word: Politics. In 1960 or so, we started with nothing, and by 1969 we landed men on the moon and returned them safely to Earth. Thirty years later, what are we doing? Building space stations to orbit the Earth? Taking pictures of far-away objects? Don't get me wrong, this is all very cool and all, but c'mon. Dump some more money into NASA already.
greyhaven7Jun 9, 2006
It's not AT the "edge"... we're looking at it ON EDGE... as in directly at it's side. But still, yes, depending on its distance, the light we're seeing from it is likely millions or billions of years old.
greyhaven7Jun 9, 2006
Unfortuneatly the color is most of these deep space images is added. Or is a composite of infa red, UV, radio, and all sorts of other images taken of the same object. But yes, it is truely beautiful, no matter the true color.
Closed AccountJun 10, 2006
spiral galaxy.