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13 Comments
- InMSWeAntitrust, on 11/08/2009, -1/+8It looks like gold and diamonds littered among charcoal.
- gavroche, on 11/08/2009, -1/+8They will only get to watch Single Female Lawyer in about 991 years.
- thexder, on 11/08/2009, -2/+9My god, it's full of stars!
- Jeff901, on 11/08/2009, -0/+5"millions of unrelated stars"
And some say we are alone in the universe! And if even 1% of those stars hosts a planet within the habitable zone of the star (where liquid water is on the planet surface)...then the chances are pretty high there is or HAS BEEN other intelligent life other than this rock. - jakash, on 11/08/2009, -1/+4Wow. One of the most dazzling space photos I have ever seen, even on a computer screen. Truly beautiful, this has to make the front page!
- moredown, on 11/08/2009, -2/+5Explanation: M7 is one of the most prominent open clusters of stars on the sky. The cluster, dominated by bright blue stars, can be seen with the naked eye in a dark sky in the tail of the constellation of the Scorpion (Scorpius). M7 contains about 100 stars in total, is about 200 million years old, spans 25 light-years across, and lies about 1000 light-years away.
- kgun, on 11/08/2009, -0/+2I think you're confusing a logic problem with "the Point."
- giggadee, on 11/09/2009, -0/+1Not really..according to the description is contains "about 100 stars in total".
If you want to see a star cluster that is TRULY filled with stars check out the Omega Centauri cluster (NGC5139) --
It contains over *10 Million* stars.
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap070419.html - thexder, on 11/09/2009, -0/+1I was referring to the picture and not the cluster itself.
"Also visible are a dark dust cloud and literally millions of unrelated stars towards the Galactic center"
I was including the "unrelated" stars.
Although Omega Centauri is quite impressive as well. - thexder, on 11/08/2009, -2/+3The problem with your logic is that on a intergalactic scale, 1% is such a massive huge number.
Perhaps all those trillions of stars are what is needed to orchestrate life on our simple planet. - llamagoelz, on 11/09/2009, -1/+1glad to see others are thinking the same thing as me
oh and i feel the need to throw in the obligatory reference to that most famous of arbitrary calculations: The Drake Equasion - dynamitshikoku1, on 11/08/2009, -1/+1for a second, the title made me think of Farscape, lol.
- PhoebusAl, on 11/08/2009, -2/+1Oooh Aaaaah.
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