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- Soniti, on 08/11/2008, -2/+28I wish this wasn't an artist's rendition. As soon as I saw that picture I was like "Did they REALLY take that picture? That looks freaking amazing..!" Then I read further down the article.
Disappointing to say the least. - Hexadecimal42, on 08/11/2008, -1/+23Dugg for the Rush song!
- fartmungerer, on 08/11/2008, -1/+21The x-ray is her siren song
My ship cannot resist her long
Nearer to my deadly goal
Until the black hole.....
Gains controoooooolll.... - lololol1, on 08/12/2008, -1/+19In the constellation of Cygnus
There lurks a mysterious, invisible force
The Black Hole
Of Cygnus X-1
Six Stars of the Northern Cross
In mourning for their sister's loss
In a final flash of glory
Nevermore to grace the night... - raintheory, on 08/12/2008, -1/+12I think you mean "Galaxy" and not "Universe".
- decker12, on 08/11/2008, -1/+11My Rocinante flew by night on her final flight...
- inactive, on 08/12/2008, -1/+6This is definitely one of the best artistic impressions I've seen from their website.
Simply astonishing ;) - sgiffy, on 08/11/2008, -2/+7We live in a pretty interesting universe.
- HarleyQuinn, on 08/12/2008, -1/+6In the constellation of Cygnas
There lurks a mysterious invisible force,
The black hole of Cygnas X-1.....
Who knew Neil Peart was ahead of the times. - ThePhotoBoy, on 08/12/2008, -2/+7Do you mean the Rush song Cynus X1???
- MacSuxWindozSux, on 08/12/2008, -1/+5It's not that far off topic in astronomical terms.
- drlha, on 08/11/2008, -1/+5You'd be even more disappointed by the actual images of Cyg X-1, which basically looks like a point of light to us as its to far away to resolve.
- thegrantman, on 08/12/2008, -1/+5It's an artistic impression.
- h3lx, on 08/12/2008, -1/+4http://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/html/im1042.html
"My God... it's full of stars" - DeskFlyer, on 08/12/2008, -1/+4There
- SugarCoatedSalt, on 08/11/2008, -1/+4its back up now.
- calcm, on 08/12/2008, -1/+4http://www.lyricsdownload.com/rush-cygnus-x1-lyric ...
- manishmohan1986, on 08/12/2008, -1/+4ohh...same story hitting front Page 2 times in a day...nice..
http://digg.com/space/APOD_2008_August_11_Black_Ho ... - Beowulf2112, on 08/12/2008, -1/+4Actually its two songs
Book I: The Voyage
Book II: Hemispheres - JazminMillion, on 08/11/2008, -8/+10Their is a black hole in the center of every universe! A black hole is a region of space in which the gravitational field is so powerful that nothing, not even light, can escape its pull after having fallen past its event horizon. This is the best BLACK HOLE documentary I have ever seen.
http://www.surfthechannel.com/info/television/The_ ... - Beowulf2112, on 08/12/2008, -1/+3Invisible to telescopic eye
Infinity, the star that would not die - thegrantman, on 08/12/2008, -1/+2Nah...that's just the black hole altering the time continuum thing.
- ligyron, on 08/12/2008, -1/+2Have you considered it's the description/discovery that's getting dugg?
- h3lx, on 08/12/2008, -0/+1-1 for what? This goddamn picture is ***** bad ass. "My God..." are Dave's lasts words before getting sucked into whatever it was floating around Jupiter in 2010. That post was chocked full of goodness...
The image is a portion Pickering's Triangle in the veil nebula, a.k.a. the Cygnus Remnant. The link to the uncompressed 4000 pixel width tiff file is nothing short of brilliant. That one person can kiss my ass. - bermudianguy, on 08/12/2008, -1/+2His drum solos can control time .
- MacSuxWindozSux, on 08/12/2008, -1/+2Not to mention a real black hole bends light around it.
Meaning there would be huge amounts of lensing all around it, and you wouldn't see a dark spot in the middle.
The picture just has a fiery disk with a black globular core. - CatsAreGods, on 08/12/2008, -1/+2God is playing with his yo-yo again.
- NathanielJ, on 08/12/2008, -1/+2What the ***** does that have to do with anything here? Not every spiral is a golden spiral, and it's very apparent that the spiral in the photo is NOT a golden spiral.
- theguesser10, on 08/12/2008, -1/+2Except that that disk is so huge that a picture of it would only have a little lensing in the very middle hich you wouldn't even be able to see.
- Spoomeister, on 08/12/2008, -1/+2My favorite part of that song is several minutes in, when everything goes quiet except for that lonely little guitar riff, and the ghostly moan / whatever-it-is in the background, and the chimes... I could listen to that on a loop for hours... then Geddy's bass comes in to break it up and it's back to noise and chaos and dang I like Rush.
What were we talking about, again? - Gemfinder, on 08/12/2008, -1/+2Some who did not fight
Brought tales of old to light
My Rocinante sailed by night
On her final flight
To the heart of Cygnus fearsome force
We set our course
Spiraled through that timeless space
To this immortal place - NathanielJ, on 08/12/2008, -1/+1You don't need to link to the golden spiral, I know what it is. And as I said, not every spiral is a golden spiral.
Please, tell me what looks golden about the spiral in the photo to you (besides the colour and the fact that it is a spiral)? The reason the golden spiral is beautiful is because it grows by a factor of phi (about 1.618) in every revolution. The spiral in the photograph clearly grows by a factor much larger than this (probably at least hundreds or thousands). - andrew1338, on 08/12/2008, -2/+2I'd hit that
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- jmcneilly, on 08/12/2008, -3/+3I was impressed until I saw that it was an "artistic impression".
http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/index.cfm? ... - Gemfinder, on 08/12/2008, -1/+1[laughing]
That's a good way to put it, especially since yo-yos used to be weapons. - Lunarbunny, on 08/12/2008, -1/+1Good NOVA episode on galactic black holes, "Monster of the Milky Way"
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/blackhole/
(There is a "Watch the Program" link on the right) - Jobe479, on 08/12/2008, -1/+1The artist should've thought to remove the star from the background that happens to lie right in the middle of the black hole... you know, the thing that absorbs all light.
- Virgule, on 08/12/2008, -1/+1Apparently, a black hole gravitational pull is _SO_ intense that an object, like a rocket for instance, would stretch out like an elastic because the near end accelerate at a greater rate than the far end. The 'pull' build up in an exponential fashion so a meager few centimeters apart can have significant "g pull" difference.
Soon after, your own matter start collapsing onto itself so you better start paddling the other way very, very, very hard. - asupaha, on 08/11/2008, -6/+5Check out the recently discovered Deep Sky Object the "Cosmic Ghost"
http://rita.nrk.no/community/amlink/admin/goto_lin ... - nynexla, on 08/12/2008, -2/+1Back Hole? Maximillian will food process your heart. Dr. Hans Reinhardt is not dead by the way. The Cygnus was the ship.
- guitarchitect, on 08/12/2008, -4/+3"artistic impression"?? Why is this getting dug? There's much nicer space-art out there. Buried.
- Meathead1, on 08/12/2008, -2/+0Everyone understands this is not a real photograph, right?
- inactive, on 08/12/2008, -4/+2This is definitely one of the best images I've seen from their website.
Simply astonishing. - thetruthisthere, on 08/12/2008, -6/+2I see theStar wars Empire Strikes back planet... nasa pulling a fast one?
- TheInformer, on 08/12/2008, -6/+1I thought a black hole was a racist term. No, that's right, the guy that said that was an uneducated moron.
- d1ckinabox, on 08/12/2008, -5/+0looks kinda like something out of a cheap 80s sci fi movie....
but still pretty damn cool
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