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APOD: In the Heart of the Virgo Cluster

apod.nasa.gov — The Virgo Cluster of Galaxies is the closest cluster of galaxies to our Milky Way Galaxy. The Virgo Cluster is so close that it spans more than 5 degrees on the sky - about 10 times the angle made by a full Moon. With its heart lying about 70 million light years distant, the Virgo Cluster is the nearest cluster of galaxies, contains over 2,000 gala

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  • jamessavik, on 07/08/2008, -2/+12spirals, lenticulars and ellipticals, oh my!
  • H3000, on 07/08/2008, -1/+6So close, only 70 million light years away.
  • twilitezone, on 07/08/2008, -1/+5I absolutely love galaxies! They always make me sit and reflect on how I believe that there is other life out there...somewhere. I think that it is mathematically impossible for there NOT to be life somewhere. Out of all the galaxies, our planet is the ONLY one able to create life, I don’t think so.
  • danharlow, on 07/08/2008, -1/+5Beautiful.
  • matt510, on 07/08/2008, -0/+3Well mathematically it IS possible for there to be no other life out there.

    I think what you mean is "To me it seems impossible for there not to be life elsewhere."
  • fluidfoundation, on 07/08/2008, -1/+4Saren is hiding in there... somewhere...
  • Totz83, on 07/09/2008, -0/+3So much space, such little time
  • soniyashrma, on 07/09/2008, -0/+2Beautiful.
  • twilitezone, on 07/08/2008, -0/+1Sorry, I may have used improper 'usage' of words, but the meaning was still understood. :) However; I still feel it seems impossible. Don't get me wrong, I don't necessarily mean 'aliens', but maybe bacteria or some other form of living organism...maybe...at lest one can dream, cant they. :)
  • h3lx, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1Every time I see pics like these and all I can think about is getting off this rock.
  • DrJG, on 07/08/2008, -1/+2Virgo is not so much cool as hot and pressuring after all - naturally.
  • chrissku, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1Just imagine that....2,000 galaxies in that cluster alone! I wonder how many planets with life are out there? Millions perhaps?
  • sym666, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1Activate the mass relay!
  • h3lx, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1It so frikkin' big we'll never see it. Our children will never see it, and their children will never see it. Sadder still, it's getting exponentially bigger and inestimably more distant. Imagine one night a kid will walk outside and look up into sky and see nothing, it will all have drifted away and died.
  • h3lx, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1The black hole consumes all around it and ultimately an equilibrium is reached where the stars in motion around the black hole and the forces emitted by the black hole create a virtual dead zone. All done at hundreds of thousands of miles a second.

  • longbow486, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1ROAD TRIP!
  • BuddhistPirate, on 07/09/2008, -1/+2Dugg because I'm a Virgo, and I can tell people about this awesome galaxy cluster now, instead of just saying "no, i'm not a virgin, not even in the cosmological sense".
  • Bolko, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1Needs more M104.
  • lasterisk, on 07/09/2008, -1/+1If the Drake equation and the currently assumed parameters are close to accurate, there 2.3 civilizations at our level, about 230,000 planets with intelligent beings and 1.77M planets with life in our own galaxy [And then consider what a small collection our galaxy is within the entire universe!]. More advanced civilizations are not in the estimate.

    But will we ever observe them? Among other things, I believe E=MC[2] says 'not possible'. I hope to see this proved wrong [ or my ignorance relieved.]
  • Seabiscit, on 07/11/2008, -0/+0HEY!! SirPopper! Now i dont mean to sound against APOD or NASA cause dont get me wrong, I LOVE ASTRONOMY, But your not even associated with them or even work for NASA so who gave you the right to just copy-and-paste the paragraph that was made by astronomers that work all day long to find these kinda things. You can tell you just copy-and-pasted too cause galaxys at the end is cut off cause you had too many letters. So stop posting others exact work or i will report you for plagiarism!
  • SpinCaster, on 07/08/2008, -2/+1Do giant black holes form in the center of galaxy clusters as they do in regular galaxies?? So instead of the black hole eating a star it eats a galaxy!
  • bouche, on 07/09/2008, -3/+2I've got news for you. There is an RSS feed for the APOD photos that you can subscribe to and spare us on digg from seeing APOD every single frikkin' day.

    Who's going to help me bury these? I can't be the only one that sees how ridiculous the APOD post daily to digg is.
  • Needles13, on 07/08/2008, -8/+6And to think...those all revolve around Earth.
  • inactive, on 07/09/2008, -3/+0I LIKE THOSE LITTLE GREEN ALIENS IN THODE PICS!!
  • inactive, on 07/09/2008, -5/+0Your an *****.

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