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Hubble Sees Magnetic Monster in Erupting Galaxy

imgsrc.hubblesite.org — NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has found an answer to a long-standing puzzle by resolving giant but delicate filaments shaped by a strong magnetic field around the active galaxy NGC 1275. It is the most striking example of the influence of the immense tentacles of extragalactic magnetic fields, say researchers.

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  • inactive, on 08/24/2008, -6/+49 May He bless us all with His noodly appendages.
  • brentinkc, on 08/24/2008, -3/+30RAmen
  • ghanes14, on 08/24/2008, -1/+24This is cool, I like reading stuff like this. I find it interesting how they can tell the temperature of something so far away, the article says 230 million light years away!

    I had to look it up, but light travels about 186,282 miles per second (yeah outrun that). There are 31,536,000 seconds in a 365 day year. If you multiply that together you get about 5,874,589,152,000 miles light would travel per year in a straight line!

    Now if you REALLY wanna get into it, multiply 5,874,589,152,000 miles a year by 230,000,000 (light years away) and you have the distance to that image: 1,351,155,504,960,000,000,000 miles away (eh estimated anyways). I can't believe they can see something so far, let alone tell how hot it is, pretty cool!

    If anyone is wonder, a number with 21 numbers behind it is called a Sextillion, so NGC 1275 is over 1.3 sextillion miles away :).
  • vawksel, on 08/25/2008, -1/+19It also means this image is 230 million years old.

    It may not even be there anymore.

    We seriously need to figure out FTL travel.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light
  • SirPopper, on 08/24/2008, -0/+17I only need to look at the Digg link to see that this headline has been used seven times

    http://digg.com/space/Hubble_Sees_Magnetic_Monster ...
  • icdapoakr, on 08/25/2008, -0/+13Space blows my mind.
  • inactive, on 08/24/2008, -4/+16Here's link to the article with full description:
    http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/ ...
  • snareguy17, on 08/25/2008, -0/+7This is Xenu getting ready to pick up Mr. Cruise.
  • mohsenxp, on 08/25/2008, -0/+5Here's another cool thing about space.
    Travelling through an asteroid belt, you'll probably never see a single asteroid! Unlike what hollywood depicts. Not cool!
  • LongJohnSilvers, on 08/25/2008, -0/+5The universe never ceases to amaze me.
  • Rawler, on 08/25/2008, -0/+4@GothAlice
    Not completely. Light is not immune to gravitational forces. A strong gravitational force can bend light, and when this is magnified over many millions of miles, and is affected by a plethora of gravitational anomalies, things get more complicated. Only THEN can we factor in all of the solid materials that a single photon must avoid in order to reach our telescopes; ie. this is truly magnificent. For more on gravity bending light, see 'Einstein Rings':
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_ring
  • inactive, on 08/25/2008, -5/+8Raw Men
  • QuixoticNoob, on 08/25/2008, -0/+3I always knew he was watching over us
  • GothAlice, on 08/25/2008, -2/+5Rule of thumb: if something doesn't get in the way, a photon will just keep going. Not really as impressive as you think. (Space is vastly empty, thus nothing to get in the way.)
  • neocr0n, on 08/25/2008, -0/+3It's a shame there is pretty much no chance of me being around at a time when Humans can start to fully explore space. I envy the future generations that might some day travel to distant galaxies.
  • vawksel, on 08/25/2008, -0/+2@vawksel (myself)

    I forgot, Gravity doesn't effect mass, it effects the space-time fabric which then changes the path in which matter or anything for that matter will travel on.

    Doh.
  • mohsenxp, on 08/25/2008, -0/+2I hope not.
    It takes one arrogant mofo to say the universe is not amazing.
  • inactive, on 08/25/2008, -1/+3raaaaaaaah men!
  • yourmanstan, on 08/25/2008, -1/+2that would be a decent desktop wallpaper
  • mohsenxp, on 08/25/2008, -0/+1^just that they are spaced out so much that the chances of bumping into one is pretty much zero.
  • vawksel, on 08/25/2008, -0/+1Why, spaceships aren't allowed to have headlights on them?
  • axiao, on 08/25/2008, -3/+4OM NOM NOM NOM
  • elitebmo, on 08/25/2008, -0/+1ya, it does not stretching this, it looks pretty good on my high res widescreens
  • vawksel, on 08/25/2008, -0/+1It is amazing that gravity can affect something that has no mass.
  • 00Syd, on 08/25/2008, -0/+1Nope.
  • nanoscare, on 08/25/2008, -0/+1Where are the Electric Universe people? They love this image.
  • inactive, on 08/25/2008, -0/+1 You peeps are making he HUNGRY!!!! (Runs off to boil h2O for noodles.)
  • 8bitflu, on 08/25/2008, -0/+1KHAAAAAAAAAAANNNN!
  • WNW3, on 08/26/2008, -0/+1Because of the strong magnetic field? Magneto? Anyone? Anyone?
  • karlyguy, on 08/25/2008, -1/+1mmmm, Monster :-)
  • Dante001, on 09/05/2008, -0/+0Its pictures like this that make you and all that you think is important seem decidedly insignificant.
  • Culero, on 08/25/2008, -1/+1I always think Space pics would be great as desktops...but then...they never feel right.
  • marinebro0306, on 08/25/2008, -2/+2Where's the monster?
  • soBoredinNJ, on 08/25/2008, -0/+0I removed the text and made it mine =)

    works great since I always line my icons around the perimeter
  • wayenough119, on 08/25/2008, -1/+1aw man. I hate magnetic monsters
  • inactive, on 08/25/2008, -1/+1Flying Spaghetti Monster
  • Josh95464, on 08/25/2008, -0/+0The ship would probably be very difficult to navigate.
  • WNW3, on 08/25/2008, -1/+1Send the X-men!
  • Strongo, on 08/25/2008, -1/+1God's Jellyfish
  • Josh95464, on 08/25/2008, -0/+0lol
  • Bviper, on 08/25/2008, -1/+1Am I the only one who thought this was a motivational poster at first?
  • jimmytwotoes, on 08/25/2008, -0/+0well its no multiverse
  • inactive, on 08/25/2008, -2/+1A monster magnet? SPACE LORD, MOTHA-MOTHA

    HUNH
  • smegmaslough, on 08/25/2008, -2/+0I'm not sure I would say that this is a monster. I mean, nothing monster-like in the traditional sense can be seen here.
  • wontstoptalking, on 08/25/2008, -3/+1This picture is filling my lungs with a kind of innovativeness they've never felt before. I am going to digg this. In fact, I AM going to digg this.
  • naughtyboy, on 08/24/2008, -5/+3Got another cool assignment for you. Calculate the age of the universe in seconds.
  • inactive, on 08/24/2008, -7/+2that has got to be one of the largest APODs ever... wait its not an AOPD, its just a space pic.
  • nraphael, on 08/25/2008, -8/+2Let me be the first to add the following comments to save time.

    It's a trap. insert ascii art.
    The universe never ceases to amaze me.
    Xenu something something.
    Fail.
    Why is this front page.

    Why is this front page anyway?

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