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- inactive, on 01/11/2008, -8/+36Space goatse.
- woojoo, on 01/11/2008, -1/+20OMG it's Halo
- Ajajadude, on 01/11/2008, -1/+15It's pictures like that one that make all our petty squabbles on this planet seem quite trivial.
- masfenix, on 01/11/2008, -2/+16That dosn't even look to far. I say the government should spend billions and billions of dollars on a super massive amazing spacecraft instead of war.
just imagine if we find other life sources... just imagine. - BriberyLibrary, on 01/11/2008, -3/+16That's no Double Einstein ring....That's a space station!!!
- 0ceanic, on 01/11/2008, -2/+9 according to your question, you are not understanding what is causing it.
due to the curvature of space around the high mass object we are seeing what is behind it. and another object that is behind that. not objects that are beside the high mass object.
either way, to answer your question, they identify the chemical composition of a common type of star based on the pattern of spectra, then they see how much it is blue shifted or red shifted to estimate its distance. and they correlate this amount of red shift and blue shift with the red and blue sfts of other galaxies which they can measure by checking poition at the 2 extremes of earths orbit around the sun 6 months apart. - inactive, on 01/11/2008, -0/+7we'd have to assume they all have WMD's...
- EssPii, on 01/11/2008, -0/+6In regards to the daily going ons of the universe I would say that anything we as humans do is incredibly trivial. Unless of course we build some bomb that is big enough to blow up the universe...
- Justice101, on 01/11/2008, -1/+7Than we could fight space wars....I'd enlist. Starship Troopers (book) FTW.
- thesilverfox06, on 01/11/2008, -1/+6You're right on all accounts except for one thing. Other galaxies, even the closest ones, are too far away to measure with parallax. There are other methods used to measure the distance of the closer galaxies for reference, namely mass/luminosity relations.
- smurfsahoy, on 01/11/2008, -0/+5It DOES straighten back out, but in a different position than before, due to having curved in the meantime. Think of it like a lens, except here the middle part of the magnified image is blocked out, because this is a galaxy, which is not clear like a glass lens. Thus, you see a magnified image, minus the middle part of it. I.e., a ring.
- didgital, on 01/11/2008, -1/+5Three.
- ronintetsuro, on 01/11/2008, -1/+5What's Master Chief's direct line?
- norman619, on 01/11/2008, -0/+4no no no. They are space terrorists.
- Ajajadude, on 01/11/2008, -1/+4Try getting pissy about the fact that your dinner at Applebee's isn't perfect. Maybe the whole "Freedom Toast" and "Freedom Fries" debacle. Or any other TRIVIAL things. Get a dictionary.
- jjb123, on 01/11/2008, -1/+4The probably appear distorted, or maybe they have red shifted more.
- h3lx, on 01/11/2008, -1/+4How do they determine the signature from varying light sources warped around a high mass object as opposed to light not warped? Wouldn't it appear as if it the light signatures shine through the high mass object making the warp virtually undetectable?
- purag66, on 05/13/2009, -2/+4He said our "petty squabbles" not ALL problems.
- TheStrongForce, on 01/11/2008, -0/+2Gravitational Lensing, Wiki it. Thanks General Relativty!
- coolgangsta, on 01/11/2008, -0/+2TIME FOR BENDED LIGHT SPACE RAVE
- lucutus, on 01/11/2008, -1/+3I am simply stunned in awe. Incredible! This is the best and biggest optical illusion ever to date!
- counterplex, on 01/11/2008, -0/+2I think you didn't understand h3lx's comment. I believe what he was trying to say (and h3lx, please correct me if I'm wrong) is that assuming you have 3 massive objects one behind the other (as perceived by the eye) and the front-most object's mass results in a curvature of space around it then light from the object behind the front-most one will bend around the front-most object and head on towards us. However, since the curvature of space is localized to the front-most object, wouldn't the light from the object behind the front-most bend around the front-most object and then, when the curvature of space is normal (far enough away from the front-most object), just "straighten out" and head towards us? The resulting effect would be as if the light was coming _from_ the front-most object and not from something behind it. I suppose the only give-away could be that light is dispersed from the portion of space that is curved due to the localized mass of the front-most object and so would make that curvature of space visible thus allowing scientists to determine what happened.
Thoughts? - looke, on 01/11/2008, -1/+2I know it is amazing and all, but sometimes the pictures just don't live up to the story
- tattertech, on 01/11/2008, -0/+1Which reminds me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_J5rBxeTIk
- Tserk, on 01/11/2008, -1/+2The thing I truly fear is that I won't ever really understand what the hell is going on out there before I die.
- total1337ness, on 01/11/2008, -1/+2OMG its the halo
- Goldmann099, on 01/11/2008, -0/+1maybe its gods halo and their not showing the rest of the images.
- Hesei, on 01/11/2008, -0/+1Ring of Death IN SPACE
- tattertech, on 01/11/2008, -0/+1Are you sure it's not Google? Shouldn't that be self-aware by now?
- friedcalamari, on 01/11/2008, -1/+2Whoa!
- islingt0ner, on 01/11/2008, -0/+1that must be where my dyson ring went.
- norman619, on 01/11/2008, -0/+1Searching google
- Encablossa, on 01/11/2008, -0/+1Thats no Moon..
- norman619, on 01/11/2008, -0/+1Damn it! They've found me!
/strap my foil cap tightly to my head then use my nifty drill to burrow through into another universe
You guys are sooo screwed.... - dexedrine, on 01/11/2008, -0/+1An example of gravitational lensing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:BlackHole_Lensi ... - drmobutu, on 01/11/2008, -0/+1*****. It's Larry Niven's Ringworld...
- diggdallas, on 01/11/2008, -0/+1Photoshopped
- slapded, on 01/11/2008, -0/+1ron paul! haha
- h3lx, on 01/11/2008, -0/+1correct. my guess would have it appear as a distortion of the second object contaminated with visual debris from the first as seen from beyond the third. not as rings, but as a single blurb. the effect would be similar to the red moon effect during a lunar eclipse. That said, the distance and mass, volume of light are exponentially greater.
- dexedrine, on 01/11/2008, -0/+1http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:BlackHole_Lensi ...
- Idowhatiwant, on 01/11/2008, -2/+2Where is your God now?
- Todesengelvr6, on 01/11/2008, -1/+1I bet this is where all the lost socks go!
- drmobutu, on 01/11/2008, -1/+1Ringworld...
- Spartan61, on 01/11/2008, -1/+1yeah, this is Halo for sure, i nominate myself and volunteer to be a Spartan - perhaps a master chief?
- norman619, on 01/11/2008, -1/+1Why fear it? Know this for the fact that it is, accept it, and then go on about your day.
- drmobutu, on 01/11/2008, -1/+1RINGWORLD!!!!
- drmobutu, on 01/11/2008, -1/+1No, it's Ringworld, dammit...
- BobcatShooter, on 01/11/2008, -2/+1Definitely a Halo Ring.
- C0MF0RTABLYnumb, on 01/11/2008, -3/+2Really cool!!!
- drmobutu, on 01/11/2008, -3/+1You mean Ringworld...
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