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- CrunchyDeluxe, on 04/09/2008, -1/+8Believe it or not, I use Magellanic in everyday conversation. For example, "That mac and cheese was rather Magellanic.", or "Johnny, you're looking Magellanic today.", or "That was some Magellanic diarrhea last night."
- eyepatch100, on 04/09/2008, -0/+6I am gonna learn and discuss before you do!
- captainbethany, on 04/09/2008, -0/+5why do people treat digg as a contest? just have fun, learn new things and discuss.
- Aeroslin, on 04/09/2008, -1/+5Some day I'll travel down to the southern hemisphere and look at these enigmatic night sky objects with my own two eyes. In the northern hemisphere we at least get to see the Great Nebula of Orion, the Pleiades, and the Andromeda galaxy.
- opmike, on 04/09/2008, -1/+5Quit whining.
- subxero37, on 04/09/2008, -0/+3Wow. How often does one get to use the word Magellanic?
- toxicityj, on 04/09/2008, -1/+4when they say you're looking into the past, you're not looking at our past. You're looking at the stars, planets, etc. as they were a long time ago due to how long it takes for their light to travel toward us. In fact, when you look at the sun you're viewing it as it was about 8 minutes ago. That's nothing compared to old what we're seeing at night is, but that's still a good example.
- Abaddon1125, on 04/09/2008, -0/+3Magellan wasn't even the guy who discovered the dumb thing. It was someone in the fleet he was commanding who first saw the thing, but hey, if you're the important guy with the big name, stuff gets named after you anyway.
The LMC is exactly the type of small galaxy that galaxies like ours eats for breakfast all the time. - CrunchyDeluxe, on 04/09/2008, -0/+3No, I am.
- diggduggDOOM, on 04/09/2008, -2/+4Hmm... I read that as Large Magellanic Cloud Deep FRIED. Sounded pretty tasty.
Must be lunch time. - CrunchyDeluxe, on 04/09/2008, -0/+2You bet. You'd be surprised what forty buffalo wings, a half gallon of apple cider, and a pack of enemas can achieve...
- sabach, on 04/09/2008, -0/+2Your diarrhea circumnavigated the globe?
- NucleaRR, on 04/09/2008, -0/+2On a side note I am more interested it tommorrows image. Young Moon!
- Cubeforce, on 04/09/2008, -1/+3Maybe a stupid question, but am I right in thinking that the stars in that picture are all in front of the pictured galaxy are from our own galaxy? And if these stars weren't there, you wouldn't be able to distinguish single stars in the LMC galaxy, because its just thát far way (and thát big)
- Bactame, on 04/10/2008, -0/+2I know what you mean...two 4yr olds mooned me not 10 minutes ago
- toxicityj, on 04/09/2008, -0/+2http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap060806.html *
- nimbletimble, on 04/09/2008, -0/+2I've been there, weather was nice but food was crap
- woohhaa, on 04/09/2008, -0/+2Looks like the Cheshire cat.
- Bactame, on 04/10/2008, -0/+2Magellanic refers to a voyage, not a man. The voyage kept a log of observations and events.
- diggduggDOOM, on 04/09/2008, -1/+2Wow. Hook me up with your dealer, buddy (guy, friend).
- SA007, on 04/10/2008, -0/+1Ditto
- Hoogs, on 04/09/2008, -0/+1Uhhh...cool?
- Bactame, on 04/10/2008, -0/+1I have copious notes on all the APODs of interest to me and alot of them are interesting. Nice to see other people look at them too.
- Bactame, on 04/10/2008, -0/+1LMC is neat cause its close...real close. Andromeda isn't in the local group but this little bugger is.
- Bactame, on 04/10/2008, -0/+1Yes cubeforce, once again, your wrong. Not entirely but the stars in front of the depicted galaxy may well obscure abit but the picture shows that the stars in LMC can be clearly seen. No its not far away and it is only about 16% the size of Milky Way (Mars trademark). The LMC is 160,000 lt yrs, fairly close and getting closer. Send a reminder to all your kilogrand children to use their booster seats cause its gonna hit us.
- prkchpsndwiches, on 04/09/2008, -0/+1Looks like Yahtzee's end of his last video.
- hayzeus, on 04/09/2008, -1/+2Awesome. It just looked like a kitty kat to me.
- MMeldrum, on 04/09/2008, -0/+1Yep!
- eyepatch100, on 04/09/2008, -1/+2Um, sorry, you can't look into the future, and you are only looking "back in time" because the light from so far away has just arrived here, so we see bodies as they were in the past. The LMC is not the milky way, it's the LMC. We see it as it was a long time ago.
- NucleaRR, on 04/09/2008, -0/+0Looked more like an ultrasound to me!
- sheepster, on 04/09/2008, -1/+1Om Nom Nom Nom
- wnvoss, on 04/09/2008, -2/+2And it can be seen in the lower left of this picture: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap060806.html. From an observatory in Chile.
- MMunoz, on 04/10/2008, -0/+0I see a faint, hazy cloud surrounding the brightest parts of the galaxy. It seems to occupy the same space where the galaxy's dark matter is believed to be. Could we be seeing the LMC's dark matter?
- OneLess, on 04/09/2008, -1/+1Who cares?
- MMunoz, on 04/10/2008, -0/+0Andromeda is a lot farther away than this one, but it's still in the local group.
- danz24, on 04/09/2008, -2/+1link dosent work
- DeviateSeptum, on 04/09/2008, -7/+5I don't know very much about astronomy but they say when you look into space you are looking backwards in time. Maybe that is a picture of the Milky Way from a long time ago. And there are dinosaurs there with telescopes pointing at us wondering at our beauty. If you think about it God's creation is so beautiful that perhaps the whole universe is a kaleidoscope of self. We exist only such that we can perceive ourselves in the future and therefore construct the past. The stars are mind games. When you free them, they free you.
- xolot1, on 04/09/2008, -6/+2why do these get voted to the front page almost every day? it comes from a picture a day site, so why not just subscribe to that...
- Predklaw, on 04/09/2008, -5/+0Its because digg likes wnvoss better...
- fit4130, on 04/09/2008, -10/+1I submitted this right as it was released, and yet... you got it... wtf? I just don't ***** get it.
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