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- stupergenius, on 10/11/2007, -7/+135@beefbaron
There's approixmately a bajillion planets in there, give or take a squillion. - doctorfungi, on 10/11/2007, -7/+101Now I feel all insignificant :(
- djbon2112, on 10/11/2007, -3/+93And is that really a bad thing? I'd much rather them spend it on this than some stupid "War on Drugs" or "War on Terrorism", both of which are ill-defined and have/will achieve little success, except making the problems worse. NASA is constantly doing research into science in general, not just space, and the Hubble project is only a small fraction of its budget.
NASA Budget, 2007: USD$16 071 000 000 [Source: http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2007/nasa.html]
Cost of the Iraq War, 2003-2007: USD$445 000 000 000 [Source: http://usgovinfo.about.com/library/weekly/aairaqwarcost.htm plus some calculations]
Which is a better example of "your tax dollars at work"? - norman619, on 10/11/2007, -1/+69Small thoughts from a small mind.
- vroom101, on 10/11/2007, -4/+71Stunningly gorgeous!!! Spectacularly majestic!!!
- Wartz, on 10/11/2007, -1/+55You guys that is amazing? check this out
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/images/content/96664main_galaxy_string_4.jpg - xXShadowstormXx, on 10/11/2007, -3/+56@lane (#7228978)
It's a shame you don't have appreciation for such an image, let alone space itself.
*sets as desktop* - BeefBaron, on 10/11/2007, -2/+52I wonder how many planets are in there?
- CanceledCzech, on 10/11/2007, -0/+48I'd rather the money go to this than to the war in Iraq.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+40I claim third rock from the 19th millionth star on the left.
- netdawg, on 10/11/2007, -1/+34yes and one of the few things they do i approve wholeheartedly.
- fhornplayer, on 10/11/2007, -2/+29Can we please not turn this into a creation v evolution debate? Those are getting kind of old.
- uselesstosser, on 10/11/2007, -0/+26Ah I just did the Wikipedia dance and the photo of the centre of the Milky way states this...
This dazzling infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows hundreds of thousands of stars crowded into the swirling core of our spiral Milky Way galaxy. In visible-light pictures, this region cannot be seen at all because dust lying between Earth and the galactic center blocks our view
spoilsport dust - lcarsdeveloper, on 10/11/2007, -0/+22I'm surprised anyone dugg this with such a "boring" title. Usually this will be posted with a plain title, and then when it hasn't been dugg someone else will post the image onto their blog, surround it with ads, and then post it here under the title "Most Awesome Galaxy Photo EVER!!!!!! [AMAZING PIC]". The first one usually gets 5 diggs, the second one gets 300.
Very happy to see the original post being dugg, maybe there's hope for Digg yet? (Or it could be that most of the 14 year old diggers went back to Myspace after the whole HD-DVD fiasco. "Tonight marks the end of Digg! It will never be the same again!" I'm still laughing about it!) :) - toomuchfreetime, on 10/11/2007, -0/+18Second star to the right, and straight on 'til morning.
...Then a left at the quasar, and it's the third planet on the left. If you hit the blue dwarf, you've gone too far. - greevar, on 10/11/2007, -3/+19Because we are IN this galaxy?
- ripple123, on 10/11/2007, -4/+18They didnt use AMAZING!!11!!! to describe the photo! My worlds turned upside down!
- resplence, on 10/11/2007, -0/+14Isn't vacuums full of dust?
- sabach, on 10/11/2007, -2/+16Nice. It seems there's an abundance of globular clusters well out into the disc, might tell us something about the history of the galaxy? I like the way you can see the lacy gas filaments.
- R2Bacca, on 10/11/2007, -0/+12You actually CAN see the core. You just have to know where to look.
- GRVeee2, on 10/11/2007, -0/+12DANG IT THATS THE ONE I WANTED!
- dynky, on 10/11/2007, -0/+12Hubble released images of this galaxy recently. Further info and the *gasp* wallpaper are available here:
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2007/19/image/a/ - michaelk2k5, on 10/11/2007, -4/+16Dust? Isn't Space a vacuum?
- SpikeZ, on 10/11/2007, -0/+12Here's a picture of the Milky Way (our galaxy):
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap000130.html
As you mentioned the dust is covering the core so we don't get the most amazing view. - rheaume, on 10/11/2007, -2/+13Lane
Welcome to my block list, I dont have time for monkeys with tiny brains - davalf, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11The blurb that explains the picture:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/spitzer/multimedia/spitzer-20070604.html - cogit0, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10From dynky's link:
Massive File
TIFF - 689.53 MB 22620 X 15200
http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/2007/19/images/a/formats/full_tif.tif
... thats, um, a really big image. o_o
(there are smaller versions there as well) - ivanisavich, on 10/11/2007, -5/+15That is so cool. It's like a giant galactic drain.
- rusty0101, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9daxsymbiont let me know when you get there.
- uselesstosser, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9Most spiral galaxies we see like this one have a very bright centre, does the milky way look like that and if so why can we not see the glowing centre from earth?
- SteelAuger, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8That one IS a photoshop. Those colliding galaxies, NGC 4038 and NGC 4039, don't have that kind of background. Not sure why NASA would need that on there though.
http://www.noao.edu/outreach/aop/observers/n4038twardy.jpg - brianbennett, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9Even if humanity lives 100,000 years, I still don't think we'll be able to fully grasp just how big the universe really is.
- twertyto, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9Money well spent in my opinion.....oh and I work as an astronomy professor so thank you as well.
- CanceledCzech, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Whoever wrote that must be mentally handicapped.
- winberrym, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6I dugg this for the simple fact that the words "AMAZING!" and "STUNNING!" were not in the title, and because the description didn't just say "What more can I say?".
- nowayhoseb, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6It is beautiful pic but a bit misleading visually. All the stars in that pictures are more likely clusters and the such and not individual stars. There in only a few "stars" from other galaxies, such as supernovas and Cepheid variables, that we can actually see with telescopes and those are random and seldom, in the case of a supernova. In fact, in most pictures of galaxies, all the stars are in our own galaxy just fore-fronting the galaxy in the back.
Enjoy. - SharinganBob, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Ah space, the great repository of wallpapers.
- Derrekito, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6IT WAS A JOKE! ... I hope. I thought it was funny at least :(
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7I clam third rock from the 19th millionth star on the left
- bordo, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Its important to note that this is not the actual "color" of the M81 galaxy, but rather a false color interpretation. Without false coloring, the image would be pretty boring...
"The colors in this picture represent a trio of light wavelengths: blue is ultraviolet light captured by the Galaxy Evolution Explorer; yellowish white is visible light seen by Hubble; and red is infrared light detected by Spitzer. The blue areas show the hottest, youngest stars, while the reddish-pink denotes lanes of dust that line the spiral arms. The orange center is made up of older stars." (http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/spitzer/multimedia/spitzer-20070604.html) - Derrekito, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7WOW! wtf? ***** this post, im digging yours! Do you have any information on the image?
- thekronz, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Finally... a nice desktop image.
- RobotCitizen, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4"your tax dollars at work folks"
Yes, and it makes me proud to be a tax payer. Very few things do. - speerross, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6not a perfect vacuum, galaxies have a relatively high particle(dust) density compared to the interstellar void, don't know the exact figures but its pretty barren out there.
@Icarsdeveloper
maybe he was joking, but it hardly makes him an idiot, its a valid question based on misunderstanding. - cbabraham, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Actually the colors just come from the fact that its a composite picture, combining images from three different telescopes viewing different forms of light.
This is according to the NASA article linked in the comments near the top. - FlapJaw, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3OH GOD IT'S FULL OF STARS
it's just so beautiful but we'll never reach a star in our lifetimes :( - TheGuruStud, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3quite a few stars may be dead, but since most stars can live for a few billion years, most should still be burning brightly. Plus, it takes an excruciating amount of time for most stars to die. There may even be new stars, now. Man you can go crazy if you try to wrap your head around the vastness of our universe.
- lcarsdeveloper, on 10/11/2007, -4/+7Kevin Rose will love this one as his new desktop wallpaper, and it didn't even cost him $2! :)
(Recent Diggnation episode) - iota, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3take one look at this picture, at all of the stars and potential solar systems and planets, and try to tell me that we are the only life in the universe....
- Thex1138, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Someone didn't clean the lense properly..there's like 3 smudges in the image, 2 on the right of the outer rim of the galaxy's disc and one bottom left of the disc..
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