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- olddirtycr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20How can we see them if they are 100 million years old but 400 million light years away?
- Hale, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Am I the only one that prefers the nonfiltered pic? Very cool.
- Rhine23, on 10/12/2007, -8/+17You should try looking at a dictionary once in a while too. That hurt my mind to read :(
- xekko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Maybe you'd prefer the higher resolution pic here: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070413.html
- blapierre, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12It's too bad it doesn't really look like that. All of the colors are added in by using various filters.
- xekko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7True blapierre, it's white-blue in visible light: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060109.html
But this image was taken in infrared light, so they've used different colored filters. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8yep there is an error in the article, the cluster is about 440 light years away
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleiades_(star_cluster) - c5mjohn, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Thats a good question. I think this link has the answer but I still don't quite understand it.
http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=436
Basically, we can see them because they were a lot closer when the light began its journey. The actual stars have been moving away from us the whole time. Objects in telescope may be farther away then they appear (I think). - Mitijea, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5The Pleiades has always been one of my favorite; not sure what it is about it, but it has always fascinated me. As for pictures of it, this is a good one, but not one of the best IMO. Still, nice to see it get some recognition.
- almalax19, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I never cease to be amazed by the fantastic beauty of images from these telescopes of the distant night skies.
An expensive indulgence - perhaps.
But I'm sure that the salvation of the human race lies in the stars and the planets that surround them - not in my lifetime, sadly, or that of my son or even his children (one day I hope) - but for those left of our kind who would wish to establish a peaceful, near-utopian society where we can truly all live in peace and harmony and hopefully be free from famine, disease and conflict - three of the worst scourges which we have failed to eradicate from our homeworld by the 21st Century.
I truly believe our own inhumanity, greed and intolerance will see us off the planet long before the supposed global warming (natural cycle I think) will take its toll.
If given the chance to colonize the stars - we must never repeat the errors made here on planet Earth - Autoclave, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3especially when the Andromeda Galaxy is only 2.5 million light years away.
Yeah, they said 400 million light years, when they meant 400 light years. editing boo-boo - zadadka, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The life of a lighted match, in the span of all time, is tiny......but you see it don't you?
A person that is dead did not see it.
A person not yet born did not it.
You can see, today, the death throes of a star, such as Eta Carina (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carina_Nebula)...or witness new life in stellar nurseries (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050424.html)...
Today we get to see the Pleiadies in their glory...in a few billion years, it may well look like a fireworks cavalcade of Eta Carina's.
Everything out there is of different ages and of different developments...its called Main Sequence...the ages of a star.
In this instance, we are simply seeing the emissions of light made by a 100million-year-old object that is 500million-light-years away.
The radiated light it created and sent that 400 million years ago (that worries you), will reach us in...400 million years.
...all in nicely rounded numbers to avoid pedants ;) - eighties, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2If you like these kinds of pictures, NASA has been putting up one a day on http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html for a long time now. It's a rather old-school index-style website, but has a wonderful collection of astronomical images.
- TheWolfen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I particularly enjoy all the explanations of how we can see something that is further away from us than the object's age, yet the real explanation in this case is that it isn't that far away and the article is just mistaken. LOL
- weeeeeeee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Agreed. The Pleiades are easy to find, too. In the Northern Hemisphere, at least 25 miles outside any city limits, look for Orion. Follow his belt to the right. A red star (Aldeberan) make the top right point of a "V" made with 5 stars. That's Taurus. The same length a little futher on and you'll find a clump of star. That's the Pleiades!
- toosas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1then be so kind and share
- muka3d, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What's really stunning is the picture of the alien sightings on the left:
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=448578&in_page_id=1773&in_a_source= - Boing, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3-olddirtycr
You got me wondering, so after some searching I came across:
http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmology_faq.html
It explains how we can see 47 billion light years, even though the universe may only be 14 billion years old.
Lots of equations that I don't undertand, but I'll take his word for it. - slowmo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Pleiades is known to the Japanese as the star cluster "Subaru". Does the Subaru logo make a little better sense now?
- vroom101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The Seven Sisters Pose for Spitzer: High-Resolution Image, 2400 x 3000 pixels
http://ipac.jpl.nasa.gov/media_images/ssc2007-07a.jpg
Via
http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media/releases/ssc2007-07/ssc2007-07a.shtml - jamesvaughn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Stephen Hawking fantasizes about black holes.
- themastersb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The seven different coloured clouds of dust are just the after effect of the seventh swell effect.
- calvmari, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hehe, looks like she's playing video games.
- yournamehere, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1it looks like her eyes are out of whack
- jamesvaughn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Seein' that, Copernicus would have blown a supernova wad!
- TRUEPATRIOT, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1i think this lady really likes it http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=448578&in_page_id=1773&in_a_source=
scroll down on star cluster story O_O - argolis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1All we need is a 1600*1200 version of that and it'd be a fantastic desktop wallpaper image.
And as for the somewhat dubious numbers on the article, I cant say im surprised. It is the daily Mail after all. - conwayblue, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Because time is relative. If I could travel at the speed of light to a star 10 light years away, I would reach the star in 1 year, but 10 years would have passed on Earth. Theory of Relativity stuff. I don't grasp it well myself.
- LakeshoreBaby, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Why do hubble pictures always look like artists renditions? O.O
- thesimo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1its cool and all but i've definitely seen more beautiful pictures than this
- cyphin6, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3That's pretty awesome
- Jwzupancic, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Ha, reminds me of Outlands in Warcraft.
- insomniacal, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1If you don't see it, try looking upside-down. Should be pretty obvious. (But too airbrushed.)
- especht, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Thank you. My new wallpaper!!
- DearDearDarla, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1oooooh and aaaaaah.
- insomniacal, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1"Stunning" and "beautiful" ... because it looks sexual?
- DearDearDarla, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Star clusters are sexual? Please, come lay on Darla's couch and tell her all about it. :)
- nubtard, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Thats not what it really looks like
- TheNevadaKid, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Well, I wouldn't exactly describe it as stunning. It's cool I guess but let's be honest. That image looks like a beginner's idea of a Photoshop masterpiece. Now some of the HD photos coming in from the Mars Rover are "Stunning". This is an interesting photo at best but definately not stunning.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1it's alright, but about as stunning as a rank 1 hammer of justice.
- Demitaka, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Really beautiful.
- bcardarella, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1I thought the same thing... maybe the light reaching us now is only 100 millions years old? Which would make the stars themselves 500 millions years old.
- anteyekon4myst, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1....looks like someone farted in space.
- rasensio, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1stop using EVER SEEN! another crappy picture of stars. My little son can do it with Ms Paint. NO dugg
- DiggsOnlyNeoCon, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1Somebody call for an exterminator?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -50/+4I've seen beautifuller ones..
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