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- HairyFotr, on 02/17/2008, -3/+12NASA, stop spamming the space seciton with space images already... really... I don't want to see any more space in my space section.
- BertWo, on 02/17/2008, -1/+9And such a young nebula, too!
- msittig, on 02/17/2008, -0/+7APOD sporting a Digg button... awesome.
- AndrewDB, on 02/17/2008, -0/+7Wow, todays "Digg Space Image Of The Day." is actually pretty damn cool looking, and it gets bonus points because it's actually today's "Space Image Of The Day" too!
- sdellboy, on 02/17/2008, -3/+10I have the urge for a Dr.Zoidberg quote here....
- inactive, on 02/17/2008, -0/+7it's like vomit on a glass that is being illuminated by black light and some gold dust.
magic. - deepdiggdude, on 02/17/2008, -1/+5Look carefully at the exact center and you will see the gravitational lensing effect from the pulsar. Awesome.
- bobdylanthomas, on 02/17/2008, -0/+4GIANT ENEMY CRAB NEBULA: attack its weakpoint for massive damage!
- MSP1, on 02/17/2008, -0/+3How magnanimous of you to tolerate more advanced and better informed views than your own! Religion and superstitious believe in one or more gods has been demonstrated to be, are being demonstrated to be and undoubtedly will continue to be demonstrated to be really bad ideas. Some people are just too stupid to realise it. (I don't tolerate people who persist in believing that 2 plus 2 equals 5 either). I'm sorry that this wonderful image conveys so little too you.
- hamobu, on 02/17/2008, -2/+5I want space travel and I want it NOW!
- ddemartin, on 02/17/2008, -0/+3Those arcs are not due to a gravitational lensing effect from the pulsar. More at http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/ ...
- stabbingkittens, on 02/17/2008, -1/+4"Oh no, I shouldn't have had seconds!" ?
- chewyrunt, on 02/17/2008, -1/+3When people talk about God and creation, they always think of beautiful things, like roses and hummingbirds. But I also think of a little African boy sitting on a river bank in West Africa with a worm eating its way through his eyeball, which will make him blind in the next few years. Now if you are telling me that God created the rose and the hummingbird, presumably he also created this thing in his eye. And it didn't evolve the way that I believe that it did, but it was created by God. Some way or another, God said, "I will make a worm that can only live by boring through peoples' eyes." Now I don't find that compatible with the Christian idea of a God who cares for the well being of each of us. - Sir David Attenborough
- Satiagraha, on 02/17/2008, -0/+2Most of the color and shapes and light seen in astronomy images are from non-visible spectrums of light. X-ray, infrared, and RF are popular spectrums to view the stars in, and they tell us a lot about the stars. Now, since we can't see these spectrums of light, they obviously have no color, so we have to assign them colors in the visible spectrum so that we can represent them in an image.
- deepdiggdude, on 02/17/2008, -0/+2Damn. You're right. Those are shock waves. I hate when people like me assume they know what's happening without reading the captions. Still cool though.
- parrot132, on 02/17/2008, -0/+2Why are these pictures always taken from the same angle? I want to see it from a different angle.
- BackDoorAngel, on 02/17/2008, -0/+2wow, 577 diggs and no comment over 6 diggs. crab nebula is some controversial stuff i guess.
- cbotwell, on 02/18/2008, -0/+1A freak folk band called Akron/Family used a version of this image for the cover of their album Meek Warrior.
http://www.younggodrecords.com/prodtype.asp?PT_ID= ...
Hi-res Cover: http://www.younggodrecords.com/download/Akron/Akro ...
MP3 from album: http://www.younggodrecords.com/FreeMP3/AkronFamily ... - jimmick, on 02/18/2008, -0/+1Zomg Rincewind
Stfu, I like turtles - erkokite, on 02/17/2008, -0/+1CRAB PEOPLE!
- jimmick, on 02/18/2008, -0/+1I see what you did there
- schrutefan, on 02/17/2008, -0/+1[insert Paris Hilton joke here]
- HairyFotr, on 02/17/2008, -0/+1It could be your imagination, or two similar chaotic systems generating two similar patterns. But this time I think it's your imagination ;)
- kirakun, on 02/17/2008, -1/+2Yea, that picture is crabtastic. *wink with a thumbs-up*
- BlackJackJester, on 02/17/2008, -0/+1These things blow my mind. Its hard to imagine a substance so dense that it would mash your electrons into your protons. If you ended up crash landing on it, you would merely be absorbed into its massive body.
- hamobu, on 02/17/2008, -0/+1You are right! Somebody should go to the other side to take a picture.
- anthonyshere, on 02/17/2008, -0/+1Long live Hubble.
- inactive, on 02/17/2008, -1/+2I have a fun ritual which I do every Sunday morning exactly. I take my computer inside the darkest part of the house, the bathroom. I turn off all the lights, I consume one alcoholic beverage, turn on some surreal, ambient, spacey music. I then read the internet/wikipedia about the universe, look at pictures of galaxies and cool spacial oddities, and I ponder the nature of human existence on this small, forgettable rock. Thanks for adding a cool picture to today's ritual and I suggest others try this, it's very relaxing.
- kaytrio, on 02/17/2008, -0/+1up
- TehRoxor, on 02/17/2008, -0/+1Well, the Crab nebula is most beautiful in the visible light spectrum anyway.
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/know_l2/ ...
...also, why would scientists try to justify the costs of research by making it prettier? - tackle, on 02/17/2008, -2/+3wooop woop wooop woop woop woooop wooop wooopp!!!!!
- Hardcore41, on 02/17/2008, -1/+2so this is where the crab people come from.
- breich, on 02/17/2008, -4/+5crab people....
taste like crab, walk like people! - HairyFotr, on 02/17/2008, -0/+1And what's wrong with more awe inspiring images... which are usualy just false-colored because the original was taken outside of the visible spectrum.
I hope you have at least as much to say about essentially painted half naked women on billboards that only inspire buying overpriced stuff. - NinjaDawg, on 02/17/2008, -0/+1Source?
- dartmanx, on 02/17/2008, -0/+1So you're upset with me for showing more tolerance than you do?
- zunkus, on 02/17/2008, -2/+2Quick question, with the ever expanding clouds of gas in space will there ever be(in billions of years) a kind of super-atmosphere of gas encompassing the entire universe?
- peterjmag, on 02/17/2008, -4/+4You have crabs. I'm drunk. And otherwise intoxicated. Digg me down as far as I can go.
- makkaveli19, on 02/17/2008, -5/+5So this is where crab people came from. those metro bastards
- Totz83, on 02/17/2008, -0/+0Anyone else think it looks like a cell? Damn confusing cosmos *shakes fist*
- dstolte0612, on 07/31/2008, -0/+0I'm new to this, but it is SO AWESOME, truly a higher power swirls His hand in the heavens!
- buddamus, on 02/17/2008, -1/+1Amazing, makes me feel so insignificant in this vast universe
- Smills, on 02/17/2008, -1/+1Real mature Bradley...
- inverselogic, on 02/17/2008, -0/+0http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FH3NFVL7Yo .......... YES!
- Satiagraha, on 02/17/2008, -1/+1It's not NASA, it's people like maybeishould who post the APOD on Digg every day
- skinjester, on 02/17/2008, -0/+0no, just wondering what tolerance has to do with an astrophysical event? also your existence proof of "God" is sometimes just called "pattern recognition" Just saying.
- CheeseburgerBro, on 02/17/2008, -1/+1I hope I look as pretty when I die and explode all over the place.
Look Ma -- it's a Pollock! - mcduck, on 02/17/2008, -1/+1If you look really, really hard, you can just about make up the USS Enterprise hard at work charting the nebula!
- einberliner23, on 02/27/2008, -0/+0well, I thought that it was a mitochondrion. I'm with on "Damn confusing cosmos *shakes fists*"
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