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- vroom101, on 07/20/2008, -3/+901. Bigger, 7002 x 5050 pixels: http://ipac.jpl.nasa.gov/media_images/ssc2006-02a1 ... (ipac.jpl.nasa.gov/media_images/ssc2006-02a1.jpg)
2. Zoomable image: http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media/mediaimages/z ... (www.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media/mediaimages/zooms/ssc2006-02a/index.html)
Via: http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media/releases/ssc2 ... (www.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media/releases/ssc2006-02/ssc2006-02a.shtml)
One light-year (1 ly) = 5,865,696,000,000 miles = 9,460,800,000,000 kilometers
Via "What is a light year?" at http://www.howstuffworks.com/question94.htm - camintmier, on 07/20/2008, -3/+54Awesome image. Needs a "You are here" arrow though.
- devinmurphy, on 07/20/2008, -2/+44Im just a little confused though. How do they GET these pictures?
- inactive, on 07/20/2008, -1/+37Google Maps!
- Yookji, on 07/20/2008, -1/+25I wish Carl Sagan could comment on this.
- Ouze, on 07/20/2008, -0/+22I see we have moved on from "AMAZING (pic)" to "BREATHTAKING (pic)", past "STUNNING (pic)" and now we have arrived at the home run of hyperbole, "JAW-DROPPING (pic)"
I look forward to future posts with "ORGASM INDUCING (pic)" - JasperTheDog, on 07/20/2008, -0/+22we're behind the camera!!
- Hegemony, on 07/20/2008, -0/+21This isn't take from outside the galaxy, if that's what your asking. It's a view towards the center from Earth. That's why it doesn't look like the other galaxy images you may have seen.
- TheOle, on 07/20/2008, -3/+24My God, it's full of stars!
- focom, on 07/20/2008, -0/+21Well, considering the picture was taken from here...
- neuens07, on 07/20/2008, -0/+20This is like the pictures that I help my physics professor study. Here is an interactive survey of the galaxy!
http://www.alienearths.org/glimpse/glimpse.php - Yetisquatch, on 07/20/2008, -4/+21i can see my house from here!
- vroom101, on 07/20/2008, -3/+17You Are Here . . .
1. http://ipac.jpl.nasa.gov/media_images/sig05-010.jp ... (ipac.jpl.nasa.gov/media_images/sig05-010.jpg) via http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media/mediaimages/s ... (www.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media/mediaimages/sig/sig05-010.shtml)
2. http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/236084main_Milk ... (www.nasa.gov/images/content/236084main_MilkyWay-full-annotated.jpg) via http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/spitzer/multimed ... (www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/spitzer/multimedia/20080603a.html) - RoboRay, on 07/20/2008, -1/+15Step 1: Wait until night-time.
Step 2: Go outside.
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Profit! - Draculecom, on 07/20/2008, -3/+16"There are billyuns and billyuns of stars in this picture."
- makemoneynotart, on 07/20/2008, -1/+14You are friendly and informational. ***** crocodile hunter over here.
Thanks! - kyle212, on 07/20/2008, -1/+12"This image has been scaled down to fit your computer screen. Click on it to show it in the original size."
Click
HOLY ***** - judicar, on 07/20/2008, -1/+11Jaw-dropping and breath-taking? You forgot BREAKING.
- Sil369, on 07/20/2008, -2/+12That's all of it, nothing more... yet, sometimes my mind will just blank out at trying to comprehend what could lie behind all that BLACK. It's a weird feeling of knowing nothingness, a bit like cleansing the conscious, emptying it out, almost losing yourself. Hard to explain but it opens your eyes.
- chaos7, on 07/20/2008, -0/+9amazing pic
- tupperbacharach, on 07/20/2008, -3/+11***For those of you who are *****, what i am trying to say here is, this image is photoshopped and VERY nicely done at that because it fooled most posters on here....GOOD!!***
The photo linked by the story headline was taken from Earth orbit by the Spitzer Space Telescope. It shows only the center part of our galaxy.
Now, WHO is the "*****?"... - CarISagan, on 07/20/2008, -0/+8If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
- x2wenty4x, on 07/21/2008, -0/+7loading that image made me feel like i was back in 1998 again.
- cnot3, on 07/20/2008, -0/+7Take the professor in back and plug him into the hyperdrive.
- vroom101, on 07/20/2008, -0/+6The photo of the center of our Milky Way galaxy was snapped by the Spitzer Space Telescope, one of NASA's Great Observatories. Details at http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media/releases/ssc2 ... (www.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media/releases/ssc2006-02/ssc2006-02a.shtml)
- SugarCoatedSalt, on 07/20/2008, -0/+6This reminded me of 2001: a space odyssey.
do you ever have that moment where you just ask yourself, what's real out there, is this reality or are we just a thought? Or how and why everything exists? or what is beyond the space in which we live?
you can't help but wonder that maybe, just maybe there is something superior that had to create all this, though I still consider myself atheist. - GliTCH82, on 07/20/2008, -0/+6Copied from someone below:
"This isn't take from outside the galaxy, if that's what your asking. It's a view towards the center from Earth. That's why it doesn't look like the other galaxy images you may have seen." - holograham, on 07/20/2008, -0/+6ya gotta love the internet...scaling down the entire galaxy to fit my screen
- JasperTheDog, on 07/20/2008, -1/+7the camera didn't travel 26,000 light years. it says Earth is 26,000 light years from the galactic centre, the camera is in earth orbit. the picture was taken from earth looking towards the galactic centre!
- mediaspree, on 07/20/2008, -0/+5but god and baby jesus give us purpose.
wait... - flaxx, on 07/20/2008, -1/+6wow, you must literally be a space cadet, cuz my house is behind the camera.
- NinjaPirateDude, on 07/20/2008, -0/+5stop telling me what pictures will make me do when i view them!
- ShaoKahn, on 07/20/2008, -1/+7''We already have the means to travel among the stars, but these technologies are locked up in black projects and it would take an act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity."
Ben Rich, former Head of Lockheed Skunk Works
Just give me my ***** spaceship! - inactive, on 07/20/2008, -1/+6we are nothing. none of this matters in the whole picture.
- JasperTheDog, on 07/20/2008, -0/+5not an artists concept... its taken from Earths orbit towards the centre by Spitzer satellite.
- soccernamlak, on 07/20/2008, -0/+5It's always amazing to look at these pictures and then realize just how small and insignificant you are in the grand scheme of things, or even how small and insignificant Earth is in the Universe. Depressing, but then I think you have to realize that what makes your life is the choices you make and how it affects you, not the Universe.
- WhiskeyLemur, on 06/30/2009, -3/+8So who/what made god? Infinite regression is a bitch.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_d ... - devinmurphy, on 07/20/2008, -5/+9Yea im just gonna go ahead and say, our galaxy ***** owns other galaxies. Plus, how cool is the name Milky Way? Milky Way ftw!
- thePTS, on 07/20/2008, -0/+4obvious troll is obvious... to most.
- icepick602, on 07/20/2008, -0/+4this should be dugg
- Imnick, on 07/20/2008, -1/+5well according to wikipedia a light year distance wise is approx. 9,460,730,472,580.8 kms... so we'll round this to 10,000,000,000,000 for the sake of easier math. so then 82 million light years would be 820,000,000,000,000,000,000 kms so... say we travel at the speed of... oh I dunno 1609km/h(1000mp/h) were looking at the trip taking about 509,633,312,616,532,007 hours... or 21,234,721,359,022,166 days... or 59,648,093,705,118 years. So... unless we develop worm holes or something... its safe to say we'll never be making this travel because 60 trillion years sounds like an awful long time to travel across the galaxy... BTW sry if my math is wrong... just trying to give a general idea to those wondering lol
- veskris, on 07/21/2008, -0/+4It gives me chills to think that with this picture we could be looking at the home of tens, hundreds, maybe thousands of different intelligences; all of which we cannot see, hear, touch or know -- yet. Or there are none. Instead, our galaxy the enormous, lifeless accumulation of matter in which we are doomed to inhabit alone. Some people cling to the thought that life is unique to our world; I find the thought sobering.
- aptanalogy, on 07/20/2008, -1/+5Ummm.... the arrow would be pointing at the camera.
- deweyhewson, on 07/20/2008, -3/+7They should've wiped the dust off the lens first.
- veskris, on 07/21/2008, -0/+3My favorite line from Cosmos by far. Yookji's comment definitely made me miss the guy.. I know it sounds lame, but Carl changed my view of myself and the world in a way no other has. RIP.
- Sil369, on 07/21/2008, -0/+3Yup, I can't force myself to think/feel this way... it has to come naturally seeing pics like this, etc.
- SugarCoatedSalt, on 07/20/2008, -0/+3man I know exactly how that feels.
Sometimes I feel in a state of ecstasy, just thinking or trying to make sense of what is real, and what's beyond the black. its something amazing! - neuens07, on 07/20/2008, -0/+3http://digg.com/space/Interactive_Survey_of_Our_Ga ...
Here you go :) - Imnick, on 07/20/2008, -0/+3hahaha that made me laugh so hard... though all is fair in love and star wars?
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