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03-11-2009, 07:23 PM
|  | is, against all odds, still a scuba viking. | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Alta Loma, California | | | hubblesite.org anybody ever go there?
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It's the community website for the famous Hubble Space Telescope.
there is a compilation of tons of photos it's taken along with updates on every new photo released.
here's the latest, taken 8 days ago: 
it is a picture of 3 galaxies simultaneously colliding.
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This image is roughly 3.2 arcminutes (1,000,000 light-years or 31,000 parsecs) wide.
| every time I see any of the photos on that sight, my mind explodes a little. I just can't get over how BIG the universe is.
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03-11-2009, 07:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Clarkston, MI | | wow 
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03-11-2009, 08:47 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Rochelle, Illinois | | Yeah, I'm addicted to Hubble images.
I'm a hopeless astronomy geek. 
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03-11-2009, 08:48 PM
| | is, against all odds, still a scuba viking. | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Alta Loma, California | | | you're not alone.
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03-11-2009, 10:21 PM
|  | No need to ask, he's a smooth... Moderator | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: West Midlands UK | | | You think you're geeky - I just worked out that on the scale of that pic, the distance from Earth to the Sun would be about 2 picometers.
Seriously.
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03-12-2009, 08:57 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Rhode Island | | | hell yea, did u guys watch the special on it on natgeo? i watched it in hd, its insane. the pillars of creation really blew my mind. i just wish hubble was able to take better pictures of distant planets, but we're working on that :-D.
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03-12-2009, 08:59 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada | | | Entire GALAXIES can collide?
Just... wow!
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03-12-2009, 09:03 AM
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Originally Posted by CrispyDelicious Entire GALAXIES can collide?
Just... wow! | Yup. And our galaxy is going to collide with Andromeda in a few million years.
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03-12-2009, 07:21 PM
| | is, against all odds, still a scuba viking. | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Alta Loma, California | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Scarlet Fire Yup. And our galaxy is going to collide with Andromeda in a few million years. | won't that be a sight to see!
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03-12-2009, 10:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Scarlet Fire Yup. And our galaxy is going to collide with Andromeda in a few million years. |
Correction: Billion years.
You're probably not gonna be around for that. . . .
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03-12-2009, 11:40 PM
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03-13-2009, 04:13 PM
| | is, against all odds, still a scuba viking. | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Alta Loma, California | | Quote:
Originally Posted by gold_member_321 1920x1200 backgrounds!
I love you man. | I know. I've got a giant nebula as mine. It rocks!
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03-13-2009, 07:52 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Virginia Beach, VA | | | Yep.
We can't begin to imagine how incredible this universe is. |
03-13-2009, 10:28 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: San Bernardino co. | | | That explains why my toilet seems to be clogged. Does anyone else think that star dust kinda looks like the Geico lizard? |
03-14-2009, 09:42 AM
|  | Online | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Sunapee, New Hampshire | | | Only every so often when a thread like this one pops up around here. When I see the thread like this one, I go check out the site, get impressed, then act like I'm going to get all into astronomy and check out the site everyday. After about two hours, I forget all about it.
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03-14-2009, 01:32 PM
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Originally Posted by hbarcat Correction: Billion years.
You're probably not gonna be around for that. . . . | Ah, I thought it was going to be in about 200 million years. My mistake.
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03-14-2009, 06:47 PM
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Originally Posted by MJ5150 Only every so often when a thread like this one pops up around here. When I see the thread like this one, I go check out the site, get impressed, then act like I'm going to get all into astronomy and check out the site everyday. After about two hours, I forget all about it.
-Mike | Not everyone has to be into astronomy, man. The occasional reminder, if anything, is better than going and checking it every day, because the wave of awe remains strong whenever you go back to check it out. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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