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AstronomyMilky Way Galaxy
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The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy - this means that it's a spiral galaxy that has a central bar shaped structure that is made up of stars. Spiral galaxies have a spiral structure that exten... |
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THE MILKY BARS ARE ON ME!!! |
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AstronomyOur Home
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Our Solar System alone spans billions of kilometers.
And here is our Sun again, just as a spec to the side of the Galactic Equator.
Again, a spec amidst our home the Milky Way Galaxy.
The Mi... |
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Reality & MetaphysicsDoes Time Even Exist?
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I may be wrong but im sure that a compass will just spin round and round in space, the milky way doesnt appear to be one mass like the earth, hmm and i've never heard of any magnetic poles in spa... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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11 September 2012
Milky Way Over the Bungle Bungles
Image Credit & Copyright: Mike Salway
Which part of this picture do you find more interesting -- the land or the sky? Advocates for the la... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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13 October 2012
Galaxies, Stars, and Dust
Image Credit & Copyright: Ignacio de la Cueva Torregrosa (Capturandoeluniverso, A.A.E.)
Spiky stars and spooky shapes abound in this deep cosmic sky... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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10 March 2013
Milky Way Panorama from Mauna Kea
Image Credit & Copyright: Wally Pacholka (TWAN)
Aloha and welcome to a breathtaking skyscape. The dreamlike panoramic view looks out from the... |
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AstronomyMilky Way Will Eventually Collide With Andromeda
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Astronomers and astrophysicists predict that in approximately 4 billion years time, the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies will collide into each other. It is predicted that despite this galactic collis... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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20 October 2012
Zodiacal Light and Milky Way
Image Credit & Copyright: Babak Tafreshi (TWAN)
Ghostly apparitions of two fundamental planes in planet Earth's sky span this October all-sk... |
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Physics & CosmologyWhere does the material from black holes go?
17 Posts • 8967 Views
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A spectulation but if these black holes leading to other parts of the universe; then could they be similar to the chemical bonds of our compositon?
http://www.captai ncynic.com/reply/66347/excerp_ cosm... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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24 January 2013
ISS and the Summer Milky Way
Image Credit & Copyright: Luis Argerich
Clouds on a summer night frame this sea and skyscape, recorded earlier this month near Buenos Aires, Arge... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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12 December 2012
Milky Way Over Quiver Tree Forest
Image Credit & Copyright: Florian Breuer
In front of a famous background of stars and galaxies lies some of Earth's more unusual trees... |
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AstronomyOur Home
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For various reasons - our relative small size being the most obvious - we do not feel the effects of the speed at which we travel. Perhaps you understand that we are in constant motion relative to our... |
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Enigma
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'Goodbye Milky Way' |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
216 Posts • 85399 Views
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25 December 2012
Yosemite Winter Night
Image Credit & Copyright: Wally Pacholka (AstroPics.com, TWAN)
In this evocative night skyscape a starry band of the Milky Way climbs over Yosemite Val... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
216 Posts • 85399 Views
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2 November 2012
The Black Hole in the Milky Way
Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, NuSTAR project
At the center of our Milky Way Galaxy, a mere 27,000 light-years away, lies a black hole with 4 mi... |
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ARE YOU CYNICAL OF…...?
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I'm cynical of Human Beings.
Compared to other sapient Beings in the Milky Way Galaxy you Humans score just below.....
Oh, YOU are the lowest Being. |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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6 December 2012
47 Tuc Near the Small Magellanic Cloud
Image Credit & Copyright: Ivan Eder
Globular star cluster 47 Tucanae is a jewel of the southern sky. Also known as NGC 104, it roams t... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
216 Posts • 85399 Views
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2 February 2013
Herschel's Andromeda
Image Credit: ESA/Herschel/PACS & SPIRE Consortium, O. Krause, HSC, H. Linz
This infrared view from the Herschel Space Observatory explores the Andr... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
216 Posts • 85399 Views
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23 January 2013
Nearby Spiral Galaxy NGC 4945
Image Credit & Copyright: SSRO-South, J. Harvey, S. Mazlin, D. Verschatse, J. Joaquin Perez, (UNC/CTIO/PROMPT)
Large spiral galaxy NGC 4945 is s... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
216 Posts • 85399 Views
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28 September 2012
Stars in a Dusty Sky
Image Credit & Copyright: John Davis
Bright star Markab anchors this dusty skyscape. At the top right corner of the frame, Markab itself marks a corner... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
216 Posts • 85399 Views
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5 December 2012
Plasma Jets from Radio Galaxy Hercules A
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, S. Baum & C. O'Dea (RIT), R. Perley and W. Cotton (NRAO/AUI/NSF),
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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23 March 2013
Infrared Portrait of the Large Magellanic Cloud
Credit: ESA / NASA / JPL-Caltech / STScI
Cosmic dust clouds ripple across this infrared portrait of our Milky Way's satellite g... |
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Reality & MetaphysicsQuestioning Reality: Are we for "Real"?
118 Posts • 36438 Views
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HAs anybody seen the simpsons couch gag where they sit on the couch then the "camera" pans back back then out of the house then to space then to milky way then other galaxies then dna strand... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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20 December 2012
M33: Triangulum Galaxy
Image Credit & Copyright: Robert Gendler, Subaru Telescope (NAOJ)
Image data: Subaru Telescope, Robert Gendler, Brigham Young University Obs., Johann... |
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