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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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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
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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
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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 • 85254 Views Science & Technology Forum |
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),
and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/... |
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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 • 36414 Views Philosophy Forum |
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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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
216 Posts • 85254 Views Science & Technology Forum |
4 February 2013
Namibian Nights
Video Credit & Copyright: Marsel van Oosten; Music: Simon Wilkinson
Namibia has some of the darkest nights visible from any continent. It is therefore home to... |
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Mental IllnessI need sleepp
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soo, I haven't been able to sleep for the past 3 days... I'm no doctor, but I'm pretty sure that's not a good thing. I just lay there and I try to go to sleep but nothing seems to... |
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Science vs ReligionScience is prooving the Bible
142 Posts • 35943 Views Religion Forum |
defends your book. That's nice.
As tradition teaches the ghost road (Milky Way) as an extension of life (soul) & therefore the use of star children is commonly given as native names to other... |
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Alternative Beliefsreal or just a myth?
57 Posts • 18486 Views Religion Forum |
Ahh . . . In the Native Traditions when a person dies they are said to have gone South (ie. realm or land of the spirit) and although an entry about the Ghost Dance was given. The Ghost Road (Milky Wa... |
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Reality & MetaphysicsDoes Time Even Exist?
85 Posts • 29700 Views Philosophy Forum |
Nice thought,We have just given a name to one of the many parts of life, for our own conveniance.
By Jove I think he has got it!
surely there is no direction in space as there are no magnetic points... |
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Physics & CosmologyExcerp: Cosmology
5 Posts • 2759 Views Science & Technology Forum |
The universe is 15 billion years old. 15 billion years ago, all the stuff in the universe was concentrated in a singularity, a mathematical concept, a speck of infinite density. It exploded. This is w... |
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Aesthetics & BeautyWhat is Art?
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Both the mimetic and the essentialist theories of art contain a kernel of truth. For although art necessarily deals with empirical phenomena, it is good art only to the extent that it elicits a certai... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
216 Posts • 85254 Views Science & Technology Forum |
30 September 2012
A Galaxy Collision in NGC 6745
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration
Acknowledgment: Roger Lynds (KPNO/NOAO) et al.
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AstronomyOur Home
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The approximate diameter of the Milky Way is 100,000 light years. And here is our galaxy, merely a spec among other galaxies within our "local group" of galaxies. Our local group alone is ab... |
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21 February 2013
Gravitational Tractor
Illustration Credit & Copyright: Dan Durda (FIAAA, B612 Foundation)
How would you change the course of an Earth-threatening asteroid? One possibility -... |
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Stellar Scenes
1 Posts • 3234 Views Promotional |
Naoyuki Kurita is an astrophotographer who is located in Japan. In order to take his astro-images, Naoyuki drives outside of the city, to locations away from the interference of city lights.
On his... |
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19 March 2013
GRAIL Maps the Moon's Gravity
Image Credit & Copyright: NASA, JPL-Caltech, MIT, GSFC
How did the Moon form? To help find out, NASA launched the twin Gravity Recovery and I... |
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CREATION OF UNIVERSE
4 Posts • 3203 Views Talk Talk |
The Universe and its elements : all the galaxies, stars, planets, asteroids, the Milky Way, the Sun, the Earth, the Moon and billions of other immense bodies are rotating and revolving in excellent ha... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
216 Posts • 85254 Views Science & Technology Forum |
12 January 2013
Ten Billion Earths
Illustration Credit: NASA, F. Fressin (Harvard CfA)
How common are Earth-sized planets? Quite common, according to extrapolations from new data taken by NASA... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
216 Posts • 85254 Views Science & Technology Forum |
11 December 2012
NGC 604: Giant Stellar Nursery
Image Credit: Hubble Legacy Archive, ESA, NASA; Processing - Donald Waid
Stars are sometimes born in the midst of chaos. About 3 million years ago... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
216 Posts • 85254 Views Science & Technology Forum |
24 October 2012
NGC 206 and the Star Clouds of Andromeda
Image Credit & Copyright: Bob and Janice Fera (Fera Photography)
The large stellar association cataloged as NGC 206 is nestled within... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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11 February 2013
N11: Star Clouds of the LMC
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Lake (Pomfret School
Massive stars, abrasive winds, mountains of dust, and energetic light sculpt one of the largest and... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
216 Posts • 85254 Views Science & Technology Forum |
6 September 2012
Airglow over Italy
Image Credit & Copyright: Tamas Ladanyi (TWAN)
In this serene night skyscape, the Milky Way's graceful arc stretches over prominent peaks in the Ital... |
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