Mon Nov 19, 2012, 07:58 PM

LongTomH (3,996 posts)

My God, this is beautiful!

The was The Astronomy Picture of the Day for yesterday, Nov 18:

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86 replies	Author	Time	Post
My God, this is beautiful! (Original post)	LongTomH	Nov 2012	OP
It's not how we'd see it with our eyes, though. nt	mr_hat	Nov 2012	#1
derp	AlecBGreen	Nov 2012	#14
It's how we see with the eyes we sent out there	tavalon	Nov 2012	#15
+100	LukeFL	Nov 2012	#38
there is always that one person in every thread	SemperEadem	Nov 2012	#16
It's not how we'd see it with our eyes, though.	AlbertCat	Nov 2012	#36
Too dim	D Gary Grady	Nov 2012	#55
Derp II	GeorgeGist	Nov 2012	#56
I guess to some, science is just too boring	D Gary Grady	Nov 2012	#57
Oh fuck! Please tell me how to imbed that in an email!	OffWithTheirHeads	Nov 2012	#82
I'm sure the original poster wasn't being a downer, just informative.	AlbertCat	Nov 2012	#58
Actually, it would be diim even if you were close	D Gary Grady	Nov 2012	#61
+1	shireen	Nov 2012	#63
Thanks for the good explanation....really fascinating.	pangaia	Nov 2012	#65
pangaia	Diclotican	Nov 2012	#80
I was in my 30s and teaching at Ithaca College.	pangaia	Nov 2012	#83
pangaia	Diclotican	Nov 2012	#84
you did great, Grady	bigtree	Nov 2012	#73
Thanks, Grady! That was really interesting.	loudsue	Nov 2012	#75
Are you from the Cat in the Hat? You sound like it!	Auntie Bush	Nov 2012	#39
No offense intended	GiveMeFreedom	Nov 2012	#69
So what? The same can be said about most mundane earthly photographs too. -nt	Bradical79	Dec 2012	#86
It's hard to believe it's real. Completely awesome. Thanks.	snagglepuss	Nov 2012	#2
That's just gorgeous. Thanks! n/t	CrazyOrangeCat	Nov 2012	#3
My God! It's full of stars........	TheDebbieDee	Nov 2012	#4
Open the pod bay doors, Hal.	WinstonSmith4740	Nov 2012	#6
Just as I was going to say	sakabatou	Nov 2012	#60
Thanks for	Sekhmets Daughter	Nov 2012	#5
WOW!!	momsrule	Nov 2012	#7
Stunning	spinbaby	Nov 2012	#8
Which one is the Blue Fairy?	Kablooie	Nov 2012	#9
and another wonderful thing about these nebulae...	renate	Nov 2012	#10
They are many light-years across	AlbertCat	Nov 2012	#37
OMG!	pangaia	Nov 2012	#66
Is it possible that we are inside a nebulae but don't know it?	snagglepuss	Nov 2012	#49
No - we'd be able to detect the dust. (and there'd be a lot fewer stars we could see) (nt)	jeff47	Nov 2012	#50
Thanks.	snagglepuss	Nov 2012	#51
Hey...	CoboWowbo	Nov 2012	#11
I'll bet you can't see Russia from there. nt	valerief	Nov 2012	#12
re:My God, this is beautiful!	allan01	Nov 2012	#13
thanks LongTomH	pipewrench	Nov 2012	#17
Oh sure, it looks beautiful right up to the point	Flying Squirrel	Nov 2012	#18
Stunningly beautiful...thanks for posting, LongTom.	Surya Gayatri	Nov 2012	#19
So, Dad-unit, I borrowed your spaceship and . . . I kinda lost control and it sorta blew up . . .	tclambert	Nov 2012	#20
Looks like the universe is giving us the finger...	Javaman	Nov 2012	#21
Or pointing us in the right direction	demwing	Nov 2012	#24
Which direction is that? "over there"	Javaman	Nov 2012	#46
second star to the right	demwing	Nov 2012	#47
an "Open Cluster"....	Mustellus	Nov 2012	#22
What exactly is a 'cloud" in this case?	pangaia	Nov 2012	#67
I see a vagina..	WCGreen	Nov 2012	#23
Perv	demwing	Nov 2012	#25
Anybody else see the biblical looking figure emerging from the right of the pointy cloud?	SleeplessinSoCal	Nov 2012	#26
Moses with his staff? nt	mattvermont	Nov 2012	#29
I cropped it	SleeplessinSoCal	Nov 2012	#40
Yep - and someone kneeling, praying? up to the left right under the pointy part	Tigress DEM	Nov 2012	#42
I see two howling dogs and the hermit from Tarot cards n/t	luvspeas	Nov 2012	#52
Looks like a witch on a broomstick to me.	FlaGranny	Nov 2012	#54
Isn't that one of Godzilla's foes?	JHB	Nov 2012	#64
Oh no! Now you've created a Religious Right meme!	LongTomH	Nov 2012	#43
Didn't mean to. But I saw it right away and couldn't shake the vision.	SleeplessinSoCal	Nov 2012	#45
So amazing	earthbot1	Nov 2012	#27
Wow!!!	haikugal	Nov 2012	#28
Yes indeed! Do a search for "astronomy posters"	D Gary Grady	Nov 2012	#70
Yes it is!	burrowowl	Nov 2012	#30
I see a hiker, or just a guy, sitting on the right side of the mountain.	xfundy	Nov 2012	#31
"I'm not a scientist, man."	demwing	Nov 2012	#48
Down the foggy ruins of time to the gates of creation...awesome...just awesome.	1620rock	Nov 2012	#32
That is the most beautiful photograph, many thanks..	nenagh	Nov 2012	#33
Goodness! What an Awesome Sight that is	Cha	Nov 2012	#34
My Universe...it is beautiful. (NT)	DreamGypsy	Nov 2012	#35
makes certain things seem insignificant	sigmasix	Nov 2012	#41
There are larger images, including wallpaper size at the Hubble site.	LongTomH	Nov 2012	#44
I made it my desktop photo..	pangaia	Nov 2012	#68
Seven Sisters / Pleiades - K&R	DeSwiss	Nov 2012	#53
Staring at all of those suns made me sneeze.	chknltl	Nov 2012	#59
"The Cathedral to Massive Stars" - WOW!!!!	calimary	Nov 2012	#62
I just found	Heathen57	Nov 2012	#71
Oh Thank You!	Jasana	Nov 2012	#72
All I ask is a tall ship...	AsahinaKimi	Nov 2012	#74
Indeed.	WheelWalker	Nov 2012	#77
Absolutely stunning. Dare I say...	Beartracks	Nov 2012	#76
Judging from the	Doc Holliday	Nov 2012	#78
Does God know about this?	nikto	Nov 2012	#79
LongTomH	Diclotican	Nov 2012	#81
If Only Republicans Could Appreciate This Majesty And Become More Humble	cantbeserious	Nov 2012	#85

Response to LongTomH (Original post)

Mon Nov 19, 2012, 07:59 PM

mr_hat (3,369 posts)

1. It's not how we'd see it with our eyes, though. nt

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Mon Nov 19, 2012, 09:08 PM

AlecBGreen (3,872 posts)

14. derp

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Mon Nov 19, 2012, 09:21 PM

tavalon (25,684 posts)

15. It's how we see with the eyes we sent out there

It's gorgeous.

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Mon Nov 19, 2012, 11:01 PM

LukeFL (299 posts)

38. +100

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Response to mr_hat (Reply #1)

Mon Nov 19, 2012, 09:23 PM

SemperEadem (7,997 posts)

16. there is always that one person in every thread

who has to bring the party down.

NO DUH IT'S NOT HOW WE'D SEE IT WITH OUR EYES! Gee, Captain Obvious, we never thought of that.

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Response to mr_hat (Reply #1)

Mon Nov 19, 2012, 10:55 PM

AlbertCat (10,450 posts)

36. It's not how we'd see it with our eyes, though.

Why do you say that? It's a Hubble pic of the visible spectrum, not a composite of xray or ultraviolet or gamma ray images given false color. It's just the light that fell on the Hubble mirror. So if we could get close enough, we would see it with our eyes just like this.

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Response to AlbertCat (Reply #36)

Tue Nov 20, 2012, 02:17 PM

D Gary Grady (28 posts)

55. Too dim

The problem isn't our location but our eyes' sensitivity to light. On the next clear night go out and look at the constellation Orion. It's full of glorious nebulae plenty big enough to see with our eyes, but you need at least binoculars or a small telescope to see how glorious they look, not because of magnification but to gather more light. (And to see them in all their glory you really need a time exposure.) Or look at Andromeda on the side toward Pegasus: The great Andromeda Galaxy is five times the width of the full moon, but all we can see with our eyes is a dim impression of the central bulge. For that matter, in most cities the milky way is too dim to see, but go someplace dark with a camera, a tripod, and a wide-angle lens, and shoot a time exposure. Wow! I'm sure the original poster wasn't being a downer, just informative.

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Response to D Gary Grady (Reply #55)

Tue Nov 20, 2012, 02:42 PM

GeorgeGist (9,541 posts)

56. Derp II

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Response to GeorgeGist (Reply #56)

Tue Nov 20, 2012, 03:19 PM

D Gary Grady (28 posts)

57. I guess to some, science is just too boring

But some of us like to celebrate how our knowledge lets us go beyond what would otherwise be our limitations to see all that wondrous beauty. In fact, we're right now building instruments to see even more of nature's grandeur. But hey, George, if you think that's booooring, that's OK!

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Response to GeorgeGist (Reply #56)

Sun Nov 25, 2012, 03:11 AM

OffWithTheirHeads (9,031 posts)

82. Oh fuck! Please tell me how to imbed that in an email!

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Response to D Gary Grady (Reply #55)

Tue Nov 20, 2012, 03:25 PM

AlbertCat (10,450 posts)

58. I'm sure the original poster wasn't being a downer, just informative.

They never said anything about seeing it from earth. I mean, I know it's too dim to see with the naked eye from Earth..I'm not that dim.

But if you were in the right place... it would look like this, with your eyes.

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Response to AlbertCat (Reply #58)

Tue Nov 20, 2012, 04:30 PM

D Gary Grady (28 posts)

61. Actually, it would be diim even if you were close

Extended objects such as nebulae don't look dimmer because they're farther away. There's less total light, but it's concentrated on a smaller area of the retina, and the two effects exactly cancel out. I'll try to find time to post a detailed explanation on my blog (the address is my name with .com on the end and the spaces squeezed out) by tomorrow, in case anybody cares.

From Earth, this nebula (NGC 6357) fills a piece of our sky several times as large as the full moon. There are other nebulae even larger from our point of view, and I've long lamented that we don't have lemur eyes to better appreciate them. This photograph is beautiful because it's a time exposure captured with a large-objective telescope; our scientific instruments extend our ability to appreciate nature's glorious beauty, and I don't see how that's a downer for anybody!

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Response to D Gary Grady (Reply #61)

Tue Nov 20, 2012, 04:44 PM

shireen (7,472 posts)

63. +1

a fellow astronomy fan. Welcome to DU!

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Response to D Gary Grady (Reply #61)

Tue Nov 20, 2012, 06:18 PM

pangaia (1,062 posts)

65. Thanks for the good explanation....really fascinating.

Many years ago I spent not enough evenings with Carl Sagan and a few others hangin' in a Japanese Restaurant in Ithaca.. just listening.. listening... what a joy that was.

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Sun Nov 25, 2012, 01:38 AM

Diclotican (3,790 posts)

80. pangaia

pangaia

I evy you to have had the possibility to be together with Carl Sagan.. He was a great astronomer - and a man who also could explain some of the mysteries of the stars - to a 8 year old child with a fascination for the stars... I also saw the Cosmos series who I had to beg and beg to be allowed to se - as I was just 8 and the series was aired late, often on a school night... My fasination for all things in the universe I belive started with Cosmos (the book) and the series - and even though Im little less interesting in the stars today than I was when I was 8 - Im still interested in the stars - and I for one envy the ones who in the future wil be able to travel to the stars - and look at the all for themself... We are just standing at the shores - and looking out of the universe, wondering what is out there - to paraphrase Carl Sagan...

It just must have been a joy to be able to listen to that man for hours at the time.. I hope he was a interesting man to listen to...

Diclotican

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Sun Nov 25, 2012, 12:03 PM

pangaia (1,062 posts)

83. I was in my 30s and teaching at Ithaca College.

Also a little at Cornell.

I was friends with the owner and family of the restaurant and hung out there a lot in the evenings..washed rice, dishes to help out sometimes, learning to cook Japanese cuisine, make sushi, baby---sat his kids, and drank a LOT of sake !
Sometimes Carl would come in for dinner, and he, the owner, other friends and I would just hang until the wee hours and close the place...usually when the owner was under the table.

Yes, Sagan was a special person...I was really lucky..

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Response to pangaia (Reply #83)

Sun Nov 25, 2012, 02:05 PM

Diclotican (3,790 posts)

84. pangaia

pangaia

Interesting.. Both that you helped out a little - was drinking a lot of sake

.. And sometimes you even got Carl Sagan into the restaurant for some dinner - and that it was no set closing hours - so you could just sit there and hang out to the wee hours now and then...

Yeah - it is often time to close when the owner was under the table - the show is often closed when that happened

.. But often you can have a lot of fun in the meantime..

You was lucky - he was one of the persons I would just have loved to get to know - if just for a little while talking to him.. He was one of my "heroes" when I was little - and I think I was reading most of his books - when kids my own age still was reading everything else than that stuff... Yeah I know I was, and maybe still is little nerdy

Diocletian

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Response to D Gary Grady (Reply #61)

Wed Nov 21, 2012, 11:22 AM

bigtree (49,252 posts)

73. you did great, Grady

thanks for the info. Make the pic even more interesting, imo.

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Response to D Gary Grady (Reply #55)

Thu Nov 22, 2012, 12:50 AM

loudsue (12,383 posts)

75. Thanks, Grady! That was really interesting.

And WELCOME to DU!

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Response to mr_hat (Reply #1)

Mon Nov 19, 2012, 11:07 PM

Auntie Bush (15,251 posts)

39. Are you from the Cat in the Hat? You sound like it!

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Tue Nov 20, 2012, 07:12 PM

GiveMeFreedom (921 posts)

69. No offense intended

I see the photo just fine. Thank god. If I had to use my imagination, to visualize in my mind's eye, what astronomers try to explain to lay man, my universe would look like the inside of my closet, dark and small.

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Thu Dec 6, 2012, 11:49 AM

Bradical79 (416 posts)

86. So what? The same can be said about most mundane earthly photographs too. -nt

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Response to LongTomH (Original post)

Mon Nov 19, 2012, 07:59 PM

snagglepuss (9,103 posts)

2. It's hard to believe it's real. Completely awesome. Thanks.

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Mon Nov 19, 2012, 08:03 PM

CrazyOrangeCat (6,069 posts)

3. That's just gorgeous. Thanks! n/t

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Mon Nov 19, 2012, 08:03 PM

TheDebbieDee (8,376 posts)

4. My God! It's full of stars........

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Response to TheDebbieDee (Reply #4)

Mon Nov 19, 2012, 08:37 PM

WinstonSmith4740 (739 posts)

6. Open the pod bay doors, Hal.

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Tue Nov 20, 2012, 04:21 PM

sakabatou (29,074 posts)

60. Just as I was going to say

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Mon Nov 19, 2012, 08:05 PM

Sekhmets Daughter (7,090 posts)

5. Thanks for

the picture and the link!

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Mon Nov 19, 2012, 08:48 PM

momsrule (93 posts)

7. WOW!!

What more can I say?

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Mon Nov 19, 2012, 08:51 PM

spinbaby (11,005 posts)

8. Stunning

Makes a person realize just how small and insignificant we are, floating along on our little speck in the cosmos.

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Mon Nov 19, 2012, 08:52 PM

Kablooie (8,856 posts)

9. Which one is the Blue Fairy?

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Mon Nov 19, 2012, 08:57 PM

renate (7,926 posts)

10. and another wonderful thing about these nebulae...

They are many light-years across--isn't that amazing? They aren't just solar-system sized--they are immense. Wouldn't it be amazing to see them from the inside?

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Mon Nov 19, 2012, 10:59 PM

AlbertCat (10,450 posts)

37. They are many light-years across

And many light-years AWAY.

This is the way it looked 8150 years ago.

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Tue Nov 20, 2012, 06:23 PM

pangaia (1,062 posts)

66. OMG!

That is almost..it is.. unimaginable...!!

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Tue Nov 20, 2012, 10:25 AM

snagglepuss (9,103 posts)

49. Is it possible that we are inside a nebulae but don't know it?

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Tue Nov 20, 2012, 11:14 AM

jeff47 (7,422 posts)

50. No - we'd be able to detect the dust. (and there'd be a lot fewer stars we could see) (nt)

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Tue Nov 20, 2012, 11:14 AM

snagglepuss (9,103 posts)

51. Thanks.

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Response to LongTomH (Original post)

Mon Nov 19, 2012, 08:57 PM

CoboWowbo (32 posts)

11. Hey...

I can see my home planet!

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Mon Nov 19, 2012, 08:59 PM

valerief (35,679 posts)

12. I'll bet you can't see Russia from there. nt

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Mon Nov 19, 2012, 09:07 PM

allan01 (627 posts)

13. re:My God, this is beautiful!

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Mon Nov 19, 2012, 09:23 PM

pipewrench (194 posts)

17. thanks LongTomH

Desktop background +1

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Mon Nov 19, 2012, 09:25 PM

Flying Squirrel (815 posts)

18. Oh sure, it looks beautiful right up to the point

When you realize it's about to have you for dinner.

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Mon Nov 19, 2012, 09:26 PM

Surya Gayatri (4,205 posts)

19. Stunningly beautiful...thanks for posting, LongTom.

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Mon Nov 19, 2012, 09:30 PM

tclambert (5,532 posts)

20. So, Dad-unit, I borrowed your spaceship and . . . I kinda lost control and it sorta blew up . . .

It wasn't my fault! My buddy Xantac distracted me. He was telling me how our other friend Prilosec did this stupid thing and it was really funny and I got to laughing so hard I had a seizure or something. Honest, Dad-unit.

Anyway, it made this really pretty nebula. . . .

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Mon Nov 19, 2012, 09:33 PM

Javaman (40,626 posts)

21. Looks like the universe is giving us the finger...

not really all that surprising.

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Mon Nov 19, 2012, 09:46 PM

demwing (10,959 posts)

24. Or pointing us in the right direction

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if you prefer to see the universe as benevolent

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Tue Nov 20, 2012, 08:21 AM

Javaman (40,626 posts)

46. Which direction is that? "over there"

there is no up or down in space.

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Tue Nov 20, 2012, 09:24 AM

demwing (10,959 posts)

47. second star to the right

and straight on till morning

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Mon Nov 19, 2012, 09:36 PM

Mustellus (43 posts)

22. an "Open Cluster"....

A newly formed batch of blue-white super giants begins to evaporate the cloud they formed in. The shock waves from their explosions as supernovas after their brief lifetimes will compress the cloud and cause the formation of lower mass, sun-like stars. At the bottom, a lone super giant ( O class star, probably ) has begun its own hole... The small dark knots may be near the critical density to begin collapse to form another solar system....

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Tue Nov 20, 2012, 06:27 PM

pangaia (1,062 posts)

67. What exactly is a 'cloud" in this case?

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Mon Nov 19, 2012, 09:40 PM

WCGreen (44,932 posts)

23. I see a vagina..

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Mon Nov 19, 2012, 09:47 PM

demwing (10,959 posts)

25. Perv

sometimes a nebulae is just a nebulae

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Mon Nov 19, 2012, 09:51 PM

SleeplessinSoCal (1,639 posts)

26. Anybody else see the biblical looking figure emerging from the right of the pointy cloud?

I can't not see it now.

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Mon Nov 19, 2012, 09:54 PM

mattvermont (541 posts)

29. Moses with his staff? nt

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Mon Nov 19, 2012, 11:07 PM

SleeplessinSoCal (1,639 posts)

40. I cropped it

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Tue Nov 20, 2012, 12:09 AM

Tigress DEM (7,167 posts)

42. Yep - and someone kneeling, praying? up to the left right under the pointy part

When I looked really close it seems the upper left kneeling figure is sacrificing a pig. I know it's late and my eyes are goofy, but clouds always seem to have interesting details to me.

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Tue Nov 20, 2012, 11:21 AM

luvspeas (1,335 posts)

52. I see two howling dogs and the hermit from Tarot cards n/t

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Tue Nov 20, 2012, 01:55 PM

FlaGranny (8,072 posts)

54. Looks like a witch on a broomstick to me.

could be flying over a pig - or maybe it's the moon.

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Tue Nov 20, 2012, 05:57 PM

JHB (17,805 posts)

64. Isn't that one of Godzilla's foes?

Maybe the smog monster?

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Tue Nov 20, 2012, 12:38 AM

LongTomH (3,996 posts)

43. Oh no! Now you've created a Religious Right meme!

It'll be all over the internet by morning!

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Tue Nov 20, 2012, 01:35 AM

SleeplessinSoCal (1,639 posts)

45. Didn't mean to. But I saw it right away and couldn't shake the vision.

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Mon Nov 19, 2012, 09:52 PM

earthbot1 (17 posts)

27. So amazing

So strange. So much!

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Mon Nov 19, 2012, 09:53 PM

haikugal (1,128 posts)

28. Wow!!!

What a beautiful picture. Does anyone know if it's possible to get a poster of a picture like this? Thanks for posting this for us...it's glorious and thought provoking.

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Response to haikugal (Reply #28)

Tue Nov 20, 2012, 07:16 PM

D Gary Grady (28 posts)

70. Yes indeed! Do a search for "astronomy posters"

You'll find plenty of them. Also check out the ads in magazines like Sky&Telescope, where you can also see remarkably beautiful photos shot by amateurs. If you have a camera that lets you shoot time exposures, you can capture some remarkable night sky images yourself, especially if you go somewhere dark. The Sky&Telescope website is http://sky.com.

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Mon Nov 19, 2012, 10:18 PM

burrowowl (8,954 posts)

30. Yes it is!

And what does Marco Rubio unthink!?
Asshole! He should read Teillard de Chardin!

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Mon Nov 19, 2012, 10:20 PM

xfundy (2,592 posts)

31. I see a hiker, or just a guy, sitting on the right side of the mountain.

Or is it that kid from the Hobbit? In the Ice Storm, too, I can't recall his name.

And, not to put too fine a point on it (unintentional entendre), the rock point looks uncut.

Here's what I found mind blowing, several years ago-- if you get a pic of your inner eye from an optometrist, it really does look just like pics from space.

Evidence for god? Dunno.

Evidence for structure in our world, I would guess.

But I'm no scientist, man.

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Tue Nov 20, 2012, 09:28 AM

demwing (10,959 posts)

48. "I'm not a scientist, man."

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Mon Nov 19, 2012, 10:31 PM

1620rock (2,203 posts)

32. Down the foggy ruins of time to the gates of creation...awesome...just awesome.

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Mon Nov 19, 2012, 10:33 PM

nenagh (1,305 posts)

33. That is the most beautiful photograph, many thanks..

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Mon Nov 19, 2012, 10:43 PM

Cha (124,546 posts)

34. Goodness! What an Awesome Sight that is

in our Universe..thank you, LongTomH!

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Mon Nov 19, 2012, 10:48 PM

DreamGypsy (1,117 posts)

35. My Universe...it is beautiful. (NT)

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Mon Nov 19, 2012, 11:43 PM

sigmasix (406 posts)

41. makes certain things seem insignificant

I cant help but hear the "Universe Song" by Monty Python in my head every time I see one of these stunning pictures of the cosmos.

"Can we have your liver then?"

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Tue Nov 20, 2012, 12:49 AM

LongTomH (3,996 posts)

44. There are larger images, including wallpaper size at the Hubble site.

http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0619a/

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Tue Nov 20, 2012, 06:45 PM

pangaia (1,062 posts)

68. I made it my desktop photo..

but of course it doesn't fit. :>

I checked out the Hubble site. WOW!

Thank so much for your post....

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Tue Nov 20, 2012, 01:44 PM

DeSwiss (17,199 posts)

53. Seven Sisters / Pleiades - K&R

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Tue Nov 20, 2012, 04:05 PM

chknltl (8,743 posts)

59. Staring at all of those suns made me sneeze.

Dust allergies.

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Tue Nov 20, 2012, 04:38 PM

calimary (30,599 posts)

62. "The Cathedral to Massive Stars" - WOW!!!!

NGC 6357: Cathedral to Massive Stars. Just blows the mind. THANK YOU for posting this, LongTomH! Shared on Facebook!

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Tue Nov 20, 2012, 07:56 PM

Heathen57 (520 posts)

71. I just found

my newest Background for this laptop. Such beauty in deep space. If this was the only thing to come from NASA and all of the telescopes, it would be worth it to me.

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Wed Nov 21, 2012, 08:29 AM

Jasana (207 posts)

72. Oh Thank You!

Thank you for posting that beautiful picture. I emailed it to some friends and now have the website bookmarked as a favorite. I wish I knew it had had existed before.

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Wed Nov 21, 2012, 03:33 PM

AsahinaKimi (18,084 posts)

74. All I ask is a tall ship...

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Thu Nov 22, 2012, 08:53 PM

WheelWalker (4,921 posts)

77. Indeed.

Celestial navigation. What a wonder.

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Thu Nov 22, 2012, 06:35 AM

Beartracks (3,159 posts)

76. Absolutely stunning. Dare I say...

... Oh my God. It's full of stars.

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Fri Nov 23, 2012, 11:31 AM

Doc Holliday (593 posts)

78. Judging from the

various interpretations of this phenomenon by the readers here, perhaps it should be renamed the "Rorschach Nebula."

Awesome pic.

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Sat Nov 24, 2012, 02:35 AM

nikto (668 posts)

79. Does God know about this?

Does Jesus know about this?

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Sun Nov 25, 2012, 01:40 AM

Diclotican (3,790 posts)

81. LongTomH

LongTomH

The Universe I full of this wonders - who we for the time being is not able to travel to look up close up and personal... And this is just beautifully for sure.. Thank you for your picture.

Diclotican

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Sun Nov 25, 2012, 07:34 PM

cantbeserious (1,980 posts)

85. If Only Republicans Could Appreciate This Majesty And Become More Humble

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