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Triple delight in the Milky Way
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| 11/10/09
| Alan Boyle
Posted on 11/10/2009 6:09:01 PM PST by KevinDavis
NASA has blended three views of our home galaxy's turbulent core to produce a picture filled with scientifically significant snap, crackle and pop. And the deeper you go into the image, the more you learn.
The composite picture of the Milky Way's center draws upon near-infrared data from the Hubble Space Telescope (shown in yellow), infrared readings from the Spitzer Space Telescope (shown in rich red) and the X-ray vision of the Chandra X-ray Observatory (shown in shades of blue
(Excerpt) Read more at cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com ...
TOPICS: Astronomy; Miscellaneous; Science
KEYWORDS: space
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posted on
11/10/2009 6:09:59 PM PST
by
KevinDavis
(Can't Stop the Signal!)
To: KevinDavis
OK, folks -- that is out of the way. Now we can enjoy the science part :)
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posted on
11/10/2009 6:11:45 PM PST
by
freedumb2003
(Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
To: KevinDavis
Awesome pics!!
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posted on
11/10/2009 6:13:48 PM PST
by
KoRn
(Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
To: KevinDavis
To: Intolerant in NJ
Is this Heaven?.....I don't know but this is called The Crown of Thorns.
It was photographed in April of this year.
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posted on
11/10/2009 7:08:05 PM PST
by
mware
(F-R-E-E, that spells free. Free Republic.com baby.)
To: KevinDavis
Looks like a giant hand with fingers and part of an arm.
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posted on
11/10/2009 7:08:39 PM PST
by
DarkWaters
("Deception is a state of mind --- and the mind of the state" --- James Jesus Angleton)
To: KevinDavis
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posted on
11/10/2009 7:13:11 PM PST
by
LiberConservative
("Sarah Palin irritates all the right people." -Dennis Miller)
To: KevinDavis
PLEASE PUT ME ON YOUR LIST! THANKS!!
To: Intolerant in NJ
Is this Heaven?No, but in cosmological scale, it is relatively close, since Texas is in the Milky Way. ;)
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posted on
11/11/2009 1:08:52 PM PST
by
anymouse
(God didn't write this sitcom we call life, he's just the critic.)
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