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2013's Best and Most Beautiful Photos of the Universe
Bad Astronomy Via Slate ^
| December 23, 2013
| Phil Platt
Posted on 12/23/2013 11:57:19 AM PST by lbryce
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The Universe, the infinite realm of unimaginable beauty, ceasless wonder that is God's handiwork.
Make sure you click on the "Higher-resolution Photo Original Blog Post" link that accompanies each image.
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12/23/2013 11:57:19 AM PST
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lbryce
To: lbryce
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posted on
12/23/2013 12:02:26 PM PST
by
no-to-illegals
(Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
To: lbryce
The Universe, the infinite realm of unimaginable beauty, ceasless wonder that is God's handiwork. Nah, didn't you hear? It's just a random collection of "stuff".
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12/23/2013 12:03:57 PM PST
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Turbo Pig
(...to close with and destroy the enemy...)
To: lbryce
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posted on
12/23/2013 12:05:24 PM PST
by
BunnySlippers
(I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
To: lbryce
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12/23/2013 12:12:23 PM PST
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Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: lbryce
. . . Missed one.... Merry Christmas
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12/23/2013 12:13:19 PM PST
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Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: lbryce
Here's my favorite!
To: Turbo Pig
God breathed the stars into the heavens. It was a simple task for Him. Our sun is a speck in the sky compared to the stars Betelgeuse and Canis Majoris. We cannot wrap our heads around how big He is!!!
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posted on
12/23/2013 12:15:18 PM PST
by
shankbear
(The tree of Liberty appears to be perishing because there are few patriots willing to refresh it.)
To: lbryce
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12/23/2013 12:18:11 PM PST
by
JoeProBono
(SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
To: lbryce
The universe is one beautiful place. By the way whenever I see your post I’m thinking Bryce Fractals which are really cool and remind me of astronomical pictures.
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posted on
12/23/2013 12:20:58 PM PST
by
Starstruck
(If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
To: Focault's Pendulum
LOL. What is that the "Flip The Bird Nebula"?
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12/23/2013 12:21:59 PM PST
by
ETL
(ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
To: lbryce
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12/23/2013 12:25:51 PM PST
by
jetson
(THE)
To: lbryce
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12/23/2013 12:26:31 PM PST
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Osage Orange
(I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
To: Focault's Pendulum
I recall hearing that the beautiful picture that was taken of the Eagle Nebula by the Hubble is now a photo of what it used to look like.
The original photo shows a star about to go nova...so the huge nebula of gas and dust would have been obliterated by now.
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12/23/2013 12:31:50 PM PST
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Bloody Sam Roberts
("It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority...")
To: lbryce
Aren’t most of those beautiful “pictures” actually false color?
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12/23/2013 12:35:35 PM PST
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Yo-Yo
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
I actually posted an article within the last few months that addresses the really strange aspect of how the “pillars of creation” as they were called had already vanished when at the very moment we were first being astounded by it all. The huge distances involved and the limitations on the speed in which light can travel created the strange set of circumstances of what we were observing at the moment was not even there anymore.
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12/23/2013 12:44:37 PM PST
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lbryce
(Obama:The Worst is Yet To Come)
To: Yo-Yo
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12/23/2013 12:45:23 PM PST
by
lbryce
(Obama:The Worst is Yet To Come)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
Actually EVERYTHING you see is how it used to look. Some of it looks like it did a fraction of a second ago and in the case of the Eagle Nebula what we see happened about 7000 years ago. I’m in awe every time I look into the night sky and realize I’m looking back in time! We’ll never know what the universe currently looks like because the scale only allows us to see what it did look like. Truly mind boggling.
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12/23/2013 12:50:18 PM PST
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762X51
To: 762X51
EVERYTHING you see is how it used to look. Some of it looks like it did a fraction of a second agoAnd of course those "some" things would be anything within 186,000 miles, as that is how far light travels in a second. It takes light about 1-1/4 seconds to get to us from the moon. Of the 8 planets, Venus gets the closest at 23-25 million miles (when it is between the Sun and Earth). That's about 2 light minutes. The nearest star, outside of the Sun, is about 50 trillion miles, or 4-1/3 light years away. The Sun, at around 93 million miles, is 8 light minutes from Earth.
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12/23/2013 1:15:12 PM PST
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ETL
(ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
To: Yo-Yo
Arent most of those beautiful pictures actually false color?Each color of light represents a specific frequency of the electromagnetic spectrum. In some of these cases the color is real but intensified to allow us to see them, as they are impossibly faint to the naked eye or even through a telescope. In other cases, totally false colors must be added in order to display any image at all. This is usually when the image is in frequencies other than normal optical light. Frequencies such as Radio, Ultraviolet, Infrared, Gamma, etc.
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12/23/2013 1:21:48 PM PST
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ETL
(ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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