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'Crown of Thorns' Galaxy Photographed in Space
FOX News ^ | April 8, 2009

Posted on 04/08/2009 1:31:00 PM PDT by NYer


An unusual large galaxy with a shape bordering between spiral and elliptical has been spotted by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. NGC 7049 sits in the southern constellation Indus, and is the brightest of a cluster of galaxies, a so-called Brightest Cluster Galaxy (BCG). Typical BCGs are some of the oldest and most massive galaxies, which provide excellent opportunities for astronomers to study the elusive globular clusters lurking within.

The halo, a ghostly region of diffuse light surrounding the galaxy, is composed of myriads of individual stars and provides a luminous background to the swirling ring of dust lanes surrounding NGC 7049's core.

Small faint points of light sprinkled throughout the galaxy represent globular clusters, which are gravitational groupings of several hundreds of thousands of stars. They contain some of the first stars to be produced in a galaxy.

NGC 7049 has far fewer such clusters than other similar giant galaxies in very big, rich groups. This indicates to astronomers how the surrounding environment influenced the formation of galaxy halos in the early universe.

Hubble captured this image using its Advanced Camera for Surveys, which is primed to hunt galaxies and galaxy clusters in the remote and ancient universe. The space telescope recently imaged a group of colliding galaxies chosen in an online voting contest.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: crownofthorns; easter; galaxy; goodfriday; howgreatthouart; nasa; space
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To: rintense

Yeah, except that what we see today as those space images, is just light from those bodies, from millions of years ago.


21 posted on 04/08/2009 1:54:38 PM PDT by MyTwoCopperCoins (I don't have a license to kill; I have a learner's permit.)
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To: NYer

Cool picture!!!


22 posted on 04/08/2009 1:55:59 PM PDT by TheBattman (Pray for our country...)
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To: MyTwoCopperCoins

Everything happens for a reason.


23 posted on 04/08/2009 1:56:10 PM PDT by rintense (Go Israel!)
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To: NYer

Wow. Just, Wow!


24 posted on 04/08/2009 2:04:54 PM PDT by Cap'n Crunch (Rush Limbaugh, the Winston Churchill of our time)
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To: Grumpybutt

What hand????


25 posted on 04/08/2009 2:18:19 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: NYer

OMG! Message received!!!


26 posted on 04/08/2009 2:18:57 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Grumpybutt

uh, never mind!!


27 posted on 04/08/2009 2:20:39 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: rintense
There is no doubt God is trying to tell us something.

As in the creation of the universe itself.

28 posted on 04/08/2009 2:27:51 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: rintense

So, what is the “Eye of God” photo?


29 posted on 04/08/2009 2:29:05 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte
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To: Sans-Culotte

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_eye_of_god.htm


30 posted on 04/08/2009 2:35:05 PM PDT by GulfWar1Vet
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To: NYer

Hummmm......interesting photo.....thanks.


31 posted on 04/08/2009 2:40:05 PM PDT by LadyPilgrim ((Lifted up was He to die; It is finished was His cry; Hallelujah what a Savior!!!!!! ))
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To: GulfWar1Vet

Thanks!


32 posted on 04/08/2009 2:47:35 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte
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To: NYer

Thank you - absolutely breathtaking!


33 posted on 04/08/2009 2:56:15 PM PDT by mombonn (God is looking for spiritual fruit, not religious nuts.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Pinging......


34 posted on 04/08/2009 2:58:41 PM PDT by Las Vegas Dave ("Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican." - Ronald Reagan)
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To: NYer

Thank you! That is really cool.


35 posted on 04/08/2009 3:07:51 PM PDT by Shelayne (And they say BUSH is a moron???)
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To: NYer

Reminds me of the story about the time an international gathering of scientists decided they knew everything and no longer needed God. They sent one of their group to a mountain top to tell God that they had solved all of life’s mysteries and He was no longer necessary. The Lord took it well and challenged the scientist to a contest, winner take all. He suggested they each make a man, and told the scientist to go first. The scientist reached down and picked up a hand full of dirt, but God told him, “Oh no, get your own dirt!”


36 posted on 04/08/2009 3:14:43 PM PDT by jwparkerjr (God Bless America!)
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To: Las Vegas Dave

Pretty!


37 posted on 04/08/2009 3:38:37 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: jwparkerjr
The scientist reached down and picked up a hand full of dirt, but God told him, “Oh no, get your own dirt!”

::: grin :::

38 posted on 04/08/2009 4:06:49 PM PDT by Talisker (When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on it's own.)
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To: sig226

(( ping ))


39 posted on 04/08/2009 4:09:21 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Peanut Gallery

ping


40 posted on 04/08/2009 4:25:42 PM PDT by Professional Engineer (Our Savior who art in Washinton, Hallowed be His name...)
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