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Space stuff - 3/4/2011 5:09:14 AM

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The last picture from WISE: http://www.space.com/10953-nasa-wise-telescope-photo.html

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RE: Space stuff - 3/4/2011 5:45:48 AM

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because she posts all that cool space stuff!

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RE: Space stuff - 3/4/2011 6:34:01 AM

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this is so dreamy ^_^

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RE: Space stuff - 3/5/2011 10:47:35 AM

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Having been called both "Cool" and "dreamy" the only comment
I can add concerning this post is: Thank you again GT.

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RE: Space stuff - 3/5/2011 4:15:03 PM

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I say we just keep this thread going instead of making a new one every time something comes up. Its much easier to keep track of.

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RE: Space stuff - 3/5/2011 7:44:23 PM

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Magnificent ! Thanks for posting this.

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RE: Space stuff - 3/9/2011 1:44:00 AM

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This is.....

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RE: Space stuff - 3/9/2011 3:22:33 AM

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great pic, Termy!

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RE: Space stuff - 3/9/2011 3:43:42 AM

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That is a spectrally modified picture of our sun. See how it shows like a crust ? We live on the crust of the Earth.

Kinda makes you think about how things that seem so different could be so similar.

I was young when this moonshot stuff started, and I wanted every part of it. I read and learned. I couldn't get enough of it. I was never into constellations, but I see their signifiance with the sidereal year. But sometimes the old and the bold do make it.

This is Earthrise from the Apollo 11, taken when I was nine years old.

ET correct, it was June 16th, about two months before my Bday, so I was eight.

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RE: Space stuff - 3/9/2011 3:08:13 PM

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The Cat's Eye nebula

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RE: Space stuff - 3/9/2011 3:13:05 PM

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ever since i first saw a picture of them, i've wanted to go visit them. the pillars of creation in the eagle nebula.

and here's a wonderful photo of the veil nebula in cygnus

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RE: Space stuff - 3/9/2011 6:19:54 PM

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This is.....

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Term, you'll get the "warmers" going putting up pictures like that!
The propellors on their beanies will be going like crazy!
"The sun has NOTHING to do with global warming!!!"

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RE: Space stuff - 3/9/2011 7:01:07 PM

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Warmers ? Ahh them !

I've already addressed that. The Earth has been on a warming cycle for some time now, and it is about to reverse. This is an astronomic fact, I think. I can support that claim, actually have. Nobody seemed to pay much attention. Why would they ? Facts ? Who the hell wants them.

Now watch them get rich selling carbon credits and all that shit, and the Earth will cool. But it won't be due to their efforts, despite the fact that they will claim it so. It's like the aspirin and headache thing. The headache would've gone away anyway. However, when there is money to be made..........

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RE: Space stuff - 3/9/2011 8:12:03 PM

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If you want some current pics of the sun from the
Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) you can go
there to see them.

If you would like to see a 16 sec time lapse video
of the a solar prominence like the one in the lower
photo which is a solar prominence you can see it HERE.

A solar prominence (also known as a filament when viewed against the solar disk) is a large, bright feature extending outward from the Sun's surface. Prominences are anchored to the Sun's surface in the photosphere, and extend outwards into the Sun's hot outer atmosphere, called the corona. A prominence forms over timescales of about a day, and stable prominences may persist in the corona for several months, looping hundreds of thousands of miles into space. Scientists are still researching how and why prominences are formed.

The red-glowing looped material is plasma, a hot gas comprised of electrically charged hydrogen and helium. The prominence plasma flows along a tangled and twisted structure of magnetic fields generated by the sun’s internal dynamo. An erupting prominence occurs when such a structure becomes unstable and bursts outward, releasing the plasma.

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RE: Space stuff - 3/9/2011 10:15:25 PM

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what AWESOME pics, OL!

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RE: Space stuff - 3/9/2011 10:33:25 PM

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GT, Make sure you check out the VIDEO it is really cool!

Explanation: One of the most spectacular solar sights is an erupting prominence. Two weeks ago, NASA's Sun-orbiting Solar Dynamic Observatory spacecraft imaged an impressively large prominence erupting from the surface. The dramatic explosion was captured in ultraviolet light in the above time lapse video covering 90 minutes, where a new frame was taken every 24 seconds. The scale of the prominence is huge -- the entire Earth would easily fit under the flowing curtain of hot gas. A solar prominence is channeled and sometimes held above the Sun's surface by the Sun's magnetic field. A quiescent prominence typically lasts about a month, and may erupt in a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) expelling hot gas into the Solar System. The energy mechanism that creates a solar prominence is still a topic of research. As the Sun progresses toward Solar Maximum in the next few years, solar activity like eruptive prominences are expected to become more common.

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RE: Space stuff - 3/10/2011 6:47:08 AM

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Breathtaking Pictures, make us realise we are so small in this vast universe

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RE: Space stuff - 3/25/2011 1:50:18 AM

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Edited for a bad link..gimnme a few and I'll fix it
more cool space stuff!

http://www.space.com/11180-hubble-telescope-photos-tarantula-nebula.html

http://www.space.com/11200-nasa-100-year-starship-interstellar-travel.html

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RE: Space stuff - 3/25/2011 2:15:24 AM

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The larger galaxy on the right is seen nearly face-on, with a giant arm of stars, dust and gas reaching out and around its smaller neighbour, which is viewed edge-on.
The shapes of both galaxies have been distorted by their gravitational interaction with one another.

The pair are known collectively as Arp 87, and are just one celestial coupling among hundreds of interacting and merging galaxies known in the nearby universe.

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RE: Space stuff - 3/25/2011 2:16:36 AM

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awesome!

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