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Offline texasmom

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Awesome photo
« on: April 07, 2009, 09:01:20 AM »
"A small, dense object only twelve miles in diameter is responsible for this beautiful X-ray nebula that spans 150 light years. At the center of this image made by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory is a very young and powerful pulsar, known as PSR B1509-58, or B1509 for short."
http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2009/b1509/
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Offline Anaxogoras

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Re: Awesome photo
« Reply #1 on: April 07, 2009, 09:10:07 AM »
Astronomy reminds me of how small and unimportant we are.

Beautiful photo.
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Offline trax1

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Re: Awesome photo
« Reply #2 on: April 07, 2009, 09:11:15 AM »
Cool pic, I love seeing pics from space, and those types of stars are just amazing, if you took a sugar cube size bit of matter from it, it would weigh thousands, maybe even millions of tons.
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Re: Awesome photo
« Reply #3 on: April 07, 2009, 11:33:50 AM »
Nice Txmom.  Google Eta Carinae. 
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Offline mensa180

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Re: Awesome photo
« Reply #4 on: April 07, 2009, 11:39:07 AM »
Sort of looks like a hand with fire rolling off of the fingertips.
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Offline trax1

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Re: Awesome photo
« Reply #5 on: April 07, 2009, 11:43:10 AM »
Sort of looks like a hand with fire rolling off of the fingertips.
Your right, I didn't even see that, it's the vengeful hand of God.
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Offline Bosco123

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Re: Awesome photo
« Reply #6 on: April 07, 2009, 11:50:47 AM »
Astronomy reminds me of how small and unimportant we are.

Beautiful photo.
I have a class of astrnonmy in school, and it really makes you question the world.
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Offline Dragon

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Re: Awesome photo
« Reply #7 on: April 07, 2009, 01:50:26 PM »
Nice pic.

I have a class of astrnonmy in school, and it really makes you question the world.

Would that be prior to or after spelling class?
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Offline TonyJoey

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Re: Awesome photo
« Reply #8 on: April 07, 2009, 04:28:34 PM »
I love astronomy. I have a 4ft telescope with about 133 power, really awesome. To me that looks like a burning sock  :), but nonetheless really  cool looking. :aok

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Re: Awesome photo
« Reply #9 on: April 07, 2009, 04:30:33 PM »
Its God having a x-ray done.
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Offline xbrit

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Re: Awesome photo
« Reply #10 on: April 07, 2009, 06:16:19 PM »
Perk it !!

Offline crazyivan

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Re: Awesome photo
« Reply #11 on: April 07, 2009, 07:28:30 PM »
4th of  July, 150million light years away. :aok
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Re: Awesome photo
« Reply #12 on: April 08, 2009, 01:26:08 AM »
Your right, I didn't even see that, it's the vengeful hand of God.

about to smite all the tards :D
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Offline StokesAk

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Re: Awesome photo
« Reply #13 on: April 08, 2009, 01:36:12 AM »
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Offline sntslilhlpr6601

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Re: Awesome photo
« Reply #14 on: April 08, 2009, 08:20:07 PM »
Looks to me like one ship blew up another before entering hyperspace...