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Space Pictures From Near and Far
Buran writes: "The BBC News has a fine story about the how our galaxy looks from the outside according to the 2-Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS). The article describes the shape of our galaxy (a barred spiral; all those books showing concept paintings of a regular spiral galaxy will be out of date now) and how the survey was done (near-infrared measurements of 500 million carbon stars). For the first time, we can see the center of our own Milky Way. All our worldly troubles seem so small..." That takes care of the big picture; Chris McKinstry has submitted news of much closer but just as exciting shots of Saturn -- read below for more on those.
mindpixel writes: "I was very excited when I saw this amazing shot of Saturn come up on the control room monitors of the VLT in November, and I'm even more excited that as of today the image is finally public. It is possibly the sharpest view of Saturn's ring system ever achieved from a ground-based observatory. All of us here at the observatory are quite proud of it, especially the NAOS-CONICA team."
But it's getting a little passè. How about something really interesting?
You can't legislate goodness. Let each to his own destiny, by will of his freely made choices.
You, my friend, are a god. ROFLMAO!
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
That's not a black hole. That's Uranus!
Zing!
do not read this line twice.
"The Galactic Center?"
No offense, but it looks awfully like a really really grainy shot through a webcam in someone's darkened bedroom of the nether parts of a human female, and not the center of... oh, wait. I see your point, now.
This also answers the question about where life came from, doesn't it?
Get off my launchpad!
you are for real funny master.(for real)(not sarcasm)
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How about supporting scientific principles of factually based rants in your post? "building killing devices and using them on peasants in the third world" isn't exactly the most accurate description of our recent activities. So stfu.
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