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Rollie Hawk writes "Three years ago, light from V838 Monocerotis (a star about 20,000 light years from us) reached the Earth that showed the star exploding. The more politically correct term for what happened is "stellar outburst." In the time since, images from a pulse of light released during the outburst have been arriving here on Earth. In October of 2004, Hubble captured a beautiful image of the scene with the pulse lighting up interstellar gasses that encapsulated the area around this red giant (a star 600,000 times brighter than our Sun). The release of this photo just days ago seems rather timely, as it appears that some of Hubble's funding may be cut in the near future. There is also talk of eliminating the program entirely."
I use this program and it picked up this image for me last night. It was MMm good with the porn.
http://www.badmofo.org/debris/
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Damn!!!
For a moment, I thought this was a Furry monkey with an eye closed about to swallow a bunch of stars..
I gotta warn everybody!!!
Oh wait! Hi Tommy! Hi Will.. What did ya say..
**Zap**
mmm..where was I?
Rapid Nirvana
Apple Corp. reportedly will be closing its doors forever. The long time maker of the friendly Macintosh computer addressed investors on Thursday, "...we agreed some time ago that when Hubble goes, so do we."
I dunno. Would you settle for a poster of a pretty girl instead?
msg me and I'll send you one.
Read about it here
Today I noticed that I have this little box in my Gmail account saying that I've now got 50 Gmail invitations.
webpronews
There's something ironic about asking someone if you should be skeptical.
Everyone know that star in the sky are only light put there by god. And now the Devil scam you with this false light. The Devil is Lucifer "Light walking in the sky" in greek.
That why the Bush administration is going to cut the Hubble telescope whom show picture of the Devil and fund book in the Colorado explaining the creation of the Greath Canyon by God the 6th day of the Creation.
Welcome in the New Christian Republic Of America, just a little bit weirder than the Islamic Republic.
Ceci n'est pas une Signature !
Shh... only Bush does the evil stuff around here.
Congress is never involved!
Sounds about right. Bush didn't give anyone tax-cuts either, congress did.
But hey, the one thing the administration can do is start a war all by themselves. So they're not totally ineffectual.
I agree, let's go back to the old, fun Afghanistan, where women were executed in soccer (football, sorry euros) stadiums! You ever see that footage (there's lots of it)? AK47 to the back of the head. Quite nice.
But we want to look at the pretty stars!
A shockwave? In space? You do realise you need an atmosphere for a shockwave, right? You do realise that there is no atmosphere in space, right? You do realise what a shockwave is? Hello? Can you understand me? Are you sentient? Apparently not.
as the movie showed...
Hey, did you know that Iraq and Afghanistan are two totally different countries? I kid you not!
Tard.
Interesting question but a bit moot since our own "gases and radiations" are already doing a very nice job of screwing up the planet.
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
House and Senate approve Iraq war resolution - Oct. 11, 2002
Oops!
I hope you feel big now.
I spent ages trying to think of sig, but never did
So, you would contend that the President is not the commander-in-chief of the military? And that it really wasn't up to Bush's discretion to attack? His hands were tied, right?
Bullshit.
'The more politically correct term for what happened is "stellar outburst."'
So are stars liberal or conservative? Will we be seeing ultimata from the Stellar Liberation Front? Should we burn our chromospheres to demonstrate solidarity with our celestial siblings?
Maybe instead of PC, what is meant is "precise"?