Hubble Telescope Snaps Images of Tarantula Nebula

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Hubble Telescope Snaps Images of Tarantula Nebula

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday January 12, 2014 @10:13PM from the look-at-that dept.

An anonymous reader writes "NASA's Hubble Space Telescope snapped a series new images inside the Tarantula Nebula, located within the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) – the third closest galaxy to the Milky Way. Hubble officials previously released images of the spidery nebula, however, this is the deepest view of the intriguing cosmic region full of star clusters yet."

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do you want by Anonymous Coward · 2014-01-12 22:20 · Score: -1

do you want to read my poem about niggers?
Feel small? by Christian+Smith · 2014-01-12 22:37 · Score: 0

I do!
1. Re:Feel small? by fisted · 2014-01-12 22:51 · Score: -1, Flamebait
  
  Well since you're probably a 5'11" manlet, I basically agree
  
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2. Re:Feel small? by Anonymous Coward · 2014-01-12 23:19 · Score: -1
  
  I do!
  niggers are black
  niggers are thick
  but try to tell them
  and they'll cut you real quick
3. Re:Feel small? by oodaloop · 2014-01-13 00:48 · Score: 2
  
  Maybe you should try one of those pumps.
  
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4. Re:Feel small? by Anonymous Coward · 2014-01-13 01:23 · Score: 0
  
  Well, I'm smaller than a tree, so what?
Typo by Anonymous Coward · 2014-01-12 22:51 · Score: 5, Funny

"NASA's Hubble Space Telescope snapped a series new"
I think you accidentally a word.
1. Re:Typo by Anonymous Coward · 2014-01-12 22:54 · Score: 0
  
  What part of 'a serious new images' didn't you understand? I own one, too.
2. Re:Typo by Anonymous Coward · 2014-01-12 23:12 · Score: 0
  
  uh, series*
3. Re:Typo by Anonymous Coward · 2014-01-13 00:15 · Score: 0
  
  You fail it.
4. Re:Typo by Anonymous Coward · 2014-01-13 01:18 · Score: 0
  
  I think they accidentally the whole thing.
5. Re:Typo by Thanshin · 2014-01-13 01:27 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  In journalism, as in Jazz, it's the words you don't say that matter.
6. Re:Typo by Anonymous Coward · 2014-01-13 01:41 · Score: 0
  
  I misread. Disregard what I wrote, I suck cock
Quietnet - chat program using near ultrasonic freq by Anonymous Coward · 2014-01-12 22:55 · Score: -1

Quietnet: Simple chat program using near ultrasonic frequencies.
"Simple chat program using near ultrasonic frequencies. Works without Wifi or Bluetooth and won't show up in a pcap.
Note: If you can clearly hear the send script working then your speakers may not be high quality enough to produce sounds in the near ultrasonic range.
Usage
run python send.py in one terminal window and python listen.py in another. Text you input into the send.py window should appear (after a delay) in the listen.py window.
Warning: May annoy some animals and humans."[1]
https://github.com/Katee/quietnet
[1] https://kate.io/
via: http://boingboing.net/2014/01/11/quietnet-near-ultrasonic-mess.html
Missing words by wonkey_monkey · 2014-01-12 22:58 · Score: 4, Funny

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope snapped a series of new images of the inside of the Tarantula Nebula
Maybe Slashdot should have someone look submissions over and correct errors - "edit" them, if you will. We could call them "editors." Hey, you could even pay them money so they don't do a half-arsed job of it!

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1. Re:Missing words by Anonymous Coward · 2014-01-12 23:04 · Score: -1
  
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  This webinar will familiarize you with:
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2. Re:Missing words by Anonymous Coward · 2014-01-12 23:07 · Score: -1
  
  There's what, a couple thousand words of summary "copied and posted" here each day, max.
  People proofread orders of magnitude more text than this with better results on a daily basis. There is really no excuse for the amount of errors we see here...
3. Re:Missing words by TheloniousToady · 2014-01-13 00:45 · Score: 1
  
  Why don't they just crowd-source it like everything else here? They could add a feature to the article preview page to correct the article, then they could have modders validate the changes. Oh, that would involve paying "programmers".
4. Re:Missing words by MachineShedFred · 2014-01-13 02:20 · Score: 0
  
  Yeah, because the crowdsourced moderation is so free of flaws, and never abused.
  
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5. Re:Missing words by TheloniousToady · 2014-01-13 02:45 · Score: 2
  
  Good point. I retract the suggestion.
  (Moderators: please mark parent as a Troll for disagreeing with me.)
Source link by melikamp · 2014-01-12 23:13 · Score: 5, Informative

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2014/02/image/
Stop with space.com slashvertisements already, it's nauseating.
space.com are leeches who are not competent enough to link to the frigging Hubble site. You know, the very minimum of what one can do to credit the work of the people who actually built the space telescope, took these amazing pictures, processed them, and brought them to the masses.
1. Re:Source link by GiantRobotMonster · 2014-01-13 01:15 · Score: 1
  
  Thanks for the link -- the space.com images are very low resolution (even when you click on the "full size image" link); the real images are MUCH better!
2. Re:Source link by jafac · 2014-01-13 07:13 · Score: 1
  
  note to space.com: defeats the purpose.
  
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Re:Quietnet - chat program using near ultrasonic f by fisted · 2014-01-12 23:14 · Score: 0

and won't show up in a pcap.
Wow, by design? -_-

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'we must focus on the images' -cnn by Anonymous Coward · 2014-01-12 23:58 · Score: 0

that's how the hand of fraud works now? if there's a break take time to be good sports & good spirits in real time.... at the same time...
"snaps" by Woek · 2014-01-12 23:59 · Score: 4, Informative

Funny use of the word "snaps", considering the exposure time of 103 hours (TFA). But I guess, on a cosmological scale...
"snapped a series new" by Anonymous Coward · 2014-01-13 01:28 · Score: 0

Did it. Did it really.
Re:Quietnet - chat program using near ultrasonic f by Anonymous Coward · 2014-01-13 02:19 · Score: 0

Wait, a data communication that doesn't use a network, doesn't show up in a network trace?
UNPOSSIBLE!
Tubgi8l by Anonymous Coward · 2014-01-13 03:38 · Score: -1

up my toys. I'm bben the best,
Tarantula? by sharknado · 2014-01-13 04:16 · Score: 1

Looks more like a giant squid than a tarantula. (Seriously, am I the only one that doesn't see it?)
space photos by volmtech · 2014-01-13 14:29 · Score: 1

To bad they can't focus it on West Virgina chemical storage tanks to check for leaks.
Easily visible to naked eye by aberglas · 2014-01-13 16:39 · Score: 1

For those in the Northern hemisphere, this appears to be about as bright as the great nebula of Orion, which itself is pretty impressive. But the Orion nebula is some 1,200 light years away, whereas the Tarantula is 160,000 light years away!