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Andromeda Galaxy's Secrets Revealed By Going Beyond Visible Light

Posted by samzenpus on from the more-than-meets-the-eye dept.

StartsWithABang writes: The Andromeda galaxy is our closest large neighbor, dominating our local group with more than double the number of stars found in the Milky Way. While visible light can reveal a tremendous amount of information, it's by going to shorter (UV) and longer (IR) wavelengths that we can learn where the newest, hottest stars are, find that they form in clusters along the arms and in the center, see through the (visible) light-blocking dust, and pinpoint the location of the neutral gas that will form the next generation of stars.

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  1. It's not even a fucking article by Edis+Krad · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Jesus H Christ, the quality of the posts is going down the fucking drain.

    1. Re:It's not even a fucking article by NotInHere · · Score: 1

      He has done this kind of "diashow" for some time now. The first time I saw it it was awesome, now I just ignore the whole story.
      But very much enjoyed his post on the last "new planet discovered thats even more like earth" news wave:
      https://medium.com/starts-with...

    2. Re:It's not even a fucking article by jfdavis668 · · Score: 1

      But the pictures are purdy!

    3. Re:It's not even a fucking article by narcc · · Score: 3

      It's Medium.com spam.

      This needs to stop.

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    4. Re:It's not even a fucking article by NoNonAlphaCharsHere · · Score: 1

      Indeed. What's wrong with the occasional "here's some pretty astronomical pictures" story? So it's medium.com, at least it isn't some tool's blog.

    5. Re:It's not even a fucking article by Tablizer · · Score: 1

      You just can't see the quality because it's in ultraviolet light. Feeble humans.

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    6. Re:It's not even a fucking article by mwvdlee · · Score: 1

      This is one post where we can be certain nobody RTFA.

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    7. Re:It's not even a fucking article by MrL0G1C · · Score: 1

      But none of the images fit on the page - at any f**kin page size, what stupid prat came up with that idea.

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  2. Oh noes! by Ol+Olsoc · · Score: 1

    Samsung is SOOOO gonna sue those bastards.

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  3. Wow who would think you can see more by Crashmarik · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you use more of the spectrum / sarcasm

    The article Pretty Pretty Pictures of Andromeda, such science, such insight.

  4. Stars gone wild ... by gstoddart · · Score: 1

    it's by going to shorter (UV) and longer (IR) wavelengths that we can learn where the newest, hottest stars are

    Just be sure to check their ID and get written consent, or you'll be in a whole world of hurt.

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  5. "we can learn where the newest, hottest stars are" by turkeydance · · Score: 3, Funny

    on TMZ.

  6. Sure is big... by fustakrakich · · Score: 1

    So big I couldn't zoom out. I had to open the pictures by themselves to make them fit the screen.

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    1. Re:Sure is big... by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 1

      I couldn't even do that properly. The images seem to be segmented.

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    2. Re:Sure is big... by fustakrakich · · Score: 1

      Yeah, just pick the part closest to the center. It'll give you the general idea. They kinda botched the whole thing with no captions too.

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  7. Photons are not always visible to the naked eye? by xxxJonBoyxxx · · Score: 3, Funny

    Please SlashDot editors - fill in what my third grade teacher missed in science class.

  8. Typical post by thegarbz · · Score: 5, Informative

    Startswithabang was so incredibly keen to suck some traffic from /. for his personal blog he didn't even check to see if his blog was viewable.

    Here's a hint, we'll be here tomorrow too, we'll still feed your dumed down blog with clicks then too. There's no rush to get it out so quickly that you can't even have a look at your own page to see if the full high res pictures that can't be rescaled don't take up 30 pages. .

  9. Fuck you! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Fuck you!

  10. Re:whatever by MrL0G1C · · Score: 2

    What article, seriously it's just a bunch of pictures that don't fit on screen at any resolution.

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  11. Just For Your Info by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Shorter wavelength mean HIGHER frequency. Longer wavelengths mean LOWE frequency. About a relative point.

    Infra red is BELOW visible light in frequency (below red). Like infrasonic, below what you can here (not to be confused with subsonic, slower than sound - yes, that subwoofer is a sic).

    And from this you know where UV lies.

    Now you know.

  12. Do /. editors even read these comments... by schitso · · Score: 1

    to see how completely fucking fed up with this kind of shit we are?

  13. Ask Vicki by Muad'Dave · · Score: 1

    Maybe we can ask Andromeda's Secret what Victoria's Secret is.

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