[karl 12]

Improved Hubble Space Telescope Images:
http://www.youtube.c...DhU&feature=sub

How the Hubble Deep Field Was Taken:
http://www.youtube.c...feature=channel

[Hazzard]

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"It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil - which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama".
Richard Feynman


"In some respects, science has far surpassed religion in delivering awe. How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, "This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant. God must be even greater than we dreamed"? Instead they say, "No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way."
Carl Sagan


“The supreme arrogance of religious thinking: that a carbon-based bag of mostly water on a speck of iron-silicate dust around a boring dwarf star in a minor galaxy … would look up at the sky and declare, ‘It was all made just so that I could exist!’”
Physicist Peter Walker


"For most of human history we have searched for our place in the cosmos. Who are we? What are we? We find that we inhabit an insignificant planet of a hum-drum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people".
Carl Sagan


"God did it. He did not call it the universe -- that name is modern. His whole attention was upon this world. He constructed it in five days -- and then? It took him only one day to make twenty million suns and eighty million planets!
What were they for -- according to this idea? To furnish light for this little toy-world. That was his whole purpose; he had no other. One of the twenty million suns (the smallest one) was to light it in the daytime, the rest were to help one of the universe's countless moons modify the darkness of its nights".
Mark Twain



And this ones off topic but a great story by Carl Sagan anyway:


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"A scientific colleague tells me about a recent trip to the New Guinea highlands where she visited a stone age culture hardly contacted by Western civilization. They were ignorant of wristwatches, soft drinks, and frozen food. But they knew about Apollo 11. They knew that humans had walked on the Moon. They knew the names of Armstrong and Aldrin and Collins. They wanted to know who was visiting the Moon these days".

That is a great post, Karl. Keep up the good work.

This post has been edited by Hazzard: 12 September 2009 - 11:29 AM

[MID]

karl 12, on 11 September 2009 - 12:54 PM, said:

MID -I think the title is somewhat misleading but this is quite an interesting article from the Independant:


http://www.independe...cs-1777738.html

Don't know what to make of that one but I'm sure they'll figure it out.
Cheers.

They don't know what to make of it either!

It's what makes planetary science and astronomy so much fun...we don't know everything!


...thank about it:

When we do know everything, science will end!

This post has been edited by MID: 15 September 2009 - 12:40 AM

[stevewinn]

on Our 200+ million year orbit around the core of the milky way Does our Solar system move through the different arms of the galaxy? or does everything move as one mass?

[karl 12]

stevewinn, on 20 September 2009 - 07:11 PM, said:

on Our 200+ million year orbit around the core of the milky way Does our Solar system move through the different arms of the galaxy? or does everything move as one mass?

Have no idea Steve but theres probably a few knowledgable folks on these boards who will.

Heres a good link anyway.

Giga Galaxy zoom.
http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/B.html
Cheers.

[stevewinn]

karl 12, on 27 September 2009 - 01:54 PM, said:

Have no idea Steve but theres probably a few knowledgable folks on these boards who will.

Heres a good link anyway.

Giga Galaxy zoom.
http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/B.html
Cheers.

Thanks mate, good link, i have since found out we do move through the galaxy arms. which i think is amazing.

[karl 12]

stevewinn, on 27 September 2009 - 03:42 PM, said:

Thanks mate, good link, i have since found out we do move through the galaxy arms. which i think is amazing.

Steve -you're not wrong about it being pretty bloody amazing.

Theres a great pic of a neighboring galaxy below - NASA have said its the best one yet.

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NASA’s Swift satellite has captured the best view of a neighboring spiral galaxy that we’ve seen yet.



Between May and July of last year, Swift took 330 ultraviolet images of our closest spiral neighbor, the galaxy M31 in the constellation Andromeda. Compiling all 85 gigabytes of image data resulted in the highest-resolution ultraviolet picture of a galaxy that scientists have ever had, and researchers say the new mosaic will give them a closer look at how stars are born in the Andromeda galaxy, 2.5 million light-years away.

http://www.wired.com...9/swiftgallaxy/

Cheers.

[Perdition]

This is so beautiful i want to cry!

[thefinalfrontier]

That little pale blue dot will forever be entrenched in millions of peoples minds, I know I will never forget about it or Carl Sagan, absolutly beautiful and on scale too,

Just had to come back and revisit one of my favorties,

Regards;

TFF

[karl 12]

TFF good to see you, theres another picture here with the words on -pretty profound stuff.



Cheers.

[karl 12]

Picture of our Galaxy:

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All-Sky Milky Way Panorama 2.0



Axel Mellinger, of Central Michigan University, created this panorama of the Milky Way from 3,000 individual photographs that he melded together with mathematical models. Credit: Dr. Axel Mellinger.

http://home.arcor.de/axel.mellinger/

[Torgo]

To a question above: as we travel around the galaxy we do indeed pass through the various spiral arms, but slower than you would think - they are not physical objects but density waves that resemble "traffic jams" where gas and stars pile up and move a little slower. They move around the galaxy but not at the same speed as the stars themselves."

Also - one of my friends assembled that ultraviolet mosaic of Andromeda!

[Coffin Jim]

Beautiful!

Torgo, on 02 November 2009 - 08:03 AM, said:

Also - one of my friends assembled that ultraviolet mosaic of Andromeda!

I wish I had friends like that.

[karl 12]

Great vid!

What Earth Would Look Like With Rings Like Saturn

[ChloeB]

karl 12, on 19 November 2009 - 02:44 PM, said:

Great vid!

What Earth Would Look Like With Rings Like Saturn

That was great. I liked how it showed how different it would look from all various locations from our point of view.