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after four hours, the girl-child and i awoke
for our next eight hours oftrainingplaying games.
she sprinted past...
"the cabinet of all knowledge"
containing close to forty-thousand flash-cards
previously memorised by our son
and, now, the crux
of the girl-child's home-schooling
the contact of my pain-fully dry feet
with the rough concrete floor
informed me of the extremely dry atmospheric conditions
and concomitantly excellent star-gazing available that evening
for the two of us.
as the girl-child was across the valley,
i turned on the inter-webs and (hurriedly) reviewed the night-sky:
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Fresh from our beloved Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys: spiral galaxy Messier 66, the largest and third of the Leo triplets.
Its arms are asymmetrical which is quite odd, and they "creep" around the galaxy's main disc making the core look displaced. Most likely its peculiar anatomy is a result of the gravitational pull of the other two members of the trio that has caused it to stretch out.
This is a composite of images obtained through the following filters: 814W (near infrared), 555W (green) and H-alpha (showing the glowing of the hydrogen gas). They have been combined so to represent the real colors of the galaxy.
Galactic anomalies ftw
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Not pure astronomy per se, but from the end of Empire Strikes Back:
And our lovely local star, aka the Sun:
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I admire those who fight for a cause and despise those who cause fights.
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
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All Images Retrieved From:http://www.time.com/time/photogaller...984100,00.html
Black Hole 1990
Eagle Nebula
Saturn Aurora
Butterfly Nebula
Pluto
More:http://www.time.com/time/photogaller...129323,00.html
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Just to necromance a lovely thread.
Not exactly what you'd expect from a serious astronomy lover but, alas.
Globular and open clusters, some serious hydrogen emission nebulae, a little of what appears to be supernova remnant, fluffy clouds of interstellar gas in the form of KITTEHS!
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http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs70/f/20...by_Herakel.jpg
http://www.theapricity.com/forum/pic...pictureid=1469
Pic made by me. Obviously not photos, but my point is that many of the pics who you think are photos may very well be made using a 2D/3D software.
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