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Started by Jacob, January 09, 2015, 05:51:43 PM

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11B4V

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January 09, 2015, 05:54:58 PM Last Edit: January 09, 2015, 05:56:58 PM by 11B4V
That's nice. Good pic. :)

I understand it's going to collide with our galaxy.
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MadImmortalMan

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January 09, 2015, 06:05:05 PM
Quote from: 11B4V on January 09, 2015, 05:54:58 PM
I understand it's going to collide with our galaxy.

Neil Tyson told me so. So it must be true.
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Jacob

#3
January 09, 2015, 06:07:37 PM
Quote from: 11B4V on January 09, 2015, 05:54:58 PM
That's nice. Good pic. :)

I understand it's going to collide with our galaxy.

Hope it's after the weekend. I want to get a chance to relax.

Ed Anger

#4
January 09, 2015, 06:07:59 PM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on January 09, 2015, 06:05:05 PM
Quote from: 11B4V on January 09, 2015, 05:54:58 PM
I understand it's going to collide with our galaxy.

Neil Tyson told me so. So it must be true.

Dr. Make Up Quotes? Yep.
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Eddie Teach

#5
January 09, 2015, 06:29:48 PM
Quote from: 11B4V on January 09, 2015, 05:54:58 PM
I understand it's going to collide with our galaxy.

That'll make it a lot easier for Tim to visit it.
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Jacob

#6
January 09, 2015, 06:52:27 PM
Another related picture I came across, the Pillars of Creation:



Explanation: http://www.engadget.com/2015/01/08/big-picture-pillars-of-creation-hubble/

More NASA pictures: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html

mongers

#7
January 09, 2015, 06:59:18 PM
Nice.

But kinda sad on yet another day when humans found more justifications for killing each other, rather than just taking deep breaths and gazing up at the sky or looking at any other part of creation.   :hmm:
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The Brain

#8
January 09, 2015, 07:00:45 PM
Quote from: mongers on January 09, 2015, 06:59:18 PM
Nice.

But kinda sad on yet another day when humans found more justifications for killing each other, rather than just taking deep breaths and gazing up at the sky or looking at any other part of creation.   :hmm:

I use my binoculars to observe heavenly bodies. :)
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11B4V

#9
January 09, 2015, 07:22:35 PM
Quote from: Jacob on January 09, 2015, 06:07:37 PM
Quote from: 11B4V on January 09, 2015, 05:54:58 PM
That's nice. Good pic. :)

I understand it's going to collide with our galaxy.

Hope it's after the weekend. I want to get a chance to relax.

In four billion years or so, give or take.
"there's a long tradition of insulting people we disagree with here, and I'll be damned if I listen to your entreaties otherwise."-OVB

"Obviously not a Berkut-commanded armored column.  They're not all brewing."- CdM

"We've reached one of our phase lines after the firefight and it smells bad—meaning it's a little bit suspicious... Could be an amb—".

Jacob

#10
January 09, 2015, 07:56:02 PM
Quote from: 11B4V on January 09, 2015, 07:22:35 PM
Quote from: Jacob on January 09, 2015, 06:07:37 PM
Quote from: 11B4V on January 09, 2015, 05:54:58 PM
That's nice. Good pic. :)

I understand it's going to collide with our galaxy.

Hope it's after the weekend. I want to get a chance to relax.

In four billion years or so, give or take.

Great. That gives me plenty of time :)

Caliga

#11
January 09, 2015, 10:00:30 PM
Quote from: Jacob on January 09, 2015, 06:52:27 PM
Another related picture I came across, the Pillars of Creation:
I just got back from an astronomy club lecture and they discussed this.  :nerd:
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lustindarkness

#12
January 09, 2015, 10:07:33 PM
I love that new Pillars of Creation pic.
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garbon

#13
January 09, 2015, 10:26:19 PM
Quote from: Jacob on January 09, 2015, 07:56:02 PM
Quote from: 11B4V on January 09, 2015, 07:22:35 PM
Quote from: Jacob on January 09, 2015, 06:07:37 PM
Quote from: 11B4V on January 09, 2015, 05:54:58 PM
That's nice. Good pic. :)

I understand it's going to collide with our galaxy.

Hope it's after the weekend. I want to get a chance to relax.

In four billion years or so, give or take.

Great. That gives me plenty of time :)

Watch it, those years will pass by quicker than you think.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

mongers

#14
January 09, 2015, 10:39:03 PM
We are all stardust. :wub:
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"
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