EPTPretty awesome 1 billion pixel sized photo of part of the milky way
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United States6225 Posts
Pretty awesome 1 billion pixel sized photo of part of the milky way | ||
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Tewks44
United States2032 Posts
This image is called the "Hubble Deep Field." It is an image of the black night sky (observed with a human eye) with the hubble space telescope. + Show Spoiler + ![[image loading]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/HubbleDeepField.800px.jpg) It's amazing that what appears to be nothing in the night sky is actually filled with galaxies. What's more amazing is the size of the image. + Show Spoiler + ![[image loading]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/86/Hubble_Deep_Field_location.gif) The moon, as viewed from earth, would fill roughtly 1/4th of this image. The universe is such an amazing thing. Creatures so obsessed with examining and understanding their surroundings could not ask for a greater puzzle. EDIT: spoilered the images | ||
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Yttrasil
Sweden651 Posts
Scale of the Universe 2012 http://www.onemorelevel.com/game/scale_of_the_universe_2012 | ||
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Millitron
United States2611 Posts
Its already got a thread: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=244666¤tpage=3 So I'll leave the ins-and-outs of the game for that thread, but basically you build and launch your own rockets. In the next update, they are adding persistence, which will mean things you launch in one mission will still be up there in the next mission, so you can start getting space stations and such. | ||
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Aelfric
Turkey1496 Posts
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EL33T_COL
Canada68 Posts
I am myself an amateur astronomer, theirs nothing like the feel of watching other worlds in a telescope! | ||
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Restrider
Germany129 Posts
I really hope that I will have a clear sky during that evening, since I am actually planning on driving a bit outside of town, set up my lawn chair and enjoy the spectacle from an elevated POV. For anyone not knowing what I am talking about, you may check out this wiki article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perseids | ||
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Millitron
United States2611 Posts
Didn't really see too many tonight, as its still a little far before the peak. | ||
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Hecsagon
United States27 Posts
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SoniC_eu
Denmark1008 Posts
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sorrowptoss
Canada1431 Posts
And believe it or not, I also saw 3 shooting stars, probably early-comers of the Perseids. I loved it and acknowledge the fact that I'm super lucky!  | ||
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icystorage
Jollibee19350 Posts
 why so few posters? this thread shouldnt die | ||
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Restrider
Germany129 Posts
Anyway, I've managed to see Saturn (with rings obviously) together with what I think might have been Tethys, Titan and Dione, also I have had a glance on the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) and M110 - although only a glance, since I was still within the boundaries of my home town - and recently I have checked out β1-Cygni, which actually is a binary system. I also managed to make my first steps in astrophotography: + Show Spoiler + ![[image loading]](http://img3.fotos-hochladen.net/uploads/astrogt6ji57cqd.jpg) For higher resolution: http://img3.fotos-hochladen.net/uploads/astroi2gjsym376.jpg I already told you about the telescope I used. The camera I used was simply the CCD camera of my smartphone... | ||
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Orangered
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opisska
Poland8852 Posts
For the time being, I settled with a 16", handmade partly from wood by my friend (using stock chinese GSO optics - which is unbelievably cheap, yet optically perfect) - that's finally a thing with which the universer looks a little like on the pictures - for example the spiral structure in visible in many galaxies, not just the M51. And it also looks cool (photo by Martin Masek) + Show Spoiler + ![[image loading]](https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-5WwL5kIl8DY/T52nxdcPK3I/AAAAAAAAJI8/7JBuqzNtFR8/w1024-h682-no/IMG_1167.jpg) Even though I studied particle physics, I eventually became something like a professional half-astronomer, as on of my duties is to take care of the FRAM - a robotic telescope (12" Meade SCT on Paramount ME) in Argentina, used for atmospheric monitoring at the Pierre Auger Observatory, but also to observe astronomical targets such as asteroids and comets in the available time. More about the telescope can be found at the official page . Also, we becase quite "famous" during the Lovejoy comet madness - I even made a thread about it on TL, but back then I didn't foresee that our pictures will get to mainstream media and also to an article by Zdenek Sekanina, one of the world's leading cometary astronomers, so that turned out pretty neat. | ||
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RCMDVA
United States708 Posts
Apparently it's very, very close ~ just 11 or 12million light years away. Link via reddit, on the front page for now: http://blogs.discovery.com/inscider/2014/01/a-star-just-exploded-next-door-and-its-a-huge-deal.html#mkcpgn=fbsci1 Another link : http://www.universetoday.com/108386/bright-new-supernova-blows-up-in-nearby-m82-the-cigar-galaxy/ Astronomers are saying this new supernova is currently at magnitude +11 to +12, so its definitely not visible with the naked eye. You’ll need a 4 inch telescope at least to be able to see it. ![[image loading]](http://d1jqu7g1y74ds1.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/M82-SN-wide.jpg) | ||
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fomal
Estonia20 Posts
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