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George
01-March-2004, 11:46 PM
See quarks in Tallahassee from 100 million lyrs. distance!

zoom here (http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/index.html)

Wish my scope could do this!

Nicely illustrates our size relative to our neighboring galaxies.

[Hope this isn't redundant]

Normandy6644
02-March-2004, 12:07 AM
I think it's been posted before, but who cares, it's a great little sequence!

SpaceTrekkie
02-March-2004, 12:17 AM
it has been posted before but i lost the link (that seems to becoming a habit) so thanx for posting it! it is great, as normandy said!