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Old 05-November-2009, 09:10 PM
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Default M83 with new eyes from HST!

Oh you guys and gals have just got to see this. This is M83 seen through HST's new eyes! This is really cool!

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Awesome... Here's the release page. Zoom video on this page.
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Thanks, slang

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Wow! Hey, I think I see some of residents waving at us.
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Let's see, the diameter of the Milky Way is about 100,000 lightyears. The distance to M83 is about 150 Milky Way diameters, and the WFC3 can image it with this amount of detail? Wow!
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