Wanted to share this

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0611/08masterpiece/

incredible

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you must see the higher resolution versions to fully grasp the beauty of this picture. Amazing, and some billion times more beautiful than the most expensive painting ever

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Thanks

I now have a new desktop image!!!

As Bill and Ted would say: EXCELLENT [guitar chord]

maybe this should be moved to Astronomy?

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The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. ~ Ernest Hemingway ...

Especially if you don't much care for Pollock.

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

Don't they make fake "Krab" out of that?

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And fry it in a kettle of boiling oil flying through the air!

It was also used to douse fires in fireplaces, sometimes at luxurious estates and apartments.

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Did you stretch it or crop it to make it 5:3 or whatever ratio you use?

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Uh.. I hit the button that said "set as wallpaper" and it did it.

Quote from the movie "TRON", 'I'm a user'

See the Orion 3D flythrough Here.

Since I made the new image of Orion my wallpaper I have found myself just starring at it and wondering a variety of things:

1) Where are the supernovae cores that produced all the dust?
2) How many type Ia or II?
3) Is our system just passing by on our orbit around the galaxy or are we travelling together?
4) How much dust? I am going to work on this one because I bet there are some estimates out there.
5) What are the relative motions of the new stars and the dust winds that have been measured?

I am also sure that there is an entire industry of astronomers investigating these things as their life work. I am always amazed of the amount of wonder one image can evoke.

Edited to add: How does Dark Matter play in the nebulae?

http://home.att.net/~hideaway_fun/442/planet.htm

Speaking of pictures, or seeing them anyway, someone sent me this a few days ago. Pretty.

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"Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

It is a magnificent marble.

Are all these pics (more or less) unaltered (more or less) true color, or are they coloured IR/radar/whathaveyou tricks?

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I did a quick perusal of the site and can't tell on the Earth ones. That green strip of the Nile makes me think they are at least somewhat enhanced.

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"Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

That's one of the reasons I asked

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I think the night globes are the result of wrapping NASA's November 27 2000 APOD Earth at Night image on a sphere after filing off the copyright and adjusting gamma.

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the night falling upon Europe looked unreal, the shadow was too sharp wasn't it?

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