Now a F*ckin' Space Science Thread

[Army of GOD]

This is really old but it's my favorite Hubble picture. The Eagle Nebula, aka the Pillars of Creation, is an interstellar region filled with gas, plasma, and dust. Stars are constantly formed in the cloud and eroded by the light of other newly-created stars. These things are trillions of miles long.



It is also approximately 7000 lightyears away and is speculated by scientists to have been destroyed thousands of years ago by a nearby supernova. Given the distance, it will take another 1000 years we will be able to see it's possible destruction.

It's almost like looking into the past.

It's pretty amazing how this picture are just incredibly hard to fathom yet it's "beauty" (for lack of a better term) is so innate that I get goosebumps just looking at them.

[maxfaraday]

This is really old but it's my favorite Hubble picture. The Eagle Nebula, aka the Pillars of Creation, is an interstellar region filled with gas, plasma, and dust. Stars are constantly formed in the cloud and eroded by the light of other newly-created stars. These things are trillions of miles long.



It is also approximately 7000 lightyears away and is speculated by scientists to have been destroyed thousands of years ago by a nearby supernova. Given the distance, it will take another 1000 years we will be able to see it's possible destruction.

It's almost like looking into the past.

It's pretty amazing how this picture are just incredibly hard to fathom yet it's "beauty" (for lack of a better term) is so innate that I get goosebumps just looking at them.

It looks more like a painting to me...

[Juan_Bottom]

So basically we've been shooting defenseless animals out into space to see how funny it is when they die.

[Juan_Bottom]

[Juan_Bottom]

DOUBLE CHECKED, It's true

[Maugena]

So basically we've been shooting defenseless animals out into space to see how funny it is when they die.

We should shoot ships with these all over the universe and lots of other biotic things in them as well.

[Juan_Bottom]

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/201 ... n=20120903

I saw this before but I had no idea that it got NPR's attention

[Juan_Bottom]

[Juan_Bottom]

http://www.etsy.com/shop/VintageConfections

Here's the link if you're interested in acquiring these bad runners. It's worth checking out just to see the cool things that they can do with a lolly.

[Juan_Bottom]

[john9blue]

^ wow. words fail me. LOL

i can understand people thinking a "blue moon" is actually blue, but... the mars sun thing is a new low

[Army of GOD]

obligatory

[Juan_Bottom]

Astronomy Picture of the Day

2012 September 7

IC 4628: The Prawn Nebula

Image Credit & Copyright: Marco Lorenzi (Glittering Lights)

South of Antares, in the tail of the nebula-rich constellation Scorpius, lies emission nebula IC 4628. Nearby hot, massive stars, millions of years young, radiate the nebula with invisible ultraviolet light, stripping electrons from atoms. The electrons eventually recombine with the atoms to produce the visible nebular glow, dominated by the red emission of hydrogen. At an estimated distance of 6,000 light-years, the region shown is about 250 light-years across, spanning an area equivalent to four full moons on the sky. The nebula is also cataloged as Gum 56 for Australian astronomer Colin Stanley Gum, but seafood-loving astronomers might know this cosmic cloud as The Prawn Nebula.

[Juan_Bottom]

[Juan_Bottom]

Click image to enlarge.

[thegreekdog]

obligatory

I hope Ms. Baker and her friend had to resign from Facebook because of this.

[tzor]

It is also approximately 7000 lightyears away and is speculated by scientists to have been destroyed thousands of years ago by a nearby supernova. Given the distance, it will take another 1000 years we will be able to see it's possible destruction.

Note to self: Local supernova 7K light years away will hit our vicinity in about one thousand years.

While is it not a "near-Earth supernova" I would reccomend not accepting offers of imortality in order to not have to worry about the impact to the planet in a thousand years, especially if we get caught in the path of the gamma ray burst.

[Juan_Bottom]

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the center of globular cluster M 4. The power of Hubble has resolved the cluster into a multitude of glowing orbs, each a colossal nuclear furnace. M 4 is relatively close to us, lying 7200 light-years distant, making it a prime object for study. It contains several tens of thousands stars and is noteworthy in being home to many white dwarfs—the cores of ancient, dying stars whose outer layers have drifted away into space.

In July 2003, Hubble helped make the astounding discovery of a planet called PSR B1620-26 b, 2.5 times the mass of Jupiter, which is located in this cluster. Its age is estimated to be around 13 billion years—almost three times as old as the Solar System! It is also unusual in that it orbits a binary system of a white dwarf and a pulsar

Cool story, yo.

[maxfaraday]

Any physicist in here?
I have a question.

Why can't I see stars in the "sky" in the video of Armstrong and Buzzdrin on the moon?

[john9blue]

Any physicist in here?
I have a question.

Why can't I see stars in the "sky" in the video of Armstrong and Buzzdrin on the moon?

i was wondering this too. here's what google gave me:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index ... 355AAhgJm1

[rdsrds2120]

Any physicist in here?
I have a question.

Why can't I see stars in the "sky" in the video of Armstrong and Buzzdrin on the moon?

i was wondering this too. here's what google gave me:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index ... 355AAhgJm1

Makes sense for the same reason that dark spots on the sun aren't dark at all -- they're actually more than 100x brighter than a light bulb comparatively to the rest of the sun, but our eyes auto-adjust.



BMO

[Army of GOD]

It's because it was faked you idiots.

[Symmetry]

It's because it was faked you idiots.

Oh, AoG, I bet you say that to all the guys.

[Juan_Bottom]

Elect me president, and your kids will have a chance to live on Mars.

[Juan_Bottom]