These glorious stars and galaxies are all the more spectacular if you consider how far their light had to travel to reach us: millions, sometimes billions of years...
Carl Sagan once said: "We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people." True enough, and yet, as we consider our significance in the cosmic order of events, we can only "keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy." (Wislawa Szymborska)
An interesting part of Carina Nebula looks like a wise old sage with a pointing finger... and the other part, namely Keyhole Nebula, shows a "hand with a finger" (sometimes called the "Finger of God"):
Even more complex shapes can be found within Carina nebula, forming a sort of a cosmic "landscape" amid multitude of stars:
This apocalyptic image is the Hubble telescope's photo of the super massive star Eta Carinae. The spectacular expanding globular gas outburst around it is called the Homunculus (little man in Latin):
The beautiful medusa-like remnant of a supernova E0102:
(Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/MIT/D.Dewey et al. and NASA/CXC/SAO/ J.DePasquale; Optical: NASA/STScI)
When galaxies "hubble", er... huddle together, they sometimes produce curious formations, like this Stephan's Quintet - more info. These five galaxies are in a violent collision, "and are involved in a cosmic dance that most likely will end with the galaxies merging." -
Glorious "cosmic halo" galaxy, or rather Sombrero Galaxy... its brim is the inimitable dark dust lane around the central large bulge (probably concealing the supermassive black hole):
you cannot see this with your own eyes...something yes, but not everything.. http://www.universetoday.com/11863/true-or-false-color-the-art-of-extraterrestrial-photography/
Beautiful pictures you've posted, It's all just so overwhelming .I get that feeling even when Im in the garden with my small telescope a tiny ant looking up at the sky and wondering whats out there.
There's nobody living inside that stadium in Osaka - it's just an annual exhibit by the construction and real estate industries, like the Ideal Home show in London.
Sorry, but among the "Miniature Stirling Engines" ther is alos a vacuum engine (the big and the last picture, i.e. the one that looks a bit like a raygun)...
A little-known fact: If you go by launch rate (i.e. how many craft are launched per unit time), the busiest spaceport in the world is Cape Canaveral in Florida.
The second-busiest, however, is not on the list in this article at all. It's at Woomera, in South Australia.
My favorite is Hunter S. Thompson's "Debt Letter" that he sent to companies he owed money to. He insisted after reading it-many never contacted him again. Find it in "The Proud Highway" or at this link. http://darylburnett.wordpress.com/2009/01/13/hunter-s-thompson-the-debt-letter/
There is a special irony because this page is appearing on my computer with Best Buy ads. Best Buy emphatically did not like being pranked when dozens of members of a guerrilla theater group showed up at one of their stores all wearing blue shirts and khaki pants. They didn't do anything just strolled around the store politely till security rounded them up and threw them out
I'd like to add Paul C. Rosa to the list. And while he tended to use his own name, the personalities he adopted and populated his fictional life with were no less than brilliant. While i've read most of the others, i believe Mr Rosa should top this list.
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yeah, nice picture, little bit kytchy, but nice, oh, not to many people know that the colors are not true....
you cannot see this with your own eyes...something yes, but not everything..
http://www.universetoday.com/11863/true-or-false-color-the-art-of-extraterrestrial-photography/
Black Holes don't exist. They are only a theory.
Gravity is also just a theory.
That black holes DON'T exist is also but a theory.
Beautiful pictures you've posted, It's all just so overwhelming .I get that feeling even when Im in the garden with my small telescope a tiny ant looking up at the sky and wondering whats out there.
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