The centre of the galaxy

Tusky

warning: picture is 29 mb, fairly amazing looking though

http://ipac.jpl.nasa.gov/media_images/ssc2006-02a.jpg

small sample :

whiskeyman

smaller sample...


nice find Tusky

Sputnik

Cool, I'd like to get a poster of that.

projectmayhem

whiskeyman wrote:

smaller sample...


nice find Tusky

science eh?

NoDayBut2Day

Very pretty. I love astronomy pictures.

IvaBigWun

Took about 10 mins to load on broadband but worth it, its pweety

Im going to forward it as an email to everyone I know as "Intergalatic Porn ........ NSFW"

Mossy Monk

nice picture

hullaballoo

:eek:

scuba steve

class

JohnCleary

Savage, only took about 10 seconds to load for me. It's either in the College's cache or ive got serious bandwidth in my apartment

JackKelly

i'm actually scared of these pictures.

You see all the stars and than start thinking about the billion other galaxies just like it, and than the clusters of galaxies spiralling and than about the other universes........

Squirrel

I love that pic, I have it as my desktop now

Adam

TimAy wrote:

i'm actually scared of these pictures.

You see all the stars and than start thinking about the billion other galaxies just like it, and than the clusters of galaxies spiralling and than about the other universes........

Likewise! I find it very intimidating to think about, even just standing outside looking at the sky on a clear night (bearing in mind I live in Cavan, clear night has a whole different meaning in Dublin, its just brighter fumes!).

dr zoidberg

My computer went mad trying to d/l that first link!

Great pic though.

Chong

I love pics like this.

Tusky

Yup, it makes you feel quite small doesnt it ?

Tusky

heres some more.

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/2004/07/image/

http://www.floridamuseum.org/downloads/4_Eagle_Nebula.jpg

http://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/images/d6/04086.jpg

http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/113420main_image_feature_314_helix_full_ys.jpg

hullaballoo

If you accompany this by reading the relevant chapter in that Bill Bryson book A Brief History of Nearly Everything (or something to that effect), it really puts it in perspective.

CyberGhost

fade_to_grey wrote:

Likewise! I find it very intimidating to think about, even just standing outside looking at the sky on a clear night (bearing in mind I live in Cavan, clear night has a whole different meaning in Dublin, its just brighter fumes!).

I agree with you both, it's scary to think about that, but it's amazing to think of how far has humanity come, and how far it's go :eek:

Thanks for the pics Tusky

if anyone wants nice galaxy poster check out art.com, they have a huge selection.

Shrimp

and thats only the galaxy..

The Free Man

and thats only the CENTER of the galaxy :eek:

HashSlinging

where could you get that printed on quality paper to be framed, ]=)

Heyes

IvaBigWun wrote:

Took about 10 mins to load on broadband but worth it, its pweety

Im going to forward it as an email to everyone I know as "Intergalatic Porn ........ NSFW"

you and your porn :rolleyes:

JackKelly

Horsehead Nebula FTW!

StupidLikeAFox

I thought this was the centre of the universe
http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2004/ALLPOLITICS/07/27/top.five.bono/vert.bono.pool.jpg

Tusky

ColHol wrote:

I thought this was the centre of the universe
http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2004/ALLPOLITICS/07/27/top.five.bono/vert.bono.pool.jpg

haha *clap*

Binomate

My house is bigger tbh.

Peteee

hullaballoo wrote:

If you accompany this by reading the relevant chapter in that Bill Bryson book A Brief History of Nearly Everything (or something to that effect), it really puts it in perspective.

Great book. Everyone should read it! Many an hour I have spent wondering....wondering...forward not backward........upward not forward, and always twirling, twirling, twirling toward freedom!

danniemcq

Everybody lives on a street in a city
Or a village or a town for what it's worth.
And they're all inside a country which is part of a continent
That sits upon a planet known as Earth.
And the Earth is a ball full of oceans and some mountains
Which is out there spinning silently in space.
And living on that Earth are the plants and the animals
And also the entire human race.

It's a great big universe
And we're all really puny
We're just tiny little specks
About the size of Mickey Rooney.
It's big and black and inky
And we are small and dinky
It's a big universe and we're not.

And we're part of a vast interplanetary system
Stretching seven hundred billion miles long.
With nine planets and a sun; we think the Earth's the only one
That has life on it, although we could be wrong.
Across the interstellar voids are a billion asteroids
Including meteors and Halley's Comet too.
And there's over fifty moons floating out there like balloons
In a panoramic trillion-mile view.

And still it's all a speck amid a hundred billion stars
In a galaxy we call the Milky Way.
It's sixty thousand trillion miles from one end to the other
And still that's just a fraction of the way.
'Cause there's a hundred billion galaxies that stretch across the sky
Filled with constellations, planets, moons and stars.
And still the universe extends to a place that never ends
Which is maybe just inside a little jar!

It's a great big universe
And we're all really puny
We're just tiny little specks
About the size of Mickey Rooney.
Though we don't know how it got here
We're an important part here
It's a big universe and it's ours!

thank you Animaniacs

IvaBigWun

hullaballoo wrote:

If you accompany this by reading the relevant chapter in that Bill Bryson book A Brief History of Nearly Everything (or something to that effect), it really puts it in perspective.

I really must read that book. Its been on the long finger for awhile. Supposed to be mind-blowing.

CyberGhost

Thank you hullaballoo, added that book to my "to read" list

EDIT:

btw is "A Short History of Nearly Everything" the same book or a different one?

Fast_Mover

ya lovely picture indeed..makes one wonder..

KdjaCL

hullaballoo wrote:

If you accompany this by reading the relevant chapter in that Bill Bryson book A Brief History of Nearly Everything (or something to that effect), it really puts it in perspective.

Heh thought that when i 1st seen the pic.,

kdjac

RandolphEsq

what i love about it is that its so breathtaking,you think its not real,even though you can see it

Fast_Mover

BrightEyes wrote:

you think its not real,even though you can see it

ya its amazing to think that's out there..