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Gigapixels of Andromeda [4K]

  • 12-07-2015 3:50pm
    #1
    Double Barrel
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  • #2
    the_monkey
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    My God ... absolutely stunning ..... :eek::eek::eek::eek:

    we really are a tiny sand grain in an infinite Sahara

    Thanks a lot for sharing


  • #3
    the_monkey
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    Here's another one by the same lad ... equally as stunning ...




  • #4
    rolion
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    I could be wrong but i understood that no human built' telescope can see the inside of the Andromeda Galaxy !?


  • #5
    the_monkey
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    rolion wrote: »
    I could be wrong but i understood that no human built' telescope can see the inside of the Andromeda Galaxy !?


    Sure can with Hubble ... the VLT array can get pretty good looks into other galaxies too - allthough with radio waves ..


  • #6
    tac foley
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    Just one of a billion [or more, who knows?] galaxies...and here I am worrying about my sore feet.........

    tac, humbled


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  • #7
    maquiladora
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    tac foley wrote: »
    Just one of a billion [or more, who knows?] galaxies...and here I am worrying about my sore feet.........

    tac, humbled

    100-200 billion galaxies


  • #8
    tac foley
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    'kay. A hundred, maybe TWO hundred billion galaxies.

    It makes no difference to me.

    It's hard enough coming to terms with the scale of the one that WE live in - smaller than the Andromeda Galaxy.

    tac


  • #9
    Myrddin
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    maquiladora wrote: »
    100-200 billion galaxies

    I take it that's just in the observable universe too, so there's likely many more?


  • #10
    Maximus Alexander
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    Myrddin wrote: »
    I take it that's just in the observable universe too, so there's likely many more?

    Yeah but they're not really relevant since they might as well not exist at all being on the other side of the cosmological horizon.


  • #11
    Rubecula
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    Remember Andromeda is coming to get us .... but not for a while.


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