A picture of the Milky Way.

[Connemara]

This was created using 3,000 different photographs of the galaxy, along with mathematical models. Absolutely amazing. http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/...Axel+Mellinger

 

[oneeightyseven]

that's cool. I have more of an appreciation after taking astro 101 and learning just how big the milky way is.

 

[tagutcow]

Originally Posted by oneeightyseven

that's cool. I have more of an appreciation after taking astro 101 and learning just how big the milky way is.

Did the professor try to express the size of the Milky Way by flailing his arms and running running around the room?

 

[oneeightyseven]

Originally Posted by tagutcow

Did the professor try to express the size of the Milky Way by flailing his arms and running running around the room?

God I wish.

P.S to Conne, my Astro professor is notorious for wearing a bowtie every single day.

 

[dl20]

Get a fn life conne. Who cares about this ****.

dl

 

[Helix]

Few of my favorite astronomy pics. They get better the more physics you understand. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Ultra_Deep_Field Read a bit of the article (especially about just how small the patch of sky that that is taken over is and the fact that every patch of light in that picture is a galaxy) then ponder the perspective for a little. Mind will be blown.

Baby picture of the universe taken using tiny (and i do mean ******* tiny, as in fractions of thousandths of a degree) temperature variations in a fuzzy microwave radiation that permeate the whole sky.

 

[HelloIDistance]

Originally Posted by dl20

Get a fn life conne. Who cares about this ****.

dl

Lol. You're so deep man.

 

[StephenHero]

Space is the place. Never been there though.

"A parsec is a unit of length that equates to 19 million million miles, or 3.26 light years. Many galaxies are 100,000 parsecs in diameter. There are somewhere around 100 billion galaxies."

This God character uses a very well developed color palette.

 

[Helix]

Originally Posted by StephenHero

This God character uses a very well developed color palette.

So much so that most of those images have to use false-color for stuff outside our visual spectrum

 

[binge]

Originally Posted by StephenHero

"A parsec is a unit of length that equates to 19 million million miles, or 3.26 light years. Many galaxies are 100,000 parsecs in diameter. There are somewhere around 100 billion galaxies."

It's the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs.

 

[Connemara]

Originally Posted by dl20

Get a fn life conne. Who cares about this ****. dl
Shut up Repiglitard.

 

[Slopho]

Space is for gays.

 

[RyJ Maduro]

Originally Posted by Slopho

Space is for gays.

+1.

Earth > Space.

 

[philosophe]

Love the astronomy pics. Thanks for posting.

 

[RyJ Maduro]

Needs a poal.

Originally Posted by oneeightyseven

that's cool..

Originally Posted by dl20

Who cares about this ****.

Originally Posted by StephenHero

Space is the place.

Originally Posted by Slopho

Space is for gays.

Originally Posted by RyJ Maduro

Earth > Space.

Originally Posted by philosophe

Love the astronomy pics.