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Posted Friday 14th March 2008 12:11 GMT
We're all gonna die though, there's no sun (or sol)
Very cool though, cold even, really really really cold.
Posted Friday 14th March 2008 11:51 GMT
The things people will do for a bit more exposure...
Mine's the dirty brown mac with the camera in the buttonhole...
Posted Friday 14th March 2008 12:11 GMT
We're all gonna die though, there's no sun (or sol)
Very cool though, cold even, really really really cold.
Posted Friday 14th March 2008 12:27 GMT
Wow! In almost no time at all I found this image...
http://www.google.com/sky/#latitude=66.33970959528405&longitude=-42.44293212890625&zoom=9&Spitzer=0.00&ChandraXO=0.00&Galex=0.00&IRAS=0.00&WMAP=0.00&Cassini=0.00&slide=1&mI=-1&oI=-1
Looks like evidence for some kind of space battle to me!
Posted Friday 14th March 2008 12:53 GMT
Hopefully, amanfrommars will be writing a comment soon to complain about the privacy implications of this latest move by the big G.
Posted Friday 14th March 2008 12:53 GMT
Wow, that's odd!
Any astronomers out there want to enlighten me/us to what this is? Aside from proof of phaser-weilding stealth craft?
Posted Friday 14th March 2008 12:54 GMT
It kind of does. That is, until you recall that light is itself invisible, and can only be "seen" by way of the things it reflects off of or refracts through.
Still, there's no reason that couldn't be two laser beams passing through a very large dust/chaff/debris cloud.
I think I must be suffering an alcohol deficiency.
Posted Friday 14th March 2008 12:54 GMT
Looks like a remnant of the "LASERS" from the Alan Parson's Project.
Posted Friday 14th March 2008 13:09 GMT
after zooming in too the green beam i expected to see a star destroyer, but them pesky imperial scum must have developed clocking technology.
Posted Friday 14th March 2008 13:09 GMT
it's a satellite going across the field of view then going into eclipse.
Posted Friday 14th March 2008 13:09 GMT
The SDSS (visible) image is a mosaic, it is not perfectly aligned. The coloured slits are the edges of the images which composed the mosaic.
Posted Friday 14th March 2008 14:41 GMT
No you're totally wrong, it's clearly the trails of two starships entering hyperspace.
Posted Friday 14th March 2008 14:41 GMT
[pedant]
"the hoi polloi" is a tautology - "hoi polloi" means "the many" in Greek, so to say "the hoi polloi" is to say "the the many".
[/pedant]
=D
Posted Friday 14th March 2008 14:41 GMT
I must admit this thingy has lost me completely, I even tried the help & about features, no luck tho. Just what am I looking at? To start with, what does the time figure represent, and how does this correalate to a position in the sky? Which way is North & East, & doesn't it need to know where I am?
Say I want to know where a given planet will be tonight at 10pm, will this handle it, or are the times only relative (not relative in the Einstein sense, we all know that one.. or are told we do)?
Paris.. cos she used night vision too.
Posted Friday 14th March 2008 15:03 GMT
Hello. If you want to post a Google image link that is long enough to actually reach the moon, please TinyURL the beast. Thanking you.
Posted Friday 14th March 2008 15:42 GMT
assuming they are the same Earth and Sky broadcasts we get on public radio they are well worth opening the pod bay doors for.
Posted Friday 14th March 2008 16:15 GMT
That so-called space battle is clearly someone having a quick game of Missile Command.
Posted Friday 14th March 2008 21:15 GMT
I could not help but noticing the regimented series of Monoliths (m) in the area of Ursa Major.
Now what are they up to now?
They failed spectacularly when working with the simians on this smileball. (I mean slime covered planetary body)
Bones only because weesa-all-gonna-die (bad Jar-Jar impersonation) when the galactic bypass goes right through our neighbourhood.
Posted Friday 14th March 2008 21:15 GMT
"Say I want to know where a given planet will be tonight at 10pm"...
Use celestia or stellarium?
@AC - Sorry for being a spoilsport. There is enough weirdness in the universe *without* the artifacts, just search for it (hint: Seyfert's sextet - no need for puny space death rays)
Rafael, amateur astrogeek
Posted Friday 14th March 2008 23:50 GMT
.. we've found the empires next 1/2 build deathstar
http://tinyurl.com/26bvdg
Posted Saturday 15th March 2008 18:37 GMT
Nice to play with, but does it really have any real world use?
spamme@x86it.co.uk (Send an email to this if you want to get blocked from my mailserver!)
Posted Monday 17th March 2008 11:07 GMT
Oh yes. That's pretty bad, isn't it. But not as bad as a link the length of the M25.
Posted Sunday 23rd March 2008 02:42 GMT
Can anyone tell me how to find the Kasterborous galaxy on google sky?