Back to the articleCool piccie #
Posted Tuesday 6th January 2009 13:11 GMT
"details in objects as small as 20 times the size of our own solar system"
Got to love the bonkers numbers :-)
Hubble probes Milky Way's turbulent core
Wallpapers #
Posted Tuesday 6th January 2009 13:11 GMT
Is anyone else a bit miffed that the James Webb Space Telescope, Hubble's pseudo-replacement, can only image in infrared?
Clever science aside, where the smeg am I going to get awesome desktop images of deep space now? Just have to trawl through the NASA back catalogue...
The blurb doesn't describe this particular image. #
Posted Tuesday 6th January 2009 13:14 GMT
It describes the full mosaic, of which this is only part.
The galactic core in this photo is the white mass towards bottom right.
"Ionized gas" #
Posted Tuesday 6th January 2009 13:14 GMT
A lot of hot air in the press release. In reality, it is plasma.
IT angle? I would bet more people in IT know about plasmas than in professional astronomy.
Could it be #
Posted Tuesday 6th January 2009 13:31 GMT
No surely not
Another fantastic BOFH technical excuse:
"The hard drive was slowed down by strong gravitational tidal forces which disrupted the organisation of the linear filaments"
Great.
oh look #
Posted Tuesday 6th January 2009 13:31 GMT
i think i spot xenu!
but in all seriousness a gorgeous pic!
Lower left corner... #
Posted Tuesday 6th January 2009 14:29 GMT
If you look in the bottom left, underneath the arching bright filament thingy, there's an Owl chick perched there.
@Luther #
Posted Tuesday 6th January 2009 14:29 GMT
So what, exactly, /is/ the difference between "ionized gas" and "plasma"? I thought that was pretty much the dictionary definition.
sweet, sweet hubble #
Posted Tuesday 6th January 2009 15:20 GMT
Now, maybe if the new prez gets the US out of war and back into space....hmmmm
Planet X #
Posted Tuesday 6th January 2009 15:25 GMT
Fancy pointing that thing at where Nubiru is supposed to be ?
@@Luther #
Posted Tuesday 6th January 2009 15:25 GMT
" So what, exactly, /is/ the difference between "ionized gas" and "plasma"? "
Try transfusing a pint of ionised gas into your arm. You'll soon notice the difference.
@AC: Wallpapers #
Posted Tuesday 6th January 2009 15:59 GMT
Lots of the pretty images they distribute are false-colour composed from different infrared wavelengths, and not very many are in true colour.
I also wonder #
Posted Tuesday 6th January 2009 16:13 GMT
If there is a hidden alein message stegged in there somewhere......
@Outcast #
Posted Wednesday 7th January 2009 11:04 GMT
Planet X is actually a crap Korean car? Who knew?
Next week, new pictures of the planets Mercedus, Porchiu, Ferraru and Skodia.
@@@Luther #
Posted Friday 9th January 2009 14:07 GMT
I tried that. It gave me some cool superpowers for approximately twenty minutes but otherwise it was pretty crap.
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