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« on: April 17, 2009, 05:49:36 pm »
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Amazing image whatever your interpretation.  :2funny

from http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Hand_of_God_seen_in_space&in_article_id=619381

'Hand of God' seen in space
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
A spinning star resembling a giant cosmic hand has been captured in images taken by a Nasa observatory orbiting miles above the Earth's surface.




The giant hand appears in this space pictures
The Chandra X-ray Observatory pictured the star, which measures 12 miles across, about 17,000 light years from Earth.

The star, unromantically known as PSR B1509-58, spews energy out into the space around it, forming complicated patterns including one resembling a large hand complete with finger-like structures.

Nasa launched the observatory on July 23, 1999.



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« Reply #1 on: April 17, 2009, 06:15:53 pm »
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A "light year" is


 
A light-year or light year (symbol: ly) is a unit of length, equal to just under ten trillion kilometres. As defined by the International Astronomical Union (which is the body which has the jurisdictional authority to promulgate the definition), a light-year is the distance that light travels in a vacuum in one Julian year.[1]



And they would have us believe they can take pictures of these happenings 17,000 light years away....spare me!!!


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« Reply #2 on: August 07, 2009, 11:49:32 pm »
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A "light year" is


 
A light-year or light year (symbol: ly) is a unit of length, equal to just under ten trillion kilometres. As defined by the International Astronomical Union (which is the body which has the jurisdictional authority to promulgate the definition), a light-year is the distance that light travels in a vacuum in one Julian year.[1]



And they would have us believe they can take pictures of these happenings 17,000 light years away....spare me!!!


You can see bright stars that are thousands of light years away.

Remember that the light has been travelling for 17,000 years and we are just now seeing the event as it occurred
at that time, 17,000 years ago.  We see it in "real-time", just delayed by the length of time it takes the light to travel
from there to here.





If we see a bright supernova, it is an explosion of a star that took place eons ago.  It may now be a lifeless star, but
we are stiill seeing into the past, like a time machine.
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« Reply #3 on: August 07, 2009, 11:55:50 pm »
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I fixed your post Brent...

I just realized people can't fix their own posts in this section....

Hellstrom must had fiddled with the permissions again...

I'll go and fix that sometime today so people can edit their posts once more in the other sections.
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« Reply #4 on: August 08, 2009, 01:35:46 am »
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That would be nice since I spelled hear "here" in
another topic.  sighhhh.
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« Reply #5 on: August 08, 2009, 02:38:35 am »
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That would be nice since I spelled hear "here" in
another topic.  sighhhh.

I never knew it was gone until I signed in with another nic....

that was the purpose of another nic...

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« Reply #6 on: August 08, 2009, 05:49:14 am »
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AwwwwW ur starting to feel bad about
all the alts, huh?
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