A New Look at an Unusual Galaxy (awesome pic)

[OuTpaTienT]

Some of the visuals we get from deep space are just.....breathtaking.

(click on the pic to go to the related web site)

http://members.home.net/dcowger/sombrero.jpg (http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2000/phot-07-00.html)

[Mntsnow]

That is truely awesome http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

Mntsnow

[Dave_H]

Outstanding!
Thanks, thats a cool site. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif
Great resolutions, make a nice wallpaper or screensaver.
Dave

[Jinx67]

Excellent Picture of the sombrero galaxy. "If your into astronomy go to http://www.siennasoftware.com . and check out starry night evaulation version.

P.S. "It definetly gives you a different perspective of your place in the universe."

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[jad1097]

I saw a reveiv of it on screensavers a while back and forgot about it. Downloading now.

[Toadman]

Beautiful Outpatient! Puts everything in a different perspective. DL'ing Starry Night also but rather futile, living in the light-polluted LA-basin. Thanks!

[wyvrn]

OOOH great pic thanks!

[Underclocked]

Super pic! Where is it, let's go?! http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[RCN_Moose]

wow......that ROCKS
Becoming wallpaper as I speak.
Thanks for the Link

Moose http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[CMonster]

WoW!

[Chef Mark]

Thanks for the pic/link OuTpaTienT. Now being appropriated as my desktop.

chef

[jeana]

Thanks-- it was a rest to my eyes just to see that. It's been too long since I dragged my eyes away from endless scrolls of text and gazed at the beauty of the universe. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[buitenb]

very nice !!!

jakob

[narayan]

Absolutely beautiful. Stunnng

[ktwebb]

If you like deep space pix, the hubble site is by far the best site I have found. I have not looked that hard but it is Hubbles site.
www.stsci.edu (http://www.stsci.edu)

[Richard_Cranium72]

At www.nasa.gov (http://www.nasa.gov) under the multimedia gallery, there is a section of their deep-field project. Here's a link to a photo that took ten days to expose. There are thousands of galaxies in the photo, the avg galaxy is reported to be 60,000 light years in diameter. This photo is of an area of sky the size of a dime held 75' away from your eye. SMALL.. http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pr/96/01/MosaicQ.gif DrVette

[Smokey]

That is extremely cool...

[ktwebb]

That Deep Field pic is about threeyears old. I was using it as wallpaper in 97. That and many more are at the site I posted earlier. The NASA page just links to the STSCI page as shown in Richards link to the GIF. If you like that one, check out some of the Gaseous Nebula pictures. Just incredible.

[zzzreyes]

It makes you wonder....????
Every time I look at space, it gives me a chilling tranquility, to think that we are nothing more than microns in this immense universe, yet we tend to believe we can do as we like with it.

I feel like a virus inside a body!

[Thor]

OuTpaTienT, great pic, I just changed my wallpaper. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

Well said zzzreyes my thinking as well. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

Thor

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[CujoRbd]

needless to say, i loved that pic... i also found another pic at that Hubble site... i switch between the two as my backround...

well, you can just see...

http://www.geocities.com/cujorbd/my_background.gif

http://www.geocities.com/cujorbd/my_background1.gif

well, i guess i just really like those pics... http://www.sysopt.com/forum/biggrin.gif http://www.sysopt.com/forum/biggrin.gif http://www.sysopt.com/forum/biggrin.gif


anywayz...

CujoRbd




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[brandon184]

WOW... That is AWESOME...

I'm 14, and Aeronautics/Space is something I want to get involved in, once I get older.

Sometimes while I watch the discovery channel or something, its just weird (to me) to see our solar system from a perspective... Planets.. Just these bodies of matter floating in nothing. And the space around it is endless.

:-)

Thanx for showing us the pic!

[Prospero]

A good site for astronomy pics. http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html

[Hellhound]

Great pics....im using that one and the nebula as wallpaper now...Thanks http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[Richard_Cranium72]

It is kinda humbling to look at these pics, makes you feel rather insignificant, doesn't it?

[Axel]

with things such as that - makes our problems seem somewhat small......

[jadison]

Just breath-taking...Another desktop 4 me...Ur lookin @ a future astronaut right here, and this is the reason why, I want to go out there in space and see things like this!! (although we probably won't have the technology to do that in the next 10 years!)

Oh well, great pic, Outpatient

jadison

[OuTpaTienT]

hmmpt. We can't even get to the next planet. (though I'm sure we could if we tried.)

We *might* barely be able to make it to the closest star (4 light years) if we're lucky within the next 25 years (I'm not saying we WILL make it there, but out technology will be capable of taking us at least.)

Barring some amazing discoveries that might allow us to break or "bend" our known laws of physics, there NO chance anyone will be going to a neighboring galaxy anytime in the millennium. Our own Milky Way galaxy is approx. 100,000 light years across! And even the closest galaxies are many times that distance.

[jadison]

I'm just testin to see if I got that image tag code correctly, hopefully there will be an image below:

http://www.freedrive.com/1/GetFile.asp?act=view&uid=3303038

[OuTpaTienT]

Freedrive won't let ya do that. X-drive's the same way. Bunk if you ask me.

If you need web space to store pics (that you can actually access via links), try using one of the "free web site" places...like Fortune City or Xoom or Anglefire or whatever.