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MSNBC top 10 astronomy pictures
Topic Started: May 23 2009, 08:24 AM (319 Views)
ngc1514
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So... who picks these things? Here's are some pretty good astronomy photos, but I'd only put 2 - the Pillars of Creation and Earthrise - on my own top 10 list.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29894281/displaymode/1247/

Pillars and Earthrise rank near the top of my own list, but number one is the Hubble Ultra Deep Field:

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Every one of those galaxies a system like our own Milky Way - each with hundreds of billions of stars. There are only a few stars from our own galaxy visible and they are marked with the diffraction spikes like that on the star next to the galaxy almost at the bottom of the image.

The small, red and faint galaxies are almost 13 billion light years away and started their light to us when the universe was less than a billion years old.

I like the insight it provides into the cosmological thought of the ancient Hebrews as they composed Genesis. The universe was, to them, the earth and the rest of the stuff. Supposedly god created all that exists other than the earth in a single day, but it took him a whole day to make the sun and moon.

If they only knew what they were looking at!
Edited by ngc1514, May 23 2009, 08:26 AM.
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Yes, that is an awesome picture.
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