The Centre of the Galaxy

Dahakon

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For those of you who don't read slashdot, here is a link to an awesome image of the central part of the Milky Way galaxy. The image is a composite made up of images in the infra-red, visible light and x-ray spectrums, released to celebrate 400 years since Galileo first made observations of the night sky with his telescope in 1609.

Enjoy!
 

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I'm sure I am not the first person to be upset and slightly hurt that I am not infact in that picture :(

it is nice though, looks slightly eviiil and dramatic! did you see the photos of the sandstorm on Mars a while back, it looked like a very strange tattoo. I love space pics!
 

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Ahhhh the space.... I wanna work with space-related stuff! Too bad you apparently need to know about maths to do that o_O
 

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just makes you think how insignificant we truely are in the whole grand scheme of things. Us just floating around on our tiny planet.
 

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the proof there is a god, and he's not friendly
 

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I'm more impressed with what all that dust is hiding. Behind the bright bit to right of centre is Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of the galaxy.

This gif animation shows individual stars whipping around an invisible gravity source in a matter of months. That's Sagittarius A*.
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And zoomed in...
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Ezteq

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woah I didn't realise gifs could be educational! rep for making learning fun!
 

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That photo is obviously a fake Dahacon.






















The universe revolves around me! :D
 

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differences in scale there are just mind boggling. Difficult to comprehend just how tiny our little system is in the cosmic scale of things
 

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Here's something fascinating.

if we sent a radio signal at the speed of light through the universe, it may not reach the edge ever because either the universe would cease to exist or the universe is expanding faster than the speed of light.
 

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Also, I can't help but feel insignificant, knowing I will probably never live to see any form of expansion of us earth people into the galaxy (or very little).

The universe will continue its existence and progression over billions of years, whilst we die in a mere 80.
 

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Also, I can't help but feel insignificant, knowing I will probably never live to see any form of expansion of us earth people into the galaxy (or very little).

The universe will continue its existence and progression over billions of years, whilst we die in a mere 80.

the fact that mankind continues to progress and exist once you die is no reason to feel insignificant. there have been people who lived a long time ago and are significant even today.
 

Ezteq

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the fact that mankind continues to progress and exist once you die is no reason to feel insignificant. there have been people who lived a long time ago and are significant even today.

lol i'm just peeved that I won't be about to see it, it's not dying that bugs me it's all the stuff I'll miss out knowing about...

..that and the opportunity to don apocolypse gear and fight giant mutant zombie aliens when they invade because i'll either be:
A) dead and gone because it happens sooo far into the future or
B) waaay too old to look good in thigh high boots, hot pants and an ankle length leather coat and too feeble to wield my trusty laser cannon because the invasion happens when I'm like 90 or something and the only input I have on the invasion is moaning about it because newscasts about said giant alien zombies have replaced my afternoon gameshow

what a jip :(
 

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i want to live to see the end of the world or some kind of massive global disaster like a meteor or something.
 

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B) waaay too old to look good in thigh high boots, hot pants and an ankle length leather coat and too feeble to wield my trusty laser cannon because the invasion happens when I'm like 90 or something and the only input I have on the invasion is moaning about it because newscasts about said giant alien zombies have replaced my afternoon gameshow

that will never happen, because by the time giant alien zombies invade we will have perfected cyborg technology. so at worst you will be a 10 foot robot with a mohawk antenna (for keeping in touch with command) dual wielding gatling lasers cannons. with chainsaws on your elbows.
 

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The thing that is rly mind boggling is that all those stars might aswell exploded and dissapeared ages ago already and we wouldnt notice yet :lol:
 

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