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12AX7

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Little man in perspective
« on: June 12, 2007, 05:57:00 AM »
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Re: Little man in perspective
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Re: Little man in perspective
« Reply #6 on: June 12, 2007, 05:59:09 AM »
Close-up of the darkest region of the above Hubble Telescope photograph:::


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Re: Little man in perspective
« Reply #7 on: June 12, 2007, 06:14:22 AM »
There's always a bigger fish, it seems. It's only a matter of time before we discover a star that's a ligh year in size.

This is my favourite picture taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. From what I understand each one of the columns of hydrogen gas in the picture is more than a light year tall.
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Re: Little man in perspective
« Reply #8 on: June 12, 2007, 06:19:23 AM »
Here is the same picture from above, but with a more realistic color balance. The other one had different colors in order to "increase its scientific value".
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Re: Little man in perspective
« Reply #9 on: June 12, 2007, 06:25:17 AM »
OMG that is weird. I love pics of deep space; they seem to always have something fascinating to see.
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Re: Little man in perspective
« Reply #10 on: June 12, 2007, 06:39:01 AM »
Nice!
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« Reply #11 on: June 12, 2007, 06:43:14 AM »
:-D  +1!
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Re: Little man in perspective
« Reply #12 on: June 12, 2007, 10:48:29 AM »
Awesome thread, 12!

+1s all around!
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Re: Little man in perspective
« Reply #13 on: June 13, 2007, 01:06:12 PM »

Who knew the Enterprise would be right there ... priceless!
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Re: Little man in perspective
« Reply #14 on: June 13, 2007, 02:34:00 PM »
+1 those pics are amazing. Space pictures seem to make me get lost in them and stare at them for an hour or so before i realize what I'm doing. Very interesting topic.
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