by kfsone » Sun Dec 16, 2007 1:24 am
Funny how the eye plays tricks. I was looking at the image for ages and suddenly George Washington's face popped out: The virgo cluster arrow pointing at top of his forehead, hercules supercluster pointing at the back of his hair, his neck stops at the milkyway; he's facing to the right side of the image. If you follow the line of the Coma Cluster arrow you'll run into a little filament of red dots, which forms his eyebrow.
What I was actually looking at when I saw it is the sort of "stripe" down the center of the image (coma and virgo cluster arrows end at the edges of it). Is that an artefact of how the data is collected?
One thing that's really puzzling me - as it has done in other images - is the prevalance of arched, almost eliptical or round, filaments: just left of the hercules supercluster arrows head, just past the centuarus arrow head, lots running along the opiuchus arrow line, and others big and small all over the image.
Are these artefacts of lensing?
Funny how the eye plays tricks. I was looking at the image for ages and suddenly George Washington's face popped out: The virgo cluster arrow pointing at top of his forehead, hercules supercluster pointing at the back of his hair, his neck stops at the milkyway; he's facing to the right side of the image. If you follow the line of the Coma Cluster arrow you'll run into a little filament of red dots, which forms his eyebrow.
What I was actually looking at when I saw it is the sort of "stripe" down the center of the image (coma and virgo cluster arrows end at the edges of it). Is that an artefact of how the data is collected?
One thing that's really puzzling me - as it has done in other images - is the prevalance of arched, almost eliptical or round, filaments: just left of the hercules supercluster arrows head, just past the centuarus arrow head, lots running along the opiuchus arrow line, and others big and small all over the image.
Are these artefacts of lensing?