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I am sorry, but I don't understand this... how does duplicating parts of the spiral arms, in a straight pattern... alternating the "brushes" like in a paint program to show 6-7 pointed "arms"... "unwind" a galaxy with only 2 spiral arms....yet is overlayed on a 2nd gala...

At first I thought it was a SUN... with exoplanets, or something...even MARS... then I read the article... now my pariedola is kicking in as I see rabbits, deer, a kangaroo all in one... Majin Buu from Dragonball Z... and "My Pretty Pony"... my god... I have it bad...

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I am sure the Sun is ALWAYS changing....

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Our civilization has recently detected the Higgs boson, and determined its mass to be 125 GeV. My question: in our Galaxy, how many other civilizations have ever done the same? (Anyone care to speculate ? ) Maybe those guys who keep visiting???.... um... SINCE we are speculating....and it is not &q...

They laughed at me... even in science class in college... for believing in other planets....

Now we got a picture of it... Now who is laughing?

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Bye-Bye comet...thanks so much for coming...

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Always a great view... my shot of Saturn from the other week... a great object no matter the distance.

Taken with minimal exposure with my Zwo Color Planetary camera and Celestron Evolution 6", around 150 frames stacked and sharpened up in RegiStax 6.

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Great wide angle shot... my close up shot...with my 10" Meade LX-200... which I recently sold...sigh... taken in 2013.

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Looking at wide angle shots it does not seem to be reacting with any other close galaxy... so I am thinking there was a merger...there is a very bright area in the right side of the bar... I am wondering if that is where the other nucleus is... or maybe there was a satellite galaxy and that caused s...

Eight worlds... one Sun... Nice comparison .... I was out looking at the sky about 1am... I had gotten an earlier shot of the Moon with Saturn and Jupiter on either side... but around 1am went out again... and in the east was startled to see a big red star... and I wondered and wondered what it coul...

Great looking shot... amazing... but IF you look at the top trunk "differently"... you can see a female cosmic "fish-woman"... The elephant's "eye" ...is HER eye... a rather fishy eye...lower she has... Legs...

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Cool.... a helicopter on Mars...

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Great shots of both.... I went out and just eyeballed them tonight...

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Amazing... a trip to nearly the edge of the Universe.

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Would have been an interesting shot to turn the scopes around and have the comet reflected in them... but this is a good shot too.

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I have a good view of the Big Dipper, but haven't been able to find the comet... too many trees in the way, even from my deck... I can see parts of the horizon, but just can't seem to get the comet... but a great picture like this is... um... GREAT...

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It is like a fountain in the sky... just awesome...

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Awesome... so nice, it's framed!!!

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That would be so cool to see from up there...

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I find it interesting, and a bit puzzling... there are swirls and round edges everywhere...but near the center..."in the pink"... is a VERY straight line... I assume of ionized gas or something... When everything else is CURVED... why is that so very straight??? Any answer? Thanks, :---[=...

Awesome shot...

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I find it interesting, and a bit puzzling... there are swirls and round edges everywhere...but near the center..."in the pink"... is a VERY straight line... I assume of ionized gas or something... When everything else is CURVED... why is that so very straight??? Any answer? Thanks, :---[==...

Awesome... interesting how the "flat part" rotates... hmmmmm....

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Interesting image... it reminds me of a closed clam shell... could we be... "The Clam Shell Galaxy"?

And to our far right... India...

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Hey.... Congrats APOD!!!!! Happy Birthday!!!

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