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by jd-f
Thu Feb 14, 2008 2:08 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: Elliptical Galaxy NGC 1132 - caption? (13 Feb 2008)
Replies: 13
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If you click on the link "dark matter" there's an explanation of this question. Also note that it says "likely" not "certainly"!

It's a fantastic picture - love those background galaxies!
by jd-f
Tue Aug 07, 2007 3:48 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: God's Eye (APOD 03 August 2007)
Replies: 25
Views: 8486

These posts are great because everyone's right! But rmulanax your logic is not faulty - if we could remain observers for 7 hundred light years right here on Earth...wouldn't the entire destruction of the Helix Nebula finally "play out" right before our eyes? If so, then it seems to me that...