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- Thu Oct 23, 2008 4:46 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: NGC 7331 Galaxy looks bent (APOD 22 Oct 2008)
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APOD Oct 22, 2008
I just wish a photograph was a photograph instead of an artist's conception, which this one obviously is. It's easy to veer off from discussing things to discussing names of things. What does it matter if the thing in question is called a photograph or a simulacrumgraph or something else? Well, I s...
- Wed Oct 22, 2008 11:33 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: NGC 7331 Galaxy looks bent (APOD 22 Oct 2008)
- Replies: 74
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Spiral galaxy Oct 22 2008
I love these images of spiral galaxies. They indeed are almost works of art. It is mind-boggling to imagine the vast dimensions of space pictured. The first thing that strikes me when I see one of these images is that the sky does not look like that when I look at it. Of course I don't have telescop...
- Mon Oct 20, 2008 5:47 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Saturn pic, error in writeup? (APOD 20 Oct 2008)
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Saturn pic, error in writeup? (APOD 20 Oct 2008)
I believe there is an error in the description of the Oct. 20 picture. The phrase "the Jovian world's atmosphere" should read "the Saturnian world's atmosphere."