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- Mon Jun 24, 2013 11:39 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: The Porpoise Galaxy from Hubble (2013 Jun 24)
- Replies: 30
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Re: APOD: The Porpoise Galaxy from Hubble (2013 Jun 24)
No. no. no... It doesn't look like a porpoise to me, at all. It looks like a hummingbird!
- Mon Sep 05, 2011 1:50 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: HH 47: A Young Star Jet Expands (2011 Sep 05)
- Replies: 23
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Re: APOD: HH 47: A Young Star Jet Expands (2011 Sep 05)
I see the 'left to right' distance appear to expand, but really I would say it's just a rotation, sans expansion. Looking at the matter on the right side is like focusing on one spoke, and you can't see the spokes ahead of it making the turn. A few more years maybe...
- Wed Jul 13, 2011 10:32 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Atlantis Last Approach (2011 Jul 13)
- Replies: 69
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Re: APOD: Atlantis Last Approach (2011 Jul 13)
"instead of being half empty."
Ah, but perhaps it is half full...
Ah, but perhaps it is half full...
- Mon Aug 23, 2010 11:32 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: A Milky Way Shadow at Loch Ard Gorge (2010 Aug 23)
- Replies: 25
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Re: APOD: A Milky Way Shadow at Loch Ard Gorge (2010 Aug 23)
I'm with the mirror school, not a shadow. Take the light out of a room and the mirror is dark. Put a little light in and you'll be able to see the dark reflections in contrast to the light. But... it's more romantic to call it a shadow, author's privilege (however incorrect). Kinda like a politician...
- Sun Jun 27, 2010 4:17 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: All the Colors of the Sun (2010 Jun 27)
- Replies: 70
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Re: APOD: All the Colors of the Sun (2010 Jun 27)
I have to concur with the brick wall theory. But I also think the use of a prism is a 2-dimensional manner of analyzing the energy from the Sun. The prism decompresses the visible light, but does not make non-visible colors visible, they pass through and remain undetected. So I think, as in Pink Flo...
- Mon Feb 01, 2010 1:42 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: The Mysterious Voynich Manuscript (2010 Jan 31)
- Replies: 238
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Gaelic?
It sure looks a lot like an older version of Gaelic to me. How long have we had a 24 hour clock, and did we once have a 12 hour one? Note the number of titles (12) and the total of 24 rays coming from the middle. Three of them have 1 star, the rest have 2... baffling. The 3 rings of text... looks li...
- Sat Oct 31, 2009 4:16 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: VdB 152 Reflection Nebula (2009 Oct. 31)
- Replies: 11
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Ghost image and the hand
I thought the image today looks a lot like a hand... see pic. ![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif)
![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif)