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Rouzbeh wrote:

Orca wrote:The Andromeda galaxy is certainly photogenic...always been one of my favorites!

This is a good example of Andromeda

Hmmmm, this too, is a fave of mine.
Had a giant poster of it in my room when I was a teenager.
Spent much time staring at it in wonderment...

Cheers.

APOD_admirer wrote:Eta Carinae is my favorite APOD entry:

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080617.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eta_Carinae

APOD_admirer

I have to agree on this one...

... my problem with "truth" and science is that if theories that are wrong can make accurate predictions, then theories we think are right (that is, true) bc they work can also turn out to be wrong... This so cool, isn't it? Take care. I don't think anyone needs to understand the math beh...

Keith Allingham, a tech marketing guy in Canada. I became interested in astronomy reading some of the great articles (with great photos and artwork) in National Geographic magazine in the late 60s and early 70s; I still have most of them. My parents then gave me a copy of the Flammarion Book of Astr...