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My favorite so far.
This Chandra image of the supermassive black hole at the Milky Way's center, a.k.a. Sagittarius A* or Sgr A*, was made from the longest X-ray exposure of that region to date. In addition to Sgr A* more than two thousand other X-ray sources were detected in the region, making this one of the richest fields ever observed.
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12-01-2003, 05:00 PM | #2 |
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What, nobody likes this one?
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12-01-2003, 05:22 PM | #3 |
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I like it.
But sometimes you can't express the beauty of nature in words... [img]smile.gif[/img] Edit: Do you have more of these pics? Or any URLs? [ 12-01-2003, 05:23 PM: Message edited by: Ghoul ]
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12-01-2003, 08:56 PM | #4 |
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It's so bu-tiful my eyes are watering!
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12-01-2003, 11:58 PM | #6 |
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Gotta tell ya, LK... I like it, and when I read your description, I realized just how little I know about astronomy...
I've updated it for my new wallpaper, and I'm going to Google for what a Chandra image is, just so I can impress my friends. Before they stop being my friends, that is... On a side note, I read earlier this week about a contest to pick the most appealing picture of the sun from some 12 entries. It was from one of the sites you link pictures from, but I'll be danged if I can remember which one. I still have the green filtered sun on my Linux box...
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12-02-2003, 12:08 AM | #7 |
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I thought black holes are suppose to be well.....Black in colour.
that one is colourful. |
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12-02-2003, 09:01 AM | #9 |
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Really? The text came off so simply that I thought you had just added it in from your own knowledge. Honestly.
Well, I now know that a Chandra image is one taken from the Chandra observatory, where they can take pictures that use X-ray technology to render the image in some way that I still don't understand. What it now means to me is that Chandra images (a) were taken in this one place, and (b) make pretty colors [img]smile.gif[/img] :thumbsup"
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