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PvtPyle
18-02-2008, 14:44
http://i30.tinypic.com/29pyn86.jpg

This is the mess that is left when a star explodes. The Crab Nebula, the result of a supernova seen in 1054 AD, is filled with mysterious filaments. The filaments are not only tremendously complex, but appear to have less mass than expelled in the original supernova and a higher speed than expected from a free explosion. The above image, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, is presented in three colors chosen for scientific interest. The Crab Nebula spans about 10 light-years. In the nebula's very center lies a pulsar: a neutron star as massive as the Sun but with only the size of a small town. The Crab Pulsar rotates about 30 times each second.
Goose
18-02-2008, 15:42
All space is weird, especially when gravity and space time get involved.

Nice picture though. Hubble has given us some of the most impressive pictrues I've ever seen. scale-wise.

I saw a photo of Uranus once.
PvtPyle
18-02-2008, 15:44
I saw a photo of Uranus once.

You just couldn't help yourself, could you ;)

As for Hubble, there are loads more on this website in the original MAHOOSIVE resolutions.

Linky (http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080217.html)
Goose
18-02-2008, 15:50
You get used to it after a while.

I shall take a look tonight. The distances are just mind-blowing.
Pumpkinstew
18-02-2008, 21:40
"The Universe is not only stranger than we imagine, but more strange than we can possibly imagine."
Lomster
18-02-2008, 22:27
Thinking about space makes me feel really small and insignificant... :(

(/Faysh)
PvtPyle
18-02-2008, 22:27
Nice quote. I was looking at some of the other images on the NASA site I linked to, at full resolution they are incredible (and very big!). It really brings home how small and insignificant our little planet really is, and how little we really know!
PvtPyle
18-02-2008, 22:28
Thinking about space makes me feel really small and insignificant... :(

(/Faysh)

Damn, you stole my words and posted them quicker than I did! :angry:
Lomster
18-02-2008, 22:35
Damn, you stole my words and posted them quicker than I did! :angry:
So that makes you more insignificant than me?
PvtPyle
18-02-2008, 23:41
So that makes you more insignificant than me?

Yes! :'(
Lomster
19-02-2008, 01:10
Yes! :'(
*hugs*
Jasper
19-02-2008, 15:26
pardon my ignorance - I know nothing about space and that sort of jazz. When it says that it is in 3 different colours for scientific interest, how many colours would actually be there in reality? Would be just be white?

*confused*
kaiowas
19-02-2008, 16:17
As with most of these images, if you were looking at that region of space with the naked eye you'd probably see nothing of interest. The image is rendered in false colour to show the distribution of various gases which also has the pleasant side effect of creating some funky looking images for people to be amazed by.
Feek
19-02-2008, 16:34
Thinking about space makes me feel really small and insignificant... :(

An invisible dot on an invisible dot?
Jasper
19-02-2008, 16:37
As with most of these images, if you were looking at that region of space with the naked eye you'd probably see nothing of interest. The image is rendered in false colour to show the distribution of various gases which also has the pleasant side effect of creating some funky looking images for people to be amazed by.

ahhhhh, thank you :)