Barred spiral galaxy NGC1300

[pscot]

The Hubble telescope captured a display of starlight, glowing gas, and silhouetted dark clouds of interstellar dust in this 4-foot-by-8-foot image of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1300. NGC 1300 is considered to be prototypical of barred spiral galaxies

[cheapdate]

1. Good Lord, that's beautiful!

[snooper2]

10. just remember "lord" had nothing to do with it

[cheapdate]

11. Prove it.

[snooper2]

12. okay

[cheapdate]

13. Wrong. The correct answer is that there's no way of knowing...

and the question is unanswerable (which is why Hawking said "probably&quot .

The pragmatist point of view is that since there are no practical consequences that depend on whether the proposition is true or not, you're free to believe what you will.

The empiricist point of view (Hawking) is that there is presently no tangible evidence.

Spinoza, a scholasticist, argues "Things could have been produced by God in no other way, and in no other order than they have been produced".

The God hypothesis, like a good conspiracy theory, can't be disproved with evidence, so why try?

[ismnotwasm]

2. Sweet!

[Gore1FL]

3. Samsung has outdone themselves!

[AngryDem001]

4. To boldly go where no one has gone before,

Beautiful.....

[No Vested Interest]

5. Interesting. I understand only the barest minimum of this.

The item in the photo looks like some kind of internal organ.

[ErikJ]

6. A closer galaxy framed by 100 million year old rocks.

:large

[UtahLib]

14. Oh, I love that! nt

[Warren DeMontague]

8. K&R

[mindwalker_i]

9. OMG it's a cosmic jail!

They're going to be looking for inmates to fill all those cel- solar systems.

[UtahLib]

15. Stunningly beautiful. nt

[nadinbrzezinski]

16. I got a serious case of sensor envy

[TheFrenchRazor]

17. the Hubble is great. nt