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ashling

(25,771 posts) Mon Jan 20, 2014, 11:45 AM Jan 2014

Good morning!

A Galaxy Rises out of the Ocean
enlargeable at link:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/01/19/milky_way_astrophoto_of_the_galaxy_by_michael_shainblum.html

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/06/06/milky_way_galaxy_two_new_discoveries_about_its_spiral_arms.html

Epic Tantrums Get Stars Kicked Out ... of the Galaxy

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/01/16/hypervelocity_stars_normal_stars_seen_fleeing_the_galaxy.html

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Good morning! (Original Post) ashling Jan 2014 OP

I know where that was taken... hunter Jan 2014 #1

Wow libodem Jan 2014 #2

hunter

(38,311 posts)

1. I know where that was taken...

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Mon Jan 20, 2014, 12:51 PM

Jan 2014

... and it sort of bothers me that the "rainbow" of the Milky Way "ends" between the glow of two oil platforms.

A pot of black gold?

Shudder.

The larger glow near the center is Santa Barbara.

libodem

(19,288 posts)

2. Wow

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Mon Jan 20, 2014, 01:47 PM

Jan 2014

We are star dust. We are golden. And we have to get ourselves back to the gaaaaarden.

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