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    The Stormy Heart Of The Pinwheel Galaxy

    Dying Stars, Soaring Nebulas And Clashing Galaxies Have Never Been Brighter

    Is NASA Acting Out Danny Boyle's Sunshine For Real?

    Two Space Shuttles Prepped For Launch, In One Of Their Very Final Missions... To Probe Our Cosmic Origins

    NASA Preps Space Shuttle For Possible Rescue Mission

    A Wounded Galaxy Sings With Light

    Hubble Captures Four Moons Transiting In Front Of Saturn!

    NASA Finds Saturn's Missing Moon

    A Galaxy Shines In Every Wavelength

    Our Galaxy's Core Is Seething with Stars
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    Image of Daveinva Daveinva
    11/06/09

    In reply to The Stormy Heart Of The Pinwheel Galaxy
    I want to go to there. #space
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    Image of Bigdamnhero Bigdamnhero
    11/06/09

    In reply to The Stormy Heart Of The Pinwheel Galaxy
    Wow. Gorgeous. I'm always changing out my wallpaper cause of these. #space
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    11/06/09

    In reply to The Stormy Heart Of The Pinwheel Galaxy
    These pictures always remind me of eyeballs. #space
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    Image of lazyeight lazyeight
    11/06/09

    @crashedpc - Haifisch: Heretic! You doubt these are the Eyes of God?!? #space
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    11/06/09

    @lazyeight: My Eyes would never develop cataracts, unbeliever. #space
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    11/06/09

    @crashedpc - Haifisch: Coming Soon: Galactic Lasiks ! #space
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    Image of NotChoinski NotChoinski
    09/10/09

    In reply to Dying Stars, Soaring Nebulas And Clashing Galaxies Have Never Been Brighter
    A Long Time Ago, in a Galaxy Farfalle Away...
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    Image of Jack of all Tirades R.O.A.C.H. Jack of all Tirades R.O.A.C.H.
    09/10/09

    In reply to Dying Stars, Soaring Nebulas And Clashing Galaxies Have Never Been Brighter
    I love space porn. But I have a question. In the last 5 years or so, I have read multiple times how earth-based telescopes have gotten sharper and more powerful than the Hubble. If that is the case, why aren't we inundated with Interstellar money shots? It seems like Hubble is the Official photographer of all things cool.
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    Image of Log1c Log1c
    09/10/09

    @Jack of all Tirades R.O.A.C.H.: I've read similar things about the sharpness.

    I had a long reply, but it didn't come out right so I'll sum up as follows: other people are bitches... Also I think they are privately funded or held closer to the specific research institution.
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    Image of Boas_MC Boas_MC
    09/11/09

    @Log1c: If that's what's holding images back, I suppose this is one argument for sometimes having large spendy government-funded programs. You know, so all the rest of us can get off on space porn too.
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    Image of burlybax burlybax
    09/10/09

    In reply to Dying Stars, Soaring Nebulas And Clashing Galaxies Have Never Been Brighter
    Can someone explain to me: How are the colors in these photos achieved? Naturally? Or do they use some kind of element-based filter?
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    Image of Log1c Log1c
    09/10/09

    @burlybax: its called the 'Hubble Spectrum'.
    Oxygen is mapped to Blue, Hydrogen to Green and Sulfur to Red. Its a bit shifted from what their normal emissions are.

    The imager takes one black and white picture with specific filters for each of the above wavelengths. The images are then given color and combined. Sometimes with pictures from other telescopes like CHANDRA for Xray emissions and other things.

    An excellent description of the complete process is here: [astroprofspage.com]
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    Image of NotChoinski NotChoinski
    09/10/09

    In reply to Dying Stars, Soaring Nebulas And Clashing Galaxies Have Never Been Brighter
    It seems like all of a sudden, every third post on every gawker site is a click-through gallery. What gives?
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    Image of Dayburner Dayburner
    09/10/09

    @NotChoinski: Kids today don't like to read they just want pretty pictures.
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    Image of NotChoinski NotChoinski
    09/10/09

    @Dayburner: And that's what a gallery format should be for. But todays samples: "A Gallery of paragraphs of what I liked on last nights episode of Glee" (Gawker); "A Gallery of Intersting Examples of Joe Wilson being an Asshole" (Gawker); Fashin Week (Jezebel) - Okay, fashion week's legit.
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    Image of nozer nozer
    09/10/09

    @NotChoinski: Yeah, I think it's mostly a Gawker problem. The ones that show up here and on Jezebel make sense to be in that format.
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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    09/10/09

    @nozer: I feel like we're doing the same number of galleries as ever. Only thing that's new is now if I have 20 videos to post, I can put them up as a gallery, and it doesn't crash your browser -- I hope. Posts with 20 videos sometimes mess up people's browsers otherwise.
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    Image of EBone EBone
    05/15/09

    In reply to Is NASA Acting Out Danny Boyle's Sunshine For Real?
    So how do you focus a camera on the shuttle AND still get a clear picture of the sun?
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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    05/15/09

    In reply to Is NASA Acting Out Danny Boyle's Sunshine For Real?
    Of course the photos made this get stuck in my head:



    + Watch video
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    Image of Skunky Skunky
    05/11/09

    In reply to Two Space Shuttles Prepped For Launch, In One Of Their Very Final Missions... To Probe Our Cosmic Origins
    But will the rescue crew include Bruce Willis?
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    Image of corpore-metal corpore-metal
    05/11/09

    In reply to Two Space Shuttles Prepped For Launch, In One Of Their Very Final Missions... To Probe Our Cosmic Origins
    Still a little ticked off about how the Shuttle program put big delays in a lot of robot space science in the 1980s. Never put all your eggs in one basket.
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    Image of Andrew Liptak Andrew Liptak
    05/11/09

    @corpore-metal: The Shuttle program also really changed NASA's priorities from space exploration to scientific studies in orbit.
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    Image of OlavRokne OlavRokne
    05/11/09

    In reply to Two Space Shuttles Prepped For Launch, In One Of Their Very Final Missions... To Probe Our Cosmic Origins
    I'm kind of glad to see the end of the Shuttle era -- not because I'm anti-shuttle, but because it will hopefully usher in a new era of spaceflight.


    It feels like the shuttles are a decade overdue for retirement and Space is still being explored with something that seemed high-tech in 1979.

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    Image of Andrew Liptak Andrew Liptak
    05/11/09

    @OlavRokne: I somewhat agree - Atlantis was supposed to retire last year...
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    05/11/09

    @OlavRokne: Yeah, the space elevator is long overdue.
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    Image of Andrew Liptak Andrew Liptak
    05/11/09

    In reply to Two Space Shuttles Prepped For Launch, In One Of Their Very Final Missions... To Probe Our Cosmic Origins
    Successful Launch!
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    Image of estapler estapler
    04/14/09

    In reply to NASA Preps Space Shuttle For Possible Rescue Mission
    It has nothing to do with space junk. The HST orbit's angle of inclination is a completely different angle from the ISS's orbit. That means that when they launch into the HST's orbit, there's no possible way that they could dock with the ISS. If something goes wrong during the launch, like foam critically damaging the Orbiter's tiles, they'll have no place to go and no way to get home. So they launch a rescue vehicle, but since they have no "safe haven" for the original crew to hang out at like the ISS, the rescue vehicle will need to be on the second pad, ready to go. Time will be of the essence. BTW, the last shuttle mission to NOT go to the ISS...Columbia.
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    Image of Andrew Liptak Andrew Liptak
    04/18/09

    @estapler: Well, yes, but there is a larger chance that they'll hit something in Hubble's orbit. I mean, they've gone up to that orbit before, without the ISS's existence to fall back on, and they've never prepped a second shuttle before.
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    Image of phoenix phoenix
    04/14/09

    In reply to NASA Preps Space Shuttle For Possible Rescue Mission
    Go get em NASA!


    MY SPACE PR0N SUPPLY MUST NOT BE COMPROMISED.

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    Image of joshtate joshtate
    04/14/09

    @phoenix: /me compromises it greatly
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    04/15/09

    @Josh Tate: Why do you hate freedom?
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