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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAnd now we pause to observe the beauty of our Universe
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2013/jun/11/visions-universe-royal-maritime-in-picturesOrion Deep Wide Field, photographed from Earth with a Takahashi telescope
The Crab Nebula (M1) from the Hubble Space Telescope, 2005
shenmue
(38,506 posts)Beautiful colors.
malaise
(269,245 posts)I need to see the rest of the universe about now - sick of this effin' planet and its goons
Whisp
(24,096 posts)malaise
(269,245 posts)leftstreet
(36,117 posts)How kind of you to post this link!
DURec
malaise
(269,245 posts)about now
one_voice
(20,043 posts)on edit: I didn't realize there were more at the link. I missed the link. Awesome pictures.
malaise
(269,245 posts)all gorgeous
niyad
(113,714 posts)how depressing the news seems to be.
malaise
(269,245 posts)We all need this pause
reformist2
(9,841 posts)malaise
(269,245 posts)Come to think of it I wonder more and more every day. Looks like humans are here to destroy stuff.
JNelson6563
(28,151 posts)Really enjoyed those!
Julie
malaise
(269,245 posts)Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)malaise
(269,245 posts)Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)instances of fractal geometry which were also quite beautiful, and prompted speculation on a unifying theory of how things are.
Loudly
(2,436 posts)Light requires time to reach the lens of the camera.
So we are looking back in time.
These are snapshots of what was going on when as expressed in Earth time?
malaise
(269,245 posts)but I am not one of them.
Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)There's a lot of wiggle room on both since they're each huge, three-dimensional objects.
Loudly
(2,436 posts)The light in the foreground is more recent than the light in the background.
Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)The latter's especially neat - it's one of the recent(!) supernovae remnants that's been photographed clearly enough that you can actually see it expand over the years, bit by bit.
malaise
(269,245 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,483 posts)Thanks for the thread, malaise.
malaise
(269,245 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,483 posts)mindwalker_i
(4,407 posts)the cosmic microwave background listens.
Hekate
(90,939 posts)So much. We need a Namaste smiley.