How Far Can you See?

Post » Sun Oct 14, 2012 10:47 pm

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

This was released just last month. I can pick out 3 stars in this shot and the rest are all galaxies...about 5500 according to the first link in the paragraph.

I love this stuff. :)
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Far'ed K.G.h.m
 
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Post » Sun Oct 14, 2012 9:25 am

And if just one of those galaxies has a sun like ours, with a rocky-watery planet circling around it...
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Brandon Bernardi
 
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Post » Sun Oct 14, 2012 1:35 pm

And if just one of those galaxies has a sun like ours, with a rocky-watery planet circling around it...
Ayuh. And that's just a wee patch of sky.
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KU Fint
 
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Post » Sun Oct 14, 2012 10:16 pm

And if just one of those galaxies has a sun like ours, with a rocky-watery planet circling around it...

The one to the left. That's where I hail from.














Now I have to kill you....or steal your snacks. GIMME YOUR SNACKS!!!
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Gemma Flanagan
 
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Post » Sun Oct 14, 2012 10:29 pm

And if just one of those galaxies has a sun like ours, with a rocky-watery planet circling around it...
Then we'll still be alone because they'll be millions or billions of light years away :cryvaultboy:
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Bad News Rogers
 
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Post » Sun Oct 14, 2012 11:25 am

Then we'll still be alone because they'll be millions or billions of light years away :cryvaultboy:

They're actually already dead. That's a picture of what was there.



Maybe.
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Emmie Cate
 
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Post » Sun Oct 14, 2012 9:17 am

They're actually already dead. That's a picture of what was there.



Maybe.
Maybe we are just looking at their dinosaurs.
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Laura Richards
 
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Post » Sun Oct 14, 2012 6:55 pm

The one to the left. That's where I hail from.














Now I have to kill you....or steal your snacks. GIMME YOUR SNACKS!!!

I'm going to sing the Doom Song now! :happy:
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Laura Simmonds
 
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Post » Sun Oct 14, 2012 7:50 pm

Wherever Todd Howard can see, he can go there.
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Cat
 
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Post » Sun Oct 14, 2012 8:02 pm

Amazing


Oh no no no I'm a rocket man,
Rocket man, burning out his fuse up here alone...
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