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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
(269,175 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
(269,175 posts)leftstreet
(36,113 posts)How kind of you to post this link!
DURec
malaise
(269,175 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
(269,175 posts)all gorgeous
niyad
(113,576 posts)how depressing the news seems to be.
malaise
(269,175 posts)We all need this pause
reformist2
(9,841 posts)malaise
(269,175 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
(269,175 posts)Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)malaise
(269,175 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
(269,175 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
(269,175 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,424 posts)Thanks for the thread, malaise.
malaise
(269,175 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,424 posts)mindwalker_i
(4,407 posts)the cosmic microwave background listens.
Hekate
(90,827 posts)So much. We need a Namaste smiley.