Take a look at these pictures.

 

I hope everyone can access them, they came off the AOL home page.

 

http://rl.channel.aol.com/space/hubblegallery

 

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I checked it from the Foxfire browser and it seems that you will need an AOL screen name--sorry.

IE doesn`t like it either.

Oh well; check this.

 

http://hubblesite.org/gallery/showcase/text.shtml

 

Better yet:

 

http://www.astronomy.org.nz/aas/pub/Gallery.asp

 

and

 

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html

That`s more like it, Nice one Alt

check again

 

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the last one is awesome

cor blimey, there`s some great pics there, this one`s a beaut: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap041007.html

 

probably make a nice backdrop

I love this one:

 

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0501/orionNeb_ukirt_f.jpg

 

and:

 

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/figures/PIA07226_fig4.jpg

 

and:

 

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0503/foxfur_croman_big.jpg

 

 

 

They don't look real!! It's amazing how organic galaxies and nebulae look.

 

 

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Like this

 

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0503/ngc1532_gemini_big.jpg

wow.....http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040915.html <= that got a five dot pause compared to my usual three...

 

~Scott

Oh well; check this.

 

http://hubblesite.org/gallery/showcase/text.shtml

 

Better yet:

 

http://www.astronomy.org.nz/aas/pub/Gallery.asp

 

and

 

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html

 

Yes, that is much more compatible with other browsers......

 

Every time I see these pictures, I am awed by the dimensions of space. It is truely humbling to contemplate. I saw one nebula that looked like a big stump with some hair-like protrusions comming out of it and the caption said that a little dot on the end of one of those protrusions was about the size of our solar system.

I feel the same way. It's kindof like being a kid, and someone telling you the cloud above you is the size of the entire city. But these clouds are red and blue, and it takes years for light to pass from one side to the other, and longer to you.

the similarities between the macro and the micro are quite remarkable, almost as if the universe were like some huge fractal.

 

I think what I find astonishing is that when you watch programs like Star Trek and the likes, and see some of their special effects and think No WAY!

 

and then you see these REAL pictures, these special effect pale in comparison.

they are so pretty and amazing, its hard to comprehend that they are actually out there in our universe somewhere!