more fun than an eye full of piss ([info]jacoby_swift) wrote,
@ 2009-05-11 00:45:00
Previous Entry  Add to memories!  Tell a Friend  Next Entry
Pictures like this recent photograph of the mane of the Hosehead nebula just make the back of my neck tingle with how absolutely incredible stuff is.




The mane is a cloud of Hydrogen that's fluorescing red.

(16 comments) - (Post a new comment)


[info]jacoby_swift
2009-05-10 11:58 pm UTC (link)
Forgot to mention, its written about in this article in the New Scientist.

And was taken using the Angle-Australian Telescope in New South Wales, Australia.

The light captured in this picture is 1500 years old!!

(Reply to this) (Thread)

[info]jacoby_swift
2009-05-11 12:03 am UTC (link)
Thats a crazy enough thought as it is!! That I can be looking up at the night sky, and the photons I'm looking at have been travelling in an unimpeded line, on a clear run, for centuries and centuries! Only to bounce off of my silly chops!

If I hadn't been bloody stood here, in the way with my dirty stinkhole of a planet, those photons could have gone on for ages!

(Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

[info]jacoby_swift
2009-05-11 12:03 am UTC (link)
Oh bugger. I'm never going to sleep now.

(Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

[info]littleonionz
2009-05-11 12:24 am UTC (link)
You know you are talking to yourself.
What freaks me is looking up at the big black and *almost* grasping how small we are (yoinks fear!) and yet; the uman imagination is vast. I mean have you ever found the limit of what is in your head?

(Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

[info]jacoby_swift
2009-05-11 12:27 am UTC (link)
No, but sometimes I feel like I'm getting near enough to the edge that I might fall out if I'm not careful! Kindof mental vertigo. Oh! Vertsuperego. :D

(Reply to this) (Parent)

[info]poifaerie
2009-05-11 10:44 am UTC (link)
This. This. All of this.

Everything is amazing.

(Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

[info]jacoby_swift
2009-05-11 12:01 pm UTC (link)
Did you just quote my favourite Tim Minchin song? :)

(Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

[info]poifaerie
2009-05-11 12:11 pm UTC (link)
*googles*

Um... maybe unintentionally?

(Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

[info]jacoby_swift
2009-05-11 09:43 pm UTC (link)


Tim Minchin - think Australian, intellectual Bill Bailey. ;)

(Reply to this) (Parent)

[info]madamclaire
2009-05-11 12:05 am UTC (link)
That is awesome. :)

(Reply to this) (Thread)

[info]jacoby_swift
2009-05-11 12:30 am UTC (link)
Isn't it?! :)

I'm sure one of the reasons I became a nerd was because of how beautiful the special effects were in sci-fi. Lucky there weren't pictures like this about, or I may have turned out as a hippy!! D:

;)

(Reply to this) (Parent)

[info]jacoby_swift
2009-05-11 12:35 am UTC (link)
Space wind! Pew! Pew! Pew!

G'night folks. :P

(Reply to this)


[info]rev_j
2009-05-11 07:12 pm UTC (link)
Thats just absolutely stunning.

There really aren't words.

(Reply to this)


[info]giraffe_boy
2009-05-12 10:43 am UTC (link)
Have a look at some of these:

http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/

Mind blowing stuff. Sci-fi got me interested in this stuff too.

(just dropping in from Tamara's friends list) :)

(Reply to this) (Thread)

[info]jacoby_swift
2009-05-12 11:20 am UTC (link)
Hello! :D

Yeah, the Hubble pictures are always beautiful, but they're kindof cheating as they're taken from space. This horse-head nebula one was taken from a ground telescope! ;P

Have you registered with Galaxy Zoo and taken part in the galaxy classification project? Thats just mind-blowing, knowing you're sat there classifying galaxies that have never been seen by the human eye before!

(Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

[info]giraffe_boy
2009-05-12 02:01 pm UTC (link)
A friend was telling me about the Galaxy zoo thing the other day but i forgot to have a look. I'll have to give it a go. I like the idea of sitting here on our little rock classifying galaxies containing billions of worlds, perhaps they're looking back at us doing the same.

(Reply to this) (Parent)

(16 comments) - (Post a new comment)

Create an Account
Forgot your login or password?
Login w/ OpenID
English • Español • Deutsch • Русский…