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Old 18-10-2008, 04:39 PM
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Originally Posted by strongmanmike View Post
I dunno Peter, if you scroll down to the full res close up image by the Spiegel team the streamers are pretty clear, the galaxy looks like it is full of bushfires with many rising pumes of smoke ........

Mike
Yep there is something subtle going on there, but when I look at really high-res data, such as what I pointed to earlier:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081002.html

I only see lots of interesting, indeed turbulent, dust lanes with no obvious spikes.

Some sort of celestial Rorschach test?
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