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Old 04-09-2008, 11:02 PM
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Have we all seen todays APOD??

My God! were the only words that came to mind....

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080904.html
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Old 04-09-2008, 11:04 PM
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wow. simple stunning
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Old 04-09-2008, 11:11 PM
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Amazing details in that image.

Very stunning.
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Old 05-09-2008, 12:13 AM
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thats really cool woohoo i have a new desktop pic
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Old 05-09-2008, 06:16 AM
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the blue rays coming out of thecentre of the neb look odd, neither jases, martins or even the hubble shot shows this from memory.... so is it real ????
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Old 05-09-2008, 08:46 AM
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That's absolutely mindblowing.

Amazing!
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Old 05-09-2008, 09:20 AM
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The full size pic really gives the impression of different streams of material crashing through one another. Even if we can't do space travel It's nice that simple technology can show us so much.
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Old 05-09-2008, 09:46 AM
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Stunning. Beautiful.

Follow the links to see how it was done.
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