http://boingboing.net/2012/04/30/beautiful-photos-from-the-hubb.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sun, 19 May 2013 22:36:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://boingboing.net/2012/04/30/beautiful-photos-from-the-hubb.html#comment-1410730 Ultan Tue, 01 May 2012 20:25:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157471#comment-1410730 Just to be a little pedantic, if it is glowing on its own, as it appears to be, doesn't that make it a plasma, which is as different from a gas as a gas is from a liquid? [Edit: not that all plasmas glow, but if it glows, it's a plasma] Just to be a little pedantic, if it is glowing on its own, as it appears to be, doesn’t that make it a plasma, which is as different from a gas as a gas is from a liquid?
[Edit: not that all plasmas glow, but if it glows, it's a plasma]

]]> http://boingboing.net/2012/04/30/beautiful-photos-from-the-hubb.html#comment-1410254 Guest Tue, 01 May 2012 14:11:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157471#comment-1410254  Thanks!  Thanks!

]]> http://boingboing.net/2012/04/30/beautiful-photos-from-the-hubb.html#comment-1409593 Noctilucent Studios Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:30:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157471#comment-1409593 This image is not from the HST but it has hands down got to be the single most haunting image ever produced.  200,000 Galaxies in a single image. Just try and wrap your mind around that. It is just beyond....beyond. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/03/23/an-ultradeep-image-thats-full-galaxies/ This image is not from the HST but it has hands down got to be the single most haunting image ever produced.  200,000 Galaxies in a single image. Just try and wrap your mind around that. It is just beyond….beyond.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/03/23/an-ultradeep-image-thats-full-galaxies/

]]> http://boingboing.net/2012/04/30/beautiful-photos-from-the-hubb.html#comment-1409575 Mark Dow Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:08:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157471#comment-1409575 First appeared between April 30 and May 1, 1006. Can't tell which calendar was used for this date. SN 1006 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SN_1006 First appeared between April 30 and May 1, 1006. Can’t tell which calendar was used for this date.
SN 1006
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SN_1006

]]> http://boingboing.net/2012/04/30/beautiful-photos-from-the-hubb.html#comment-1409527 Jorpho Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:19:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157471#comment-1409527 They found the Nexus, amirite? They found the Nexus, amirite?

]]> http://boingboing.net/2012/04/30/beautiful-photos-from-the-hubb.html#comment-1409482 Keith K Mon, 30 Apr 2012 16:47:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157471#comment-1409482 If you look around a bit on that last link, you'll also notice that NASA hosts the raw data online, so you can actually make color versions yourself if you have a little Photoshop know-how. If you look around a bit on that last link, you’ll also notice that NASA hosts the raw data online, so you can actually make color versions yourself if you have a little Photoshop know-how.

]]> http://boingboing.net/2012/04/30/beautiful-photos-from-the-hubb.html#comment-1409453 Guest Mon, 30 Apr 2012 16:21:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157471#comment-1409453 How much longer than 1000 years? Maybe 1012 more? just wonderin' How much longer than 1000 years? Maybe 1012 more? just wonderin’

]]> http://boingboing.net/2012/04/30/beautiful-photos-from-the-hubb.html#comment-1409435 Ali Hasan Mon, 30 Apr 2012 16:01:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157471#comment-1409435 I agree with your statement. that's wonderful. I agree with your statement. that’s wonderful.

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