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by Lucretia
Fri Aug 24, 2007 10:38 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: Southern Moonscape, lunar craters (APOD 23 Aug 2007)
Replies: 36
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APOD 23rd August 2007 - Lunar Craters

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070823.html Is it just me, or does anyone else have real problems resolving these kind of images as craters and not bumps? It takes me a good few minutes of squinting and staring and looking at other details before I can perceive the craters as concave. :shock: Doe...
by Lucretia
Mon Dec 27, 2004 8:12 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: Black Holes in Galaxy cores
Replies: 2
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Black Holes in Galaxy cores

Is it likely that all spiral galaxies have a black hole at the centre? I ask as I'm looking at today's image of Andromeda and noting that it's often compared to the Milky Way. The thought that we're all being sucked inevitably down a plughole, no matter what galaxy we travel to, is a bit bewildering...