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by chuckrossier
Mon Feb 16, 2009 7:28 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: Great Carina Nebula, aka NGC 3372? (2009 Feb 16)
Replies: 2
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Great Carina Nebula, aka NGC 3372? (2009 Feb 16)

How does a cloud of gas and dust with mass more than 10,000 times our sun accumulate in an 8 billion year old galaxy? Shouldn't the majority of the mass have condensed into stars billions of years ago? And a supernova only once a century in a volume of more than 10E15 cubic light years? And the majo...
by chuckrossier
Sat Mar 29, 2008 12:18 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: Cat's Eye Hubble Remix (APOD 22 Mar 2008)
Replies: 17
Views: 8027

Cat's Eye Hubble Remix

For those of use who don't have 3D glasses nor do we have enough training to look at an image and discern the 3 dimensional aspects of the image, is there a way to use the redshift of various parts of a complex bubble and put it into something like an architectural program that permits rotation of t...