A new image using data from NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory captures Stephan's Quintet in a new light
Posted 07.10.2009 at 12:34 pm
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Stephan's Quintent, Colliding: NASA
The ridge of blue in the center represent the X-rays emitted by the collision, as shock wave heats the galaxy's gasses.
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Some pretty impressive stuff!
But, I couldn't help but notice that the center and upper left brown spheres appear to have smiley faces :). Mainly the center one. Guess the event isn't all that traumatic!
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Amazing photo! Stunning!
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It is astonishing how advanced we are these days - to take such beautiful photographs so far into space! Galileo should have loved to see this :)
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View from 280 billion light years away is seriously breathtaking, but man I would not want to in that hot mess, that would hurt!!
How can we not be infinitely inspired to reach for the stars after seeing sights like that?
Beautiful!
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It's amazing as to what goes on out there. It would be even more amazing to actually be there. And watch it happen.
you would NOT want be there when it happens!*ouch*...but if you really want to just wait around a billion years until the andromeda galaxy crashes into us :0
man just think about how long ago that happend because if it takes 7 min. for light to come from the sun just think how long it took us to see that for all we know the galaxies black holes crushed everything and there is no bundle of stars.
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Spectacular.
It would absolutely be amazing to see it... too bad it happened 280 million years ago :-/
I'd be curious to see what the aftermath of this was.