Astronomy picture o' the day

[data_ghost]

awesome findings by those guys! although i dont have that stereotypical view of an alien (humanoid) i think this is another piece of proof to show that there is other life out there.
a big collage of cool astronomy pic's,

[Daddyo]

That's a neat one

[SweatyPyro]

Is that what you see when you look through a telescope when you somehow put some LSD in it?

[Daddyo]

Now here's a picture that's getting a little bit closer to 2001: A Space Odyssey





BTW I got my mainframe PC up and running again today:



It was a real pain in the neck, kept arguing about my changing out it's RAM

[TRON.dll]

Did it wish to play a nice game of chess with you?

I just got a new PC started up, and the first thing it wanted to do was play chess with some Falken guy or somethin'...

[Daddyo]

It didn't want to play chess, but was really good at reading lips

[TRON.dll]

Hey, at least it didn't try to cut off all of your life support systems.


....yet

[Daddyo]

Check out this video of the milky way & andromeda colliding in billions of years from now http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archiv ... 9/video/a/

[data_ghost]

yeah, heard about this. lets hope some 'tard doesnt send a letter about this to a tabloid newspaper. headlines could be DOOMSDAY IS UPON US or THE ARMAGEDDON IS HERE

ETA 'till the end of existence: several billion years, chaps. no worrys.

[TRON.dll]

I dunno, if the worst case scenario occurs on CERN and it's worse than we think, it may be a bit sooner, lol.

CERN is the real life equivalent of Half Life.

[SweatyPyro]

7 Hours war amirite.

Anybody catch the Moon with Venus and Jupiter? It was cloudy that night for me, but the days before and after you can still see the bright light of Venus and the dimmer light of Jupiter there w/ a naked eye.

[TRON.dll]

Yeah, that was pretty awesome lookin'.

[Daddyo]

my neighbor told me about it, saw a few pictures on internet, but missed it live - doh

One goal in my life is to see a total solar eclipse, and the aurora borealis...but it may not be until i'm retired which I think is poor planning...

[data_ghost]

indeed the aurora would be one thing i would love to see in my lifetime. type it into google images and have an eye orgasm. heres a taste:

[Daddyo]

Ya those images just don't seem possible. Maybe some of our canadian fellows have seen a few?