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New image of Galactic Centre
Stu
post Nov 10 2009, 05:10 PM
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Wow... just wow...!!!

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2009/28



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post Nov 22 2009, 04:35 PM
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Putting it all into context:

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(The M101 image is on the wall opposite the new Galactic Center image at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences.)



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- Stu   New image of Galactic Centre   Nov 10 2009, 05:10 PM
- - climber   QUOTE (Stu @ Nov 10 2009, 06:10 PM) Wow.....   Nov 10 2009, 05:24 PM
- - mchan   What is the source of the prominent light blue dif...   Nov 12 2009, 06:19 AM
- - nprev   IIRC, there is a globular cluster along the LOS fr...   Nov 12 2009, 06:55 AM
- - Pavel   Could somebody please identify the actual Galaxy c...   Nov 12 2009, 08:04 AM
- - tacitus   This is the annotated version of the image -- the ...   Nov 13 2009, 06:44 AM
- - Doc   So much detail... The Sagittarius A region is...   Nov 13 2009, 01:04 PM
- - Juramike   Here is a carefully coordinated view of a zoom of ...   Nov 19 2009, 07:25 AM
- - tacitus   Very nice -- just shows how active (and deadly) th...   Nov 19 2009, 10:09 PM
- - Juramike   Putting it all into context: (The M101 image is...   Nov 22 2009, 04:35 PM
- - tacitus   I still think the observations of the orbits of th...   Nov 24 2009, 12:12 AM

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