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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 24 2009, 12:12 AM
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I still think the observations of the orbits of the stars tracking around the black hole at the center of the Milky Way is one of the most fascinating results from the whole history of astronomy. The vast majority of the observable Universe beyond our solar system is essentially unchanged over the span of a single lifetime in terms of movement anyway, yet here we have managed to build up a picture of multiple stars whizzing around the black hole in just a few short years.

http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~ghezgroup/gc/pi...erImage08.shtml

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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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