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Title: Wow, this is a photo
Post by: videoholic on February 27, 2004, 07:53:07 PM
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Wow.  What an amazing shot..  It doesn\'t even look real.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4400056/
Title: Wow, this is a photo
Post by: Titan on February 27, 2004, 08:00:31 PM
That looks sweet. Too bad I won\'t see the day where we can travel to the planets like travelling to England.
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Post by: GmanJoe on February 27, 2004, 09:09:15 PM
HEY! Where are the white billowy clouds? Nothing\'s higher than clouds!
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Post by: SwifDi on February 27, 2004, 09:33:22 PM
B-e-a-utiful.
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Post by: Black Samurai on February 28, 2004, 12:34:16 AM
It almost looks like an optical iillusion.

Can you imagine being able to see that in person one day?
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Post by: clips on February 28, 2004, 06:36:10 AM
truly amazing! i\'ve always been into stuff like this..if i\'m flipping through the channels & if the science channel is showing something regarding the universe (blackholes, galaxies.etc) i\'m dead on it! :nerd: That image looks so fake..and it\'s a puzzle how the rings manage to stay in such unison around saturn..i mean it\'s a perfect ring!
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Post by: videoholic on February 28, 2004, 06:59:25 AM
IN the article they say they are going to have more and more pics more often now that it is getting closer.  What is so wild is the shadow on the ring.
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Post by: §ôµÏG®ïñD on February 28, 2004, 07:02:01 AM
It\'s "ghostly"   the pic does look fake...  maybe it is.
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Post by: PS2_-'_'-_PS2 on February 28, 2004, 07:15:54 AM
It does look fake yeh, like something u would have as ur wallpaper. but i think its probably real
Title: Wow, this is a photo
Post by: clips on February 28, 2004, 07:21:02 AM
looking at the pic the shadow the planet is casting on the rings looks weird..like the shadow was just pasted on them..still a stellar photo.
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Post by: §ôµÏG®ïñD on February 28, 2004, 07:24:10 AM
I don\'t believe its real.
The light source is from the bottom right.. yet the shadow on the rings points towards the bottom left.. hmm   I donno.. seems like a strange pic to me.
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Post by: cloud345 on February 28, 2004, 07:54:11 AM
Looks fake mostley cause theres only 1 star in the entire picture........
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Post by: Black Samurai on February 28, 2004, 08:21:55 AM
^^^That is a moon.
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Post by: Viper_Fujax on February 28, 2004, 09:32:11 AM
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Originally posted by §ôµÏG®ïñD
I don\'t believe its real.
The light source is from the bottom right.. yet the shadow on the rings points towards the bottom left.. hmm   I donno.. seems like a strange pic to me.


because it wouldnt make sense. If the sun shines on the bottom left, its blocking the top and bottom of the ring, just we cant see the top. I think its real.

The rings stay there because of gravity. why i dont know. guess the same reason we have gravity. Its amazing how huge it is and its only gas.
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Post by: Kurt Angle on February 28, 2004, 09:38:05 AM
Amazing pic, I would hate to estimate the cost of a telescope/camera that could take pics that detailed from so far away.

:nerd:
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Post by: §ôµÏG®ïñD on February 28, 2004, 11:45:23 AM
I\'ve been told the reason it looks that way. Donno if its true but it sounds good to me.
That image of saturn was a "long exposure", something like 72 hours or more. That\'s why everything looks so smooth.
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Post by: clips on February 28, 2004, 11:50:13 AM
^^ also could be there\'s no air pollution in outer space..everything you see is crystal clear.
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Post by: GmanJoe on February 28, 2004, 03:05:03 PM
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Originally posted by clips
^^ also could be there\'s no air pollution in outer space..everything you see is crystal clear.



BWAHAHAHA! TOO FUNNY! There\'s no air in space, buddy! :laughing:
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Post by: Halberto on February 28, 2004, 03:12:43 PM
clips got :wned:
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Post by: clips on February 28, 2004, 03:40:33 PM
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Originally posted by GmanJoe
BWAHAHAHA! TOO FUNNY! There\'s no air in space, buddy! :laughing:


c\'mon people i know that! :p i didn\'t think i\'d have to explain it! sheesh! i  used to live in the urban area of jersey..newark...Now with all the bright lights & POLLUTION you can\'t see any of the stars..when i would travel down south i/e north carolina you could see all the stars with your eye..even mars if you looked close enough..because of less lights & air pollution..there i explained it. :)
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Post by: clips on February 28, 2004, 03:46:53 PM
nobody better not try to use that as a sig or i will bust a Clip in yo A$$! :mad: :p
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Post by: Halberto on February 28, 2004, 04:07:05 PM
Didn\'t even think about doing it till you said that.
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Post by: videoholic on February 28, 2004, 04:18:05 PM
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Originally posted by cloud345
Looks fake mostley cause theres only 1 star in the entire picture........


In order to get stars the camera would have to have an exposure FAR longer than what this one was.  THe planet would be a ton brighter than a star so the planet would be blown out if you saw stars.  Then you would definitely know it was fake.
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Post by: clips on February 28, 2004, 04:26:21 PM
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Originally posted by ViVi
Didn\'t even think about doing it till you said that.


aw..hell! damn you! :rpissed: :p that\'s ok..you just wait..there will come a time where you will slip up..and YOU will get siged...yes revenge will be mine! :rpissed: *shakes fist* :p
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Post by: videoholic on February 28, 2004, 04:36:19 PM
Damn, I missed that one.  Poop.
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Post by: square_marker on February 28, 2004, 04:39:56 PM
looks fake.....  damn nasa
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Post by: Black Samurai on March 05, 2004, 07:26:25 PM
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Explanation: Variable star V838 Monocerotis lies near the edge of our Milky Way Galaxy, about 20,000 light-years from the Sun. Still, ever since a sudden outburst was detected in January 2002, this enigmatic star has taken the center of an astronomical stage while researchers try to understand where it fits into the picture of stellar evolution. As light from the stellar flash echoes across pre-existing dust shells around V838 Mon, its appearance changes dramatically. Revealed in a sharp snapshot recorded in February by the Hubble\'s Advanced Camera for Surveys, this portion of the dust shell is about six light-years in diameter. But because light reflected from the dust follows only a slightly indirect path compared to the direct line-of-sight to the star, the light echoes visible now are only lagging about two years behind the outburst itself. Astronomers expect the expanding echoes to continue to light up the dusty environs of V838 Mon for at least the rest of the current decade.


http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040305.html (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040305.html)
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Post by: videoholic on March 05, 2004, 08:15:33 PM
Cool how they use the 4 point star filter to shoot snapshots of stars...  :)
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Post by: Kurt Angle on March 07, 2004, 12:23:04 PM
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I always knew they would find water on mars!;)