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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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27 October 2012
A Halo for NGC 6164
Image Credit & Copyright: Don Goldman
Beautiful emission nebula NGC 6164 was created by a rare, hot, luminous O-type star, some 40 times as massive as the... |
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6 October 2012
At the Heart of Orion
Credit: Image Data - Hubble Legacy Archive, Processing - Robert Gendler
Near the center of this sharp cosmic portrait, at the heart of the Orion Nebula, are... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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9 October 2012
Simeis 147: Supernova Remnant
Image Credit & Copyright: Rogelio Bernal Andreo (Deep Sky Colors)
It's easy to get lost following the intricate filaments in this detailed m... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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22 November 2012
Night of the Long Leonid
Image Credit & Copyright: Stéphane Vetter (Nuits sacrees)
A cosmic grain of sand left the long and colorful trail across this all-sky view. Its g... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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26 October 2012
Reflection Nebula vdB1
Image Credit & Copyright: Adam Block, Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter, University of Arizona
Every book has a first page and every catalog a first entry. And so t... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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19 October 2012
Merging NGC 2623
Image Credit: Hubble Legacy Archive, ESA, NASA; Processing - Martin Pugh
NGC 2623 is really two galaxies that are becoming one. Seen to be in the final stages of... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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25 March 2013
Planck Maps the Microwave Background
Image Credit: European Space Agency, Planck Collaboration
What is our universe made of? To help find out, ESA launched the Planck satellite to... |
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Ethics & MoralityEvil
19 Posts • 6234 Views
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I've said it a hundred times and I'll say it again: There is nothing intellectual about pointing out relevant versus absolute truths - it is a copout that quasi-intellectual dolts grab onto... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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13 October 2012
Galaxies, Stars, and Dust
Image Credit & Copyright: Ignacio de la Cueva Torregrosa (Capturandoeluniverso, A.A.E.)
Spiky stars and spooky shapes abound in this deep cosmic sky... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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29 December 2012
Zeta Oph: Runaway Star
Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, Spitzer Space Telescope
Like a ship plowing through cosmic seas, runaway star Zeta Ophiuchi produces the arcing interstel... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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15 September 2012
Ring Nebula Drawn
Drawing Credit & Copyright: Frédéric Burgeot
A planetary nebula with a simple symmetry familiar to telescopic sky gazers, the Ring Nebula (M57) is s... |
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Alternative BeliefsWhat do you believe?
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You obviously didn't read the part where I siad "Humans can't escape working". Of course people need to farm to make food and work for other necessities in life, that'd be stu... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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28 December 2012
NGC 6188 and NGC 6164
Image Credit & Copyright: Kfir Simon
Fantastic shapes lurk in clouds of glowing hydrogen gas in NGC 6188, about 4,000 light-years away. The emission ne... |
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30 November 2012
Clouds in Cygnus
Credit & Copyright: Image Data - Bob Caton, Al Howard, Eric Zbinden, Rogelio Bernal Andreo;
Processing - Rogelio Bernal Andreo
Cosmic clouds of gas and dus... |
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10 January 2013
The Orion Bullets
Image Credit: GeMS/GSAOI Team, Gemini Observatory, AURA
Processing: Rodrigo Carrasco (Gemini Obs.), Travis Rector (Univ. Alaska Anchorage)
Cosmic bullets pier... |
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10 November 2012
Polar Ring Galaxy NGC 660
Image Credit: Gemini Observatory, AURA, Travis Rector (Univ. Alaska Anchorage)
NGC 660 is featured in this cosmic snapshot, a sharp composite of broad a... |
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6 February 2013
The Arms of M106
Credit: Image Data - Hubble Legacy Archive, Robert Gendler, Jay Gabany, Processing - Robert Gendler
The spiral arms of bright galaxy M106 sprawl through this rem... |
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8 November 2012
Arp 188 and the Tadpole's Tail
Image Credit: Hubble Legacy Archive, ESA, NASA; Processing - Bill Snyder (Heavens Mirror Observatory)
In this stunning vista, based on image d... |
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Habits & BehaviorThe Acceptance of Bullshit
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Its an ugly reality that forces a broadening of the mind, but in that expansion comes the point of view, like a big step back, that allows you to see how people are actually genuinely innocent and wel... |
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23 March 2013
Infrared Portrait of the Large Magellanic Cloud
Credit: ESA / NASA / JPL-Caltech / STScI
Cosmic dust clouds ripple across this infrared portrait of our Milky Way's satellite g... |
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Habits & BehaviorWhat Star Are YOU?
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Psychology Forum |
"way more than what month you were born"
I'm not an astrologist, but I understand the base concept which is actually scientific, however, the meanings thus attributed I can't pe... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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20 December 2012
M33: Triangulum Galaxy
Image Credit & Copyright: Robert Gendler, Subaru Telescope (NAOJ)
Image data: Subaru Telescope, Robert Gendler, Brigham Young University Obs., Johann... |
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God in ReligionGod's Will
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I believe death is not evil. And I do not believe that there was ever a time when life was not intertwined with death. To be alive is to be mortal, and to be mortal is to die someday.
In order to u... |
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why continue?
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Discussions like these always seem so hopeless to me sometimes. Human thought is so diverse and opinions so varied. I do believe there is an absolute truth as opposed to a relative one, but believing... |
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Physics & CosmologyReality in the melting pot
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This is an interesting refutation of the multiverse concept.
Paul Davies.
According to 'multiverse' theorists, life as we know it could be nothing but a Matrix-style simulation
Five... |
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