Topic awaiting preservation: Sauron's eye

As a science-fiction and science addict, I love to gaze at the stars and learn more about our universe. Furthermore, I often find galaxy pictures to be very inspiring when I create abstract wallpapers.

Lately, I discovered a new one thanks to Hubble News. "A collision of two galaxies has left a merged star system with an unusual appearance as well as bizarre internal motions. Messier 64 (M64) has a spectacular dark band of absorbing dust in front of the galaxy's bright nucleus, giving rise to its nicknames of the "Black Eye" or "Evil Eye" galaxy."





This page also contains a lot of galaxy pictures : http://www.astro.princeton.edu/~frei/Gcat_htm/cat_ims.htm

Just thought some of you might be interested.




[This message has been edited by Moon Shadow (edited 02-07-2004).]

Such beauty Thanks, MS.

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this is great
i can't imagine that something like this really exists

yes...it *is* amazing. pictures of galaxies as well as other pictures from the Hubble are somewhat unbleiveable. like mas said it's hard to imagine that things like this exist.

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has a spectacular dark band of absorbing dust in front of the galaxy's bright nucleus,

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absorbing dust? that sounds kind of freaky.

Later,

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~Binary is best~

Good links Moon Shadow, I love visiting sites like these.
C:\ The dust particles absorb light and some other wavelenghts on the spectrum, causing the dark areas.

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Absolutely magnanimous! Good job Moon Shadow. I have two hero's from this world. Carl Sagen was one of them. He'd be proud.

Beautiful pictures. It is a tragedy that is there even a debate going on about bringing Hubble down.

That is amazing.

This one here is kind of old, but is worth a look. Image sizes are to the left.

that is pretty sweet man, i just made a slick wallpaper with it.

waa.. I gues I've missed this one. Great.. add some to collection

cell 799

that site is really cool...thanks for sharing with us Moon Shadow and BTW I like your siggy(the animated one in Asylum colors)!



[This message has been edited by Boudga (edited 02-09-2004).]