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Anonymous
While I was admiring this gorgeous photo, I couldn't help but notice a small object, which is circled below.
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See? What do you suppose it is?
It looks to me like a manmade capsule or... something.
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A closer look...
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Closer still...
>> Anonymous
Strange that it seems to be almost dead center.
>> Anonymous
It is a HUEG manmade capsule, where they keep a civilization that will be planted on another planet in case Earth is destroyed
>> Anonymous
Dude, that's just God's ponos.
>> Anonymous
its a peanut
>> Anonymous
i can see the strings
>> Anonymous
It's me.... sorry I ruined your picture. :(
>> Anonymous
>>80960
hahaha
wow you're big
>> Anonymous
i really don't know...
lets ask nasa
>> Anonymous
>>80964
ME: what's that thing ?
NASA: uh, oh, it's nothing. really.
ME: so it's a giant peanut, heh.
>> Anonymous
>>80968
mail sent
now waiting for an answer....
>> Anonymous
It's a tear in the structure of the universe.
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It actually does look like a hole.

7000% zoom
>> Anonymous
Probably a hole in the composite, or a lens artifact.
>> Anonymous
>>80999

Knock off that sanity talk, it has no place here.
>P
>> Anonymous
It's a spaceship!
>> Anonymous
these photos are completely touched up... they have no color when they are taken. they add the color later and do lots of other sutff you make it pretty. if nothing else, it could just be an accidental brush click in photoshop or something
>> Anonymous
>>80936
I believe that is Lur, ruler of Omicron Persei 8!
>> The Red Barron
Mars is actually blue... look it up.
>> Anonymous
http://www.seds.org/messier/more/m042_hst2.html
>> Anonymous
Looks like Mordor to me.
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check out the skull, man *toke*
>> Anonymous
>>81005
so they arent that pretty? D: SO THE COLORS DONT LOOK LIKE THAT? Or they base it off spectrum readings, etc.
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>>81055
Skull? Don't you mean pirate ship?!
>> the answer Anonymous
thanks for you note.
my first question is who took the image? or where'd you get it from. It should give me an idea of the telescope and camera used.
I not saying its a fake, but a lot of things depend on the how the image was taken, and processed. In astronomical images we have soooo many artifacts from dust on filters/CCD's, to cosmic ray hits in the raw frames, and calibration frames. Also processing the final image (usually tweaking in Photoshop), can also create artifacts. Most of the programs we use to process the images we try our best to remove any artifacts and unwanted data to create the final image. This could be an actual area, or the gap left when an artifact was removed.

If you can give me a few more bits of info, I'll look into it.
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so, what's the source?
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continuation

Answer:
It is a disk of material that circles a newborn star. This material is the source of new planets.

image comes from the 18000x18000 version of the image
>> Introversity !lxs60ke1KU
Thanks guys, this image is so useful right now!
>> Anonymous
Wow, i had the 18k*18k version of this for a while, i always assumed it was a lense artifact :P
>> Anonymous
Yes indeed, this is a protoplanetary disc, seen edge on. Its a rather well known one, too. Sharp eye to the OP! Kind of a rough neighborhood, hopefully it does alright, or has done alright, I suppose, since that image is technically 1500 years old! A telescope really is the most affordable time machine out there.
>> Anonymous
MY ANSWER IS:

THIS IS RAMA
>> Anonymous
i cannot believe how civil and successful this thread became. not one flame!
>> Anonymous
Haha Rama
>> Anonymous
>>81167
>>81174

Where is that 18k image to be found?
>> Anonymous
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/2006/01/image/a+warn

more specifically

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/graphics/img-full-tiff.gif

Brace yourself, its a 385 megabyte .tif. It may torch your computer :)

Is it worth upgrading? Yes.
>> Anonymous
http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/2006/01/images/a/formats/full_tif.tif

Whoops, sorry about that. This is the url of 'the big one.' Grabbed the wrong address : P
>> Anonymous
>>81191
You won one interwebs.

also, thanks.
>> Anonymous
>>81188
over here for both versions:
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/2006/01/image/a+warn
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From the 385mb TIFF.
>> Anonymous
>>81250
If there is an 18kx18k original how about an 10kx10k version?
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>>81265
Something like this?
Resized just for you Anonymous :3
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Heres an awesome pic thats almost unreal.
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Heres an insane amount of galaxies and a big one closer to the telescope with a trail to show its moving (I think!)
>> Anonymous
Can someone find bigger versions of these two?
>> Anonymous
http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/2003/28/images/a/formats/full_jpg.jpg

that is that disk picture (sombrero galaxy) ~7MB, res 11472x6429

if your up for it, you can get the tif version
be warned it's a 211MB file.
>> Anonymous
http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/2002/11/images/a/formats/full_jpg.jpg

the other one (tadpole galaxy) not quite as big as the first
>> Anonymous
The accretion disk of that newborn star DOES look like an artifact.

Cool that it just pulls everything in like that, imagine what the sky on a planet orbiting that star would look like...
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Seeing as there is still an accretion disk, there may not be many planets as we think of them in the Solar System. Even the spectacle of the Orion nebula, so glorious in the hubble photo, would be all but lost to our pitiful hu-man eyes. Our pupils simply lack the apeture to gather enough light to see that gas and dust, much less color. You may not even notice you were in the middle of all that.

Also, regarding that 'tadpole' galaxy, more properly Galaxy ARP 188; its tail is a product not of the galaxy's movement, but rather was likely created from gravitational interaction between the galaxy in the photo and another galaxy, and the resulting tidal forces 'unwound' that streamer from ARP 188. I have attatched another picture of such interation in progress.
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OH NO
>> Anonymous
>>81005
Are you sure? I mean, no doubt they're good at NASA, but I doubt they'd bother with all the spectral stuff going on in the light from the stars, unless they fake the flares.
>> Anonymous
>>81298
Almost unreal, because it isn't real. It's an artists rendition. Very cool nonetheless though.
>> Anonymous
The 'flares' aren't faked, they are a natural lens artifact due to the extremely long exposure time. The technical term is 'blooming.'

The color isn't fake per se, its just not what we would be able to see naturally with our eyes. Typically exposures are taken in separate colors, like red green blue, and sometimes at different wavelengths, like hydrogen alpha, and then composited in a program like Photoshop. Whether or not this is 'doctoring' is up for debate. It raises questions about what the 'real' color of something is, and if we should judge what is 'real' by the measuring stick of our own (comparably) limited eyesight. We can only 'see' in a very narrow band of wavelengths, while most objects, such as this nebula, radiate in many wavelengths other than the visual. Even then, as noted above, our 'apeture,' that is the size of our pupils, is incredibly small, which limits our experience of 'color.'

Instruments like the HST allow us to literally see the unseen, as though our eyes were as powerful as it (and we could take long exposures :P); whether or not it is 'fake' or 'doctored' is debatable.
>> Anonymous
The photo of M104 (Sombrero Galaxy) is very real.

See: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/2003/28/image/a
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>>81453
but wait... look closer!
>> Anonymous
>>81457
Ah, okay, I get it.
>> Anonymous
>>81461
CRIKEY!
>> Anonymous
>>81461
HAVE A LOOK AT THAT BEAUTY!
>> Anonymous
>>81461
irwin needs a constellation constructed in his honor.