The Eye of God (picture)

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

The Helix Nebula, as captured by the Hubble Space Telescope (05/03).



And they want to scrap that baby? Idiots.

[Dookus]

1. What a great picture...

I have a feeling they'll relent on maintaining Hubble. Sen. Mikulski's on it as well as ALL the astronomers in the world.

[Kadie]

2. We ARE being watched.

Great picture.

[DrWeird]

3. BEHOLD!

[SmileyBoy]

13. OMG, that's GOTTA be photoshopped!!!

If not, that might be God right there.:)

[RC]

14. observe.arc.nasa.gov

//observe.arc.nasa.gov/nasa/gallery/image_gallery/universe/graphics/hourglass.jpg

[many a good man]

4. I thought God had brown eyes

n/t

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

6. They're whatever color He wants them to be!

;-)

[icymist]

26. SHE has blue eyes!

:D

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

27. Then She must be gorgeous!

;-)

[DemoTex]

5. Man-O-Man-O-Man!

It literally takes my breath away.

[supernova]

7. *SIGH*

Those are so beautiful! I never tire of looking at them. The eye of God indeed. ;-)

[Insider]

8. the big peephole

LOL i can't look at it again. i really heard "HELLLOOOO, who is it?"

[dweller]

9. Lookin in

looking out.

ahh,
dp

[seventhson]

10. LINKS ???

PLEASE???

These are awesomely beautiful

thank you!

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

19. Here's a web link directly to the NASA photo directory

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/

Have fun!

[seventhson]

20. thanks - this is great!

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

30. Here's conclusive proof NASA is doctoring the pics: From their website:

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

36. hee hee hee

I love them old alchemy engravings.

[proud patriot]

35. Man I just spent an hour looking at that site

Awesome

[TOhioLiberal]

22. Heres another link for you

Hubble Heritage Project:

http://heritage.stsci.edu/
Go to the gallery section, lots of great images

Trekkerlass

[kalian]

11. Sauron's eye....

:evilgrin:

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

12. Wow. But is He/She looking in? Or are we inside looking out?

Maybe that's the big secret... we are a germ inside God's head.

[Bundbuster]

15. Infrared pic of Saturn

Don't let the Hubble die!

[The Lone Liberal]

16. We look on that wonder

and then we have the gall to think we are the center of the universe. God, creator, whatever, must be laughing his/her ass off at our ego.

[NewHampster]

17. this one is called the Blinking Eye

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap010526.html

[SmileyBoy]

18. It has cataracts.

:)

[Rabrrrrrr]

21. Because they lack curiosity

and not just lack it, but actually despise it.

because wanting to know things is, apparently, unchristian, because everything God wanted us to know is in the Bible already, so there's no need for learning more things, unless somehow it helps us kill people more efficiently and/or earns money. And stuff.

I am so sick and tired and fed up and pissed off at the idiocy that is the republican/rightwing/UberChristian mindset. ARGH!!

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

23. We have to rescue Christianity from those imbeciles or they

will forever damage it.

[Rabrrrrrr]

29. Absolutely!

We've totally let them take the language of Christianity away from us, and define the arguments, and make the world think that Christians are barely literate fools who won't even accept the cold facts sitting in front of their eyes, like a mypoic family that refuses to see the elephant in the kitchen.

The left has been far too weeny-ish (and that applies to both the truly caring and legitimate Christians, and also the political left, ala democrats and etc.) and let the rightwing absorb and claim ALL the language for Christianity, patriotism, and civic responsibility, and it's DAMN time we took it back.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

24. The Little Ghost nebula

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040207.html

[NewHampster]

25. Damn that is beautiful

But there ain't no People walking around like we'll have on mars.

Stupid asses.

[tigereye]

28. oh the Hubble site is great

thanks! Kind of puts everything in perspective!

[Bundbuster]

31. From the Discovery

Sunset on Europe and Africa, with city lights coming on...

[Rabrrrrrr]

32. Pictures like this show the UTTER STUPIDITY of war and hatred

Shows how small we really are, how small the world is, and how much we really should just get along and f-ing deal with one another.

But on the other hand, there is truth that we have idiotic muslim f-wads who insist on killing everyone who doesn't agree withtheir narrowly (and heretically) defined definituion of muslim bullshit, so in some ways we're going to be killing eachother for quite a while.

Still, it pisses me off.

[Bundbuster]

34. Yes, I wish we ALL would feel small

Especially a-holes like oilslick & shrub. I love "the big picture" shots like that, as they really do put us humants in better perspective.

Here's another one for you Eastcoasters, also shot from the Discovery -

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

33. The Cat's Eye Nebula

I just couldn't resist adding this one. It's just too incredibly gorgeous....



The Cat's Eye Nebula (NGC 6543) is one of the best known planetary nebulae in the sky. Its haunting symmetries are seen in the very central region of this stunning false-color picture, processed to reveal the enormous but extremely faint halo of gaseous material, over three light-years across, which surrounds the brighter, familiar planetary nebula. Made with data from the Nordic Optical Telescope in the Canary Islands, the composite picture shows emission from nitrogen atoms as red and oxygen atoms as green and blue shades. Planetary nebulae have long been appreciated as a final phase in the life of a sun-like star. Only much more recently however, have some planetaries been found to have halos like this one, likely formed of material shrugged off during earlier active episodes in the star's evolution. While the planetary nebula phase is thought to last for around 10,000 years, astronomers estimate the age of the outer filamentary portions of this halo to be 50,000 to 90,000 years.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap031101.html