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[Liberal_in_LA]

Crack in the universe: Incredible new image of a distant galaxy seen from side-on
By Daily Mail Reporter 11-9-10

Like a thin band of light stretched across space, it looks like some sort of intergalactic letterbox.

But this extraordinary image is in fact is a distant galaxy called NGC 4452, captured as it lies directly edge-on to Earth.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1328052/Crack-universe-Incredible-new-image-distant-galaxy-seen-on.html#ixzz14owwxUtV

[WillParkinson]

1. You've just crossed over into...

The Twilight Zone.

[Kalyke]

12. We've been there since 2000!

[leveymg]

2. KNR

[fascisthunter]

3. proves how tiny and insignificant we are in the grand scheme of things

it's humbling and a relief.

[zeemike]

4. And what is incredible to think of is

That it is made up of billions of suns like our own...not millions but billions.
We are indeed very very small.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

5. Kind of super nova looking...

totally rad, dude ;)

[liberal N proud]

6. The size of that thing is incredible and unimaginable

[ProdigalJunkMail]

17. and yet only about 1/3 the size of the Milky Way... n/t

[MineralMan]

7. Looks like a cosmic disk drive slot.

Anyone have a bootable diskette?

[SteppingRazor]

9. I might, but I don't think it's compatible with the universe's OS. n/t

[MineralMan]

11. I have it on good authority that the universe is a beta site for

Windows 12.

[SteppingRazor]

14. That makes sense. After all, from what I understand, the universe is owned by Bill Gates. n/t

[MineralMan]

15. Of course. Bill Gates took ownership of everything on

March 13, 2003. A little known factoid.

[TwilightGardener]

8. Awesome.

[rug]

10. Color enhanced.

[GrpCaptMandrake]

13. I get . . .

a very pleasant sense of complete insignificance. Being a single piece of DNA on a hair on the little toe of the Universe is actually rather comforting.

One wonders what a Phlush Phlegmball or a Beckerhead thinks when he sees something like this . . .

[Scuba]

18. They think "look at all that stuff rotating around me". n/t

[Nostradammit]

19. !

:thumbsup:

[ProdigalJunkMail]

16. APOD description

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

sP