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n2doc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-14-11 08:48 PM
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The Two-faced Whirlpool Galaxy
JANUARY 13, 2011: These images by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope show off two dramatically different face-on views of the spiral galaxy M51, dubbed the Whirlpool Galaxy.

The image at left, taken in visible light, highlights the attributes of a typical spiral galaxy, including graceful, curving arms, pink star-forming regions, and brilliant blue strands of star clusters. In the image at right, most of the starlight has been removed, revealing the Whirlpool's skeletal dust structure, as seen in near-infrared light. This new image is the sharpest view of the dense dust in M51. The narrow lanes of dust revealed by Hubble reflect the galaxy's moniker, the Whirlpool Galaxy, as if they were swirling toward the galaxy's core. These images will be presented on Jan. 13, 2011, at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Seattle, Wash.

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2011/03/
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HCE SuiGeneris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-11 12:29 AM
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1. We are stardust...
A little CSNnY springs to mind.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sH0uR2u7Hs
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