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Mar 22 2012 06:10am
Quote (HeLiCaL @ Mar 21 2012 03:37pm)
http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/503/overrides/rectangular-galaxy-spotted_50307_600x450.jpg

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/03/120320-rectangular-galaxy-emerald-cut-diamond-subaru-space-science/


source? this looks interesting.
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Mar 24 2012 04:28pm
Looks more like a donut
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Mar 24 2012 04:28pm
or oval
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Mar 24 2012 09:27pm
Is that a black hole at it's center?! Herp derp.
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Mar 24 2012 09:40pm
cool
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Mar 26 2012 09:35pm
Quote (HeLiCaL @ 21 Mar 2012 15:37)
http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/503/overrides/rectangular-galaxy-spotted_50307_600x450.jpg

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/03/120320-rectangular-galaxy-emerald-cut-diamond-subaru-space-science/


70 millions light years away from... 70 goddamn millions light years.
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Apr 20 2012 10:16pm
Quote (Krypto @ Mar 26 2012 10:35pm)
70 millions light years away from... 70 goddamn millions light years.


thats relatively close. the galaxy is still there and probably looks similar in person. we study galaxies every day that have been gone since before the milky way even formed. which by the way only existed then because we are looking at it now.
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Apr 21 2012 02:55pm
Quote (HeLiCaL @ Mar 21 2012 08:37pm)
http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/503/overrides/rectangular-galaxy-spotted_50307_600x450.jpg

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/03/120320-rectangular-galaxy-emerald-cut-diamond-subaru-space-science/


wow
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