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Old October-4th-2006, 02:46 PM   #1
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A new Comet you can see plus Titan!

This little baby, named Comet Swan, is visible with binoculars in the morning sky.



Here's a recent pic from the Cassini craft orbitting Saturn.

The big moon is Titan, with its thick atmosphere bending light around the darkside. The smaller is another moon, name escapes me. And those are Saturn's rings.
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Old October-4th-2006, 03:24 PM   #2
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Nice!!!
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Old October-5th-2006, 12:38 PM   #3
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This one's pretty cool. It's Saturn's moon Hyperion. The interesting thing about it is that it resembles some of the comets that have been seen up close. Btw, no one predicted comets would look this way.



Many of the galaxies, with structure, in this shot are more than two billion light years distant.


This image shows geysers backlit by the sun. Enceladus is too small to have any heat left over from its formation, and yet in one region the surface temperatures are near freezing. Under that area liquid water exists, and results in geysers.
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Old October-5th-2006, 12:50 PM   #4
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[quote=Coda]This one's pretty cool. It's Saturn's moon Hyperion. The interesting thing about it is that it resembles some of the comets that have been seen up close. Btw, no one predicted comets would look this way.



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More republican propaganda! Obviously a scanning electron microscope photo of a Grape-Nut!
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Old October-5th-2006, 01:15 PM   #5
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I consider us friends and everything, Brian, but that looks nothing like a grape nut imo. I think it looks like a gorilla head.
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Old October-5th-2006, 01:28 PM   #6
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Not a.....wolf head?
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Old October-5th-2006, 01:34 PM   #7
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Don't fucking encourage her, dumbass!!
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Old October-5th-2006, 01:58 PM   #8
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It looks like a sea sponge
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Old October-6th-2006, 04:09 PM   #9
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nice pics, Coda!
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