djui5 wrote on Fri, 12 January 2007 21:28 |
That stuff is wild. So if it's 8,000 light years away then that happened 8,000 years ago? Looking at history in real time. Amazing |
Die BREMSSPUR wrote on Fri, 12 January 2007 16:32 | ||
Actually, I thought a lite year was the distance light travels in a year. I could look it up but it's more fun thinking about it and I have to edit drums anyway.... |
Die BREMSSPUR wrote on Fri, 12 January 2007 13:30 |
I would love to see some pics of planets in other solar systems. I wonder if that's possible. |
PRobb wrote on Fri, 12 January 2007 13:55 |
Yup. So light from something 8,000 light years away took 8,000 years to get here. |
danickstr wrote on Fri, 12 January 2007 22:26 |
I hat to be a party pooper but the color is enhanced on those shots, I believe, but they still are magnificent. |
Carl Sagan in 1994 wrote: |
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar", every "supreme leader", every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. |