Amazing picture of the Milky Way

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boneheadbob

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This survey only covers the part of the sky where the Milky Way galaxy itself is thickest — in the bottom image above you can see the edge-on disk of our galaxy plainly stretching across the entire shot — and that’s only a fraction of the entire sky. Think on this: there are a billion stars in that image alone, but that’s less than 1% of the total number of stars in our galaxy! As deep and broad as this amazing picture is, it’s a tiny slice of our local Universe.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/04/04/to-grasp-a-billion-stars/
 
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boneheadbob

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Here’s a section of the survey they made, showing the star-forming region G305, an enormous cloud of gas about 12,000 light years away which is busily birthing tens of thousands of stars:

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Pretty, isn’t it? There are about 10,000 stars in this image, and you can see the gas and dust that’s forming new stars even as you look.
 
cannabineer

cannabineer

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Boneheadbob, have you ever looked at the summer Milky Way through binos from a truly dark place? The first time I did that, I had the most wonderful impression of being in the middle of a furious storm. In fact if we could see things sped up a trillionfold, the Galaxy would put a category 5 hurricane in its place. It was an awe-soaked experience. cn
 
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dirtyho1968

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I could spend all night looking at the stars through a good telescope. I was actually lucky enough to check out the night sky in the desert on a really high end telescope from an ex's father. It was truly amazing. I stared at Saturn's rings for a good 30 min. I felt as if I could reach out and grab the moon. I love checking out cool pics of the milky way. Thanks for sharing.
 
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boneheadbob

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cannabineer said:
Boneheadbob, have you ever looked at the summer Milky Way through binos from a truly dark place? The first time I did that, I had the most wonderful impression of being in the middle of a furious storm. In fact if we could see things sped up a trillionfold, the Galaxy would put a category 5 hurricane in its place. It was an awe-soaked experience. cn
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I have seen the MW from Alaska/British Columbia border and that site alone is amazing. It pretty much filled the entire sky. I have always been big on outer space.I read lots of Sci-fi. Dune series and ringworld books are probaly my favorites.

Its unreal whats out there and we are really discovering new stuff faster then they can process it.
Its amazing that there a couple hundred billion stars in the galaxy and who knows how many galaxies
 
Winter Woman

Winter Woman

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cannabineer said:
Boneheadbob, have you ever looked at the summer Milky Way through binos from a truly dark place? The first time I did that, I had the most wonderful impression of being in the middle of a furious storm. In fact if we could see things sped up a trillionfold, the Galaxy would put a category 5 hurricane in its place. It was an awe-soaked experience. cn
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You know I'd love to know what is going on in your head when your very high and intensely interested in something. I bet it would be amazing the different directions you go in.
 
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YaK

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fuck the stars... nuke em all!!

kidding, stunning stuff. a vacuum full of burning and spinning things.
 
1Shot1Kill

1Shot1Kill

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sick picks. I have had some amazing views of the stars lately living in the sticks with zero ambient light. awesome post +rep
 
Nutes and Nugs

Nutes and Nugs

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Years ago I visited a proff with a big telesope in his back yard obserbatory.
He showed us a nebula (a star forming) with colored gases swirling around.
Very beatiful to look at.
I'll never forget it.
 
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