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Offline Chris_

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Space butterfly
« on: September 10, 2009, 07:50:00 AM »
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A COSMIC butterfly stretches its wings in a stunning new picture from the Hubble space telescope.

But the delicate insect is really vast streams of gas racing at over 600,000mph from a dying star.

Its new camera is ten times better - and its digital "film" was built by a British company, e2v Technologies of Chelmsford, Essex.

Another dramatic new shot from Nasa's Hubble family album shows the Cat's Eye nebula - a cloud of gas heated to millions of degrees around another doomed star in the constellation of Draco, the dragon.

Hubble also peered six million light-years beyond our own Milky Way to capture a galaxy of billions of stars in the Great Bear.


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Re: Space butterfly
« Reply #1 on: September 10, 2009, 07:54:24 AM »
I think the Hubble pictures are worthier of being called art than most works by modern artists.  :cheersmate:
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Re: Space butterfly
« Reply #2 on: September 10, 2009, 08:41:46 AM »
Awesome.  I saved this as my new desktop. 
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Re: Space butterfly
« Reply #3 on: September 10, 2009, 10:14:09 AM »
All I can see is that shiny vagina... Is the butterfly behind it?   :uhsure:
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Re: Space butterfly
« Reply #4 on: September 10, 2009, 10:49:32 AM »
Quote from: asdf2231 on September 10, 2009, 10:14:09 AM
All I can see is that shiny vagina... Is the butterfly behind it?   :uhsure:

Nope, it's behind Venus.
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