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Tinman57

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Beautiful Pictures From Herschel
« on: April 03, 2013, 01:24 AM »
[ Amazing and beautiful pictures...]

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A galactic star gazer takes a final look before bowing out (pictures)

The Herschel Space Observatory is about to run out of fuel. But its nearly four-year mission has produced a wealth of new knowledge about our universe.

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« Last Edit: April 03, 2013, 08:16 PM by Stephen66515 »

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Re: Beautifu Pictures From Herschel
« Reply #1 on: April 03, 2013, 02:53 AM »
"Keep looking up"

Amazing stuff :up:

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Re: Beautifu Pictures From Herschel
« Reply #2 on: April 03, 2013, 09:39 AM »
If you like pictures from astronomy, you could do worse than get APOD (Astronomy Picture Of the Day) into your feedreader
This is the latest: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130402.html

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Re: Beautifu Pictures From Herschel
« Reply #3 on: April 03, 2013, 04:45 PM »
Another great spot is Phil Plait's "Bad Astronomy" blog.  http://www.slate.com/content/slate/blogs/bad_astronomy.html. Great pictures (not only astronomy) with very good layman's descriptions of what's going on in the universe.

He was recently speaking at what I think is Mouser's stomping grounds - http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/03/31/_engineering_open_house_at_uiuc_crushing_concrete_musical_tesla_coils_and.html


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Re: Beautifu Pictures From Herschel
« Reply #4 on: April 03, 2013, 08:16 PM »
(Edited your topic tile from "Beautifu" to "Beautiful") :P

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Re: Beautiful Pictures From Herschel
« Reply #5 on: April 04, 2013, 12:57 AM »
(Edited your topic tile from "Beautifu" to "Beautiful") :P

  Thanx Stephen.  I have a new ergonomic keyboard that's not broke in.  I type so fast and don't notice the missed letters sometimes.
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Re: Beautiful Pictures From Herschel
« Reply #6 on: April 04, 2013, 01:00 AM »
(Edited your topic tile from "Beautifu" to "Beautiful") :P

  Thanx Stephen.  I have a new ergonomic keyboard that's not broke in.  I type so fast and don't notice the missed letters sometimes.

No Problemo :)

My keyboard is failing horribly lol

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