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Phil Perry Posted April 9, 2020 Author Share Posted April 9, 2020 The Dumbbell Nebula, also known as Messier 27 (M27), is a bright, large planetary nebula located in Vulpecula constellation. The nebula lies at a distance of 1,360 light years from Earth. ( Info from wiki ) Pic by Rob Greaves.. ( Cornwall ) Single One hour exposure using 75mm Pentax telescope. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willedoo Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 Just down the road a bit, Phil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Perry Posted April 9, 2020 Author Share Posted April 9, 2020 Just down the road a bit, Phil. ??? Not with ya mate. . . \? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Perry Posted April 9, 2020 Author Share Posted April 9, 2020 Rob's amateur Astronometrical Pics are legendary,. . .but the Wonkerperson Fizzogbook folk don't realise how good they are. . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willedoo Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 1,360 light years from Earth 1,360 light years away. Compared to the rest of it, it's just down the road from us. Comparatively speaking, that is. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Perry Posted April 10, 2020 Author Share Posted April 10, 2020 1,360 light years away. Compared to the rest of it, it's just down the road from us. Comparatively speaking, that is. DOH ! , , , face palm. Not with it lately Wille. . . . must be this brutal quarantine. . . . ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted April 11, 2020 Share Posted April 11, 2020 Think they used to have a Brilliantine. (Hair oil) I guess it was just for the brightest among us. Nev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Perry Posted April 11, 2020 Author Share Posted April 11, 2020 Owl Nebula... the galaxy nearby at lower right right is just known as NGC3556. Owl Nebula is 2600 Light Years distant, and the galaxy is 46 Million Light Years from us, . . ( approximately ) Pic by Rob Greaves 09 / 04 / 2020 The Owl Nebula is a planetary nebula located approximately 2,030 light years away in the constellation Ursa Major. It was discovered by French astronomer Pierre Méchain on February 16, 1781. When William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, observed the nebula in 1848, his hand-drawn illustration resembled an owl's head. Wikipedia Magnitude: 9.9 Radius: 0.91378 light years Distance to Earth: 2,600 light years Coordinates: RA 11h 14m 48s | Dec +55° 1′ 0″ Distance: 2,030 ly (621 pc); 2,800 ly (870 pc) ly Constellation: Ursa Major Apparent dimensions (V): 3′.4 × 3′.3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted April 12, 2020 Share Posted April 12, 2020 If my tiny brain recalls correctly the "then named" alpha Centauri was 2.5 light years away. The universe is truly "inconceivable". Most religions consider this planet is the centre of the universe and it's all about 6300 years old. Even My TB thinks that is extremely unlikely but I could be separated from my head for saying so in many parts of the world. Very disappointing. Nev 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willedoo Posted April 12, 2020 Share Posted April 12, 2020 Looking at space photos, it makes you wonder why there's life at all. It could quite easily have all remained dust, rock and gas. But now we know that there is life, the law of averages would mean there's a lot of it out there. And there's always a possibility that there's no aliens ripping around in flying saucers; we might be the most advanced life form in the universe. If that's true, we have a long way to go if we are the best on offer. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted April 12, 2020 Share Posted April 12, 2020 The range of possible temperatures OUT THERE is extreme as well as the need for WATER and CARBON and heavy metals, and some means of protection for cosmic rays.That needs magnetism. If we keep this up we will need a dog to explain it. But then where did the dog come from? . Don't ask Me. I'm just a biological organism in a hostile universe, here by some miracle or two(million) and a lot of time passing. Nev 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yenn Posted April 12, 2020 Share Posted April 12, 2020 With some of those galaxies being so many thousands of light years away I wonder if they are still emitting light or radio waves. Our own sun is supposed to have a finite life, so there could be dead planets where we are seeing light. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Perry Posted May 10, 2020 Author Share Posted May 10, 2020 (edited) Rob's New setup. . . M-101 Spiral Galaxy . ( A Stacked image ) Edited May 10, 2020 by Guest 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacesailor Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 It,s good, But They missed that rock that flew past, very close to Earth. spacesailor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomadpete Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 Phil, that's gorgeous. We live in a place like that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted May 11, 2020 Share Posted May 11, 2020 That's why it's called SPACE. There's a lot of it there to look at. No ones found the edge of it yet. Our tiny minds can't conceive of it. Nev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yenn Posted May 11, 2020 Share Posted May 11, 2020 And it was all produced by God. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man emu Posted May 11, 2020 Share Posted May 11, 2020 By Heck it was! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacesailor Posted May 11, 2020 Share Posted May 11, 2020 I was told " it's the left-over bit " after HE made our world. AND it's not empty, just full of DARK matter. BUT If all those black holes swallow each other, will that last humongous black-hole burst it's sides and become the second BIG-BANG. spacesailor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willedoo Posted May 11, 2020 Share Posted May 11, 2020 (edited) If all those black holes swallow each other, will that last humongous black-hole burst it's sides and become the second BIG-BANG. spacesailor Good theory spacey; probably a good chance of it happening. Maybe it's happened before many times and our big bang is the 1,000,000,000,000th. successive big bang over a long, long time. And maybe that time is not what we think it is. It might go in a circle so the first big bang adjoins the last. Most things that work well in nature are round shaped, so why not time? Edited May 11, 2020 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacesailor Posted May 11, 2020 Share Posted May 11, 2020 WHO's counting !. ( those black-holes ) It's those ROCKs someone is throwing at us I worry about , the Astronomers are Blinded by the shiny things in the universe. LoL spacesailor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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