Yellowfin Tuna, Monterey Bay Aquarium. Nikon D70, 18-70 f3.5-f4.5, 27mm, f3.8, 1/10 sec, ISO 400. 7-23-07, 4:48:23 PM PDT.
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Gorgeous View of the Outer Universe…Thousands of Galaxies Shown
On June - 18 - 2007
robszol over at digg.com says, “This is a picture is really a monumental achievement of humankind.”
And You Thought You Were Big?
On May - 10 - 2007
Click on read more and see the size of the Earth compared to other planets, then to the sun, then our sun compared to other stars.
This relates to the recent story of the brightest supernova ever, SN 2006gy.
According to NASA, SN 2006gy is “the brightest and most energetic stellar explosion ever recorded and may be a long-sought new type of explosion.” It’s 240 million light years away, so that happened a long time ago.
Credit: Illustration: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss; X-ray: NASA/CXC/UC Berkeley/N.Smith et al.; IR: Lick/UC Berkeley/J.Bloom & C.Hansen
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