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science: From the Top Ten Astronomy Pictures of 2008 comes this spectacular picture (yes picture, not rendering) of spiral galaxy NGC7331, 50 million light years away.  The detail in the photo is staggering and every little bit is beautiful.  Here is the 3000 pixel wide ‘reduced’ version and for the insane, this page has uncompressed 4000 pixel wide images up to 67 meg in size. The other top photos of the year are of course worth checking out as well. I will never ever stop geeking-out over this kind of stuff. I think it’s both extremely fascinating and beautiful.

science:

From the Top Ten Astronomy Pictures of 2008 comes this spectacular picture (yes picture, not rendering) of spiral galaxy NGC7331, 50 million light years away.  The detail in the photo is staggering and every little bit is beautiful.  Here is the 3000 pixel wide ‘reduced’ version and for the insane, this page has uncompressed 4000 pixel wide images up to 67 meg in size.

The other top photos of the year are of course worth checking out as well.

I will never ever stop geeking-out over this kind of stuff. I think it’s both extremely fascinating and beautiful.

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    This amazes me, just knowing that things like this exist out there somewhere.
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    add, it’s just plain beautiful.)
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    Weird fact about me: When I get stressed out, I sit and think about how vast the universe is. I guess
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    “Space. The final frontier. Damn, it’s HUGE.” science:
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    Holy crap. Really?
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    over on Science Tumbled but it’s...reblogging here. Absolutely amazing when seen...
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