Thank you Waves for bringing the photo here. Most things in outer space seem to be beautiful. Some more than others. BF

Here is a interesting picture.
2013 January 31: NGC 4372 and the Dark Doodad.
I think that it's funny that they call that dark matter the Doodad.
BF

Hi, Steve,

Here is the link.
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130131.html

I enjoy seeing the name too!

Mari

Keep sending those picture, I love every one of them. I sure would love to explore the universe. It's all quite incredible. thank you BF, ginnie

I'd love to explore the Universe also. It's to bad that we cannot travel at the speed of light,or anywhere near this speed. We'd spend our total lifetime in one spot because space,and light years are so vast.

The speed of light is approximately 671 million miles per hour,and we would need to travel many times more then that speed to get anywhere outside of this solar system. If we could go that fast,we may crash into a asteroid,or black ice,or whatever is out there that we don't know about. We'd have to estimate where the star,or system is now,and not in the past light years of time that has passed. We are no where near this capability,but it would really be neat to be able to. I'm sure that you know this,but I like to talk about it. BF

Dear Steve,



I enjoy reading your posts about these things!

I follow along, in my imagination, and this gets my brain moving in a relaxing and positive way.

~ waves ~

very cool. looks like someone lit a black smokebomb. ha! (that's sold at fireworks stands down here)

This one is interesting.
2013 February 11: NII:Star Clouds of the LMC
I'm so glad that NASA shares the images of the Universe with us.
They are making a more powerful telescope then Hubble that we will hear about in the future. BF

Hi Steve. Good find!
The reference Link to NASA page follows:

APOD - 2013 February 11: NII Star Clouds of the LMC

The image was too large show to link directly into the post. please click on the above link to see it on the NASA page, along with the explanation.

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that is cool about the new telescope - I did not know that! Thank you for sharing!

~ waves ~

I'm glad that the Russian meteorite didn't cause any International incidence's,or missile launches presuming that they where under attack.

The meteorite's explosive energy was equivalent to 300 kilotons of TNT. There was a tremendous shock wave that blew out windows,and injured around a thousand people. The meteorite hit at a angle,and did not come straight down which would have been a different situation. I think that it's size was about 49 feet long.

It's reported that this one was the strongest meteorite since the one that hit the atmosphere over Russia in the Tunguska event in 1908.

This meteorite had nothing to do with the asteroid that NASA tracked later in the day. The asteroid 2012 DA 14 passed very close to the earth within the range of the satellites distance.

The Russian meteorite was a surprise to everyone. This meteorite can be seen on Youtube. I looked at several of them. It was a very bright falling object. BF