Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"Thou Shalt Get Sidetracked by Bullshit, Every Goddamned Time." -- The Ghoul

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck,
"FOFF" = Felonious Old Fat Fuck,
"COFF" = Convicted Old Felonious Fool,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset,
A/K/A P01135809, A/K/A Dementia Donnie, A/K/A Felon^34,
A/K/A Dolt-45, A/K/A Don Snoreleone

Thursday, September 10, 2009

NGC-6217

From the upgraded Hubble Observatory:



(From here)
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4 comments:

Sarah said...

Wonderful picture. I like today's Butterfly Nebula from Astronomy picture of the day too.

And of course, the Bad Astronomer's whole website.

9/10/2009 3:40 PM
Anonymous said...

Thanks. Lovely image.

9/11/2009 1:17 AM
Comrade Misfit said...

The Butterfly Nebula is all over the `Net, which is why I went for a different image. I don't understand, gravitationally speaking, how a barred galaxy can exist, but maybe I ought to go read up on it.

9/11/2009 6:55 AM
Sarah said...

It does seem counter-intuitive. But they claim barred-spirals are more common than not.

Did you see the one of a portion of the open cluster Omega Centauri ?

What a night sky that would be:

All of the stars in the image are cozy neighbors. The average distance between any two stars in the cluster's crowded core is only about a third of a light-year, roughly 13 times closer than our Sun's nearest stellar neighbor, Alpha Centauri. Although the stars are close together, WFC3's sharpness can resolve each of them as individual stars. If anyone lived in this globular cluster, they would behold a star-saturated sky that is roughly 100 times brighter than Earth's sky.

9/11/2009 9:26 AM

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