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@ 2004-03-26 13:02:00
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The Sombrero Galaxy
The news seems full of efforts to save me, which I love reading, but figure there's only so many nearly identical articles that I can really post, so I've decided to dig back into my archive again until the next public release.

The Hubble Heritage Project, a swell group of professional and amateur astronomers hoping to keep up public interest in me celebrated their fifth anniversary in October of 2003. During that period, they've released an image a month, either previously unreleased images that are no longer exclusive property or their own observations. To celebrate, they made public perhaps the largest mosaic jobs I've ever been asked to do, cobbled from images they took in .

The resulting image is of M104 which is more frequently called the Sombrero Galaxy. It's unique mostly because of the almost pure edge-on view from our point of view here on earth (or, in my case 600km straight up from earth). This is a galaxy that has been studied since the 1800s, and provided one of the first proofs of an expanding universe when viewed by V. M. Slipher in 1912.

If you'd like to learn more about any of this, here are some links:
Hubble Heritage Project Homepage
HubbleSite write-up on the HHP's anniversary
More information about M104, including full sized images.



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[info]vulture23
2004-03-26 11:29 am UTC (link)
I saw that when it was released. Beautiful picture, and makes for an icon well-suited for contemplations of the Universe. Thanks! ;)

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[info]wcg
2004-03-26 01:38 pm UTC (link)
Ah yes, old Vesto Melvin Slipher, master craftsman of spectroscopic reflection gratings. He pretty much invented the ruling engine, and made some fantastically fine spectrographs.

Of course now we flash them holographically, and get orders of magnitude higher resolution than would ever be possible with a ruling engine.

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[info]tamnonlinear
2004-03-26 02:56 pm UTC (link)
I'll keep hoping for you. It must be wonderful to contribute so much to humanity.

Who knows, maybe there's another telescope in Sombrero looking back at you.

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[info]demanusflint
2004-07-28 08:35 am UTC (link)
I love bees.

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(Anonymous)
2004-07-28 10:49 am UTC (link)
Hmmm, strange.

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[info]jonnystheboss
2004-07-29 09:48 am UTC (link)
Please refrain from making comments related with ilovebees.com as it is important to see why this page was listed as a link.

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(Anonymous)
2004-07-29 10:12 pm UTC (link)
I know why. Its because the game (Halo 2) has to do with space and aliens coming to earth. This live journal is aobut space right? That is why.

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[info]jonnystheboss
2004-07-30 01:15 am UTC (link)
No, keywords in the links are combined to comprise a story.

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virus
(Anonymous)
2004-08-02 09:30 am UTC (link)
does the name "durandal" have anything to do with any of this? and have you heard of "phor?" hmm... and what is the significance of August 24th, 2004? ahh... soo many questions...might you have answers? and what would be the connection between Marathon and Halo? am i even making any sense any more? haha.

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[info]jonnystheboss
2004-08-02 06:03 pm UTC (link)
http://bees.netninja.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

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Who can help me with .httpaccess ?
(Anonymous)
2007-02-05 05:43 pm UTC (link)
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