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Astronomy picture o' the day

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just to cool of from the drama in 'story behind the KA mod' thread, i just wanted to revive that thread that kinda went on these lines back on hattedbox. in some of my nerdier moments, i really think pictures of stuff in far away galaxies looks amazing, and here are a few
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ps. on the subject of the 'story behind the KA mod' thread, the scores are
jade 1 faq 0. why? because i said so
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Yeah, I remember this thread. We had some really deep discussions about stuff that I didn't understand but only pretended to. Lots of words in that thread.
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yeah daddyo had a link to a forum where he was talking about stuff like this times 10000 on the complication factor.
it made my head hurt
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He makes everyone's head hurt.

I don't know jack about astrology, but I'll contribute some "Biology Picture O' The Day" images. They're gonna be gross.
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Hey cool! The top one looked like a penicillin bacterial swirl, yummy.

Did you know the apparent size of the Andromeda galaxy is 7x that of the moon? It'd be 7 moons across if your eyes were sensitive enough.
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I've seen it, a blue blob in the sky without a telescope, but doesn't look big unless you've got a bionic eye.
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See? There he goes again.
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See? There he goes again.
LOL

7x the moons size is 24,332 km.the andromeda galaxy is 220,000 lightyears big.
get a new calculator mate :lol:
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I'm pretty sure he ment 7x the size of the moon if you watch it with your eyes and compare both dimension based on that what you see.
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I looked up in the sky the other day and I could swear I saw this...

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Sh17 happens when you go into ludicrous speed.
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ROFL tron.dll

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:-( noones joining in with my new nerd hobby

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Sorry, my nerdy hobby is numbers.
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My nerdy hobby is video games:

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I've taken a break from drama bro.

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Saturn looks so cool in infrared.
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