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Visions of the Galactic Core

11 November 2009 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: NASA, ESA, CXC, SSC, and STScI

I imag­ine that when Galileo first turned a tele­scope to the heav­ens in 1609, he hoped that men would see won­ders beyond imag­i­na­tion. His obser­va­tions of the heav­ens changed the way we view the uni­verse. Every image returned from the great obser­va­to­ries, Hub­ble, Chan­dra and Spitzer, have been impres­sive and won­drous. Some of the images leave us speech­less, oth­ers remind us of art, spawn inspi­ra­tion and spur discussion.

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The ancient peo­ples saw pic­tures in the sky. From those pat­terns in the heav­ens, ancient sto­ry­tellers cre­ated leg­ends about heroes, maid­ens, drag­ons, bears, cen­taurs, dogs and myth­i­cal crea­tures…
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