Comments on: Season’s Greetings from Hubble http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/12/20/seasons-greetings-from-hubble/ I am an astronomer, writer, and skeptic. I likes reality the way it is, and I aims to keep it that way. My real name is Phil Plait, and I run the Bad Astronomy blog. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:36:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: 空杯亦常持 » Blog Archive » 哈勃的新春问候 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/12/20/seasons-greetings-from-hubble/comment-page-1/#comment-26119 空杯亦常持 » Blog Archive » 哈勃的新春问候 Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:31:31 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/12/20/seasons-greetings-from-hubble/#comment-26119 [...] from Bad Astronomy [...] [...] from Bad Astronomy [...]

]]> By: Irishman http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/12/20/seasons-greetings-from-hubble/comment-page-1/#comment-26118 Irishman Sun, 24 Dec 2006 21:51:34 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/12/20/seasons-greetings-from-hubble/#comment-26118 Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey said: >“Peace on Mars, and goodwill toward…” –what? Robotic explorers. ;-) Bill Higgins– Beam Jockey said:
>“Peace on Mars, and goodwill toward…” –what?

Robotic explorers. ;-)

]]> By: ArseneL http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/12/20/seasons-greetings-from-hubble/comment-page-1/#comment-26117 ArseneL Fri, 22 Dec 2006 06:47:13 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/12/20/seasons-greetings-from-hubble/#comment-26117 http://yyjun.blogspot.com/2006/12/blog-post_22.html http://yyjun.blogspot.com/2006/12/blog-post_22.html

]]> By: Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/12/20/seasons-greetings-from-hubble/comment-page-1/#comment-26116 Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey Thu, 21 Dec 2006 15:46:09 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/12/20/seasons-greetings-from-hubble/#comment-26116 The Hubble greeting cards are puzzling. A nice picture of Mars, with the word "Peace." What sentiment is being conveyed here? "Peace on Mars, and goodwill toward..." --what? The Hubble greeting cards are puzzling. A nice picture of Mars, with the word “Peace.”

What sentiment is being conveyed here? “Peace on Mars, and goodwill toward…” –what?

]]> By: jasonB http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/12/20/seasons-greetings-from-hubble/comment-page-1/#comment-26115 jasonB Thu, 21 Dec 2006 13:18:16 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/12/20/seasons-greetings-from-hubble/#comment-26115 Dear Mr. McHateverything Thank you for one of the funniest posts I've seen in a long time. Merry Solstice Dear Mr. McHateverything
Thank you for one of the funniest posts I’ve seen in a long time.
Merry Solstice

]]> By: Evolving Squid http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/12/20/seasons-greetings-from-hubble/comment-page-1/#comment-26114 Evolving Squid Thu, 21 Dec 2006 04:45:59 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/12/20/seasons-greetings-from-hubble/#comment-26114 oas: I agree, there are almost certainly more than the ones I circled. The edge-on galaxies trip me up in a busy image like that... are they galaxies, or some oblong structure in the foreground object? Still, all those circles, and that's just the obvious ones! And if there is life on a planet around 1 in 1 trillion stars, there's enough galaxies showing there to suggest there's at least one other planet with life on it somewhere in the circled bits. oas:

I agree, there are almost certainly more than the ones I circled. The edge-on galaxies trip me up in a busy image like that… are they galaxies, or some oblong structure in the foreground object?

Still, all those circles, and that’s just the obvious ones!

And if there is life on a planet around 1 in 1 trillion stars, there’s enough galaxies showing there to suggest there’s at least one other planet with life on it somewhere in the circled bits.

]]> By: 2020 Hindsight » Hubble holiday cards http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/12/20/seasons-greetings-from-hubble/comment-page-1/#comment-26113 2020 Hindsight » Hubble holiday cards Thu, 21 Dec 2006 04:36:13 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/12/20/seasons-greetings-from-hubble/#comment-26113 [...] Hubble Holiday Cards. [via Bad Astronomy] Choose one or more. With directions for how to print it yourself, or to send to vendors who do photo output from digital images. Why say Peace on Earth when you can have a picture of Mars on your holiday card? Or a nebula? or distant galaxies? [...] [...] Hubble Holiday Cards. [via Bad Astronomy] Choose one or more. With directions for how to print it yourself, or to send to vendors who do photo output from digital images. Why say Peace on Earth when you can have a picture of Mars on your holiday card? Or a nebula? or distant galaxies? [...]

]]> By: oldamatuerastronomer http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/12/20/seasons-greetings-from-hubble/comment-page-1/#comment-26112 oldamatuerastronomer Thu, 21 Dec 2006 04:31:40 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/12/20/seasons-greetings-from-hubble/#comment-26112 Evolving Squid, I could see possibly 3 to 5 others that you did not mark, but then it is hard to see them through all the stars in front of them! Some might be faint stars picked up by the Hubble, but did not have visible diffraction spikes due to their magnitude. Nonetheless, it shows we live in a LARGE universe!!!!!!!! Evolving Squid, I could see possibly 3 to 5 others that you did not mark, but then it is hard to see them through all the stars in front of them! Some might be faint stars picked up by the Hubble, but did not have visible diffraction spikes due to their magnitude.

Nonetheless, it shows we live in a LARGE universe!!!!!!!!

]]> By: Evolving Squid http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/12/20/seasons-greetings-from-hubble/comment-page-1/#comment-26111 Evolving Squid Thu, 21 Dec 2006 03:28:16 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/12/20/seasons-greetings-from-hubble/#comment-26111 <i>celebration of the planet making yet another boring revolution around the sun can begin</i> personally, I prefer that the planet make another boring revolution around the sun. I'm not sure I want to be on the planet when said revolution becomes "interesting" in a substantial way. celebration of the planet making yet another boring revolution around the sun can begin

personally, I prefer that the planet make another boring revolution around the sun.

I’m not sure I want to be on the planet when said revolution becomes “interesting” in a substantial way.

]]> By: Angry McHatevrything http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/12/20/seasons-greetings-from-hubble/comment-page-1/#comment-26110 Angry McHatevrything Thu, 21 Dec 2006 03:23:21 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/12/20/seasons-greetings-from-hubble/#comment-26110 Thanks! Now my non-religious celebration of the planet making yet another boring revolution around the sun can begin, but with even more heartless mediocrity than the previous year, all thanks to your vaguely aesthetically pleasing pictures of star clusters that for all we know could have been sucked into a supermassive black hole eons ago! Fantastic! Oh, and merry nothing, because I forgot that scientists don't celebrate anything but maybe birthdays and JAMES RANDI and especially not holidays because they have the world "holy" in the title and that causes scientists to spontaneously combust like vampires in sunlight! Ho ho ho. Thanks! Now my non-religious celebration of the planet making yet another boring revolution around the sun can begin, but with even more heartless mediocrity than the previous year, all thanks to your vaguely aesthetically pleasing pictures of star clusters that for all we know could have been sucked into a supermassive black hole eons ago! Fantastic! Oh, and merry nothing, because I forgot that scientists don’t celebrate anything but maybe birthdays and JAMES RANDI and especially not holidays because they have the world “holy” in the title and that causes scientists to spontaneously combust like vampires in sunlight! Ho ho ho.

]]> By: Evolving Squid http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/12/20/seasons-greetings-from-hubble/comment-page-1/#comment-26109 Evolving Squid Thu, 21 Dec 2006 01:58:18 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/12/20/seasons-greetings-from-hubble/#comment-26109 Heh, I guess I should read the comments first, someone else also finds this cool :) Heh, I guess I should read the comments first, someone else also finds this cool :)

]]> By: Evolving Squid http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/12/20/seasons-greetings-from-hubble/comment-page-1/#comment-26108 Evolving Squid Thu, 21 Dec 2006 01:51:28 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/12/20/seasons-greetings-from-hubble/#comment-26108 Here's what I find cool in these sorts of images is this: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/dcowan38/board_posts/xlarge_web.jpg Galaxies viewed THROUGH another galaxy. I think this sort of thing has been mentioned before, but it's still cool. I just did a very cursory glance and I could see the ones I circled. In more slow moments, I'll probably go over it more closely for fun. Here’s what I find cool in these sorts of images is this:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/dcowan38/board_posts/xlarge_web.jpg

Galaxies viewed THROUGH another galaxy. I think this sort of thing has been mentioned before, but it’s still cool. I just did a very cursory glance and I could see the ones I circled. In more slow moments, I’ll probably go over it more closely for fun.

]]> By: spacewriter http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/12/20/seasons-greetings-from-hubble/comment-page-1/#comment-26107 spacewriter Wed, 20 Dec 2006 23:43:56 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/12/20/seasons-greetings-from-hubble/#comment-26107 We used six of the HST card designs for our christmas card-letter this year. They're great! We used six of the HST card designs for our christmas card-letter this year. They’re great!

]]> By: oldamatuerastronomer http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/12/20/seasons-greetings-from-hubble/comment-page-1/#comment-26106 oldamatuerastronomer Wed, 20 Dec 2006 23:23:29 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/12/20/seasons-greetings-from-hubble/#comment-26106 Beautiful! Beautiful! Beautiful!! I wish I was in the Southern Hemisphere so I could see the LMC and SMC. Oh well. While examining the image I saw all the the background galaxies that were also captured. Galaxies were my favorite targets when I could go out with my 'scope. Saw all of them in the Messier list and quite a few in the Herschel list. But, oh, to see those as captured in the Deep and Ultra deep fields as captured by the Hubble. Am looking forward to waht be done once the NGST goes up!! Beautiful! Beautiful! Beautiful!!

I wish I was in the Southern Hemisphere so I could see the LMC and SMC. Oh well.

While examining the image I saw all the the background galaxies that were also captured. Galaxies were my favorite targets when I could go out with my ‘scope. Saw all of them in the Messier list and quite a few in the Herschel list.

But, oh, to see those as captured in the Deep and Ultra deep fields as captured by the Hubble. Am looking forward to waht be done once the NGST goes up!!

]]> By: The Bad Astronomer http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/12/20/seasons-greetings-from-hubble/comment-page-1/#comment-26105 The Bad Astronomer Wed, 20 Dec 2006 22:56:17 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/12/20/seasons-greetings-from-hubble/#comment-26105 Oops! Fixed. Oops! Fixed.

]]> By: AstroSmurf http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/12/20/seasons-greetings-from-hubble/comment-page-1/#comment-26104 AstroSmurf Wed, 20 Dec 2006 22:40:44 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/12/20/seasons-greetings-from-hubble/#comment-26104 The link is somewhat broken. <a href="http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2006/55/" rel="nofollow">This link</a> will probably work better. The link is somewhat broken. This link will probably work better.

]]> By: bassmanpete http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/12/20/seasons-greetings-from-hubble/comment-page-1/#comment-26103 bassmanpete Wed, 20 Dec 2006 22:38:07 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/12/20/seasons-greetings-from-hubble/#comment-26103 In a similar vein, a friend sent me the following link yesterday. Make sure your sound is turned on. My firewall & anti-virus software passed it as safe to visit. http://dingo.care-mail.com/cards/flash/5409/galaxy.swf In a similar vein, a friend sent me the following link yesterday. Make sure your sound is turned on. My firewall & anti-virus software passed it as safe to visit.

http://dingo.care-mail.com/cards/flash/5409/galaxy.swf

]]> By: Todd http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/12/20/seasons-greetings-from-hubble/comment-page-1/#comment-26102 Todd Wed, 20 Dec 2006 22:30:57 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/12/20/seasons-greetings-from-hubble/#comment-26102 Thanks for the new wallpaper! Beautiful. Thanks for the new wallpaper! Beautiful.

]]> By: NTB Heliochromologist George http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/12/20/seasons-greetings-from-hubble/comment-page-1/#comment-26101 NTB Heliochromologist George Wed, 20 Dec 2006 22:23:58 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/12/20/seasons-greetings-from-hubble/#comment-26101 Wow!! Simply beautiful and clever... and artistic and appropriate for the season and admirable... ok, it's not so simple but wonderful advanced just as it is advanced. Wow!! Simply beautiful and clever… and artistic and appropriate for the season and admirable… ok, it’s not so simple but wonderful advanced just as it is advanced.

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