Comments on: The Helix’s dusty heart http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/02/12/the-helixs-dusty-heart/ Wed, 21 Nov 2012 15:12:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Irishman http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/02/12/the-helixs-dusty-heart/#comment-26443 Irishman Wed, 14 Feb 2007 20:13:52 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/02/12/the-helixs-dusty-heart/#comment-26443 Anyone else notice the purple "heart-shape" in the second image? Happy Valentine's Day! Anyone else notice the purple “heart-shape” in the second image? Happy Valentine’s Day!

]]> By: That Neil Guy http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/02/12/the-helixs-dusty-heart/#comment-26442 That Neil Guy Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:41:17 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/02/12/the-helixs-dusty-heart/#comment-26442 "The Hubble Site has a useful slideshow of how and why Hubble’s photos are colorized (you can play with a few pictures, too). " Thanks, Melusine, for that link to the hubble site. Great info, very helpful -- and interesting! “The Hubble Site has a useful slideshow of how and why Hubble’s photos are colorized (you can play with a few pictures, too). ”

Thanks, Melusine, for that link to the hubble site. Great info, very helpful — and interesting!

]]> By: Peter Bramley http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/02/12/the-helixs-dusty-heart/#comment-26441 Peter Bramley Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:21:58 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/02/12/the-helixs-dusty-heart/#comment-26441 If you were at the nebula would you be able to see it? Or are the particles too dispersed to see up close and only visible because we are so far away? If you were at the nebula would you be able to see it? Or are the particles too dispersed to see up close and only visible because we are so far away?

]]> By: Robbie Taylor http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/02/12/the-helixs-dusty-heart/#comment-26440 Robbie Taylor Tue, 13 Feb 2007 14:13:34 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/02/12/the-helixs-dusty-heart/#comment-26440 Sorry if my link in the last post didn't work - it was to this Wikipedia entry for the Larry Niven/Jerry Pournelle novel, The Mote in God's Eye - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mote_in_God's_Eye Sorry if my link in the last post didn’t work – it was to this Wikipedia entry for the Larry Niven/Jerry Pournelle novel, The Mote in God’s Eye – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mote_in_God's_Eye

]]> By: Robbie Taylor http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/02/12/the-helixs-dusty-heart/#comment-26439 Robbie Taylor Tue, 13 Feb 2007 14:11:56 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/02/12/the-helixs-dusty-heart/#comment-26439 We finally found the <a>Eye of God</a>! The Moties can't be far behind! We finally found the Eye of God! The Moties can’t be far behind!

]]> By: Grand Lunar http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/02/12/the-helixs-dusty-heart/#comment-26438 Grand Lunar Tue, 13 Feb 2007 12:39:53 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/02/12/the-helixs-dusty-heart/#comment-26438 I saw this on NASA's webpage not long before I found it here. Ah, connections in cyberspace... Moving along, it's facinating that we can find signs of comets in such a distant location. Yet another fantastic feat for the modern era of astronomy! I saw this on NASA’s webpage not long before I found it here. Ah, connections in cyberspace…

Moving along, it’s facinating that we can find signs of comets in such a distant location. Yet another fantastic feat for the modern era of astronomy!

]]> By: Melusine http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/02/12/the-helixs-dusty-heart/#comment-26437 Melusine Tue, 13 Feb 2007 12:19:52 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/02/12/the-helixs-dusty-heart/#comment-26437 <blockquote>I think I recall hearing that all those marvelous Hubble (and other) images that we see are all, essentially, colorized. So would that red actually look red if we were viewing it naked eye? How does all that work? Are the colors added to indicate different parts of the electromagnetic spectrum?</blockquote> <b>That Neil Guy</b>, The Hubble Site has a useful slideshow of how and why Hubble's photos are colorized (you can play with a few pictures, too). For some reason it's not formatting right on my PC, but you can click and highlight the words down to the "next" button on the lower right: http://hubblesite.org/gallery/behind_the_pictures/ It's an interesting and important question, and one that's come up here before. What color would Mars' surface look like if we were actually standing there? And so on... Stunning picture!

I think I recall hearing that all those marvelous Hubble (and other) images that we see are all, essentially, colorized. So would that red actually look red if we were viewing it naked eye? How does all that work? Are the colors added to indicate different parts of the electromagnetic spectrum?

That Neil Guy, The Hubble Site has a useful slideshow of how and why Hubble’s photos are colorized (you can play with a few pictures, too). For some reason it’s not formatting right on my PC, but you can click and highlight the words down to the “next” button on the lower right:
http://hubblesite.org/gallery/behind_the_pictures/

It’s an interesting and important question, and one that’s come up here before. What color would Mars’ surface look like if we were actually standing there? And so on…

Stunning picture!

]]> By: Christian Burnham http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/02/12/the-helixs-dusty-heart/#comment-26436 Christian Burnham Tue, 13 Feb 2007 09:35:39 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/02/12/the-helixs-dusty-heart/#comment-26436 Good grief- I'm so tired commenting on the BA's post concerning Christianity and evolution I don't have any time left today to read this science article. What does that say about me? Good grief-
I’m so tired commenting on the BA’s post concerning Christianity and evolution I don’t have any time left today to read this science article.

What does that say about me?

]]> By: Troy http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/02/12/the-helixs-dusty-heart/#comment-26435 Troy Tue, 13 Feb 2007 07:28:44 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/02/12/the-helixs-dusty-heart/#comment-26435 The storm on Neptune when Voyager visited (1986) was called the "Wizard's eye", ground based observations showed that it disipated a few years later. Now that seems much more a wizard's eye than the Neptunian storm every was! The storm on Neptune when Voyager visited (1986) was called the “Wizard’s eye”, ground based observations showed that it disipated a few years later. Now that seems much more a wizard’s eye than the Neptunian storm every was!

]]> By: wright http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/02/12/the-helixs-dusty-heart/#comment-26434 wright Tue, 13 Feb 2007 06:58:23 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/02/12/the-helixs-dusty-heart/#comment-26434 I had no idea planetary nebulae were so ephemeral... 10,000 years is it? Wow. I had no idea planetary nebulae were so ephemeral… 10,000 years is it? Wow.

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