Very, very cool:
A cosmic horseshoe, courtesy of Einstein! Fraser has the details.
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June 20th, 2007 at 7:28 am
Way cool! Five trillion solar masses? That’s one big momma. Is the red galaxy just really old or are the stars principally low mass?
GAry 7
June 20th, 2007 at 6:43 pm
Is there anyway to describe how amazing this find really is? Boggles the mind.
Bob
June 20th, 2007 at 11:41 pm
Forgive me for borrowing your own line from your later Eta car: tick tock, tick tock post;
“in case you’re not getting enough awesome in your diet.”
June 21st, 2007 at 2:12 am
Gives new meaning to “Eye in the Sky” doesn’t it?
I just hope the “woo-woo”s are too scared to comment.
Ivan. (I’m watching you…..)
June 21st, 2007 at 2:18 am
Come to think of it, the ’scope and/or the imageing equipment didn’t have its “red-eye reduction” botton enabled. Shame, I’ll have to do it myself. (Should be a smiley here).
Ivan.
June 21st, 2007 at 2:20 am
Ooops, for “botton” read “button”, though it probably doesn’t matter.
Ivan.
July 19th, 2007 at 9:31 am
Nup.
& given the lateness of this response neither, probably does this …
Am I the only one to view this thread (if that’s what you call these comments / feedblitzx-y thingy’s?) halfway thro’ July?
???
July 19th, 2007 at 9:35 am
Also on matters pointless, why am I supposedly saying :
“Your comment is awaiting moderation?”
when that’s not what I said at all?
Moderate? Me? Never!
BTW. Does someone still moderate these?
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“All things in moderation including moderation.”
- Socrates