A cosmic horseshoe

Very, very cool:

A cosmic horseshoe, courtesy of Einstein! Fraser has the details.

June 19th, 2007 4:51 PM by Phil Plait in Astronomy | 8 comments | RSS feed | Trackback >

8 Responses to “A cosmic horseshoe”

1. Gary Ansorge Says:
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
2. bkallee Says:
June 20th, 2007 at 6:43 pm

Is there anyway to describe how amazing this find really is? Boggles the mind.

Bob
3. John Phillips Says:
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 youâ€™re not getting enough awesome in your diet.”
4. icemith Says:
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…..)
5. icemith Says:
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.
6. icemith Says:
June 21st, 2007 at 2:20 am

Ooops, for “botton” read “button”, though it probably doesn’t matter.

Ivan.
7. StevoR Says:
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?

???
8. StevoR Says:
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?
——

“All things in moderation including moderation.”
- Socrates

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