Comments on: A cluster’s masquerade

By: Captn Tommy

Captn Tommy — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 15:46:54 +0000

Does anyone else see the bright orange turtle swimming at the bottom of the picture???

Proof of Disk world! Oh my! Tell the Republicans!

Irregardless…………………………………………………………………………………

By: Kim

Kim — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 00:07:30 +0000

Just thought that now: astronomers use very narrow filters to catch H-alpha lines and such. Do you have to redshift the filters to catch these lines at far-away galaxies, or filters are not that much precise?

By: Lavocat

Lavocat — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 23:49:49 +0000

“My God, it’s full of stars!”

By: andy

andy — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 21:31:10 +0000

This makes me wonder what a globular cluster would have looked like at the time they were young and still forming stars.

By: Crux Australis

Crux Australis — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 20:09:44 +0000

I had a trainee teacher in my class recently who showed the class a pic of M31, and told them that the reason it was slightly red is that it’s moving away from us! *facepalm* I quickly and politely corrected her, she accepted the critique and moved on. Other than that, she was pretty good.

I wonder what she would have said about this photo before I corrected her; maybe that it was rotating at close to the speed of light?

Still, a good chance to demonstrate to students that now all facts are above checking.

By: briankb

briankb — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 20:06:21 +0000

Is it a globular that ‘blew’ it’s globular apart?

By: Jes

Jes — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 20:05:39 +0000

Just beautiful! It looks like someone threw a handful of glitter across the sky.

Ot, but what happened to the Facebook share button? Edit: huh… It popped up after my comment, and the page looks different, too. Weird.

By: VinceRN

VinceRN — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 16:47:39 +0000

Still looks like a globular to me, but I bow to superior knowledge. Beautiful as a globular or as an open cluster.

By: Messier Tidy Upper

Messier Tidy Upper — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 16:36:02 +0000

@ ^ Jess Tauber : Ramen!

Great image, great write up.

I first saw this picture of NGC 2100, I thought it was a globular cluster. But I was wrong. That happens sometimes. Still, it’s worth it to see such a magnificent photo.

Absolutely. If I hadn’t been told otherwise, I’d call it a globular too.

Hard to believe it’s in another different galaxy rather than our Milky Way even one as close as the Large Magellanic Cloud.

By: Jess Tauber

Jess Tauber — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 15:43:23 +0000

I see the image of the Flying Spaghetti Monster in all His Noodliness

By: Gary Ansorge

Gary Ansorge — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 15:08:56 +0000

My monkey mid brain is enthralled. Good thing it’s not in a bottle,,,(Ack! Hand stuck! Ack!)

Great pic.

Gary 7

By: Nigel Depledge

Nigel Depledge — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 13:30:26 +0000

Oooh! Shiny!