Comments on: Rainbow Pinwheel galaxy

By: Matt B.

Matt B. — Wed, 30 May 2012 19:20:01 +0000

This is a case where you want to use “altogether”, meaning “totally”. “All together means “completely together”.

Or was that a pun (referring to the several images being together)? It’s hard to tell, since so many people screw up “all ready”, and that expectation of error makes it hard to discern humorous misspellings, which have to be intentional to be funny.

In other words, if it was a joke, the general stupidity of the population killed it.

By: Messier Tidy Upper

Messier Tidy Upper — Wed, 30 May 2012 04:55:21 +0000

Minor nitpick, sorry, but :

.. X-ray show hot gas and energetic objects like supernovae and black holes, ..

Don’t you mean supernovae remnants there BA? I don’t think there are all that many supernovae going off at once there somehow!

Although we did have one in Messier 101 quite recently. Good image here – cheers.

By: Waydude

Waydude — Wed, 30 May 2012 03:11:27 +0000

Carey beat me to it, awesome.

By: VinceRN

VinceRN — Tue, 29 May 2012 20:50:34 +0000

Incredible picture, quite a bit better than what I’ve seen of the pinwheel through an 8″ Newt. Amazing what you can do with a few billion dollars and a team of experts.

I think that’s one of the reasons I like globulars so much. What I see seems closer the what you get with all the fancy stuff.

By: Quakeulf

Quakeulf — Tue, 29 May 2012 14:56:09 +0000

All I could think of was Juri Han from Street Fighter’s special pinwheel move:

http://th06.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/i/2011/235/e/f/juri___senpusha_by_akinrok-d47kmsl.jpg

By: Chris A.

Chris A. — Tue, 29 May 2012 14:29:49 +0000

I have a fantasy, that someday we might be able to image such things across the entire electromagnetic spectrum, then compress it all into the visible for purposes of display, rather than turning narrow segments of the spectrum into monochrome images, then combining them, as done here.

Probably never happen (way too many technical barriers to overcome, some of which Phil hinted at in this post), but an astronomy nerd can dream, can’t he?

By: Peter Davey

Peter Davey — Tue, 29 May 2012 14:06:29 +0000

“Like the circles that you find, in the pinwheels of your mind”?

By: Carey

Carey — Tue, 29 May 2012 13:08:14 +0000

“That’s a different matter. All together.”

That’s a different matter. /airplane