NASA | Take a "Swift" Tour of the Andromeda Galaxy

NASA | Take a "Swift" Tour of the Andromeda Galaxy

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NASA's Swift satellite has acquired the highest-resolution view of the neighboring spiral galaxy M31. Also known as the Andromeda Galaxy, M31 is the largest and closest such galaxy to our own. It's more than 220,000 light-years across and lies 2.5 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda. Between May 25 and July 26, 2008, Swift's Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope (UVOT) acquired 330 images of M31 at wavelengths of 192.8, 224.6, and 260 nanometers. The images represent a total exposure time of 24 hours. Some 20,000 ultraviolet sources are visible in the image, including M32, a small galaxy in orbit around M31. Dense clusters of hot, young, blue stars sparkle in the disk beyond the galaxy's smooth, redder central bulge. Star clusters are especially plentiful along a ring about 150,000 light-years across.

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JordoF6

@pistak09 That is so retarted mate.The idiots who flew into the twin towers where religious they didn't believe in anything scientific your argument is pointless it was religious men who chose to attack using a plane it has nothing to do with scient you imbecile.
Sunday 05 February 2012 03:22:25
daviechops

@Gamebanga agree
Wednesday 01 February 2012 05:54:24
FAHxQxAAHSoul

the number of views is approaching the speed of light
Sunday 29 January 2012 16:38:24
pistak09

Science flys you into buildings, religion gives the gift from the heavens above. Stars and the Northern Lights. Anyone who says that region will die, you really need to sort yourselves out as that is how we have terrorists who use science to scare others.
Sunday 29 January 2012 15:02:40
ThePunisherFTW

This galaxy kicks ass. The Universe is cool.
Sunday 29 January 2012 09:51:04
Gamebanga

@12345hallam Go watch the show Ancient Aliens and try not to laugh the next time you hear a person say the word "he" when referring to their God. Go research human existance. How does one draw a map thousands of years ago of what Antarctica looks like without ice? Why are there obelisks all over the world? Why are the piramids in Egypt laid out the same as the ones in South America? Who dropped the nuke 8000 years ago in Mohenjo-Daro? Manna? Nazca? Aliens were misinterpereted as Gods, you goon!
Friday 27 January 2012 12:29:13
12345hallam

@Gamebanga i lol'd
Friday 27 January 2012 11:35:42
Gamebanga

@logan1243100 The universe is estimated to be around 12,000,000,000 years old and humans are estimated to be around 200,000 years old. To put it simply... we ain't shit! On the other hand, I do believe that we were genetically altered by something a few thousand years ago, and that humans witnessed ETs and started calling them Gods. Replace any figure in the Holy Bible with an ET and it all makes sense. 7 billion people are worshiping aliens and they don't even know it.
Friday 27 January 2012 10:54:40
Gamebanga

@12345hallam The universe is estimated to be around 12,000,000,000 years old and humans are estimated to be around 200,000 years old. To put it simply... we ain't shit! On the other hand, I do believe that we were genetically altered by something a few thousand years ago, and that humans witnessed ETs and started calling them Gods. Replace any figure in the Holy Bible with an ET and it all makes sense. 7 billion people are worshiping aliens and they don't even know it.
Friday 27 January 2012 10:49:51
classysasafrassy

@12345hallam REALLY?
Friday 27 January 2012 00:09:43
12345hallam

intier... entire... that's no fucking typo rofl. See this is what I mean, full of shit. Reading what you type is the only type of hell.
Thursday 26 January 2012 15:05:53
gamemaker1234

@12345hallam That was a typo now hit me with a question i will answer it
Thursday 26 January 2012 14:36:51
12345hallam

@classysasafrassy science can't prove he doesn't exist because he ISN'T THERE. You people need to remove your head from your ass because all that comes from your mouths is shit.
Thursday 26 January 2012 11:52:40
12345hallam

@gamemaker1234 I'm not going to argue with someone who can't even spell entire...
Thursday 26 January 2012 11:51:05
gamemaker1234

@12345hallam Did i say Evolution is wrong only a god can make a very complex world our body is more complex than a whole intier country
Thursday 26 January 2012 11:29:55
classysasafrassy

@12345hallam God isn't a man. And science proves it's ownself wrong all the time. While you are asking someone to prove God exist, science can't prove that He doesn't. You can' argue about it all day. What's the point?
Wednesday 25 January 2012 23:39:04
12345hallam

@gamemaker1234 Chance? We EVOLVED. From a tiny organism and over millions of years we have become what we are. And if you are just going to reply with your religious bullshit "evolution is fake" just don't reply at all.
Wednesday 25 January 2012 17:07:06
gamemaker1234

@logan1243100 are you christian
Wednesday 25 January 2012 11:56:45
gamemaker1234

@12345hallam Let me tell you something the universe is very complex the germs in our body are very complex do think we were made by chance
Wednesday 25 January 2012 11:55:45
Cosmored

NASA faked the moon landings. Here's a link to some of the evidence. spurstalk (dot) com/forums/showthread (dot) php?t=144487
Saturday 21 January 2012 15:27:29
12345hallam

@logan1243100 You religious people are so far up your own arse and so narrow minded and blind. How can anyone with a right mind believe a man made all this, it's so illogical to anyone with anyone with more than half a brain cell. At least science theory's are feasible.
Saturday 21 January 2012 06:08:28
logan1243100

@12345hallam then how do you think the earth was made. your prolly thinking of the big bang if you are what made the big bang.This question will go on forever unless you say the correct answer wich is God. Take that astro nerd
Friday 20 January 2012 16:57:15
12345hallam

@logan1243100 Show me proof that either of them existed. They're exaggerated STORIES. Religion will die in the future because it is a primitive theory of life.
Friday 20 January 2012 09:03:12
logan1243100

NAUTYKNIGHT IS RIGHT!!!!! There was a God and Jesus you guys just chose not to belive in them. every path you take has an end to it and when you get to them you non belivers will burn forever i will fill sorry for you but its not my fault. ITS YOURS
Thursday 19 January 2012 23:20:25