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NNN0LHI

(67,190 posts) Tue Jan 31, 2012, 07:42 PM Jan 2012

Look at these photos of Stars, Planets, Nebulae and other stuff taken from the Hubble telescope

http://hubblesite.org/gallery/

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Look at these photos of Stars, Planets, Nebulae and other stuff taken from the Hubble telescope (Original Post) NNN0LHI Jan 2012 OP

It's a giant Romney in space, with Mr. Frothy in the middle!!! HopeHoops Jan 2012 #1

Awesome! HappyMe Feb 2012 #2

Looks like a planetary nebula, so some star had a FATALITY PVnRT Feb 2012 #3

These are so beautiful siligut Feb 2012 #4

HopeHoops

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1. It's a giant Romney in space, with Mr. Frothy in the middle!!!

Reply to NNN0LHI (Original post)

Tue Jan 31, 2012, 07:44 PM

Jan 2012

For the record, I worked on the Hubble project in the early 80's. I was amazed that she ever became functional. I controlled the requirements database and it was fucking huge. Lets just say a few of the "requirements" came up short of expectations.