<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/0d25b44f-6e04-4a68-8e0b-3c35973bb471/A9A44856-BEB7-4007-ACBC-C74D0ED09D4D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/09/30/two-hubble-stunners/" href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/09/30/two-hubble-stunners/" style="font-size: 11px;">blogs.discovermagazine.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/09/30/two-hubble-stunners/"><P> reset your awe-meter. Check. This. Out.</p> <P></P><CENTER><A target="_blank" href="http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/html/heic0911c.html"><IMG width="610" height="610" title="hst_ngc4402" alt="hst_ngc4402" src="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/files/2009/09/hst_ngc4402.jpg" /></A></CENTER> <P>D’ya like that? Huh? <EM>Do</EM> ya? Had enough? <EM>No?</EM> Then check <STRONG>THIS</STRONG> out!</p> <P></P><CENTER><A target="_blank" href="http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/html/heic0911b.html"><IMG width="610" height="610" title="hst_ngc4522" alt="hst_ngc4522" src="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/files/2009/09/hst_ngc4522.jpg" /></A></CENTER> <P>Jeebus. Click either to brobdingnangate. In fact, you can get massively huge versions <A target="_blank" href="http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/original/heic0911c.tif">here</A> and <A target="_blank" href="http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/original/heic0911b.tif">here</A>. We’re talking 30 and 40 Mb each, so be ye fairly warned, says I</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/09/30/two-hubble-stunners/"><P>If they look funny to you, then good! The Virgo Cluster is massive, and has a lot of gravity. The galaxies bound to it are moving like bees surrounding a hive, each in its own orbit going every which way. These galaxies are screaming through the cluster at speeds of 10 <EM>million</EM> kilometers per hour, a truly terrifying velocity.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/09/30/two-hubble-stunners/"><P>These pictures are incredible. Poke around them; you can see amazing detail in the galaxies themselves, as well as hundreds, maybe <EM>thousands</EM> of background galaxies. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/09/30/two-hubble-stunners/">It’s been a while since we’ve seen deep, glorious pictures of spiral galaxies from Hubble. Now that ACS is working again, and it’s being joined by the equally powerful Wide Field Camera 3, we’ll be seeing <EM>lots</EM> more of these</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/A9A44856-BEB7-4007-ACBC-C74D0ED09D4D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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