Eye of God

[amercury]

http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/8909/eyeofgod1350800c.jpg (http://img5.imageshack.us/my.php?image=eyeofgod1350800c.jpg)


LOL:D


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/space/4805889/Eye-of-God-pictured-in-space.html

Eye of God pictured in space
European astronomers have taken a stunning photo of a Big Brother-style cosmic eye, nicknamed the Eye of God, staring down from space.

Last Updated: 6:59PM GMT 25 Feb 2009

Nicknamed the Eye of God, the amazing object is actually a shell of gas and dust that has been blown off by a faint central star. Photo: ESO
The bright blue pupil and the white of the eye are fringed by flesh-coloured eyelids - but this eye is so big that it light takes two and a half years to cross from one side to the other.

The object is actually a shell of gas and dust that has been blown off by a faint central star. Our own solar system will meet a similar fate five billion years in the future.

It lies around 700 light-years away in the constellation of Aquarius, and can be dimly seen in small backyard telescopes by amateur astronomers who call it the Helix nebula. It covers an area of sky around a quarter the size of the full moon.

The photo was taken with a giant telescope at the European Southern Observatory, high on a mountaintop at La Silla in Chile. It is so detailed that a close-up reveals distant galaxies within the central eyeball.

[element]

Beautiful. ;):)

[amercury]

It is amazing isn't it! :)

[astrochicken]

That is beautiul.. the blue looks photoshopped though.

[oiram]

God is watching you!http://waronyou.com/forums/Smileys/default/Die_Lol.gif
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[thomps1d]

Eye of God pictured in space
European astronomers have taken a stunning photo of a Big Brother-style cosmic eye, nicknamed the Eye of God, staring down from space.

Either this article is very old, or it's just another picture of a previously-photographed location. For the last year or so, I've been using the astronomy-themed screensaver that comes pre-packed with most Gnome releases as my workstation screensaver at work. It randomly rotates through a pile of different astronomy pictures, one of which is this one (or one so similar that I can't really tell the difference at first glance).

If you think it looks like an eye, you should see what happens on a dual-head workstation when the same picture is present on both monitors, and your keyboard is sitting in front of them. Looks like two eyes and a big, toothy mouth. :D

[size_of_light]

http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/8909/eyeofgod1350800c.jpg (http://img5.imageshack.us/my.php?image=eyeofgod1350800c.jpg)


LOL:D


Don't get me wrong, I've seen similar photos of nebulas that look like this (e.g. The Ring nebula, which was in a book on Space Exploration I got back in 1983), but something about the above photo makes me think it's Photoshopped to look more 'eye-like' than it probably really is.

Just a feeling, and being in 'Aquarius' and being likened to a 'Big Brother-style' eye makes me wonder...

[lightblessins]

Don't get me wrong, I've seen similar photos of nebulas that look like this (e.g. The Ring nebula, which was in a book on Space Exploration I got back in 1983), but something about the above photo makes me think it's Photoshopped to look more 'eye-like' than it probably really is.

Just a feeling, and being in 'Aquarius' and being likened to a 'Big Brother-style' eye makes me wonder...

very true, nasa the best photoshop artist on ur planet!:)

[size_of_light]

very true, nasa the best photoshop artist on ur planet!:)

At the very least, the colours have been tweaked to match those of a real human eye - no question about it.

[lightblessins]

At the very least, the colours have been tweaked to match those of a real human eye - no question about it.

wonder how much they pay some1 to do that, and weather he/she is on nasa's pay roll, if so i wonder what thier offical job title is?:)

[amercury]

Either this article is very old, or it's just another picture of a previously-photographed location.

The photo has been around for a few years, but they just put that article out last week, and it was the first time I had seen it.

something about the above photo makes me think it's Photoshopped to look more 'eye-like' than it probably really is.

Just a feeling, and being in 'Aquarius' and being likened to a 'Big Brother-style' eye makes me wonder...

Copied this off the image from another internet site:

"Visible light image of the Helix Nebula, compiled from Hubble telescope and ground-based images in 2004."

'compiled' hmmm yes well I guess that says it all. Obviously tweaked.

[tjohn]

Beautiful. ;):)Yes it is lovely - I wonder if Hubble has a picture of it too.