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pinball1970 reacted to robphy's post in the thread Graduate RIP Rainer Weiss (1932-2025) with
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainer_Weiss https://news.mit.edu/2025/professor-emeritus-rainer-weiss-dies-0826... -
pinball1970 replied to the thread Fresh 42.Still discussing?
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Retirement breakfast. Spanish coffee, eggs and bacon.
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Taken about 40 minutes ago.
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pinball1970 reacted to .Scott's post in the thread High School Looking for info about the Sombrero Galaxy with Informative.
That Hubble photo shows some serious gray-scale contouring. This happens when the brightness/contrast is set to highlight a limited...
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pinball1970 posted the thread R.I.P. Steven Cropper: October 12th 1942 – Dec 3rd 2025 in General Discussion.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Cropper Everyone remembers Booker T for “Green onions” but this was always my favourite.
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pinball1970 replied to the thread High School Looking for info about the Sombrero Galaxy.A little here but there is more info in the wiki page...
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pinball1970 replied to the thread Random Photos.Ok ill see your moon in different time zones and raise you some stars and a rotating galaxy in my office. Generated by this little...
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pinball1970 reacted to sbrothy's post in the thread Mystery of the Universe's lover, curious about quantum mechanics with
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crop till you drop?
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Ditto but earlier in the afternoon.
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Moonrise at twilight.
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pinball1970 reacted to russ_watters's post in the thread High School Looking for info about the Sombrero Galaxy with Informative.
Yeah, it's 9 arcmin wide, nearly a third the size of the full moon in the sky. So we'd be able to see it's if it were brighter.
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pinball1970 reacted to .Scott's post in the thread High School Looking for info about the Sombrero Galaxy with Like.
You can try a search on Messier 104, it's astronomical designation. It has a wiki page. As you likely already know, it about 30,000,000...
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pinball1970 reacted to PeroK's post in the thread High School Looking for info about the Sombrero Galaxy with Like.
Wikipedia is a good place to start. The page has an overview and some references to follow up on...
