This week’s images a view of Earth from the ISS, a dusty galaxy and a labyrinth of troughs make up some of this weeks’ images.
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This picture, taken by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), shows NGC 4696, the largest galaxy in the Centaurus Cluster. The new images taken with Hubble show the dusty filaments surrounding the centre of this huge galaxy in greater detail than ever before. These filaments loop and curl inwards in an intriguing spiral shape, swirling around the supermassive black hole at such a distance that they are dragged into and eventually consumed by the black hole itself.
via Week In Images / Highlights / ESA
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Cool…I will look it up later.
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Your posts are interesting. I am going to share some with my astronomy club.
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Thanks Maria, I’ve written an entire series on the Solar system if it’s of interest. 🙂
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Yes, is it on your blog? Did you read my “About” page? Astronomy
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It is… I’m about to read it 🙂
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I found it. That looks great!
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Thanks – enjoy! 🙂
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So share whatever astronomy stuff you like. I moderate an all girl robotics team too.
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I’m always sharing astronomy articles as well as writing my own. That’s interesting I work for a robotics company.
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Really? We are always looking for mentors and sponsors even long distance. Mercy High Middletown CT TechTigers. You can check our website. So cool…nice to meet you.
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That’s sounds interesting. I’ll look at the website. It’s good to meet you too! ☺
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Yes, let’s stay in touch. I like your blog. You have that nice ecletic, right and left hemisphere mix!
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Sure let’s stay I touch! Is it Good too have a mix of right and left hemisphere?
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Well…makes you well rounded I suppose. I just tend toward STEAM education. Science, art, engineering, arts, math…creative.
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I’ve heard of STEM butt not STEAM but i get it….
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Newer…
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Newer eh? We can expect it in the UK soon i guess…
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Don’t know. I teach in a liberal arts model school. The public schools do STEM.
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Oh i see… Its more specialist.
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Very cool company! We are working on a robotic arm for our robot…nothing like yours. 😊 England? So what do you do there? We arrange for Skype conferences if you ever want to present to the team.
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It’s very cool and very new. I design the circuit boards that goo into them.
At some point we might like to present. Perhaps your team could use us as inspiration do a project then write to us about it perhaps?
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Yes, do you have any good video clips on your robotic arm or anything else they might watch?
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We don’t as our design is very commercially secret. There are a few clips on the website i think. Not much i agree…
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I can certainly appreciate that. Our team will write to you about what we are doing. I think it would be cool…UK and all.
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Well exactly…
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What company?
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It’s called Cambridge Medical Robotics.
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Amazing photos!
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Thanks ☺
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