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	GigaGalaxy Zoom
JohnWaterman
9-21-2009 1:37 PM
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340 Million Pixels
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9-21-2009 9:53 PM
mcsmithblack
Nice astronomy site. Thanks
9-22-2009 4:13 PM
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<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://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/0ec08c97-68ec-4458-9194-8e2f4975bab0/CBBB8DA2-7DB8-40E7-94F1-75F9CF4D08F2/" 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://www.universetoday.com/2009/09/21/340-million-pixels-of-gigagalaxy-zoom/" href="http://www.universetoday.com/2009/09/21/340-million-pixels-of-gigagalaxy-zoom/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.universetoday.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.universetoday.com/2009/09/21/340-million-pixels-of-gigagalaxy-zoom/"><DIV class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_40844"><A href="http://www.eso.org/gallery/v/ESOPIA/Stars/phot-34a-09-fullres.tif.html"><IMG width="580" height="332" class="size-full wp-image-40844" title="Second image from GigaGalaxy Zoom.  Credit: Stéphane Guisard" alt="Second image from GigaGalaxy Zoom.  Credit: Stéphane Guisard" src="http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/giga-galaxy-zoom-2.jpg" /></A><P class="wp-caption-text">Second image from GigaGalaxy Zoom</P></DIV></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://www.universetoday.com/2009/09/21/340-million-pixels-of-gigagalaxy-zoom/"><P>The <A href="http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/G.html">GigaGalaxy Zoom project</A> was create especially for the International Year of <A rel="external" title="" class="alinks_links" href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/astronomy/">Astronomy</A>.</P></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://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://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" 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://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/G.html" href="http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/G.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.gigagalaxyzoom.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/G.html"><UL class="overflow" id="minis">
      <LI class="miniActive" id="mini_Brunier"> <A href="http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/B.html"><IMG width="100" height="50" alt="milkyway" src="http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/images/maps/milkyway_h50.jpg" class="fading" /></A></LI>
      <LI class="miniActive" id="mini_Guisard"> <A href="http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/G.html"><IMG width="87" height="50" alt="Guisard" src="http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/images/maps/Guisard_h50.jpg" /></A></LI>
      <LI class="miniNotActive" id="mini_WFI"><A href="http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/W.html"> <IMG width="75" height="50" alt="M8" src="http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/images/maps/M8_h50.jpg" /></A></LI>
    </UL></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://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/G.html"><UL type="" class="overflow" id="panel">
        <LI id="leftSlide" class="clickSlide"></LI><LI class="click2extern"> <A href="http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/G14.html"><IMG src="http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/images/thumbs/G14_top.jpg" /></A> <SPAN class="maincaption"><A href="http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/G14.html"> <STRONG>The Galactic Centre</STRONG><BR />        </A></SPAN></LI><LI class="click2extern"> <A href="http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/G15.html"><IMG src="http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/images/thumbs/G15_top.jpg" /></A> <SPAN class="maincaption"><A href="http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/G15.html"> <STRONG>NGC 6357, an emission nebula</STRONG><BR />        </A></SPAN></LI><LI class="click2extern"> <A href="http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/G01.html"><IMG src="http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/images/thumbs/G01_top.jpg" /></A> <SPAN class="maincaption"><A href="http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/G01.html"> <STRONG>The Rho Ophiuchi dark cloud, a nearby star-forming region.</STRONG><BR />        </A></SPAN></LI>
        <LI class="click2extern"> <A href="http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/G02.html"><IMG src="http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/images/thumbs/G02_top.jpg" /></A> <SPAN class="maincaption"><A href="http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/G02.html"> <STRONG>Messier 62, a globular cluster also known as NGC 6266.</STRONG><BR />        </A></SPAN></LI>
        <LI class="click2extern"> <A href="http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/G03.html"><IMG src="http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/images/thumbs/G03_top.jpg" /></A> <SPAN class="maincaption"><A href="http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/G03.html"> <STRONG>The Cat's Paw Nebula, NGC 6334, is a complex emission nebula that hosts massive star formation.</STRONG><BR />        </A></SPAN></LI>
        <LI class="click2extern"> <A href="http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/G04.html"><IMG src="http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/images/thumbs/G04_top.jpg" /></A> <SPAN class="maincaption"><A href="http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/G04.html"> <STRONG>Messier 20, the Trifid Nebula</STRONG><BR />        </A></SPAN></LI>
        <LI class="click2extern"> <A href="http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/G05.html"><IMG src="http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/images/thumbs/G05_top.jpg" /></A> <SPAN class="maincaption"><A href="http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/G05.html"> <STRONG>Messier 6, a young open cluster in the Scorpion. </STRONG><BR />        </A></SPAN></LI>
        <LI class="click2extern"> <A href="http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/G06.html"><IMG src="http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/images/thumbs/G06_top.jpg" /></A> <SPAN class="maincaption"><A href="http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/G06.html"> <STRONG>The Pipe Nebula, a dark cloud obscuring the background stars.</STRONG><BR />        </A></SPAN></LI>
        <LI class="click2extern"> <A href="http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/G07.html"><IMG src="http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/images/thumbs/G07_top.jpg" /></A> <SPAN class="maincaption"><A href="http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/G07.html"> <STRONG>Messier 4, one of the nearest globular clusters, hosts stars almost as old as the Universe itself.</STRONG><BR />        </A></SPAN></LI>
        <LI class="click2extern"> <A href="http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/G08.html"><IMG src="http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/images/thumbs/G08_top.jpg" /></A> <SPAN class="maincaption"><A href="http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/G08.html"> <STRONG>Antares, a star whose diameter is 800 times larger than the Sun's.</STRONG><BR />        </A></SPAN></LI>
        <LI class="click2extern"> <A href="http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/G09.html"><IMG src="http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/images/thumbs/G09_top.jpg" /></A> <SPAN class="maincaption"><A href="http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/G09.html"> <STRONG>Messier 7, Ptolemy's Cluster </STRONG><BR />        </A></SPAN></LI>
        <LI class="click2extern"> <A href="http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/G10.html"><IMG src="http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/images/thumbs/G10_top.jpg" /></A> <SPAN class="maincaption"><A href="http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/G10.html"> <STRONG>Messier 8, the Lagoon Nebula</STRONG><BR />        </A></SPAN></LI>
        <LI class="click2extern"> <A href="http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/G11.html"><IMG src="http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/images/thumbs/G11_top.jpg" /></A> <SPAN class="maincaption"><A href="http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/G11.html"> <STRONG>NGC 6302, the Bug Nebula</STRONG><BR />        </A></SPAN></LI>
        <LI class="click2extern"> <A href="http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/G12.html"><IMG src="http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/images/thumbs/G12_top.jpg" /></A> <SPAN class="maincaption"><A href="http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/G12.html"> <STRONG>NGC 6400, an open cluster</STRONG><BR />        </A></SPAN></LI>
        <LI class="click2extern"> <A href="http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/G13.html"><IMG src="http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/images/thumbs/G13_top.jpg" /></A> <SPAN class="maincaption"><A href="http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/G13.html"> <STRONG>The Snake Nebula, a dark cloud</STRONG><BR />        </A></SPAN></LI>
        <LI class="click2extern"> <A href="http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/G14.html"><IMG src="http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/images/thumbs/G14_top.jpg" /></A> <SPAN class="maincaption"><A href="http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/G14.html"> <STRONG>The Galactic Centre</STRONG><BR />        </A></SPAN></LI>
        <LI class="click2extern"> <A href="http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/G15.html"><IMG src="http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/images/thumbs/G15_top.jpg" /></A> <SPAN class="maincaption"><A href="http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/G15.html"> <STRONG>NGC 6357, an emission nebula</STRONG><BR />        </A></SPAN></LI><LI class="click2extern"> <A href="http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/G01.html"><IMG src="http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/images/thumbs/G01_top.jpg" /></A> <SPAN class="maincaption"><A href="http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/G01.html"> <STRONG>The Rho Ophiuchi dark cloud, a nearby star-forming region.</STRONG><BR />        </A></SPAN></LI><LI class="click2extern"> <A href="http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/G02.html"><IMG src="http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/images/thumbs/G02_top.jpg" /></A> <SPAN class="maincaption"><A href="http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/G02.html"> <STRONG>Messier 62, a globular cluster also known as NGC 6266.</STRONG><BR />        </A></SPAN></LI><LI id="rightSlide" class="clickSlide"></LI>
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