Topic: SPACE PHOTOS THIS WEEK: Alien Dust, Zodiac Light, More

[sam]

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/01/photogalleries/100112-week-in-space-pictures-77/#025602_600x450.jpg

January 6, 2010—Two large, rocky bodies collide while in orbit around the star HD 131488 in an artist's conception. Such a collision would explain a ring of warm dust recently found inside the star's terrestrial planet zone, the region in which the star would heat matter to temperatures like those on Earth.

[Clive]

I love num 1.

[Rik]

Is it just me, or does it look like an illustration from a comic?

[Camstop]

If that happens to us we could wake up with a sore head 

[Rik]

Or not wake up at all, Cam.

[Simon]

Number one is my new Desktop!  Thanks, Sam!   

[Clive]

Is it just me, or does it look like an illustration from a comic?

Don't be silly Rik.  It's a genuine photo taken by the newly refurbished Hubble Space Telescope!   

[Simon]

[Rik]

Don't be silly Rik.  It's a genuine photo taken by the newly refurbished Hubble Space Telescope!   

 

[sam]

if only eh!