The Dragonfish Nebula

[thesummerqueen]

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badast...ragonfish/



(named because it resembles this, as mentioned in the blog post)

It’s something like 450 light years across… compare that to the Orion Nebula’s 12-15 light year width and you start to see how huge this thing is. It’s also incredibly massive: it may have a total mass exceeding 100,000 times the Sun’s mass, and may contain millions of stars!

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There's a link for a much bigger version of the photo in the blog post.

[fuckass365]

Proof there is no god ^

[Christian]

Awesome Creation.

[Zen Badger]

Awesome Creation.

And you can look at the unimaginable vastness of this incredible universe we live in and still believe it was made just for us.......

[Phil]

Awesome Creation.

And you can look at the unimaginable vastness of this incredible universe we live in and still believe it was made just for us.......

It's unimaginable as you said so how do you expect a troglodyte to imagine it?

[Erinome]

Awesome Creation.

Yeah, this one is even more awesome:



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nematode

I'm sure that while the little girl had that creation inside her she was like, "Oh, what an awesome creation! Thank you, Jesus!".

[thesummerqueen]

(Tasteless joke alert...)

FSM!?

[Zen Badger]

Awesome Creation.

Yeah, this one is even more awesome:



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nematode

I'm sure that while the little girl had that creation inside her she was like, "Oh, what an awesome creation! Thank you, Jesus!".

I guess god really likes roundworms then

Nematodes have successfully adapted to nearly every ecosystem from marine to fresh water, to soils, and from the polar regions to the tropics, as well as the highest to the lowest of elevations. They are ubiquitous in freshwater, marine, and terrestrial environments, where they often outnumber other animals in both individual and species counts, and are found in locations as diverse as mountains, deserts, oceanic trenches, and within the earth's lithosphere.[3] They represent, for example, 90% of all life forms on the ocean floor.[4] Their numerical dominance, often exceeding more than 1 million individuals per square meter and accounting for about 80% of all individual animals on earth, their diversity in lifestyles and their presence at various trophic levels point at an important role in many ecosystems.[5] Their many parasitic forms include pathogens in most plants and animals (including humans). Some nematodes can undergo cryptobiosis.

[KichigaiNeko]

Quite frankly.... the universe is out to kill us. About 1% of it is habitable if not less than that.

"The Universe is made by a deity just for us" Bullshit!

[Phil]

Quite frankly.... the universe is out to kill us. About 1% of it is habitable if not less than that.

"The Universe is made by a deity just for us" Bullshit!

Much less than 1%. Of everything observed the only place habitable by humans without life support is Earth. We are not even 1% of the solar system let alone the observable universe. Try something more like 10-20%.