Alright... now, I know that we have taken pictures of other galaxies in the universe ... but recently I was looking at a picture of the Milky Way (our galaxy, not a candy bar) and it had, down in the corner, 'actual photo' printed on it. Now, how would a 'space-ship' (one that takes pictures only), be able to travel outside of our galaxy in enough time to take pictures and bring (or send them at the speed of light) back to Earth? Considering our space technology has not been around that long?
Any ideas?? Serious answers only. (**for all the little kiddies... go find something better to do..)
Does this make sense to anyone else out there?
2006-07-22 21:17:48 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
We have sent satellites out into orbit so it is possible that it was an actual photo. Now that it was one of our galaxy, I find it hard to believe because that would take MANY years. However, like the land rovers on Mars, they are electronically communicating with satellites in orbit around Earth, which then send them to NASA. I don't think it was an actual photo. Many artists draw depictions of space and a lot of times the "pictures" you see of the other planets are just that... drawings. Perhaps it was just a drawing that you saw. Do you have a link to this picture?? I'd like to see it.
2006-07-22 21:23:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
It would have been helpful if you had posted a link the picture in question (assuming it was online). But unless it was a face-on view, it is quite possible that you saw an actual photo. From our vantage point (which includes anywhere in our solar system) we have a distinctly edge-on view of our own galaxy. Not all parts of the Milky Way are visible on all parts of the Earth at all times of the year, but there have been elaborate photo mosaïcs made that basically, in the finished picture, show the entire sky centered on the Milky Way. Similar-type portraits have been made with satellite telescopes that show our sky in infra-red light (which gives us a clearer view of our galaxy's center, normally obscured by interstellar dust) and in ultra-violet and other wavelengths.
So again, if it was an edge-on view then there would have been no need to fly above our galaxy to get a full view. If it was face-on then either it was a graphical simulation (computer-generated image) or it was a photo of a different galaxy presumed to have similar characteristics to our own.
2006-07-23 05:32:21 · answer #2 · answered by Search first before you ask it 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most Likely Mislabled, Computer Generated Photo Of our Galaxy.
But Then Again It Is Alleged From Known Aliens On Earth That They Communicate With Their Home Planet At C^8. So It Is quite Plausible That Aliens Took The Photo And Communicated It Back to Earth
2006-07-23 00:00:27 · answer #3 · answered by savvy s 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since we are near the edge of the Milky Way galaxy, we can take a picture of the galaxy that includes the vast majority of the stars in the field of view from right here.
2006-07-22 21:23:09 · answer #4 · answered by hpisfun 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Photos of the Milky Way taken from earth all show the Milky Way edge-on. In certain wavelengths -- infrared is the most common -- much of the dust along the Milky Way is transparent, allowing us to see the bulge at the galaxy's center.
So if this was a legit, non-hoax photo, I suspect it was taken in infrared, and that it shows the Milky Way as an edge-on spiral.
2006-07-23 12:46:04 · answer #5 · answered by Keith P 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To take a Picture is qutie simple the sending them back at the speed of liget much harder. the probes sent out would take along time at the current speeds but the main thing facing us at the moment is though we can image everying in the galaixy its not the seeing but more the zooming in to get better detail of what we are looking at.
the more pratical approach would be to have the probe send back the image though a series of flashes of light like in the old morse code system as that way when picking up the information it would have traveled back at the speed of light rather then a eletronic message that would take ages to get back.
the less pratical approach also the less tested and obivousliy dangrous to the probe way would be to try to take advantage of a locolised black hole and direct its path to a white dwarf star in the direction you want to explore. find a way of safly sendig the probe though to the other end where it would then create another path back in the same fashion and from there have instant transmission of the images sent. but this is of course just a theroy. like the other involving string theory and the creating of two excatly identical points in spase where everystring of energy is the perfect mirror of the other spot this creating a link between the two points and allowing instant movement between the two or at least the viewing of a distant place up close.
i hope some of this might of helped your curiousity.
Cheers
Michael H Flack
2006-07-22 21:31:31 · answer #6 · answered by flackstar 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are far enough to the rim of the galaxy to determine that the basic formation is a spiral. Radio observations have detailed the structure of the gas in the spiral arms, but it is still not known if our galaxy is a normal spiral like our neighbor Andromeda, or a barred spiral.
2006-07-22 21:35:59 · answer #7 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, I know that many photos of galaxies are pieced together from other pictures - so maybe that's what they did with that one.
They may have taken a series of pictures - mostly originating from telescopes on earth, many from Galileo, and used that to piece together a larger picture of our galaxy.
2006-07-22 21:27:16 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Moondance - Van Morrison Cosmic project - B-fifty 2's Universally talking - RHCP On Mercury - RHCP i have self belief the Earth flow lower than My ft - Carole King, Martika area Cowboy - Steve Miller Band area Intro - ditto i have the favor to make the international turn round - ditto Tequila daybreak - Eagles area newborn - Spirit 2000 elementary Years from domicile - Rolling Stones Maiden of the most cancers Moon - Quicksilver Messenger service 1/2 Moon - Janis Joplin Intergalactic Laxative - Donovan :-) Cosmic Wheels - ditto Earth signal guy - ditto
2016-12-10 14:01:58 · answer #9 · answered by mijarez 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know what you were looking at, but it was probably either mis-labeled or fake because we don't have pictures of our galaxy...at least not from the outside looking in, as you've described. We can see our galaxy from the inside out, but no human spacecraft has ever left the galaxy.
2006-07-22 21:22:56 · answer #10 · answered by The Man In The Box 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋