Is the Eye of God photo really taken by NASA Hubble Telescope?  Or another urban myth?
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It's actually a composite of photos (as are most photos of space).  Some more information is here:\n\nhttp://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap000828.html\n\nwww.snopes.com has some information as well.  Type in Eye of God in the search box.
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OK, you discovered that did you? The next step is for you to notice that the pyramids along the Nile are laid out to mimic the shape of the constellation Orion. I'll wait, go Google that to check. \n\nWhen you are convinced of that, then you must have two more bits of information. Your brain ready for this? \n\nLife on the Nile depended upon the annual flooding to bring life-giving water to the fields. No flooding, not much crops, starvation. Remember Pharaoh's dreams about the fat cows and the lean cows? Right. \n\nPriests need to be able to predict things for their people. It gives people reasons to support their priests. There really are not much as what you can call seasons so near the equator. One thing did show when the flood SHOULD be coming (in otherwords, when it would be raining down south in the mountains of the headwaters of the Nile) and that was when the constellation of Orion, or more properly, the brightest star in the sky (besides the sun) Sirius would rise just a few moments before the sun - the helical rising of Sirius.\n\nThere is a shaft, often called an "air shaft" that goes down the Great Pyramid at Giza, very strictly aligned. When astronomers were able to do computer modeling to take into consideration the procession of the equinoxes and the apparent wobble of the earth on its axis, they were astonished to find out that this air shaft aligned to when Sirius would rise with the Sun. \n\nSirius, as you probably have seen used as the logo for Sirius satellite radio, is called "The Dog Star." \n\nHow does that all go together? And why am I telling you this? One more thing and I will let you go look some more.\n\nLook up the Dogon people of Africa. Remember now that Egypt is on the African continent. They have a story of how they got here (earth). They claim they got here on ships with Gods from another place. That place is Sirius. The gods, they say, had fish tails - looks a lot like the great God Dagon over in the Middle East, Philistines worshipped Him - and at least one of the gods died on the journey. \n\nBut god and dog are English words. None of this is real. This is all just fancy word-play made up to confuse you. Nobody believes this. This is not a story my people tell; this is just something I tell you who read this right now. \n\nDrab as a fool, aloof as a bard!
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Of course they are real. There are thousands of photos of crop circles.\nDid you mean "did aliens make crop circles?"  Probably not.  Too many people have said they made them and shown how. There's even directions online on how to do it! (See link.)
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No, that's not what all the fuss is about however even among secular scientists many believe that a ark found on the mountain is old enough for Noah's Ark.  I can not tell you whether or not that is the same object or not.  And lastly, with modern technology there is no such thing as a "grainy sattelite image".
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Not his original, but the image in the middle of the first link I'm listing is pretty close to Descartes' from De Meteorologica.  The second source has several modern takes on the image as well as a nice physical explanation of what is going on.
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Those photographs are not at all what you would see with the naked eye- even if you were in a spacecraft nearby.  The pictures are "artificially colored composites" using different colors in the human visual spectrum to represent the different gasses reflecting invisible light frequencies or impossibly subtle detail.\n\nFor a detailed explanation of color in astronomical photos, check out the link below to the Hubble Space Telescope FAQ's.\n\n++++++++\nAnd in response to a few snyde remarks from the peanut gallery, here is a direct quote from hubblesite.org:\n\n"Taking color pictures with the Hubble Space Telescope is much more complex than taking color pictures with a traditional camera. For one thing, Hubble doesn't use color film — in fact, it doesn't use film at all. Rather, its cameras record light from the universe with special electronic detectors. These detectors produce images of the cosmos not in color, but in shades of black and white.\n\nFinished color images are actually combinations of two or more black-and-white exposures to which color has been added during image processing.\n\nThe colors in Hubble images, which are assigned for various reasons, aren't always what we'd see if we were able to visit the imaged objects in a spacecraft. We often use color as a tool, whether it is to enhance an object's detail or to visualize what ordinarily could never be seen by the human eye."\n\nAny other comments?
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I believe earth is indeed round, as seen from outer space, and that people have gone to the moon.\n\nContrary to popular belief, the Bible doesn't say that the earth is flat. I think Infrared Loaf is stretching the text.
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I have read several books and internet documentation on this interesting subject. IT makes a good story, but it is just that, a story!! The critics of this report are quick to point out that the anthropologists who reported this information,  Marcel Griaule and Germaine Dieterlen, stated that they recorded this knowledge of the Dogon people in the 1930s (which can not be verified) and published it AFTER they left the tribe in 1956 and even then it was not widely publicised until Robert Temple took up the subject in 1975.\n\nThe second star in the Sirius system was first hypothesized by the Euopean astronomer Bessel in 1844 and discovered (visually) in 1862 by Alvin Clark. An astronomer named Adams had pretty accurately predicted Sirius B's orbit around Sirius A and orbital period by 1915. There are also accounts of Sirius B being seen with the naked eye as back as far as 25 AD when it appeared red in contrast to the bright white Sirius A (due to redshift since it was in motion around Sirius A)!!\n\nSo why is it so fancy that the Dogons knew about it in the 1930s? The Dogons could have heard about the hypothesis from someone who knew of the hypothesis or the previous sighting (or could have sighted it themselves), become facinated with it, and worked it into their mythology during the years PRIOR to when it was then recorded by Dr. Giraule and Dr. Dieterlen.\n\nAnd the BIG kicker is that the Dogons now say that there are THREE, not two, stars in the Sirius system. Barring some incredible mystery, we should be able to detect a third star using modern technology but it is just NOT THERE. So, someone please tell teh Dogons, and anyone who listens to them about their mythology of Sirius B, that they are WRONG!!\n\nFinally, the main assumption of Robert Temple's book in 1975 about the Dogon people is thier ISOLATION. IN the 1930s, these people were fairly isolated by todays standards, but were far from in a complete VACUUM from the rest of the world. First of all, there are approximately 300,000 Dogon people. They are in Mali within about 6 hour walk of the Mopti airport and a half-days boat ride on the Niger river to the cities of Koulikoro (110,000 people), Ségou (100,000 people), Timbuktu (MAJOR Tourist site, population 32,000) and Gao (tourist site, population 38,000). That means that by comparison, the Dogons have a popluation about the size of Tampa, FL, Newark, NJ, or Buffalo, NY, while they are closely surrounded by two tourist sites and two cities about the size of Gainesville, FL, Hartford, CT, or Berkeley, CA. By reading Robert Temple's book and the resulting conspiracy theories, you get the idea that this tribe is 100 people out in the middle of nowhere, which just is not the case!! To assume that they never visited these popluation centers just down the river and couldn't have heard about the discovery of Sirius B is absolutely insane. Add the fact that they have always worshiped Sirius A in their rituals (for obvious reasons, it is the brightest star in the sky next to our sun!!), and you can bet that they were flying around town ASKING about the latest news on Sirius whenever they had the chance then incorporating the news into their mythology when it came along!!\n\nHardly isolated, but it makes for a good book!! Albeit a book written in 1975 about the archeologists' experiences in the 1930s-50s. Hardly first hand and very open to interpretation, wouldn't you say??\n\nThese people are NOT as isolated as some conspiracy theorists have made them out to be. Today, their economy runs mostly on, you guessed it, TOURISM!!
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Go to the website below...\n\nhttp://hubblesite.org/
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Nasa has quite apparently manipulated the light and shadows on the second set of photographs so that the features of the face cannot be properly seen from that angle.  I suggest you investigate these matters on the web.  IMO both the moon, Mars, and Iapetus show signs of ancient ruins of one type or another.  I highly recommend the following site.  Perhaps Iapetus was the Ark that brought us here, Mars was our "Eden", and Earth is where we ended up when paradise was lost.
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The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is the work of countless engineers, scientists, and others who worked to create and maintain the orbiting observatory.  Although NASA built the HST, no one person can lay claim to inventing it.\n\nThat said, Lyman Spitzer, Jr. (1914–1997) was the first person to propose putting a telescope into space, and over a period of decades, he pushed for the Hubble Space Telescope—only later named for the astonomer Edwin Hubble, who radically changed the understading of the size of the Universe ’way back in the 1920s.  If you’re going to give credit to a single person, you could do worse than Lyman Spitzer.  The Spitzer Space Telescope (an infrared observatory launched in 2003) is named for him.\n\n\nRyan Wyatt\nRose Center for Earth & Space\nNew York, New York
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we have a hubble telescope. its actually a giant satellite that orbits in space. takes pictures. and sends them to computers on earth! neato!\n\nbut an intersting thing is, the pictures we get of other galaxies are what they looked like millions of years ago! thats because it takes millions of years for light to travel from THAT galaxy to THIS galaxy. :)
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It may or may not be true, but it has nothing to do with "Astronomy & Space".  If you post this in "Spirituality", folks might take it more seriously.
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Greetings,\n\nThe rock that was photographed was real.  However it doesn't look any more like a face than Mt. Rainer in Washington state looks like a face.  Poor resolution, bad lighting, and 1970's technology gave us the face on Mars.  Awesome technology has given us the truth.\n\nCheck out the second link for the before and after pictures.\n\n-matt
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http://www.angelfire.com/ma4/oddities/page2.html\nhttp://dudeman.net/siriusly/ufo/art.shtml\n\nmy conclusion is that these sightings have been mentioned throughout intiquity. Perhaps they are the same floating disks or "ships" reported in 1461 (Paris, FR) 1492 (Over Columbus 4 hours before sighting land) 1697 (Hamburg, GER)\n1561 (nuremburg, GER) 1577 (Basil, Switzerland)\n\nSee "The Annunciation" painting by Cravelli to see ship depicted with the Virgin Mary.
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Well, Idspudnik I don't know what you seen but there is being visiting this earth some are "Angels" and some are being from other star constellations We are not alone! But it funny you mention Ezekiel wheel....now think hard if you and I seen Ezekiel wheel we would run and say that a @#$%^&* UFO...right? But Ezekiel would say stop running those are the Gods....Now think on that....
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Using a little math and common sense, I figured out, no, it would not nearly be possible to see the flag on the moon with the Hubble space telescope.\n\nFirst, lets get some basic facts straight.\nThe Diameter of the Hubble telescope is 4.2 meters and the distance from the Earth to the moon (on average) is about 3.84 E8 meters.\n\nPretty much the only thing limiting what Hubble can and cannot resolve is diffraction through a circuilat aperature (ie.  How light waves intreract with eachother when they get to Hubble's mirror.\nThe minimum angle which a circular arperture can resolve is given by the formula,\nTheta_min = 1.22 Lamba / D\nwhere Theta min is the minimum angle, Lamba is the wavelength of light we are using, and D is the diameter of the opening.\n\nIf we assume we are using light at 500 nm (roughly the middle of the visible spectrum) and we know that Hubble's diameter is 4.2 meters, we can find the minimum angle to be,\nTheta_min = 1.425 E-7 radians.\nThis is quite a small angle by Earthly standards, but will it compare to the angle to the flag on the moon?..we'll see.\n\nHere is where I have to make an assumption, but it is a very reasonable assumption and one that will assure us that out answer is correct.  Watching the moon landing videos, one can see that the astronaughts placed a moderatly sized flag on a pole on the moon.  Although I dont know the exact dimentions of the flag, I can assure you, it was definately no bigger than 10 ft.  But for the sake of argument and to make the numbers easier, lets assume it was 10 feet (3 meters).\nIf the distance between the flag and hubble is the same (about) as the distance from the Earth to the moon, then we can calculate the angle between the top of the flag and the bottom of the flag pole as seen by hubble orbitting Earth.  The angle comes out to be about,  7.81 E-9 radians, about 20 times SMALLER than the absolute minumum angle Hubble can resolve...and this is if we assume that the flag is 10 ft, which it obviously is smaller than that in reality.\n\nPlus, Hubble was specifically designed to look at VERY distant object.  Although the moon is far away, it might as well be right next to us compared to the stars/glaxies/.. Hubble is suppose to be looking at.  Therefore, I dont know exactly how it will respond looking at such a close and bright object.\n\nOne this is sure through, you could not see the flag, even with one othe best telescopes ever built opperating perfectly under ideal conditions using visible light.