Originally posted by jaamaan
Anyways, i just thought i should share this and see what you all think.
It's utter garbage, and his website slowed my computer to a crawl for several minutes. 10 light years? What's he smoking? You know what our
galaxy would look like at a distance of "10 light years"? This:
antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov...
Yes, it would basically look exactly the way it does to us here on earth; 10 light years is
nothing in galactic terms. If you went 10 light
years out of the plane of the milkyway your perspective shift would be nill.
He's a plagiarist to boot, as he claims all photos on his site are his copyrighted work. Bull - I'd really like to see him try to enforce that
"copyright" back on NASA for using "his" work without permission, or on me for reposting it here without his permission. He claims the photo
doesn't come from NASA. Also bull.
It's an illustration, not a photo, and it comes from NASA/JPL and caltech according to this story about it:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (SSC/Caltech)
www.news.wisc.edu...
antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov...
You can clearly tell in the APOD higher res version that it's an illustration, not a photograph. This illustration of our galaxy is based on a
survey from the spitzer space telescope, which found that our galaxy is actually a barred spiral.
[edit on 2-5-2008 by ngchunter]
I just thought it was odd that the site was claiming such an ability. 
