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cclloyd

macrumors 68000
Original poster
Oct 26, 2011
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Alpha Centauri A
Is the galaxy in the 10.8 wallpaper still Andromeda, just from a different angle? It looks pretty similar, just recolored.
 

Icaras

macrumors 603
Mar 18, 2008
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Nice, thanks for asking. I wouldn't have known otherwise. All along I was just thinking it was the Milky Way, but now that you point it out, it does look quite different.

Anyway, awesome shot and loving it as my wallpaper at the moment. This is probably my favorite stock wallpaper from an OSX release yet. :D
 

cocky jeremy

macrumors 603
Jul 12, 2008
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Actually, i don't even think our galaxy is a spiral galaxy. Not in the typical sense of the word, at least. I think it's considered a "weak" spiral. Could be wrong, though.
 

maflynn

macrumors Haswell
May 3, 2009
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Actually, i don't even think our galaxy is a spiral galaxy. Not in the typical sense of the word, at least. I think it's considered a "weak" spiral. Could be wrong, though.

The wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way Seems to inidicate that there is no concensus on the spiral structure of our galaxy. I'm no professional astronomer, though in my younger days I owned a telescope and used to go out to an observatory
 

njaremka

macrumors 6502
May 11, 2010
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the problem with imaging or describing the milky way galaxy is that we are inside it. its like trying to determine what the outside of your house looks like without actually going outside.
 

MasterHowl

macrumors 65816
Oct 3, 2010
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North of England
Nice, thanks for asking. I wouldn't have known otherwise. All along I was just thinking it was the Milky Way, but now that you point it out, it does look quite different.

We don't have any photographs of the Milky way from an outside perspective, since we're inside it and it's so huge!
 

tkermit

macrumors 68040
Feb 20, 2004
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The 10.8 wallpaper is the first one since Tiger that doesn't seem completely over the top to me...

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