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Venus Eclipsing the Sun
Venus Eclipsing the Sun
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The white dot in the 10 o'clock area of Saturn's rings is Earth.
The white dot in the 10 o'clock area of Saturn's rings is Earth.
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Helix Nebula aka The Eye of God
Helix Nebula aka The Eye of God
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RedGoat</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Helix Nebula aka The Eye of God
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That one is stunning, thanks for posting, RedGoat. In one of the earlier ones I notice that Uranus is much bigger than earth.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RedGoat</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Helix Nebula aka The Eye of God
That one is stunning, thanks for posting, RedGoat. In one of the earlier ones I notice that Uranus is much bigger than earth.
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The Crescent Nebula
The Crescent Nebula
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multi-wavelength extreme ultraviolet image of the sun
multi-wavelength extreme ultraviolet image of the sun
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The Crab Nebula is a supernova remnant, all that remains of a tremendous stellar explosion. Observers in China and Japan recorded the supernova nearly 1,000 years ago, in 1054.
The Crab Nebula is a supernova remnant, all that remains of a tremendous stellar explosion. Observers in China and Japan recorded the supernova nearly 1,000 years ago, in 1054.
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I took 3 semesters of astronomy to satisfy my science credits in college. The last semester was a night lab and I actually got to see some of this stuff through some pretty good telescopes at Mc Cormick and Fan Mountain observatories at UVA. Who or whatever painted that stuff had some skill.
I took 3 semesters of astronomy to satisfy my science credits in college. The last semester was a night lab and I actually got to see some of this stuff through some pretty good telescopes at Mc Cormick and Fan Mountain observatories at UVA. Who or whatever painted that stuff had some skill.
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[video:youtube]http://youtu.be/opUkRkexw10[/video]
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[video:youtube]http://youtu.be/opUkRkexw10[/video]
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It's amazing how certain rules remain true from the microscopic world to the massive expanses of the universe. Also amazing that physicist/scientist made many of these discoveries thousands of years ago.
It's amazing how certain rules remain true from the microscopic world to the massive expanses of the universe. Also amazing that physicist/scientist made many of these discoveries thousands of years ago.
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Beautiful pictures. Thanks.
Here's a quote from Dr. Robert Jastrow(Astronomer, Physicist, Cosmologist; former leading NASA scientist):
"For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountain of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries."
Beautiful pictures. Thanks.
Here's a quote from Dr. Robert Jastrow(Astronomer, Physicist, Cosmologist; former leading NASA scientist):
"For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountain of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries."
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: CS1983</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Beautiful pictures. Thanks.
Here's a quote from Dr. Robert Jastrow(Astronomer, Physicist, Cosmologist; former leading NASA scientist):
"For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountain of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries."
</div></div>Excellent
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: CS1983</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Beautiful pictures. Thanks.
Here's a quote from Dr. Robert Jastrow(Astronomer, Physicist, Cosmologist; former leading NASA scientist):
"For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountain of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries."
</div></div>Excellent
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RedGoat</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Helix Nebula aka The Eye of God
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This one is new to me. Thanks for posting it.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RedGoat</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Helix Nebula aka The Eye of God
This one is new to me. Thanks for posting it.
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I have watched this video about a hundred times. It still amazes me every time I see it.
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I have watched this video about a hundred times. It still amazes me every time I see it.
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The Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), a new camera aboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, snapped this image of the planetary nebula, catalogued as NGC 6302, but more popularly called the Bug Nebula or the Butterfly Nebula.
The Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), a new camera aboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, snapped this image of the planetary nebula, catalogued as NGC 6302, but more popularly called the Bug Nebula or the Butterfly Nebula.
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The Hubble telescope captured a display of starlight, glowing gas, and silhouetted dark clouds of interstellar dust in this 4-foot-by-8-foot image of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1300 which is about 61 million light-years away in the constellation Eridanus. The galaxy is about 110,000 light-years across; just slightly larger than our own galaxy, the Milky Way.
The Hubble telescope captured a display of starlight, glowing gas, and silhouetted dark clouds of interstellar dust in this 4-foot-by-8-foot image of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1300 which is about 61 million light-years away in the constellation Eridanus. The galaxy is about 110,000 light-years across; just slightly larger than our own galaxy, the Milky Way.
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In January 2002, a dull star in an obscure constellation suddenly became 600,000 times more luminous than our Sun, temporarily making it the brightest star in our Milky Way galaxy. The mysterious star, called V838 Monocerotis, has long since faded back to obscurity. But observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope of a phenomenon called a “light echo” around the star have uncovered remarkable new features. These details promise to provide astronomers with a CAT-scan-like probe of the three-dimensional structure of shells of dust surrounding an aging star.
In January 2002, a dull star in an obscure constellation suddenly became 600,000 times more luminous than our Sun, temporarily making it the brightest star in our Milky Way galaxy. The mysterious star, called V838 Monocerotis, has long since faded back to obscurity. But observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope of a phenomenon called a “light echo” around the star have uncovered remarkable new features. These details promise to provide astronomers with a CAT-scan-like probe of the three-dimensional structure of shells of dust surrounding an aging star.
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simply amazing.
simply amazing.
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The ultraviolet images of Saturn were taken on Jan. 24, 26, and 28, 2004 by Hubble’s Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph. The dancing light of the auroras on Saturn behaves in ways different from how scientists have thought possible for the last 25 years. New research by a team of astronomers led by John Clarke of Boston University has overturned theories about how Saturn’s magnetic field behaves and how its auroras are generated.
The ultraviolet images of Saturn were taken on Jan. 24, 26, and 28, 2004 by Hubble’s Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph. The dancing light of the auroras on Saturn behaves in ways different from how scientists have thought possible for the last 25 years. New research by a team of astronomers led by John Clarke of Boston University has overturned theories about how Saturn’s magnetic field behaves and how its auroras are generated.
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Appearing like a winged fairy-tale creature poised on a pedestal, this object is actually a billowing tower of cold gas and dust rising from a stellar nursery called the Eagle Nebula. The soaring tower of the Eagle Nebula is 9.5 light-years or about 57 trillion miles high, about twice the distance from our Sun to the next nearest star.
Appearing like a winged fairy-tale creature poised on a pedestal, this object is actually a billowing tower of cold gas and dust rising from a stellar nursery called the Eagle Nebula. The soaring tower of the Eagle Nebula is 9.5 light-years or about 57 trillion miles high, about twice the distance from our Sun to the next nearest star.
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Here is a great site for Astronomy Pictures of the Day
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html
Here is a great site for Astronomy Pictures of the Day
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html
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How much of Jupiter's moon Europa is made of water? A lot, actually. Based on the Galileo probe data acquired during its exploration of the Jovian system from 1995 to 2003, Europa possesses a deep, global ocean of liquid water beneath a layer of surface ice. The subsurface ocean plus ice layer could range from 80 to 170 kilometers in average depth. Adopting an estimate of 100 kilometers depth, if all the water on Europa were gathered into a ball it would have a radius of 877 kilometers. To scale, this intriguing illustration compares that hypothetical ball of all the water on Europa to the size of Europa itself (left) - and similarly to all the water on planet Earth. With a volume 2-3 times the volume of water in Earth's oceans, the global ocean on Europa holds out a tantalizing destination in the search for extraterrestrial life in our solar system.
How much of Jupiter's moon Europa is made of water? A lot, actually. Based on the Galileo probe data acquired during its exploration of the Jovian system from 1995 to 2003, Europa possesses a deep, global ocean of liquid water beneath a layer of surface ice. The subsurface ocean plus ice layer could range from 80 to 170 kilometers in average depth. Adopting an estimate of 100 kilometers depth, if all the water on Europa were gathered into a ball it would have a radius of 877 kilometers. To scale, this intriguing illustration compares that hypothetical ball of all the water on Europa to the size of Europa itself (left) - and similarly to all the water on planet Earth. With a volume 2-3 times the volume of water in Earth's oceans, the global ocean on Europa holds out a tantalizing destination in the search for extraterrestrial life in our solar system.
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RedGoat</div><div class="ubbcode-body">How much of Jupiter's moon Europa is made of water? A lot, actually. Based on the Galileo probe data acquired during its exploration of the Jovian system from 1995 to 2003, Europa possesses a deep, global ocean of liquid water beneath a layer of surface ice. The subsurface ocean plus ice layer could range from 80 to 170 kilometers in average depth. Adopting an estimate of 100 kilometers depth, if all the water on Europa were gathered into a ball it would have a radius of 877 kilometers. To scale, this intriguing illustration compares that hypothetical ball of all the water on Europa to the size of Europa itself (left) - and similarly to all the water on planet Earth. With a volume 2-3 times the volume of water in Earth's oceans, the global ocean on Europa holds out a tantalizing destination in the search for extraterrestrial life in our solar system.
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I heard T. Boone Pickens has a galactic tug on the way to bring all that water back to earth and sell it to the highest bidder....Phoenix Az.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RedGoat</div><div class="ubbcode-body">How much of Jupiter's moon Europa is made of water? A lot, actually. Based on the Galileo probe data acquired during its exploration of the Jovian system from 1995 to 2003, Europa possesses a deep, global ocean of liquid water beneath a layer of surface ice. The subsurface ocean plus ice layer could range from 80 to 170 kilometers in average depth. Adopting an estimate of 100 kilometers depth, if all the water on Europa were gathered into a ball it would have a radius of 877 kilometers. To scale, this intriguing illustration compares that hypothetical ball of all the water on Europa to the size of Europa itself (left) - and similarly to all the water on planet Earth. With a volume 2-3 times the volume of water in Earth's oceans, the global ocean on Europa holds out a tantalizing destination in the search for extraterrestrial life in our solar system.
I heard T. Boone Pickens has a galactic tug on the way to bring all that water back to earth and sell it to the highest bidder....Phoenix Az.
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Ledzep</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Space coyote.
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HURRY shoot!!!
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Ledzep</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Space coyote.
HURRY shoot!!!
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: coldboremiracle</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Ledzep</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Space coyote.
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HURRY shoot!!! </div></div>
I tink I'm going to need a beeger gun!
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: coldboremiracle</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Ledzep</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Space coyote.
HURRY shoot!!! </div></div>
I tink I'm going to need a beeger gun!
