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The Hubble Space Telescope has celebrated its silver anniversary today with a picture featuring a spectacular vista of young stars blazing across a dense cloud of gas and dust. The Westerlund 2 cluster of stars is located about 20,000 light-years away in the constellation Carina and here it is in all its glory:
https://www.spacetelescope.org/stati.../heic1509a.jpg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5MwOCgzQ6M The wider gas cloud area is basically a stellar nursery where baby stars are born. |
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The following picture is of a combination of clouds and an auroral display. It looks as if it's from another planet but it's southern Iceland:
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap151124.html |
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Some gorgeous photos here!
I haven't posted any photos for a while so here are a few of mine. Here are my latest photos of the moon...from November... https://www.flickr.com/photos/peugeo...posted-public/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/peugeo...posted-public/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/peugeo...posted-public/ |
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This is a pretty dramatic picture ISS transits Saturn
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Some gorgeous photos here!
I haven't posted any photos for a while so here are a few of mine. Here are my latest photos of the moon...from November... https://www.flickr.com/photos/peugeo...posted-public/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/peugeo...posted-public/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/peugeo...posted-public/ ![]() And now for Shanghai as you've never seen it before: http://www.wired.com/wp-content/uplo...G-1024x682.jpg
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Aurora in Tromso a couple of weeks ago: https://flic.kr/p/CEDMFE
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...and today's picture is the M51 Whirlpool Galaxy in great detail thanks to the Hubble Space Telescope: http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5001/5...352b952d_b.jpg
The rose pink areas are hydrogen gas clouds where active star formation is taking place. |
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love some of these pics. Such beauty out there.
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Today's picture is the star IRAS 12196-6300 which is 2300 light-years away and which is surrounded by nebulosity: http://cdn.spacetelescope.org/archiv.../potw1609a.jpg
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Today's picture is the star IRAS 12196-6300 which is 2300 light-years away and which is surrounded by nebulosity: http://cdn.spacetelescope.org/archiv.../potw1609a.jpg
![]() I wonder if this thread should be merged with the other one? |
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Today's picture is the core of the Crab Nebula which is a remnant of a huge explosion:
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160708.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_Nebula |
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This is just unbelievable (but true) - a phoenix aurora: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160316.html
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This is just unbelievable (but true) - a phoenix aurora: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160316.html
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This is just unbelievable (but true) - a phoenix aurora: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160316.html
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There is one galaxy we currently cannot see in its entirety - our own Milky Way Galaxy which is a barred spiral class galaxy.
However, astrophotographer Nick Risinger has fused an artist's impression of the Milky Way Galaxy with an image of a real galaxy to give the most realistic picture so far of our own home galaxy and here it is: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...Way_Galaxy.jpg |
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Tonight's APOD image just has to be zooming through the night sky over Alhambra Rock in Mexican Hat, Utah:
https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/512/19...6f229217_o.jpg |
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This evening's picture just has to be Greg Diesel Walck's photo of the Moon and Jupiter during an early august thunderstorm: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CpI_IuIWcAEcNOW.jpg
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Tonight's astronomy picture of the day is the California Nebula in the constellation of Perseus and it really does look quite like its namesake: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/160...tonis_1351.jpg
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Since it is the eve of Christmas, I thought it would be appropriate that tonight's APOD picture ought to be glowing baubles in the sky, specifically the star cluster NGC 265: https://cdn.spacetelescope.org/archi.../heic0603b.jpg
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