by owlice » Fri May 27, 2011 10:16 am
Great White Whale Eats Dog!
http://forum.moonzoo.org/index.php?topic=610.0
http://wms.lroc.asu.edu/lroc/view_lroc/ ... 11456730LE
Credit: NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO); found by Moon Zoo user Tom128
M83: Spiral Galaxy in Hydra
http://www.robgendlerastropics.com/M83-HST-Gendler.html
Copyright: Hubble Legacy Archive, data; Robert Gendler, mosaic assembly and processing
When Planet Meets Star: Saturn and Porrima
http://www.jwestlake.com
Copyright: Jimmy Westlake
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The Milky Way at Tera-electronvolt Energies
Credit and copyright: H.E.S.S. collaboration, Fabio Acero, Henning Gast
[attachment=2]HESS_MilkyWay.jpg[/attachment][attachment=1]HESS_MilkyWay_with_labels.jpg[/attachment]
The photograph was taken at the site of the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) in the Khomas Highlands of Namibia. The silhouette of one of the four Cherenkov telescopes that make up H.E.S.S. guides the eye towards the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Superimposed on the photograph is a view of our galaxy in a completely different energy range: H.E.S.S. detects photons with energies more than 100 billion times higher than those making up the light perceptible to the human eye. To detect these energetic photons, H.E.S.S. employs cameras with very sensitive photodetectors to look for the ultra-short flashes of light that are emitted when they interact with Earth's atmosphere.
Many of the sources seen at these extreme energies are linked to the violent processes at the end of the life cycle of stars. Some of them are also remarkably large: The diameters of the most extended sources seen in this picture are more than twice that of the full moon. ~ Henning Gast
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[size=120][b]Great White Whale Eats Dog![/b][/size]
http://forum.moonzoo.org/index.php?topic=610.0
http://wms.lroc.asu.edu/lroc/view_lroc/LRO-L-LROC-2-EDR-V1.0/M111456730LE
Credit: NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO); found by Moon Zoo user Tom128
[img2]http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5302/5689917041_45f67a89e7_b.jpg[/img2]
[size=120][b]M83: Spiral Galaxy in Hydra[/b][/size]
http://www.robgendlerastropics.com/M83-HST-Gendler.html
Copyright: Hubble Legacy Archive, data; Robert Gendler, mosaic assembly and processing
[img2]http://www.robgendlerastropics.com/M83-HST-GendlerSS.jpg[/img2]
[size=120][b]When Planet Meets Star: Saturn and Porrima[/b][/size]
http://www.jwestlake.com
Copyright: Jimmy Westlake
[size=85][attachment=0]Saturn-Porrima 052511.jpg[/attachment][/size]
[size=120][b]The Milky Way at Tera-electronvolt Energies[/b][/size]
Credit and copyright: H.E.S.S. collaboration, Fabio Acero, Henning Gast
[float=left][size=85][attachment=2]HESS_MilkyWay.jpg[/attachment][/size][size=85][attachment=1]HESS_MilkyWay_with_labels.jpg[/attachment][/size][/float]The photograph was taken at the site of the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) in the Khomas Highlands of Namibia. The silhouette of one of the four Cherenkov telescopes that make up H.E.S.S. guides the eye towards the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Superimposed on the photograph is a view of our galaxy in a completely different energy range: H.E.S.S. detects photons with energies more than 100 billion times higher than those making up the light perceptible to the human eye. To detect these energetic photons, H.E.S.S. employs cameras with very sensitive photodetectors to look for the ultra-short flashes of light that are emitted when they interact with Earth's atmosphere.
Many of the sources seen at these extreme energies are linked to the violent processes at the end of the life cycle of stars. Some of them are also remarkably large: The diameters of the most extended sources seen in this picture are more than twice that of the full moon. ~ Henning Gast
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