Found Images: 2012 September

[owlice]

Mystery spheres on Mars
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/sc ... ryspheres/
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell Univ./USGS/Modesto Junior College
http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=29544

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Hubble Sees NGC 7090 — An actively star-forming galaxy
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubbl ... c7090.html
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA; acknowledgement: R. Tugral
http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=29518

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[starsurfer]

NGC 6744
http://www.karelteuwen.be/photo_page.ph ... 45&album=8
Copyright: Karel Teuwen

[owlice]

Troll's Tongue
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... jords.html
Copyright: Jay Patel

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[starsurfer]

Sh2-71
http://www.gemini.edu/gallery/v/Previou ... 1.jpg.html
Copyright: Gemini Observatory

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[Maria Rosa Vila]

Milky Way over the Talayotic monument Naveta d'es Tudons in Minorca, Balearic Islands

Copyright: Manel Soria
http://www.frikosal.net/Frikosal/Home.html

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[Maria Rosa Vila]

A 30 metre high tornado of fire in Alice Springs, Australia

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... NUTES.html
Copyright: Chris Tangey

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Click to play embedded YouTube video.

[starsurfer]

Sh2-216
http://www.astrosurf.com/zoll/images/SH2_216.html
Copyright: Stephane Zoll

[bystander]

2012 Astronomy Photograper of the Year
Royal Observatory Greenwich | 2012 Sep 20

[url=http://www.flickr.com/36418300@N02/7400311000/][b][i]M51 – The Whirlpool Galaxy by Martin Pugh (UK/Australia)[/i][/b][/url] Overall and [url=http://www.rmg.co.uk/visit/exhibitions/astronomy-photographer-of-the-year/2012-winners/deep-space/]Deep Space[/url] Winner

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[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/43894176@N07/5338151979/][b][i]Star Icefall by Masahiro Miyasaka (Japan)[/i][/b][/url] Winners: [url=http://www.rmg.co.uk/visit/exhibitions/astronomy-photographer-of-the-year/2012-winners/earth-and-space/]Earth and Space[/url]

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[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/29218195@N00/7344196912/][b][i]Transit of Venus 2012 in Hydrogen-Alpha by Chris Warren (UK)[/i][/b][/url] Winners: [url=http://www.rmg.co.uk/visit/exhibitions/astronomy-photographer-of-the-year/2012-winners/our-solar-system/]Our Solar System[/url]

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[i]Pleiades Cluster by Jacob von Chorus (Canada), aged 15[/i] Winners: [url=http://www.rmg.co.uk/visit/exhibitions/astronomy-photographer-of-the-year/2012-winners/young-astrophotographers/]Young Astronomy Photographer of the Year[/url]

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[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/75688325@N02/6808433003/][b][i]Elephant’s Trunk with Ananas, by Lóránd Fényes (Hungary)[/i][/b][/url] Winner: Best Newcomer

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[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/64908628@N07/7441189772/][b][i]Venus-Jupiter Close Conjunction by Laurent Laveder (France)[/i][/b][/url] Winner: People and Space

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[i]The Sunflower Galaxy by Thomas Read (UK), aged 12[/i] Winner: Robotic Scope

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[Moonlady]

Wow, that Star Icefall from Japan ist stunning!

[Moonlady]

credit : piriyaw.com

[bystander]

Click to play embedded YouTube video.

Credits: Video Editing: Bard Canning; Images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

[Rothkko]

The last flight of Endeavour.

http://www.abc.es/fotos-abc/20120923/ul ... 06914.html

[bystander]

[attachment=0]n891.jpg[/attachment][/i]

Large Monolithic Imager Sees First Light

The Large Monolithic Imager (LMI), a camera built at Lowell Observatory and funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), recently took a set of first-light images on Lowell’s 4.3-m Discovery Channel Telescope (DCT). At the heart of the LMI is the largest charge-coupled device (CCD) that can be built using current fabrication techniques and the first of its kind to be made by e2v. The 36-megapixel CCD’s active surface is 3.7 inches on a side. The LMI’s ability to provide much more accurate measurements of the faint light around galaxies separates it from cameras that use a mosaic of CCDs to produce images.

The attached first-light image is of NGC 891, an edge-on spiral galaxy about 30 million light-years away in the Andromeda constellation. The image was obtained by Lowell’s Phil Massey, Ted Dunham, and Mike Sweaton, and then turned into a beautiful color composite by Kathryn Neugent. The exposure consisted of 10×1 min (B), 5×1 min (V), and 6×1 min (R), all unguided.

In the coming months, astronomers from Lowell and its DCT institutional partners — Boston University, the University of Maryland, and the University of Toledo — will be getting many more images like this as the Telescope’s commissioning continues.

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?p=180147#p180147

[VegaStar]

Fly Me to the Moon
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vegastarca ... otostream/
Copyright : VegaStar Carpentier

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[Guest]

The Best Newcomer in better resolution

http://www.rmg.co.uk/visit/exhibitions/ ... al-prizes/

http://www.pleiades.hu/galeria/kozmosz2 ... mal/25.jpg

[Guest]

Laurent Laveder's photo in better resolution: http://www.laurentlaveder.com/

[starsurfer]

ETHOS 1
http://www.pbase.com/jshuder/image/146152166/large
Copyright: Jim Shuder

ETHOS 1 is a unique recently discovered planetary nebula with a binary central star and bipolar jets, more information can be found here:http://arxiv.org/abs/1012.3331

[starsurfer]

NGC 6239
http://www.imagingdeepsky.com/Galaxies/ ... GC6239.htm
Copyright: Ken Crawford

[bystander]

Endeavour’s last flight… seen FROM SPACE!
Discover Blogs | Bad Astronomy | 2012 Sep 25

[size=120][b][i]Image credit: Google Earth[/i][/b][/size]

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http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives ... a_747.html

[BMAONE23]

Hubble latest Deep image
http://hubblesite.org/news/2012/37

Like photographers assembling a portfolio of best shots, astronomers have assembled a new, improved portrait of mankind's deepest-ever view of the universe.

Called the eXtreme Deep Field, or XDF, the photo was assembled by combining 10 years of NASA Hubble Space Telescope photographs taken of a patch of sky at the center of the original Hubble Ultra Deep Field. The XDF is a small fraction of the angular diameter of the full Moon.

Available in WOWSER
ZOOMIFY

Hubble eXtreme Deep Field, XDF

Credit: NASA, ESA, G. Illingworth, D. Magee, and P. Oesch (UCSC), R. Bouwens (Leiden University), and the HUDF09 Team

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=29624

[Rothkko]

Moon in 3D

Korolev Lobate Scarp

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Alpes Sinuous Rille

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Orientale Sculpture 4

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Image Credits: NASA/Goddard/Arizona State University

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/news/3d-moon.html
http://www.europlanet-eu.org/outreach/i ... &Itemid=41
http://www.universetoday.com/97554/a-ne ... -3-d-moon/

[starsurfer]

Jellyfish Nebula (IC 443)
http://www.skyimager.net/astro/nebulae/ ... 01201.html
Copyright: David Churchill

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[bystander]

[size=120][b][i]Sh 2-292 (Credit: ESO)[/i][/b][/size]

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The Rich Colours of a Cosmic Seagull
European Southern Observatory | 2012 Sep 26

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=29628

[bystander]

This image covers Luki Crater in the Southern highlands.
This crater formed on the floor of Uzboi Vallis between Hale
and Holden craters, near the confluence with Nanedi Vallis.

Getting Luki (ESP_028368_1500)
Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=29629

[starsurfer]

HFG 1
http://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/html/im1110.html
Copyright: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage) and H. Schweiker (WIYN and NOAO/AURA/NSF)