Found Images: 2012 November
Found Images: 2012 November
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A closed mouth gathers no foot.
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Credit: David H. Hathaway (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center)
Look! Up in the sky! It’s…it’s… it’s an amazing optics display
Discover Blogs | Bad Astronomy | 2012 Nov 01
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alive to the gentle breeze of communication, and please stop being such a jerk. — Garrison Keillor
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Curiosity Self-Portrait by MAHLI, Sol 84
NASA | JPL-Caltech | 2012 Nov 01
NASA's Curiosity rover used the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) to capture this set of 55 high-resolution images, which were stitched together to create this full-color self-portrait.
The mosaic shows the rover at "Rocknest," the spot in Gale Crater where the mission's first scoop sampling took place. Four scoop scars can be seen in the regolith in front of the rover.
The base of Gale Crater's 3-mile-high (5-kilometer) sedimentary mountain, Mount Sharp, rises on the right side of the frame. Mountains in the background to the left are the northern wall of Gale Crater. The Martian landscape appears inverted within the round, reflective ChemCam instrument at the top of the rover's mast.
Self-portraits like this one document the state of the rover and allow mission engineers to track changes over time, such as dust accumulation and wheel wear. Due to its location on the end of the robotic arm, only MAHLI (among the rover's 17 cameras) is able to image some parts of the craft, including the port-side wheels.
Curiosity Snaps 'Arm's Length' Self Portrait
Discovery News | Big Pic | 2012 Nov 01
The Curiosity Rover’s Ultimate Self-Portrait
Universe Today | Nancy Atkinson | 2012 Nov 01
Huge self-portrait of Curiosity on Mars
Planetary Society | Emily Lakdawalla | 2012 Nov 01
Curiosity Rover Takes an Incredible Self-Portrait
Universe Today | Nancy Atkinson | 2012 Oct 31
Getting up to speed with Curiosity as of sol 84
Planetary Society | Emily Lakdawalla | 2012 Oct 31
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Central region of the Andromeda galaxy (M31, NGC 224)
With the 1.23 m and 3.5 m telescopes from Calar Alto Observatory
http://pixinsight.com/gallery/M31-CAHA/en.html
http://pixinsight.com/gallery/M31-CAHA/ ... n_1200.jpg
Credits: Calar Alto Observatory (CAHA), Descubre Foundation, DSA, OAUV,
Vicent Peris (OAUV), Jack Harvey (SSRO), Steven Mazlin (SSRO), Gilles Bergond (CAHA).
With the 1.23 m and 3.5 m telescopes from Calar Alto Observatory
http://pixinsight.com/gallery/M31-CAHA/en.html
http://pixinsight.com/gallery/M31-CAHA/ ... n_1200.jpg
Credits: Calar Alto Observatory (CAHA), Descubre Foundation, DSA, OAUV,
Vicent Peris (OAUV), Jack Harvey (SSRO), Steven Mazlin (SSRO), Gilles Bergond (CAHA).
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Whale Galaxy (NGC 4631)
http://www.cosmotography.com/images/small_ngc4631.html
Copyright: R. Jay GaBany
http://www.cosmotography.com/images/small_ngc4631.html
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A Nearby Stellar Cradle | NASA IOTD | 2012 Nov 08
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/J.Drake et al, Optical: Univ. of Hertfordshire/INT/IPHAS, Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SST
http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=29947
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/J.Drake et al, Optical: Univ. of Hertfordshire/INT/IPHAS, Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SST
http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=29947
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The "Pillars of Creation" are a well known dust cloud and star formation site in the Eagle Nebula.
This video puts together images from five different space observatories, that span the whole of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Makes for a whole new view of this familar sight.
John
http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=26630
This video puts together images from five different space observatories, that span the whole of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Makes for a whole new view of this familar sight.
Click to play embedded YouTube video.
http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=26630
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NGC 7769 and NGC 7771
http://www.capella-observatory.com/Imag ... GC7771.htm
Copyright: Makis Palaiologou, Stefan Binnewies and Josef Pöpsel
http://www.capella-observatory.com/Imag ... GC7771.htm
Copyright: Makis Palaiologou, Stefan Binnewies and Josef Pöpsel
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Our Story in 1 Minute
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A closed mouth gathers no foot.
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Sheldon Glacier | NASA IOTD | 2012 Nov 13
Image Credit: British Antarctic Survey
Image Credit: British Antarctic Survey
View of Sheldon Glacier with Mount Barre in the background, seen from Ryder Bay near Rothera Research Station, Adelaide Island, Antarctica. A new NASA/British Antarctic Survey study examines why Antarctic sea ice cover has increased under the effects of climate change over the past two decades.
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NGC 3166-9
http://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/html/im1125.html
Copyright: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage) and H. Schweiker (WIYN and NOAO/AURA/NSF)
http://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/html/im1125.html
Copyright: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage) and H. Schweiker (WIYN and NOAO/AURA/NSF)
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NGC 2170
Copyright: Mark Hanson Larger Image can be found here: http://www.btlguce.com
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How freaking neat is this? It's 100,000 stars right in your browser. And you can click and view info on a whole bunch of the named, studied stars. Mostly to scale to give you a good sense of vastness!
Note: It doesn't run very well unless you view it with Google Chrome. Not using Chrome but want to see it anyway? Don't say I didn't warn you. It's pretty choppy.
http://workshop.chromeexperiments.com/stars/
Note: It doesn't run very well unless you view it with Google Chrome. Not using Chrome but want to see it anyway? Don't say I didn't warn you. It's pretty choppy.
http://workshop.chromeexperiments.com/stars/
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New panoramic image from Opportunity brings this old song to mind
There's a long, long trail a-winding
Into the land of my dreams,
There's a long, long night of waiting
Until my dreams all come true;
Till the day when I'll be going down
That long, long trail with you.
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/ ... tc_br2.jpg
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There's a long, long trail a-winding
Into the land of my dreams,
There's a long, long night of waiting
Until my dreams all come true;
Till the day when I'll be going down
That long, long trail with you.
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/ ... tc_br2.jpg
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Amazing image of one of the greatest regions of the winter sky! Is the image cropped? I would have expected the field of view with a 14 inch RCOS to be slightly wider.markh@tds.net wrote:NGC 2170
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Yes but only about 50 pixels or so, the scope is a F8 and U16M thats a field about 43x43 arcminstarsurfer wrote:Amazing image of one of the greatest regions of the winter sky! Is the image cropped? I would have expected the field of view with a 14 inch RCOS to be slightly wider.markh@tds.net wrote:NGC 2170
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Portrait of Global Aerosols
Image credit: William Putman, NASA/Goddard
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegal ... _2393.html
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegal ... _2393.html