Found Images: 2012 December
Found Images: 2012 December
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Re: Found Images: 2012 December
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Re: Found Images: 2012 December
Hickson 10
http://www.caelumobservatory.com/gallery/n536.shtml
Copyright: Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona
http://www.caelumobservatory.com/gallery/n536.shtml
Copyright: Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona
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Re: Found Images: 2012 December
Small Magellanic Cloud
http://www.robgendlerastropics.com/SMC-Mosaic-AU.html
Copyright: Rob Gendler and Ryan Hannahoe
http://www.robgendlerastropics.com/SMC-Mosaic-AU.html
Copyright: Rob Gendler and Ryan Hannahoe
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Re: Found Images: 2012 December
Earth at Night
NASA IOTD | 2012 Dec 05
The Earth Spins in the Black of Space
Slate Blogs | Bad Astronomy | 2012 Dec 05
The Black Marble: Stunning New Orbital Views of Earth at Night
Universe Today | Nancy Atkinson | 2012 Dec 05
NASA IOTD | 2012 Dec 05
This new global view of Earth's city lights is a composite assembled from data acquired by the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite. The data was acquired over nine days in April 2012 and 13 days in October 2012. It took 312 orbits to get a clear shot of every parcel of Earth's land surface and islands. This new data was then mapped over existing Blue Marble imagery of Earth to provide a realistic view of the planet.
The image was made possible by the satellite's "day-night band" of the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite, which detects light in a range of wavelengths from green to near-infrared and uses filtering techniques to observe dim signals such as city lights, gas flares, auroras, wildfires and reflected moonlight.
The day-night band observed Hurricane Sandy, illuminated by moonlight, making landfall over New Jersey on the evening of Oct. 29. Night images showed the widespread power outages that left millions in darkness in the wake of the storm.
Credit: NASA's Earth Observatory/NOAA/DOD
The Earth Spins in the Black of Space
Slate Blogs | Bad Astronomy | 2012 Dec 05
The Black Marble: Stunning New Orbital Views of Earth at Night
Universe Today | Nancy Atkinson | 2012 Dec 05
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Re: Found Images: 2012 December
Sculptor Galaxy (NGC 253)
http://www.baskies.com.ar/PHOTOS/NGC%20 ... GB%20N.htm
Copyright: Sergio Eguivar
http://www.baskies.com.ar/PHOTOS/NGC%20 ... GB%20N.htm
Copyright: Sergio Eguivar
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Re: Found Images: 2012 December
Fornax Galaxy Cluster
http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/ ... _supernova
Copyright: Michael Sidonio
http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/ ... _supernova
Copyright: Michael Sidonio
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Andromeda Galaxy (M31)
http://www.karelteuwen.be/photo_page.ph ... 24&album=2
Copyright: Karel Teuwen
http://www.karelteuwen.be/photo_page.ph ... 24&album=2
Copyright: Karel Teuwen
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Re: Found Images: 2012 December
NGC 70
http://www.capella-observatory.com/Imag ... /NGC70.htm
Copyright: Makis Palaiologou, Josef Pöpsel and Stefan Binnewies
http://www.capella-observatory.com/Imag ... /NGC70.htm
Copyright: Makis Palaiologou, Josef Pöpsel and Stefan Binnewies
Re: Found Images: 2012 December
Adam Block has posted a new, fantastic image of R Aquarii.
Annhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_Aquarii wrote:
R Aquarii is a symbiotic star believed to contain a white dwarf and a Mira-type variable in a binary star system. The orbital period is approximately 44 years.[1] The main Mira-type star is a red giant, and varies in brightness by a factor of several hundred and with a period of slightly more than a year; this variability was discovered by Karl Ludwig Harding in 1810. It has a distance of about 200 parsec, and is one of the nearest symbiotic stars and a well known jet source.[2]
By its gravitational pull, the white dwarf draws in material from the red giant and occasionally ejects some of the surplus in weird loops to form the nebula seen in the linked image.[3] The whole system appears reddened because it is situated in a very dusty region of space, and its blue light is absorbed before reaching us.
The nebula around R Aquarii is also known as Cederblad 211.
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It is possible that the nebula is the remnant of a nova-like outburst, which may have been observed by Japanese astronomers, in the year 930 AD.
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Re: Found Images: 2012 December
Larger image: http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/inde ... t&id=29195
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china ... 041953.htm
http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2012 ... tatis?lite
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-la ... tatis.html
Credited to http://www.weibo.com/xinhuashidian
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china ... 041953.htm
http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2012 ... tatis?lite
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-la ... tatis.html
Credited to http://www.weibo.com/xinhuashidian
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Re: Found Images: 2012 December
To date that is the most detailed image of the R Aquarii Nebula!!! Also the image was small enough to post with img2 tags.Ann wrote:Adam Block has posted a new, fantastic image of R Aquarii.
Annhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_Aquarii wrote:
R Aquarii is a symbiotic star believed to contain a white dwarf and a Mira-type variable in a binary star system. The orbital period is approximately 44 years.[1] The main Mira-type star is a red giant, and varies in brightness by a factor of several hundred and with a period of slightly more than a year; this variability was discovered by Karl Ludwig Harding in 1810. It has a distance of about 200 parsec, and is one of the nearest symbiotic stars and a well known jet source.[2]
By its gravitational pull, the white dwarf draws in material from the red giant and occasionally ejects some of the surplus in weird loops to form the nebula seen in the linked image.[3] The whole system appears reddened because it is situated in a very dusty region of space, and its blue light is absorbed before reaching us.
The nebula around R Aquarii is also known as Cederblad 211.
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It is possible that the nebula is the remnant of a nova-like outburst, which may have been observed by Japanese astronomers, in the year 930 AD.
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Re: Found Images: 2012 December
Perseus Galaxy Cluster (Abell 426)
http://www.martinpughastrophotography.i ... erseus.htm
Copyright: Martin Pugh
http://www.martinpughastrophotography.i ... erseus.htm
Copyright: Martin Pugh
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Re: Found Images: 2012 December
IC 239
http://www.caelumobservatory.com/gallery/ic239.shtml
Copyright: Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona
http://www.caelumobservatory.com/gallery/ic239.shtml
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Silver Coin Galaxy (NGC 253)
http://members.iinet.net.au/~sjastro/ngc253latest.html
Copyright: Steven Juchnowski
http://members.iinet.net.au/~sjastro/ngc253latest.html
Copyright: Steven Juchnowski
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Valentine's Aurora
http://philhart.smugmug.com/Night-Sky-P ... &lb=1&s=X3
Copyright: Philip Hart This amazing aurora photo was taken on Valentine's Day, 2012.
I would also like to dedicate this post to all the people who still haven't found love!![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif)
http://philhart.smugmug.com/Night-Sky-P ... &lb=1&s=X3
Copyright: Philip Hart This amazing aurora photo was taken on Valentine's Day, 2012.
I would also like to dedicate this post to all the people who still haven't found love!
![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif)
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Re: Found Images: 2012 December
NGC 55 in Sculptor
Image taken by Ezequiel Bellocchio
http://www.astropilar.com.ar/galaxias/NGC55_1.html
Image taken by Ezequiel Bellocchio
http://www.astropilar.com.ar/galaxias/NGC55_1.html
Re: Found Images: 2012 December
- [url=http://www.astrophoto.com.mx/picture.php?/332/category/9][size=120][b][i]Templo de la Serpiente Emplumada / Temple of Quetzalcoatl[/i][/b][/size][/url] [size=120][b][i]Credit: César Cantú ([/i][/b][/size][url=http://asterisk.apod.com/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=129549][size=120][b][i]mexhunter[/i][/b][/size][/url][size=120][b][i]), [/i][/b][/size][url=http://www.astrophoto.com.mx/][size=120][b][i]Astronomía Y Astrofotografía[/i][/b][/size][/url]
Universe Today | Nancy Atkinson | 2012 Dec 21
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Re: Found Images: 2012 December
The solar corona in the recent total solar eclipse. Awesome image and processing.
http://www.zam.fme.vutbr.cz/~druck/Ecli ... 0-info.htm
http://www.zam.fme.vutbr.cz/~druck/Ecli ... 0-info.htm
http://www.zam.fme.vutbr.cz/~druck/Ecli ... 0-info.htm
http://www.zam.fme.vutbr.cz/~druck/Ecli ... 0-info.htm
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IC 1396 in 3-D
http://astroanarchy.blogspot.fr/2012/10 ... om-my.html
Copyright: J-P Metsavainio
UNH Scientists Launch NASA Rocket Into Aurora
http://www.eos.unh.edu/news/indiv_news. ... WS_ID=1301
Credit: Lee Wingfield, NASA Wallops
Skyfall waterfall
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... y-Way.html
Copyright: Tore Heggelund
Massive Star Makes Waves
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA16604
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
http://astroanarchy.blogspot.fr/2012/10 ... om-my.html
Copyright: J-P Metsavainio
UNH Scientists Launch NASA Rocket Into Aurora
http://www.eos.unh.edu/news/indiv_news. ... WS_ID=1301
Credit: Lee Wingfield, NASA Wallops
Skyfall waterfall
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... y-Way.html
Copyright: Tore Heggelund
Massive Star Makes Waves
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA16604
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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Re: Found Images: 2012 December
Two great galaxy clusters from Capella Observatory: Markarian's Chain and M87 in Virgo, and Abell 426, the Perseus cluster, with NGC 1275. NGC 1275 really stands out!
Both images are by by Makis Palaiologou, Stefan Binnewies and Josef Pöpsel.
I must say, now that I'm here, that there are many great images in this thread. I would be very happy to see almost all of them as APODs, including the ones I have linked to here, but to me one of the images in this thread stands out, nevertheless. I just love IC 1396 in 3D, and I really hope it makes it to APOD!
Ann
Both images are by by Makis Palaiologou, Stefan Binnewies and Josef Pöpsel.
I must say, now that I'm here, that there are many great images in this thread. I would be very happy to see almost all of them as APODs, including the ones I have linked to here, but to me one of the images in this thread stands out, nevertheless. I just love IC 1396 in 3D, and I really hope it makes it to APOD!
Ann
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Re: Found Images: 2012 December
Earth and Moon from Mars
http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/earthmoon.php
Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/earthmoon.php
Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
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Re: Found Images: 2012 December
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