Full Moon over the Archabbey of Pannonhalma http://www.astrophoto.hu
Copyright: Tamas Ladanyi [attachment=2]pannonhalma_110418_ladanyi.jpg[/attachment]
The Moon's Stork Plateau
Copyright: Paulo Lobao [attachment=1]stork_at_moon.jpg[/attachment]
I really like Immo Gerber's picture of M63, the Sunflower Galaxy. The colors are splendid. We can see a somewhat overexposed yellow center, surrounded by a yellow ring whose color is diluted by the presence of newborn blue stars, typically found in a ring structure around the center. Then there is a reddish-brown zone characterized by thick dust and dust reddening, and then there is a blue zone characterized by newborn massive stars. And then there is this huge greyish-brown outer envelope, probably full of gas and dust and possibly a population of old reddish stars. Like so many other well-resolved galaxy images, this one shows that major star formation in a spiral galaxy is often only found in a relatively narrow zone between the bulge and a large outer envelope.
What a great picture!
Abb
Re: Recent Submissions
Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 12:14 am
by rstevenson
owlice wrote:The Moon's Stork Plateau
It was a stork and moony night, ... .
Rob
Re: Recent Submissions
Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 12:17 am
by owlice
rstevenson wrote:
It was a stork and moony night, ... .
