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Bystander, you really 'tugged' on my funny-bone with this one.
Re: Found Images: 2012 June
Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2012 8:44 pm
by bystander
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Aboard the International Space Station in May 2012, Expedition 31 astronaut Don Pettit opened the shutters covering the cupola observation windows in time to watch the moon rise. The time-lapse scene was photographed from the airlock of the Station's Russian segment.
The Veil Nebula, left behind by the explosion of a massive star thousands of years ago, is one of the largest and most spectacular supernova remnants in the sky.
The image was taken with Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 in November 1994 and August 1997.
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration; Acknowledgment: J. Hester (Arizona State University)
Proposed European Extremely Large Telescope (39.3-meter)
Illustration Credit :ESO
Found link: http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1225/
Note the comparative size of the cars!
Zooming in on the Center of the Milky Way
Credit: ESO/MPE/Nick Risinger (skysurvey.org)/VISTA/J. Emerson/Digitized Sky Survey
Found: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhHUNvEKUY8