A Review of the Universe. Super Moon Panorma.jpg (JPEG Billede, 9688x8262 pixels) - Skaléret (7%) The-Observable-Universe.jpg (JPEG Billede, 3850x1925 pixels) Stellarium. Chromoscope - View the Universe in different wavelengths. My Galaxies. 59617370hubble-most-amazing-photos-trippiest-psychedelic.jpg (JPEG Billede, 1280x1178 pixels) According-To-Astronomy...jpg (JPEG Billede, 500x369 pixels)
Visualizing The Size And Scale Of Our World. Contact500_Micael_Reynaud.gif (GIF Billede, 500x375 pixels) Dark alien planet discovered by NASA. An alien world blacker than coal, the darkest planet known, has been discovered in the galaxy. The world in question is a giant the size of Jupiter known as TrES-2b. NASA's Kepler spacecraft detected it lurking around the yellow sun-like star GSC 03549-02811 some 750 lightyears away in the direction of the constellation Draco. The researchers found this gas giant reflects less than 1 percent of the sunlight falling on it, making it darker than any planet or moon seen up to now. [The Strangest Alien Planets] "It's just ridiculous how dark this planet is, how alien it is compared to anything we have in our solar system," study lead-author David Kipping, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, told SPACE.com.
"However, it's not completely pitch black," co-author David Spiegel of Princeton University said in a statement. "It's a mystery as to what's causing it to be so dark," Kipping said. This article was reprinted with permission from SPACE.com. 657111main_1-SOT_120606_venus_ca_nc_yellow_001_color_full.jpg (JPEG Billede, 960x722 pixels) - Skaléret (81%) The History of the Universe in 200 Words or Less.
Quantum fluctuation. Inflation. Expansion. Strong nuclear interaction. Particle-antiparticle annihilation. Copyright 1996-1997 by Eric Schulman. This piece was the inspiration for the book A Briefer History of Time and led to the Annals of Improbable Research Universal History Translation Project. Interested in learning more about any of these events? Incredible Space Pics from ISS by NASA astronaut Wheelock.
Go Discovery! It was October 23, 2007 at 11:40am EST when I had my first ride to space on Discovery. She’s beautiful… just sad that this will be her last voyage. Looking forward to climbing aboard the flight deck when Discovery arrives at the Space Station in November. (9-23-2010). Incredible Photos from Space: Larry Tanner, NASA. Special thanks: Bethbeck’s blog On September 22, 2010, with the departure of the Expedition 23 crew, Colonel Douglas H. We thought that we should put some of the space photos together as a tribute to him and the whole ISS crew. The following space photos are all visible on Astro_Wheels’ twitpic account, and we are eternally grateful to him for sharing these space photos with the world. Incredible Photos from Space: ‘Earthshine’… The Space Station basking in blue Earthshine as the rising sun pierces our razor-thin atmosphere to cover the Space Station with blue light. NASA astronaut Douglas H.
Current position of the ISS. Mwcliffs_vetter_2000.jpg (JPEG Billede, 2000x1219 pixels) IC1848-HST-1200.jpg (JPEG Billede, 1200x1200 pixels) Solar System Scope. Astrophotography by Jerry Lodriguss. StereoMan » Hubble photos. M64 “Black Eye” Galaxy click the picture 17 million light-years from Earth lies Messier 64, otherwise known as the Black Eye Galaxy, or Sleeping Beauty.
Discovered in 1779 by Edward Pigott, astronomers thought for centuries that it was a fairly ordinary spiral galaxy. But recent observations, including those of the Hubble telescope, have revealed something truly extraordinary about M64. Astronomers believe that perhaps a billion or so years ago, a smaller galaxy was sucked into M64. Ant Nebula This Hubble photo of the dying star Menzel 3, popularly known as the “Ant Nebula” because of its shape, gives us a dramatic new insight into how our own sun is likely to expire: not with a whimper, but a bang.
The star at the center of the Ant Nebula has become vast in size and is ejecting gas into space in weird but symmetrical patterns, forming the body of the “ant”. There are many other sunlike stars that have been observed in their death dance, but none is quite like the Ant Nebula. 1137a.jpg (JPEG Billede, 3375x3362 pixels) - Skaléret (17%)
The Rosette Nebula. A Beginner's Guide to DSLR Astrophotography This book on CD-ROM for beginning astrophotographers explains how to take beautiful images with your digital single lens reflex (DSLR) camera using simple step-by-step techniques that anyone can learn. You will see how easy it is to take great pictures with very modest equipment and basic methods that are within everyone's ability. With this book you will learn how to take amazing images of the night sky with your DSLR camera. Get Started in DSLR Astrophotography Today! Click here to learn more about the book or to order it now! Deep Sky Colors - Astrophotography by Rogelio Bernal Andreo.
What does it feel like to fly over planet Earth? Time-Lapse Starscape Videos Show Heavens in Motion | Wired Science. Earth at night seen from space ISS (HD 1080p) ORIGINAL. The Making of a Mind-Blowing Space Photo | Wired Science. One late night in 2007, Rogelio Bernal Andreo and his wife were driving down Highway 1 along California’s Lost Coast, when his wife opened the moon roof. What spread out above them looked nothing like the mauve sky near their Sunnyvale home.
“It was like the Milky Way was in front of us,” said Andreo, a former early eBay employee, who runs a Spanish-language internet company. “It looked like it was gonna fall on us.” He pulled out his digital SLR camera and spent two hours trying to capture the vast galaxy. When he got home, he downloaded the photos, and caught the astrophotography bug. “I started to look on the internet and see all these pictures, really gorgeous pictures,” Andreo said. Two years of intensive study, rigorous practice, and perhaps $10,000 of equipment later, he knows. Thanks to cheaper high-quality digital cameras and editing equipment, creating beautiful images of galaxies, nebulae and star clusters is now within the reach of anyone with a few thousand dollars to spend.
DeepSkyStacker - Free. Planetarium - Interactive star map and virtual sky.