failte Posted December 22, 2006 Share Posted December 22, 2006 QUOTE (RushRevisited @ Dec 20 2006, 11:31 AM) http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0612/heic0619_dss.jpg Explanation: For reasons unknown, NGC 6357 is forming some of the most massive stars ever discovered. Near the more obvious Cat's Paw nebula, NGC 6357 houses the open star cluster Pismis 24, home to these tremendously bright and blue stars. The overall red glow near the inner star forming region results from the emission of ionized hydrogen gas. The surrounding nebula, shown above, holds a complex tapestry of gas, dark dust, stars still forming, and newly born stars. The intricate patterns are caused by complex interactions between interstellar winds, radiation pressures, magnetic fields, and gravity. NGC 6357 spans about 400 light years and lies about 8,000 light years away toward the constellation of the Scorpion. that's a beautiful picture...thanks rr! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RushRevisited Posted January 2, 2007 Author Share Posted January 2, 2007 http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0701/veil_noao.jpg Explanation: Ten thousand years ago, before the dawn of recorded human history, a new light must suddenly have appeared in the night sky and faded after a few weeks. Today we know this light was an exploding star and record the colorful expanding cloud as the Veil Nebula. Pictured above is the west end of the Veil Nebula known technically as NGC 6960 but less formally as the Witch's Broom Nebula. The rampaging gas gains its colors by impacting and exciting existing nearby gas. The supernova remnant lies about 1400 light-years away towards the constellation of Cygnus. This Witch's Broom actually spans over three times the angular size of the full Moon. The bright star 52 Cygnus is visible with the unaided eye from a dark location but unrelated to the ancient supernova. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daylin Posted January 2, 2007 Share Posted January 2, 2007 ^^^Amazing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ladirushfan80 Posted January 2, 2007 Share Posted January 2, 2007 QUOTE (Daylin @ Jan 2 2007, 11:09 AM) ^^^Amazing! that is gorgeous!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
failte Posted January 2, 2007 Share Posted January 2, 2007 what an awesome shot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Limelight* Posted January 2, 2007 Share Posted January 2, 2007 QUOTE (RushRevisited @ Jan 2 2007, 07:20 AM) http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0701/veil_noao.jpg Explanation: Ten thousand years ago, before the dawn of recorded human history, a new light must suddenly have appeared in the night sky and faded after a few weeks. Today we know this light was an exploding star and record the colorful expanding cloud as the Veil Nebula. Pictured above is the west end of the Veil Nebula known technically as NGC 6960 but less formally as the Witch's Broom Nebula. The rampaging gas gains its colors by impacting and exciting existing nearby gas. The supernova remnant lies about 1400 light-years away towards the constellation of Cygnus. This Witch's Broom actually spans over three times the angular size of the full Moon. The bright star 52 Cygnus is visible with the unaided eye from a dark location but unrelated to the ancient supernova. That's freaking sweet! To me the streak looks sorta like a Dragon... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
launchpad67a Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 Nasa and JPL just released a sweet set of images from last year. There are some amazing pics here. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6955261/?GT1=9033 Click - See the slideshow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
failte Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 QUOTE (launchpad67a @ Feb 1 2007, 01:10 PM) Nasa and JPL just released a sweet set of images from last year. There are some amazing pics here. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6955261/?GT1=9033 Click - See the slideshow those are amazing pics, thanks launchpad! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Limelight* Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 QUOTE (launchpad67a @ Feb 1 2007, 10:10 AM) Nasa and JPL just released a sweet set of images from last year. There are some amazing pics here. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6955261/?GT1=9033 Click - See the slideshow Wow, those pictures are amazing. It's so cool to see the beauty that's outside of our planet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daylin Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 QUOTE (launchpad67a @ Feb 1 2007, 12:10 PM) Nasa and JPL just released a sweet set of images from last year. There are some amazing pics here. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6955261/?GT1=9033 Click - See the slideshow Those are great, launch I love the 2nd pic Thanks, for sharing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
different strings Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 QUOTE (Daylin @ Feb 2 2007, 04:30 AM) QUOTE (launchpad67a @ Feb 1 2007, 12:10 PM) Nasa and JPL just released a sweet set of images from last year. There are some amazing pics here. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6955261/?GT1=9033 Click - See the slideshow Those are great, launch I love the 2nd pic Thanks, for sharing Thanks heaps Launch those are great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RushRevisited Posted February 13, 2007 Author Share Posted February 13, 2007 http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0702/vela_skyfactory.jpg Explanation: The explosion is over but the consequences continue. About eleven thousand years ago a star in the constellation of Vela could be seen to explode, creating a strange point of light briefly visible to humans living near the beginning of recorded history. The outer layers of the star crashed into the interstellar medium, driving a shock wave that is still visible today. A roughly spherical, expanding shock wave is visible in X-rays. The above image captures much of that filamentary and gigantic shock in visible light, spanning almost 100 light years and appearing twenty times the diameter of the full moon. As gas flies away from the detonated star, it decays and reacts with the interstellar medium, producing light in many different colors and energy bands. Remaining at the center of the Vela Supernova Remnant is a pulsar, a star as dense as nuclear matter that completely rotates more than ten times in a single second. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
failte Posted February 13, 2007 Share Posted February 13, 2007 beautiful!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lerxt1990 Posted February 13, 2007 Share Posted February 13, 2007 QUOTE (RushRevisited @ Feb 13 2007, 02:06 PM) http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0702/vela_skyfactory.jpg Explanation: The explosion is over but the consequences continue. About eleven thousand years ago a star in the constellation of Vela could be seen to explode, creating a strange point of light briefly visible to humans living near the beginning of recorded history. The outer layers of the star crashed into the interstellar medium, driving a shock wave that is still visible today. A roughly spherical, expanding shock wave is visible in X-rays. The above image captures much of that filamentary and gigantic shock in visible light, spanning almost 100 light years and appearing twenty times the diameter of the full moon. As gas flies away from the detonated star, it decays and reacts with the interstellar medium, producing light in many different colors and energy bands. Remaining at the center of the Vela Supernova Remnant is a pulsar, a star as dense as nuclear matter that completely rotates more than ten times in a single second. MAN is that COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daylin Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 QUOTE (RushRevisited @ Feb 13 2007, 01:06 PM) http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0702/vela_skyfactory.jpg Explanation: The explosion is over but the consequences continue. About eleven thousand years ago a star in the constellation of Vela could be seen to explode, creating a strange point of light briefly visible to humans living near the beginning of recorded history. The outer layers of the star crashed into the interstellar medium, driving a shock wave that is still visible today. A roughly spherical, expanding shock wave is visible in X-rays. The above image captures much of that filamentary and gigantic shock in visible light, spanning almost 100 light years and appearing twenty times the diameter of the full moon. As gas flies away from the detonated star, it decays and reacts with the interstellar medium, producing light in many different colors and energy bands. Remaining at the center of the Vela Supernova Remnant is a pulsar, a star as dense as nuclear matter that completely rotates more than ten times in a single second. WOW! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ladirushfan80 Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 yeah Daylin i agree... WOW!!! thanks RR for the awesome pictures and explanations to boot!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RushRevisited Posted February 20, 2007 Author Share Posted February 20, 2007 http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0702/marsridges_mro.jpg Explanation: What created these white ridges on Mars? The images showing the white ridges, including some of the highest resolution images ever taken from Martian orbit, were recorded last year by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). A current leading hypothesis is that the white ridges formed as water flowed through underground cracks and bleached and hardened the edges of surrounding rocks. Over millions of years, surface winds eroded the darker rock leaving the raised white ridges. Such water-created light-colored markings are well known here on Earth. The hypothesis is particularly interesting as underground water could have helped to support microbial life on the red world. The above image resolves surface features as small as one meter across in Candor Chasma region of huge Valles Marineris on Mars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daylin Posted February 20, 2007 Share Posted February 20, 2007 QUOTE (RushRevisited @ Feb 20 2007, 10:32 AM) http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0702/marsridges_mro.jpg Explanation: What created these white ridges on Mars? The images showing the white ridges, including some of the highest resolution images ever taken from Martian orbit, were recorded last year by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). A current leading hypothesis is that the white ridges formed as water flowed through underground cracks and bleached and hardened the edges of surrounding rocks. Over millions of years, surface winds eroded the darker rock leaving the raised white ridges. Such water-created light-colored markings are well known here on Earth. The hypothesis is particularly interesting as underground water could have helped to support microbial life on the red world. The above image resolves surface features as small as one meter across in Candor Chasma region of huge Valles Marineris on Mars. RR, the picture looks like a beach! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RushRevisited Posted February 20, 2007 Author Share Posted February 20, 2007 QUOTE (Daylin @ Feb 20 2007, 03:02 PM) QUOTE (RushRevisited @ Feb 20 2007, 10:32 AM) http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0702/marsridges_mro.jpg Explanation: What created these white ridges on Mars? The images showing the white ridges, including some of the highest resolution images ever taken from Martian orbit, were recorded last year by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). A current leading hypothesis is that the white ridges formed as water flowed through underground cracks and bleached and hardened the edges of surrounding rocks. Over millions of years, surface winds eroded the darker rock leaving the raised white ridges. Such water-created light-colored markings are well known here on Earth. The hypothesis is particularly interesting as underground water could have helped to support microbial life on the red world. The above image resolves surface features as small as one meter across in Candor Chasma region of huge Valles Marineris on Mars. RR, the picture looks like a beach! Probably one COLD f***ing beach Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
launchpad67a Posted February 20, 2007 Share Posted February 20, 2007 QUOTE (RushRevisited @ Feb 13 2007, 12:06 PM) http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0702/vela_skyfactory.jpg Explanation: The explosion is over but the consequences continue. About eleven thousand years ago a star in the constellation of Vela could be seen to explode, creating a strange point of light briefly visible to humans living near the beginning of recorded history. The outer layers of the star crashed into the interstellar medium, driving a shock wave that is still visible today. A roughly spherical, expanding shock wave is visible in X-rays. The above image captures much of that filamentary and gigantic shock in visible light, spanning almost 100 light years and appearing twenty times the diameter of the full moon. As gas flies away from the detonated star, it decays and reacts with the interstellar medium, producing light in many different colors and energy bands. Remaining at the center of the Vela Supernova Remnant is a pulsar, a star as dense as nuclear matter that completely rotates more than ten times in a single second. Now how in the world did you get a image of my twisted mind?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daylin Posted February 20, 2007 Share Posted February 20, 2007 QUOTE (RushRevisited @ Feb 20 2007, 02:37 PM) QUOTE (Daylin @ Feb 20 2007, 03:02 PM) QUOTE (RushRevisited @ Feb 20 2007, 10:32 AM) http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0702/marsridges_mro.jpg Explanation: What created these white ridges on Mars? The images showing the white ridges, including some of the highest resolution images ever taken from Martian orbit, were recorded last year by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). A current leading hypothesis is that the white ridges formed as water flowed through underground cracks and bleached and hardened the edges of surrounding rocks. Over millions of years, surface winds eroded the darker rock leaving the raised white ridges. Such water-created light-colored markings are well known here on Earth. The hypothesis is particularly interesting as underground water could have helped to support microbial life on the red world. The above image resolves surface features as small as one meter across in Candor Chasma region of huge Valles Marineris on Mars. RR, the picture looks like a beach! Probably one COLD f***ing beach Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
different strings Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 Great picture resolution RR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
failte Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 beautiful picture RR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RushRevisited Posted February 26, 2007 Author Share Posted February 26, 2007 http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0702/farside_apollo16.jpg Explanation: Does this moon look familiar? Possibly not, even though it is Earth's Moon. Locked in synchronous rotation, the Moon always presents its well-known near side to Earth. But from lunar orbit, Apollo astronauts also grew to know the Moon's far side. This sharp picture from Apollo 16's mapping camera shows the eastern edge of the familiar near side (top) and the strange and heavily cratered far side of the Moon. Surprisingly, the rough and battered surface of the far side looks very different from the near side which is covered with smooth dark lunar maria. The likely explanation is that the far side crust is thicker, making it harder for molten material from the interior to flow to the surface and form the smooth maria. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
progrush2112 Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 I completely forgot about this thread! some great pics in here RR! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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