Daylin Posted April 29, 2006 Share Posted April 29, 2006 QUOTE (RushRevisited @ Apr 28 2006, 09:45 AM) http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0604/ngc7635_ddemartin_c.jpg Explanation: Seemingly adrift in a cosmic sea of stars and glowing gas, the delicate, floating apparition near the center (next to a blue tinted star) of this widefield view is cataloged as NGC 7635 - The Bubble Nebula. A mere 10 light-years wide, the tiny Bubble Nebula and the larger complex of interstellar gas and dust clouds are found about 11,000 light-years distant, straddling the boundary between the parental constellations Cepheus and Cassiopeia. Also included in the breathtaking vista is open star cluster M52 (upper left), some 5,000 light-years away. The digital color picture is based on photographic plates taken at the Palomar Observatory between 1992 and 1997. This cropped version spans about 2.7 degrees on the sky corresponding to a width of just over 500 light-years at the estimated distance of the Bubble Nebula. This is breathtaking RR! I love your posts here! to you....btw, I love Miller Light too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RushRevisited Posted April 29, 2006 Author Share Posted April 29, 2006 QUOTE (Daylin @ Apr 29 2006, 05:35 PM) btw, I love Miller Light too Add it to your sig then too like me and Sully! Take a stand against these damn beer snobs! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daylin Posted April 29, 2006 Share Posted April 29, 2006 QUOTE (RushRevisited @ Apr 29 2006, 04:46 PM) QUOTE (Daylin @ Apr 29 2006, 05:35 PM) btw, I love Miller Light too Add it to your sig then too like me and Sully! Take a stand against these damn beer snobs! I will do just that RR! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daylin Posted April 29, 2006 Share Posted April 29, 2006 QUOTE (Daylin @ Apr 29 2006, 04:49 PM) QUOTE (RushRevisited @ Apr 29 2006, 04:46 PM) QUOTE (Daylin @ Apr 29 2006, 05:35 PM) btw, I love Miller Light too Add it to your sig then too like me and Sully! Take a stand against these damn beer snobs! I will do just that RR! Done! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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blonde77th Posted April 30, 2006 Share Posted April 30, 2006 Hey Rush don't ever stop this eh !!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RushRevisited Posted May 1, 2006 Author Share Posted May 1, 2006 http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0605/ngc290_hst.jpg Explanation: Jewels don't shine this bright -- only stars do. Like gems in a jewel box, though, the stars of open cluster NGC 290 glitter in a beautiful display of brightness and color. The photogenic cluster, pictured above, was captured recently by the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope. Open clusters of stars are younger, contain few stars, and contain a much higher fraction of blue stars than do globular clusters of stars. NGC 290 lies about 200,000 light-years distant in a neighboring galaxy called the Small Cloud of Magellan (SMC). The open cluster contains hundreds of stars and spans about 65 light years across. NGC 290 and other open clusters are good laboratories for studying how stars of different masses evolve, since all the open cluster's stars were born at about the same time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daylin Posted May 1, 2006 Share Posted May 1, 2006 QUOTE (RushRevisited @ May 1 2006, 09:55 AM) http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0605/ngc290_hst.jpg Explanation: Jewels don't shine this bright -- only stars do. Like gems in a jewel box, though, the stars of open cluster NGC 290 glitter in a beautiful display of brightness and color. The photogenic cluster, pictured above, was captured recently by the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope. Open clusters of stars are younger, contain few stars, and contain a much higher fraction of blue stars than do globular clusters of stars. NGC 290 lies about 200,000 light-years distant in a neighboring galaxy called the Small Cloud of Magellan (SMC). The open cluster contains hundreds of stars and spans about 65 light years across. NGC 290 and other open clusters are good laboratories for studying how stars of different masses evolve, since all the open cluster's stars were born at about the same time. Amazing RR! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnus Posted May 1, 2006 Share Posted May 1, 2006 Nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blonde77th Posted May 2, 2006 Share Posted May 2, 2006 Nice 1 again keep them up ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CeeJ Posted May 2, 2006 Share Posted May 2, 2006 totally amazing and beautiful..thank you for sharing the great pics.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RushRevisited Posted May 2, 2006 Author Share Posted May 2, 2006 http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0605/sunspot0875_piepol.jpg Explanation: An unusually active sunspot region is now crossing the Sun. The region, numbered 875, is larger than the Earth and has produced several solar flares over the past week. It should take a few more days for Sunspot 875 to finish crossing the solar disk. The above image of the Sun was taken last Wednesday in a very specific color of red light to bring up detail. Sunspot 875, in the midst of erupting a large Class C solar flare, can be seen as the dark region to the upper right. In the above image, relatively cool regions appear dark while hot regions appear bright. On the far left, solar prominences are visible hovering above the Sun's surface. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blonde77th Posted May 2, 2006 Share Posted May 2, 2006 QUOTE (RushRevisited @ May 2 2006, 09:45 AM) http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0605/sunspot0875_piepol.jpg Explanation: An unusually active sunspot region is now crossing the Sun. The region, numbered 875, is larger than the Earth and has produced several solar flares over the past week. It should take a few more days for Sunspot 875 to finish crossing the solar disk. The above image of the Sun was taken last Wednesday in a very specific color of red light to bring up detail. Sunspot 875, in the midst of erupting a large Class C solar flare, can be seen as the dark region to the upper right. In the above image, relatively cool regions appear dark while hot regions appear bright. On the far left, solar prominences are visible hovering above the Sun's surface. Awesome !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daylin Posted May 2, 2006 Share Posted May 2, 2006 QUOTE (RushRevisited @ May 2 2006, 09:45 AM) http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0605/sunspot0875_piepol.jpg Explanation: An unusually active sunspot region is now crossing the Sun. The region, numbered 875, is larger than the Earth and has produced several solar flares over the past week. It should take a few more days for Sunspot 875 to finish crossing the solar disk. The above image of the Sun was taken last Wednesday in a very specific color of red light to bring up detail. Sunspot 875, in the midst of erupting a large Class C solar flare, can be seen as the dark region to the upper right. In the above image, relatively cool regions appear dark while hot regions appear bright. On the far left, solar prominences are visible hovering above the Sun's surface. RR, I've never seen photos like this! Nor, have I learned so much Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RushRevisited Posted May 4, 2006 Author Share Posted May 4, 2006 http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0605/saturn4_cassini.jpg Explanation: Why is Saturn partly blue? The above picture of Saturn approximates what a human would see if hovering close to the giant ringed world. The above picture was taken in mid-March by the robot Cassini spacecraft now orbiting Saturn. Here Saturn's majestic rings appear directly only as a thin vertical line. The rings show their complex structure in the dark shadows they create on the image left. Saturn's fountain moon Enceladus, only about 500 kilometers across, is seen as the bump in the plane of the rings. The northern hemisphere of Saturn can appear partly blue for the same reason that Earth's skies can appear blue -- molecules in the cloudless portions of both planet's atmospheres are better at scattering blue light than red. When looking deep into Saturn's clouds, however, the natural gold hue of Saturn's clouds becomes dominant. It is not known why southern Saturn does not show the same blue hue -- one hypothesis holds that clouds are higher there. It is also not known why Saturn's clouds are colored gold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blonde77th Posted May 4, 2006 Share Posted May 4, 2006 Thats a great pic , Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daylin Posted May 4, 2006 Share Posted May 4, 2006 QUOTE (blonde77th @ May 4 2006, 08:31 AM) Thats a great pic , Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RushRevisited Posted May 5, 2006 Author Share Posted May 5, 2006 http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0605/redspot2_hst_c68.jpg Explanation: Jupiter's Great Red Spot is a swirling storm seen for over 300 years, since the beginning of telescopic observations. But in February 2006, planetary imager Christopher Go noticed it had been joined by Red Spot Jr - formed as smaller whitish oval-shaped storms merged and then developed the remarkable reddish hue. This sharp Hubble Space Telescope image showing the two salmon-colored Jovian storms was recorded in April. About half the size of the original Red Spot, Red Spot Jr. is similar in diameter to planet Earth. Seen here below and left of the ancient storm system, it trails the Great Red Spot by about an hour as the planet rotates from left to right. While astronomers still don't exactly understand why Jupiter's red spots are red, they do think the appearance of Red Spot Jr. provides evidence for climate change on the Solar System's ruling gas giant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daylin Posted May 5, 2006 Share Posted May 5, 2006 QUOTE (RushRevisited @ May 5 2006, 02:03 PM) http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0605/redspot2_hst_c68.jpg Explanation: Jupiter's Great Red Spot is a swirling storm seen for over 300 years, since the beginning of telescopic observations. But in February 2006, planetary imager Christopher Go noticed it had been joined by Red Spot Jr - formed as smaller whitish oval-shaped storms merged and then developed the remarkable reddish hue. This sharp Hubble Space Telescope image showing the two salmon-colored Jovian storms was recorded in April. About half the size of the original Red Spot, Red Spot Jr. is similar in diameter to planet Earth. Seen here below and left of the ancient storm system, it trails the Great Red Spot by about an hour as the planet rotates from left to right. While astronomers still don't exactly understand why Jupiter's red spots are red, they do think the appearance of Red Spot Jr. provides evidence for climate change on the Solar System's ruling gas giant. Very interesting! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dweezil Posted May 5, 2006 Share Posted May 5, 2006 QUOTE (RushRevisited @ May 5 2006, 08:03 PM) http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0605/redspot2_hst_c68.jpg Explanation: Jupiter's Great Red Spot is a swirling storm seen for over 300 years, since the beginning of telescopic observations. But in February 2006, planetary imager Christopher Go noticed it had been joined by Red Spot Jr - formed as smaller whitish oval-shaped storms merged and then developed the remarkable reddish hue. This sharp Hubble Space Telescope image showing the two salmon-colored Jovian storms was recorded in April. About half the size of the original Red Spot, Red Spot Jr. is similar in diameter to planet Earth. Seen here below and left of the ancient storm system, it trails the Great Red Spot by about an hour as the planet rotates from left to right. While astronomers still don't exactly understand why Jupiter's red spots are red, they do think the appearance of Red Spot Jr. provides evidence for climate change on the Solar System's ruling gas giant. i like the swirly blue and tan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Necromancer Posted May 7, 2006 Share Posted May 7, 2006 Hey Mike. Do you know if there is a planet that is highly visible right now? I live in northeastern pa. and there was a very bright celestial body in the eastern sky around 9:30 pm. It did NOT blink or twinkle, so i would imagine that would be a planet, right? I used to know this stuff when I was younger, as to which planet could be seen at what time, but that hobby unfortunately fell to the back of the pack for me. It was pretty cool though. Great visibility tonight here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RushRevisited Posted May 7, 2006 Author Share Posted May 7, 2006 QUOTE (Necromancer @ May 7 2006, 01:07 AM) Hey Mike. Do you know if there is a planet that is highly visible right now? I live in northeastern pa. and there was a very bright celestial body in the eastern sky around 9:30 pm. It did NOT blink or twinkle, so i would imagine that would be a planet, right? I used to know this stuff when I was younger, as to which planet could be seen at what time, but that hobby unfortunately fell to the back of the pack for me. It was pretty cool though. Great visibility tonight here. Arcturus is probably what you saw (a star). it was very bright from PA at 9:30pm tonight according to my map. Down and to the right is Jupiter... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Necromancer Posted May 7, 2006 Share Posted May 7, 2006 QUOTE (RushRevisited @ May 7 2006, 12:21 AM) QUOTE (Necromancer @ May 7 2006, 01:07 AM) Hey Mike. Do you know if there is a planet that is highly visible right now? I live in northeastern pa. and there was a very bright celestial body in the eastern sky around 9:30 pm. It did NOT blink or twinkle, so i would imagine that would be a planet, right? I used to know this stuff when I was younger, as to which planet could be seen at what time, but that hobby unfortunately fell to the back of the pack for me. It was pretty cool though. Great visibility tonight here. Arcturus is probably what you saw (a star). it was very bright from PA at 9:30pm tonight according to my map. Down and to the right is Jupiter... Thanks Mike. We were pretty sure that it didn't twinkle at all, but it really was kinda too big to be a planet probably. It was really bright though. What a night for gazing. We were up at a farm/campground area fishing and it was just awesome tonight up there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Test4VitalSigns Posted May 7, 2006 Share Posted May 7, 2006 I stumbled across these pics today...according to NASA these are the most detailed true-color image of the entire Earth to date.... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v300/test4vitalsigns/globe_west_2048.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v300/test4vitalsigns/globe_west_540.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v300/test4vitalsigns/globe_east_2048.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v300/test4vitalsigns/globe_east_540.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blonde77th Posted May 7, 2006 Share Posted May 7, 2006 Beautiful Earth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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