Astronomy Picture thread

Perfection · Aug 18, 2003

It's like the babe thread, except for cool astronomy pictures.

So let's see some stars planets nebulae and galaxies!

Starting off with one of my Personal favorites

Ida and it's moonlet Dactyl

Tsukemono5 · Aug 18, 2003

I'm sorry that astronomical sights (one of God's finest creations IMO) don't get as much attention as babes

. It's understandable. I'll post some tomorrow, if I can.

Perfection · Aug 18, 2003

Yeah, but I bet a good picture of the Horsehead nebula will cheer them up

puglover · Aug 18, 2003

newfangle · Aug 18, 2003

Originally posted by Tsukemono5
(one of God's finest creations IMO)

Please don't insult them.

Perfection · Aug 18, 2003

Miranda, one of the moons of Uranus. A weird jumble of rock, that scientists believe to be resultant of multiple catastrophic collosions that thrust parts of the core onto the surface. A very strange looking world.

Pontiuth Pilate · Aug 18, 2003

@Perfection: Asteroids can have moons? :ack:

I never knew that!

That'd have to be one big asteroid...

EDIT: I also think this thread should have been named "Heavenly Body Thread" :lol:

Perfection · Aug 18, 2003

Actually that's just one small moon, and so far we have discovered 3 asteroid-moon systems (4 if you count pluto-cheron)

Trancending the milky way, we shall see two colliding galaxies, wow!

Aphex_Twin · Aug 19, 2003

Fabulous artist's representation of one of the oldest planets in the Universe...

Star stirring a quiet cloud of dust as it turns into a supernova... What a way to go !

squeaky · Aug 19, 2003

Great thread idea :goodjob:

I'll get some pics later today.

insurgent · Aug 19, 2003

Photographs by our wonderful space stud Hubble:

Thadlerian · Aug 19, 2003

The Pleiades... I just love that picture...

BomberEscort · Aug 19, 2003

Does anyone here have a telescope... I am an avid amature astonomer (albeit broke), but I have a 4.5" Reflector (Meade) and it works well for me... I'd like to get a 16" Dobsonian...

Aphex_Twin · Aug 19, 2003

I wouldn't want to get too close to one of theese things... A black hole (artist conception)

Lefty Scaevola · Aug 19, 2003

Here is God showing what he thinks of us.

Aphex_Twin · Aug 19, 2003

Cosmic leftovers from an exploding star:

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Thadlerian · Aug 19, 2003

Crab Nebula:

Aphex_Twin · Aug 19, 2003

And finally for today:

Pluto and Charon, best seen so far, by Europe's VLT:

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Lefty Scaevola · Aug 19, 2003

BIG Ba-da-Boom!
Eta Carinae

Perfection · Aug 19, 2003

Fine fine, I'll post a damn picture of Io, happy?

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