Astronomy Picture thread

[steviejay]

lovely, I've been waiting for this, Could you give an explanation of the pic of what we're seeing or maybe a link to where you got it? I'm assuming you got it from the ESA website?

 

[Babbler]

Flare (sort of...)!

 

[Perfection]

 

[deo]

Flare (sort of...)

When i imagine how small the earth than is

 

[Kan' Sharuminar]

When i imagine how small the earth than is

Now you've gone and put things into perspective for me, curse you!

Babbler: Gorgeous picture

 

[deo]

Now you've gone and put things into perspective for me, curse you!

Babbler: Gorgeous picture

Take my Avatar and add it to that pic

Anyway:

 

[Babbler]

Take my Avatar and add it to that pic

Anyway:

That's is a little... out of proportion.

Retro Mars!

 

[Pentium]

Time for me to contribute some:

Two spiral galaxies, NGC 2207 (left) and IC 2163 (right) having a date:

And the Twin Jet Nebula

(both form Hubble)

 

[soul_warrior]

leo

edit - oops. sorry for super size.

 

[Bluemofia]

2004 XP14:

 

[Lord Sankra]

The belt and sword of Orion.

 

[Trogg]

Doesn't orion have a bow not a sword?

 

[Bluemofia]

No. Officially, he has a sword and a shield (or a dead lion, I forgot which).

But whatever, constellations can be interpreted however you want, but when talking to others, the official interpretations have to be used.

 

[Perfection]

Dark Matter Confirmed!

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=183311

 

[Perfection]

A highly unusual galaxy containing a ring put no bar. It's formation is an interesting puzzle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_7742

 

[deo]

Read this, its realy interesting...

 

[Perfection]

Read this, its realy interesting...

Actually that even has a thread of its own!
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=183311

Dwarf Galaxies make up a huge amount of galaxies in our universe but we seldom see pictures of them.

 

[skadistic]

I want to go see some of this stuff up close. Our solar system isn't much fun.

 

[Perfection]

I want to go see some of this stuff up close. Our solar system isn't much fun.

It isn't?

The solar system is quite awesome!

Lakes on Titan?
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/image-details.cfm?imageID=2214

 

[skadistic]

Its fun but not much fun. Lakes are cool but nebulas are cooler. Maby if another Shumaker/Leavy hit one of our gas giants I'd be more excited.


On a side note french doctors performed zero-G surgery.