Astronomy
- Tracing Saturn
Image: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute Looking at this picture just blew me away. It is so simple, yet is able to reveal Saturn's unique shape immediately. The picture was taken by the Cassini spacecraft, currently orbiting Saturn, on February 13,...
- Happy 20th Hubble!
Today is the Hubble Space Telescope's 20th anniversary in orbit. The Hubble Space Telescope has over its lifetime provided many discoveries and produced thousands of awe-inspiring images of deep space, and our local neighborhood in space. To celebrate,...
- Majestic Panorama Of The Milky Way Galaxy
Physicist Axel Mellinger, a professor at Central Michigan University, has created a giant, high resolution, panorama of the Milky Way galaxy. It's resolution clearly shows stars that are up to a 1000 times fainter than the limit of the human eye,...
- First Published Astrophoto! (twice!!)
Yesterday I had an astrophoto image published on Spaceweather.com!!! On March 20, 2010 the Moon occulted Pleiades (with only occurs once every 13 years) and I took a few images while throwing a star party at my house. This was a multiple exposure image...
- Triple Crescent Moons Of Saturn.
A single crescent moon is a familiar sight in Earth's sky, but with Saturn's many moons, we can see three or even more. The three moons shown here, Titan [5,150 kilometers across], Mimas [396 kilometers across] and Rhea [1,527 kilometers across]...
Astronomy
Astronomy Picture of the day
Astronomy is a study of outer space. It can be a serious science, but also a fun hobby. So people tend to flock to an astronomy picture of the day. There are so many things to see, that browsing such images will never become boring.NASA is a great source to find and astronomy picture of the day. There's a new image there every day. The multimedia section shows both images and videos. These could be great sources for a person to create their own site that offers a new image each day. Saturn's moon Enceladus was featured on November 5, 2008. It was taken by the Cassini space craft as it passed about 1,700 kilometers from the surface. The image is so detailed that features about the size of a bus are viewable. The ice on this moon reflects nearly 100% of all the light that hits it. Talk about snow blind. The moon is so interesting that Cassini will continue to fly by for more images later in its mission.NASA maintains an archive of all the astronomy photos of the day dating all the way back to June 16 of 1995. That image was of Earth as if it had the density of a neutron star. This photo was created by the computer. It shows Orion visible twice. Even light from behind a neutron star is visible because the dense star bends the light all the way around it. This causes some double vision.NASA's COBY satellite took a very interesting image of the center of the Milky Way galaxy on September 8, 1995. Due to space dust this would normally not be visible to the naked eye or to a telescope. But COBE's infrared imaging captured this amazing image.January 1 in 2000 and 2001 had the very same astronomy picture of the day. It's due to the fact that many people think of the year 2000 as the first day of the third millennium. In reality January 1, 2001 was the beginning of millennium #3. NASA figured it was better to just go with both. the picture now online at http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap010101.html is an indication of the universe as it is progressed in the mind of man.
- Tracing Saturn
Image: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute Looking at this picture just blew me away. It is so simple, yet is able to reveal Saturn's unique shape immediately. The picture was taken by the Cassini spacecraft, currently orbiting Saturn, on February 13,...
- Happy 20th Hubble!
Today is the Hubble Space Telescope's 20th anniversary in orbit. The Hubble Space Telescope has over its lifetime provided many discoveries and produced thousands of awe-inspiring images of deep space, and our local neighborhood in space. To celebrate,...
- Majestic Panorama Of The Milky Way Galaxy
Physicist Axel Mellinger, a professor at Central Michigan University, has created a giant, high resolution, panorama of the Milky Way galaxy. It's resolution clearly shows stars that are up to a 1000 times fainter than the limit of the human eye,...
- First Published Astrophoto! (twice!!)
Yesterday I had an astrophoto image published on Spaceweather.com!!! On March 20, 2010 the Moon occulted Pleiades (with only occurs once every 13 years) and I took a few images while throwing a star party at my house. This was a multiple exposure image...
- Triple Crescent Moons Of Saturn.
A single crescent moon is a familiar sight in Earth's sky, but with Saturn's many moons, we can see three or even more. The three moons shown here, Titan [5,150 kilometers across], Mimas [396 kilometers across] and Rhea [1,527 kilometers across]...