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Spacetime Diagram

Unknown Thursday, June 23, 2016 Add Comment Edit

The spacetime diagram (“a position vs time graph”) is a valuable tool for modeling and interpreting situations in relativity. As I like ...

The Milky Way Galaxy

Unknown Monday, November 30, 2015 Add Comment Edit

Our magnificent Milky Way Galaxy sprawls across this ambitious all-sky panorama. In fact, at 800 million pixels the full resolution mosa...

Star Factory Messier 17

Unknown Tuesday, October 27, 2015 Add Comment Edit

Image Credit & Copyright : Data - ESO / MPIA / OAC , Assembly - R.Colombari Sculpted by stellar winds and radiation, the star...

Starburst Galaxy Messier 94

Unknown Tuesday, October 27, 2015 Add Comment Edit

Image Credit: ESA/Hubble and NASA Beautiful island universe Messier 94 lies a mere 15 million light-years distant in the northern con...

Charon and the Small Moons of Pluto

Unknown Monday, October 26, 2015 Add Comment Edit

Image Credit: NASA , Johns Hopkins U. APL , SwRI What do the moons of Pluto look like? Before a decade ago, only the largest moon C...

Galileo's Europa Remastered

Unknown Saturday, April 11, 2015 Add Comment Edit

Looping through the Jovian system in the late 1990s, the Galileo spacecraft recorded stunning views of Europa and uncovered evidence tha...

The Creature from the Red Lagoon

Unknown Sunday, March 22, 2015 Add Comment Edit

What creature lurks near the red Lagoon nebula? Mars. This gorgeous color deep-sky photograph has captured the red planet passing below tw...

Portrait of NGC 281

Unknown Sunday, March 22, 2015 Add Comment Edit

Look through the cosmic cloud cataloged as NGC 281 and you might miss the stars of open cluster IC 1590. But, formed within the nebula, tha...

The Seahorse of the Large Magellanic Cloud

Unknown Thursday, February 19, 2015 Add Comment Edit

It may look like a grazing seahorse , but the dark object toward the image right is actually a dust about 20 light years long. The curiou...

The Scariest Part of Alien: Isolation is The Unknown

Unknown Monday, January 05, 2015 3 Comments Edit

Alien was a horror movie. It may not seem as scary in hindsight, but it was always a cerebral adventure about not knowing what lurks in t...

Stars and Dust Pillars in NGC 7822 from WISE

Unknown Monday, December 01, 2014 Add Comment Edit

Hot, young stars and cosmic pillars of gas and dust seem to crowd into NGC 7822. At the edge of a giant molecular cloud toward the norther...

Orion in Gas, Dust, and Stars

Unknown Monday, December 01, 2014 Add Comment Edit

The constellation of Orion holds much more than three stars in a row. A deep exposure shows everything from dark nebula to star clusters, ...

The Day After Mars

Unknown Thursday, November 27, 2014 Add Comment Edit

October 31, 1938 was the day after Martians encountered planet Earth, and everything was calm. Reports of the invasion were revealed to...

Welcome to a Comet, from Lander on Surface

Unknown Thursday, November 13, 2014 Add Comment Edit

The Philae lander of the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission is safely on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, as these fir...

Descent to a Comet

Unknown Thursday, November 13, 2014 Add Comment Edit

Yesterday, the first soft landing on a comet took place some 500 million kilometers from planet Earth as the Rosetta mission lander Ph...

The Cave Nebula

Unknown Wednesday, November 12, 2014 1 Comment Edit

This colorful skyscape features the dusty Sharpless catalog emission region Sh2-155, the Cave Nebula. In the composite image, data take...

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