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Maybe its cause I've been reading a little too much Carl Sagan and National Geographic magazines, but lately I can't help but be completely awe-struck with how huge and beautiful our universe is. Anyways, post your favorite astronomy related images in this here thread. Feel free to provide a quick explanation or wiki link with your picture. I'll start off with a few essentials:  The Hubble Ultra Deep Field The fact that there are as many galaxies as there are in that one snapshot blows my goddamn mind. LARGER IMAGE   An image taken of the ISS near the sun. This was taken in 2006 and they took a short enough exposure so that the atmospheric distortion on the sun's surface could be blanked out. Pretty breathtaking. LARGER IMAGE  The Phoenix Lander's descent to the surface of Mars. Triumphant as all hell. So, lets stare dumbstruck at some more awesome astronomy pictures! 
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I think one of my absolute favorites will always be the "eye cloud" for lack of a better term. Plus solar flares. The might/destructive capability/beauty of those things will always get to me.  
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My favorites tend to be looking back at Earth. The Pale Blue Dot:  And another one, that might be cliched now, but still one of my favorites, since it was the first one seeing Earth from another world: 
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Orasmis posted:I think one of my absolute favorites will always be the "eye cloud" for lack of a better term. This is the Helix Nebula. A pair of sun spots:  Nebula image from Spitzer:  Tarantula Nebula:  Cat's Eye Nebula:  And lastly, a picture of the entire universe. 
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This is the best thread. Soon to post as soon as WaffleImages stops making GBS threads itself.
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NoEyedSquareGuy posted:
 Fantastic resource; just in-case anyones not aware of apod - http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html
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Admiral Bosch posted:This is the best thread. Soon to post as soon as WaffleImages stops making GBS threads itself. Yeah, I was going to mention this. Bad timing on my part, I guess. 
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The Andromeda Galaxy: It's our next door neighbor. Really, there are a handful of dwarf galaxies that are closer, but Andromeda is the closest large galaxy and is also quite beautiful. The Sombrero Galaxy:  Not sure what to say here, other than that I find it quite beautiful. Fomalhaut:  Not as pretty as the first two, but scientifically important. Fomalhaut has the first planetary system imaged in visible light (inset in lower right). Extrasolar planets are an incredibly hot topic in astronomy right now, and for us to be able to actually see a planet is amazing.
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 Close thread. Mod Edit: And give me probation. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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why would we close this thread? because you posted a huge table breaking and decided to not even explain wtf we're looking at?
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I was gonna post that image, it is the Eagles Nest I believe. A gigantic gas cloud where stars are born from the debris inside. It's absolutely HUGE, taking hundreds of light years from top to bottom.
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 Hazzardus posted:It's part of the Eagle Nebula, to be sure. More specifically, it's the Pillars of Creation, so called because the tips, and some of the pockets on the sides, are active star-forming regions. quote:Close thread. This isn't a contest.
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Useless Rabbit posted:My favorites tend to be looking back at Earth. Come now, you can't post this image without linking the video! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnFMrNdj1yY
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Sir Unimaginative posted:This is Saturn seen from behind (by the Cassini probe), sort of eclipsing the sun, correct? Edit: Plenty of awesome stuff with simple and accessible explanations of most of the photos can be found over here at NASA's astronomy picture of the day archive: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html It goes all the way back to June 1995, so there's over 5000 images to stare at in wonder. Visual Sneeze fucked around with this message at May 1, 2010 around 18:33 |
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Hazzardus posted:Breakage aside, this is stunning.
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| # ? May 1, 2010 18:38 |
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 A giant image of the Carina Nebula  Another Carina Nebula image, recently released as part of the 20th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope's launch  A picture of the center of our galaxy, released a few months ago.  The Eagle Nebula (It was automatically resized by Tinypic but I have it in 3200x1200 if I can find somewhere to host it)
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RedneckwithGuns posted:Images Thank you so much, these are amazing. I wonder which one has Azathoth in it. I'll post some later when I have the time.
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 quote:At about 100 meters from the cargo bay of the space shuttle Challenger, Bruce McCandless II was further out than anyone had ever been before. Guided by a Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU), astronaut McCandless, pictured above, was floating free in space. McCandless and fellow NASA astronaut Robert Stewart were the first to experience such an "untethered space walk" during Space Shuttle mission 41-B in 1984. The MMU works by shooting jets of nitrogen and has since been used to help deploy and retrieve satellites. With a mass over 140 kilograms, an MMU is heavy on Earth, but, like everything, is weightless when drifting in orbit.
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RedneckwithGuns posted:
You posted all the ones I was going to, but I forgot about Tinypic. drat you, sir.
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CHOICE COD posted:I've seen this picture many times, but the description leaves a huge impression. The idea of an 'untethered space walk' is completely terrifying/awesome!
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 Sunset. On Mars 
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That's no space station...   It's Mimas, one of Saturn's moons!
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 Jupiter has fascinated me more than anything else out there since I was a little kid.
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A lot of people seem to forget we've been to Venus as well as the moon and Mars, probably because it was the Soviets that got there first (false colour):  Venus, like Mars, was probably once a lot like Earth, but the surface these were taken from is 400°C+ due to the greenhouse effect - even hotter than Mercury - and atmospheric pressure almost 100x greater than Earth's. Venus and the moon:  An eclipse seen from space:  Also, full-size version of the Pheonix lander photo in the OP: 
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I love these pictures! "Give Tony a new Background" would be a pretty apt name for this thread.
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Tony Bologna posted:I love these pictures! "Give Tony a new Background" would be a pretty apt name for this thread. Here's my 390MB collection of space wallpapers if you're interested: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=TS47UBDU It's been a while since I've uploaded a collection, but that should have a good amount in it. My monitor is 1920x1080, so they're all collected with that in mind. It's up to 500MB now, maybe I'll compile another .rar file and post it in this thread. Until then Waffleimages is back up, so here's a few more pictures. A model of the current amount of satellites and space junk:  More surface of the sun:  Butterfly Nebula:  Higher resolution picture of the Helix Nebula:  The Crab Nebula:  These are all from my collection, but I'm pretty sure that even at 1920x**** I scaled most of them down from higher resolutions so I could have them as wallpapers. A great site for astronomy pictures is Nasa's Astonomy Picture of the Day Archive which has most of them at their original resolutions as well as short descriptions for each picture. Another good place is Hubblesite, which has a lot of the pictures at their original Hubble resolutions. The picture of the Carina Nebula posted earlier is probably my favorite astronomy image of all time, and Hubblesite has the whole thing at 29566x14321 resolution, which is slightly too large to post here. NoEyedSquareGuy fucked around with this message at May 2, 2010 around 04:41 |
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NoEyedSquareGuy posted:Here's my 390MB collection of space wallpapers if you're interested: I can't tell if they are computer generated or not, these pictures are amazing!
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 This is currently the best picture of Pluto available, taken by the Hubble. This is the best picture of this dwarf planet we'll have until the New Horizons probe arrives in mid-2015.
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The Engraved Hourglass Nebula has always creeped me out... (most may recognize this from Pearl Jam's Binaural album cover)
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This Jupiter's moon Io, during a volcanic eruption. (taken by the New Horizons probe as it passed through the Jupiter system)
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Rocketeer Korolev posted:
Weird. My eyes can't settle on that very well - it seems to be undulating a little.
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NoEyedSquareGuy posted:Here's my 390MB collection of space wallpapers if you're interested: You sir are a god among men. I'm loving Windows 7's rotating background and I've been dying to do this myself. You've just given me a whole new set of backgrounds. I believe you're now entitled to my firstborn or something. NoEyedSquareGuy posted:It's up to 500MB now, maybe I'll compile another .rar file and post it in this thread. Yes. Please do. Edit: Content Sunrise in orbit (1920x1080):  View from International Space Station Interior (1920x1080): 
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Tony Bologna posted:I can't tell if they are computer generated or not, these pictures are amazing! That was my only problem with the compilation, otherwise it's amazing and I love it to death. As much as I love awesome space images, those renders and stuff you see on DeviantArt cheapen the real thing for me, regardless of their actual quality, the real thing is so much more spectacular. This is another, more distinct image of the Helix Nebula that NoEyedSquareGuy posted:  It is appropriately dubbed the "Eye of God" (Obviously the Old Testament version)
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RedneckwithGuns posted:That was my only problem with the compilation, otherwise it's amazing and I love it to death. As much as I love awesome space images, those renders and stuff you see on DeviantArt cheapen the real thing for me, regardless of their actual quality, the real thing is so much more spectacular. Agreed, I had them in there mostly for the sake of categorization and that upload is pretty old anyway. I just made a .rar of my collection to date that's a lot larger and has all the fake stuff cut out. The previous one was about 390MB with all the fake stuff in, this is 401MB of real images: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6H1GPFDA And few more examples for the sake of thread content One of Nasa's crawlers used for transporting the space shuttles:  A different angle of an eclipse seen from space:  Part of the image recently taken from Nasa's Solar Dynamics Observatory: 
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 Orion Nebula Infrared 10000 × 12299 50mb file can be found here
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The Antipop posted:
Here's a zoom-in on Jupiter's rapeface: http://i40.tinypic.com/34gspk2.jpg (3mb)
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NoEyedSquareGuy posted:Here's my 390MB collection of space wallpapers if you're interested: That looks like a joke from Futurama. How do we ever launch anything successfully.
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there are so many amazing photos of the the universe.. this thread is awesome. i have left the directory open with a few of my favorites, lately i have had a thing for amateur shots. here is the antenna galaxy and M31, in the directory you'll find some badass amateur equipment a few lucky people have put together, as well as a few other cool pictures. http://group3.org/lag/img/sa/astro/04_antennae.jpg http://group3.org/lag/img/sa/astro/M31_LRGB-03C-2kM.jpg http://group3.org/lag/img/sa/astro/m74_hst.jpg http://group3.org/lag/img/sa/astro/m20b.jpg Rocketeer Korolev posted:Remember the movie 2010? Could there be any kind of life living in Europa's oceans? very interesting subject, i will add another (though less likely) possible home to possible micro-neighbors... the -other- icy moon... Enceladus (not to be confused with enchiladas) http://group3.org/lag/img/sa/astro/...olor_mosaic.jpg Lag fucked around with this message at May 2, 2010 around 18:49 |
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Europa: It is believed that beneath the ice is an ocean of liquid water.  Scientists don't want any probes to crash into Europa, contaminating it with nuclear material. That's why they intentionally sent the Galileo probe into Jupiter's atmosphere at the end of it's mission. Remember the movie 2010? Could there be any kind of life living in Europa's oceans?
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oh shi.. accident. sorry for double post.
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