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A picture of luminous nacreous clouds over Sweden was released by NASA on Friday.
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In celebration of its 25th anniversary, see some of the most extraordinary cosmic images ever captured by the Hubble Space telescope
AstroBackyard is an astrophotography blog dedicated to deep-sky imaging from a city backyard. I use my camera and telescope to capture nebulae and galaxies.
Need a mere soupçon, a glass, a jar or perhaps a whole cauldron overflowing with wonder and mystery? Shown here is the astonishing pair o...
NASA image acquired: January 14, 2008 This spectacular color mosaic shows the eastern limb of Mercury as seen by MESSENGER as the spacecraft departed the planet following the mission's first Mercury flyby in January 2008. The colors of this image are not those that would be seen by the human eye but instead convey information about the distribution of different rock types on Mercury's surface. The different rock types result in subtle color variations across all of the 11 WAC narrow-band color filters. The Caloris basin, visible as a large bright yellow circular area in this image due to its infill of volcanic plains, dominates the northern region. A similar image was published in Science magazine in July 2008, but it only covered the northern half of the region shown here. To create this larger color mosaic, MESSENGER Science Team members had to also devise a method to deal with scattered light in the 11 different WAC filters. MESSENGER has obtained color imaging at this resolution only for the portions of Mercury seen on departure from Mercury flybys 1 and 2. As spectacular as this color image is, it is just a taste of what is yet to come. In 2011, MESSENGER will become the first spacecraft ever to orbit Mercury and begin a year-long observing campaign that includes imaging all of Mercury's surface in color at an average resolution of about 1 kilometer/pixel (0.6 miles/pixel), a resolution that is about a factor of three better than this already impressive image. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Arizona State University/Carnegie Institution of Washington NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission. Follow us on Twitter Join us on Facebook
As astrologers, we often use phrases like: You will find a new job with the help of Saturn. The Mars – Uranus opposition may get...
Today is a historic day for both space exploration and study as well as photography. We told you last week that scientists around the world had planned on holding a press conference today to introduce their findings. First-ever Image of a Black Hole from the Event Horizon Telescope. And now here we are. Humanity has captured its first-ever image of the black hole at the center of the galaxy called M87. The black hole is 40 billion kilometers across or “three million times the size of the Earth” according to the BBC. It is always very far away: 500 million
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/The SINGS Team (SSC/Caltech) A few of the interesting bits from the press release : The galaxy, called NGC 1097, ...
Have you ever wondered why the most powerful, most important name in the Bible has been taken out of many versions? I have.
This month brought us a major landmark -- the closest views mankind has ever had of the dwarf planet Pluto.
ISS036 image of a sunrise in orbit.
This is the most accurate natural color images of Pluto taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft in 2015.
