― StanM, Friday, 11 May 2007 06:07 (sixteen years ago) link
― StanM, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 09:34 (sixteen years ago) link
― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 10:20 (sixteen years ago) link
yyyeeeaaaaahhhhhh... APOD delivers. The first strike in an intergalactic war!!!
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0707/lasergalaxy_beletsky_big.jpg
(Not raelly.)
― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 10:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Anyone have pictures of The Hole yet?
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070823_huge_hole.html
― StanM, Friday, 24 August 2007 11:12 (sixteen years ago) link
except, well, this, but I mean a real pic
http://www.nrao.edu/pr/2007/coldspot/void_small.jpg
― StanM, Friday, 24 August 2007 11:14 (sixteen years ago) link
"photoshop this hat" competition?
― StanM, Friday, 24 August 2007 11:15 (sixteen years ago) link
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGBrowseS33/N00091826.jpg
― Stone Monkey, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 15:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Yesterday's aurora + meteor was pretty mindblowing. Instant desktop picture.
― Rock Hardy, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 16:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, that green was eerie.
― Michael White, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 16:22 (sixteen years ago) link
(link for future readers who are too lazy to go look up the date on the nasa site: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071009.html )
― StanM, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 16:51 (sixteen years ago) link
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0710/aurora_kuenzli_big.jpg
― omar little, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 23:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Whoa.
http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/2007/36/images/a/formats/large_web.jpg
More here: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2007/36/
― caek, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 23:41 (sixteen years ago) link
http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/images/2008/details/PSP_007338_2640.jpg
That dust cloud is from an avalanche on Mars, which was imaged as it was happening. Yaow. More: http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/PSP_007338_2640
― caek, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 00:47 (sixteen years ago) link
wow
― Ste, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 09:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Now that is extraordinary...
― Stone Monkey, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 10:46 (sixteen years ago) link
We demand live webcamming from Mars!
― StanM, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 11:00 (sixteen years ago) link
the subimage on the website it cool, that huge long reef and the tiny little avalanche happening further down.
― Ste, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 11:31 (sixteen years ago) link
*is
HOLY CR*P (click the pic for even bigger & sharper - they've applied some fancy new sharpness filtering thing to a picture of a galaxy that's 28 million lightyears away)
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080308.html
― StanM, Saturday, 8 March 2008 18:54 (sixteen years ago) link
M104 Hubble Remix
NOIZE
― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Saturday, 8 March 2008 19:02 (sixteen years ago) link
on the contrary - they removed all of it! :-)
― StanM, Saturday, 8 March 2008 19:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, I turned today's pic into my new desktop image as soon as I saw it.
― Rock Hardy, Saturday, 8 March 2008 19:37 (sixteen years ago) link
there's something about this that i like, surface of mars. looks so alien (perhaps unsurprisingly).
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080615.html
― koogs, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 09:41 (fifteen years ago) link
i really love astronomy picture of the day, but sometimes i get a bit 'woooaaah!-oh, oh, artists's impression. oh.'
― schlump, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 14:20 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.theonion.com/content/files/images/hubble_article_large.article_large.jpg
― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 20:49 (fifteen years ago) link
<A href=http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080801.html>The Moon is 19 inches across</a>
― Oilyrags, Friday, 1 August 2008 14:48 (fifteen years ago) link
i liked the tiny moon. all it needs now is a stick.
today's eclipse picture is nice: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080807.html
am sure this is a repeat though, because i posted it here (somewhere?) the first time. international space station vs the sun: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080730.html
― koogs, Thursday, 7 August 2008 10:12 (fifteen years ago) link
yes: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060921.html
― koogs, Thursday, 7 August 2008 10:14 (fifteen years ago) link
Ha ha, Moon Games is great.
― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 7 August 2008 11:17 (fifteen years ago) link
I have no idea where I found this Roger Blandfoard quote, and it's not a picture, but here seems as good a place as any to put it:
A neutron star is a solar–mass worth of mundane and exotic nuclei and fundamental particles trapped by gravity at supranuclear densities, exhibiting superfluidity and superconductivity. The star is encased within a solid crust, a liquid ocean, a gaseous atmosphere, and a relativistic plasma magnetosphere capable of inducing zettavolt electromotive forces and radiating intense, coherent emission. Neutron stars are used to test general relativity and to search for gravitational radiation. The neutron star in question is also a “magnetar,” which gives it one further remarkable feature. The magnetic field strength is around a petagauss, a billion times larger than can be sustained on Earth and well over the quantum electrodynamic critical field. A magnetar is a star designed by a committee of physicists, each trying to outdo the other. On this occasion, it appears that a stellar flare occurred, released 13 orders of magnitude more magnetic energy than the greatest solar flare, and created a burst of gamma rays intense enough to reach across the galaxy and rattle our atmosphere.
lol stars.
― caek, Saturday, 13 September 2008 14:37 (fifteen years ago) link
stellar flare!
― casino royale with cheese (Roz), Saturday, 13 September 2008 15:12 (fifteen years ago) link
worst astronomy picture of the day ever!
― koogs, Wednesday, 5 November 2008 10:50 (fifteen years ago) link
Agreed.
― AndyTheScot, Wednesday, 5 November 2008 11:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Still love the Himalayan Sunrise though...
it is actually quite mind-boggling, a picture of one of saturn's moons. only the fractal nature of such images and the lack of scale means it just looks like a close-up of my back garden after it's rained.
― koogs, Wednesday, 5 November 2008 13:29 (fifteen years ago) link
http://i38.tinypic.com/16ke3r7.jpg
― ledge, Wednesday, 5 November 2008 16:30 (fifteen years ago) link
wait this one's better
http://i36.tinypic.com/r874lj.jpg
― ledge, Wednesday, 5 November 2008 16:40 (fifteen years ago) link
http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/2003/11/images/i/formats/full_jpg.jpghttp://www.j-m-w-turner.co.uk/images/The_fighting_Temeraire.jpg
Left: The Fighting Temeraire, tugged to her Last Berth to be broken up, 1838, 91 x 122 cm. Right: The mother-fucking Helix Nebula, a trillion mile long tunnel of glowing gas
― caek, Monday, 24 November 2008 00:22 (fifteen years ago) link
More Helix nebula http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2003/11/image/
aren't all the hubble pictures artificially coloured anyway?
http://hubblesite.org/gallery/behind_the_pictures/meaning_of_color/
"The colors in Hubble images, which are assigned for various reasons, aren't always what we'd see if we were able to visit the imaged objects in a spacecraft. We often use color as a tool, whether it is to enhance an object's detail or to visualize what ordinarily could never be seen by the human eye."
― koogs, Monday, 24 November 2008 09:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Kinda. That image was taken with three different filters on two cameras, which allows them to make a pretty good colour version.
The most reliable images colourwise are the old school ones taken with photographic plates, e.g. http://www.aao.gov.au/images/general/emission.html
― caek, Monday, 24 November 2008 14:34 (fifteen years ago) link
In space, no one can see you colour.
― StanM, Monday, 24 November 2008 16:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Does anyone here do DIY astronomy imaging? I've seen some stuff recently and you can take some amazing pictures with digital camera technology (multiple exposures, adding the light in layers, using filters, etc.).
― Adam Bruneau, Monday, 24 November 2008 19:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Holy mother...http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
― not_goodwin, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 13:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Thats the greatest!
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 13:35 (fifteen years ago) link
fucking amazing.
is this the first time they've had a video up on apod?
― Disco/Very (Roz), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 18:25 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/10/enceladus_up_close.html
― caek, Monday, 1 December 2008 09:31 (fifteen years ago) link
http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/enc_10_24/enc09_approach.gif
This sequence of 12 frames was taken over a span of about 45 minutes on March 12, 2008. In that brief time, Cassini covered almost 40,000 kilometers in its approach to a flyby encounter with Enceladus. The overexposure and smearing of the images gives a hint of the raw speed involved - 14.4 km/sec (or 32,211 mph). Shortly after this sequence, at its closest, Casini approached within 52 km (32.3 miles) of the surface of Enceladus. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)
― caek, Monday, 1 December 2008 11:43 (fifteen years ago) link
p.s. if you like astronomy pictures and hate cancer then you should all buy one of these:
http://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/skyphoto/images/double_frame.png
http://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/skyphoto/
This kid is five years old and has had leukemia for four of those years.
― caek, Monday, 1 December 2008 11:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Hands up who thinks they have this album somewhere.
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 13:29 (five years ago) link
Seriously cool
― jmm, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 13:35 (five years ago) link
This album, FYI:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superunknown
― dinnerboat, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 13:59 (five years ago) link
Check the simulation
There's a brief write-up at @PhysicsWorld here: https://t.co/dqI3RoCjuL with more images. Here's the image seen (left) compared with a simulation (middle) and the simulation blurred to the expected resolution of the telescope (right). (Image via Akiyama et al & ApJL) pic.twitter.com/UqAVdUtndK— Katie Mack (@AstroKatie) April 10, 2019
― lukas, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 17:04 (five years ago) link
livestream here of Jupiter-Saturn conjunction...this last happened (w/ this visibilty) 800 years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0799Kmke-k
― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 21 December 2020 14:14 (three years ago) link
would wear on a t-shirt. (would make a perfect autechre cover also)
https://eventhorizontelescope.org/blog/astronomers-image-magnetic-fields-edge-m87s-black-hole
― koogs, Thursday, 25 March 2021 12:08 (three years ago) link