From the first space pictures taken by craft that left the atmosphere to the thousands of pictures taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, there are now countless images of galaxies, star clusters, quasars, and some of the most remote planets in the visible universe. In fact, the Hubble Spa...
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Remote galaxies shimmer from the combined light of billions of stars. They display never ending combinations of forms, not only the well known spiral arms. The night sky has far more to offer than what the bare eye is able to see. The pictures in this calendar were chosen from the best ...
Galactic Pair:Galactic Pair: An interacting pair of galaxies, together called Arp 82, is a scientific oddball. The color in the "tilted S" pair indicates that the observed stars are young to intermediate in age, around 2 million to 2 billion years old, much less than the age of the univ...
Southern California Fires As Seen From Space.Image Credit: NASA Changes on Earth's surface, including forest fires and other catastrophes, are often detectable from outer space. 11 of 21 Earth as Seen From the Space Shuttle Discovery Earth As Seen From The Space Shuttle Discovery.Image Credit:...
It’s unfortunately difficult for the Universe to make a single object significantly larger owing to its finite age and the presence of dark energy. (Credit: Digitized Sky Survey 2; NASA) The largest galaxies contain over 100 trillion stars, with record-breaking Alcyoneus spanning an unprecedented...
The larger of the two galaxies, UGC 1810, five times the mass of its companion, is a spiral galaxy whose shape has been distorted by the smaller galaxy, UGC 1813, below. The large outer arm of UGC 1810 appears partially as a ring. This feature is usually seen when one galaxy passes ...
It is also bright enough to shine through a light-polluted city sky. Dim objects and small galaxies can be very challenging from the city, but this bright, large emission nebula is not. In July 2017, I asked the members of theAstroBackyardFacebook community to share their photos of M8. ...
In the same manner, an astronaut is in free fall under the Earth's gravity but is also moving so fast forward that during the time he's fallen a foot, he's moved far enough forward that the curvature of the Earth has dropped a foot below him. For every foot he moves toward the ea...
I used this technique to create a range of marbles that contain particle clouds at different orders of magnitude ranging from electron orbitals, to galaxies, and of course, the universe itself. The most complex model was based on proton collision data from CERN. The file was so large that it...