Our Beautiful Universe - Photos and Videos

[1oldman2]

 

[1oldman2]

From, http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/ I found several "postworthy" images.

 

[1oldman2]

 

[Andy Resnick]

A few recent images taken during vacation:

Andromeda galaxy taken with 50mm lens (whole frame, then 1:1 crop). 90 4s images (I don't lug my tracking mount to the beach!)

And a stitched panorama (15/2.8 lens) of the entire sky visible from the deck: 15 stacks, each 50 x 10s. First is fisheye projection, next is equirectangular projection, then some 1:1 crops, one of a few Messier objects near the horizon, the next of a region in Cygnus near zenith, and the last one is of Andromeda. The original images are about 15k x 15k pixels...

 

[DennisN]

2016 August 17
Meteor before Galaxy, Image Credit & Copyright: Fritz Helmut Hemmerich

Explanation: What's that green streak in front of the Andromeda galaxy? A meteor. While photographing the Andromeda galaxy last Friday, near the peak of the Perseid Meteor Shower, a sand-sized rock from deep space crossed right in front of our Milky Way Galaxy's far-distant companion. The small meteor took only a fraction of a second to pass through this 10-degree field. The meteor flared several times while braking violently upon entering Earth's atmosphere. The green color was created, at least in part, by the meteor's gas glowing as it vaporized. Although the exposure was timed to catch a Perseids meteor, the orientation of the imaged streak seems a better match to a meteor from the Southern Delta Aquariids, a meteor shower that peaked a few weeks earlier.

Source page: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160817.html.

 

[Andy Resnick]

Source page: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160817.html.

I think I 'got' this one as well:

I smell a homework problem... my location was Latitude: 35.228824 | Longitude: -75.626187 (sea level), where was Fritz?

 

[1oldman2]

My posting seems to be glitching

 

[1oldman2]

Here is a nice one from down APOD August 16th

 

[DennisN]

A panorama from Mars...

NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover at Murray Buttes (360 View)

Published on 19 Aug 2016

Explore this Mars panorama by moving the view with your mouse or mobile device. This 360-degree panorama was acquired on Aug. 5, 2016, by the Mastcam on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover as the rover neared features called "Murray Buttes" on lower Mount Sharp. The dark, flat-topped mesa seen to the left of the rover's arm is about 50 feet (about 15 meters) high and, near the top, about 200 feet (about 60 meters) wide.

Source page is here.

 

[1oldman2]

 

[DennisN]

In Saturn's Shadow

With giant Saturn hanging in the blackness and sheltering Cassini from the sun's blinding glare, the spacecraft viewed the rings as never before, revealing previously unknown faint rings and even glimpsing its home world.

This marvelous panoramic view was created by combining a total of 165 images taken by the Cassini wide-angle camera over nearly three hours on Sept. 15, 2006. The full mosaic consists of three rows of nine wide-angle camera footprints; only a portion of the full mosaic is shown here. Color in the view was created by digitally compositing ultraviolet, infrared and clear filter images and was then adjusted to resemble natural color.

Source page: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/resources/23/
An bigger picture is here.

 

[1oldman2]

good show Dennis, That ones a "keeper"
I find http://www.ciclops.org/index.php?js=1 to be very good for images.

 

[OmCheeto]

...
Source page: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/resources/23/
An bigger picture is here.

Ha ha!
I became obsessed with that image about 5 years ago: Old news as new news. Saturn 5 years ago.. PF, Sept 6, 2011

I think everyone thought I was hallucinating, as looking back, no one seemed to have a problem with the image, except for me.
It took me almost a week to figure out why things didn't make sense, when you look really closely at the dark side of Saturn.

 

[DennisN]

Night Lights 2012 - The Black Marble

This new global view and animation of Earth’s city lights is a composite assembled from data acquired by the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) satellite. The data was acquired over nine days in April 2012 and thirteen days in October 2012. It took satellite 312 orbits and 2.5 terabytes of data to get a clear shot of every parcel of Earth’s land surface and islands. This new data was then mapped over existing Blue Marble imagery to provide a realistic view of the planet.

Source page with images and nice animations here:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=79803

 

[rollete]

Center of the Milky Way seen through IR and X-ray light. Somewhere in that bright spot on the lower right a supermassive black hole is thought to exist.

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA12348

 

[1oldman2]

 

[1oldman2]

Source page with images and nice animations here:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=79803

Google Earth has a cool KLM layer of that.

 

[1oldman2]

My local universe as seen from the ISS (zoomed)

 

[DennisN]

Orange Sun Simmering
Credit & Copyright: Alan Friedman (Averted Imagination)
Explanation: Even a quiet Sun can be a busy place.

Source page: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100609.html

 

[DennisN]

And a repost from the New Horizons flyby of Pluto thread... two of my favorite photos of Pluto:

1) Pluto's Majestic Mountains, Frozen Plains and Foggy Hazes
2) Closer Look: Majestic Mountains and Frozen Plains

From the page: Pluto ‘Wows’ in Spectacular New Backlit Panorama

 

[1oldman2]

http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/f...bnails/image/jsc2016e096370.jpg?itok=iBJbSh5Z

Also, http://www.space.com/33931-ring-of-fire-solar-eclipse-captured-from-reunion-island-video.html

 

[DennisN]

Northern Equinox Eclipse
Source page: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap150321.html

 

[1oldman2]

Northern Equinox Eclipse
Source page: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap150321.html

That shot is so sweet!

 

[1oldman2]

From, http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160909.html

 

[1oldman2]

 

[Andy Resnick]

Veil nebula, near Cygnus:

This is, by far, the most difficult object I have ever imaged, and I'm very happy with the result. Had a great moon-free 3-day weekend to acquire this: 6.5 hours through a 5.5" f/2.8 refractor, a total of 2000 images. DSS took 8 hours to register and 18 hours to stack, at the end compressing 150 GB down to 100 MB. A couple 100% crops:

 

[Redbelly98]

BBC has posted some pretty awesome astronomy photos:
http://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-37337537

 

[DennisN]

BBC has posted some pretty awesome astronomy photos:
http://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-37337537

Thanks, those photos were really cool!

 

[DennisN]

"This spectacular NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope picture shows NGC 1872, a rich cluster of thousands of stars lying in our small neighbouring galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud."
Source: http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1013a/
A larger image is here.

 

[DennisN]

"Five moons -- dominated by Rhea in the foreground -- share this Cassini spacecraft view with Saturn's rings seen nearly edge-on."
Source: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/resources/5310/
A larger image is here.

 

[DennisN]

NGC 634: A Perfect Spiral with an Explosive Secret
"The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is renowned for its breathtaking images and this snapshot of NGC 634 is definitely that — the fine detail and exceptionally perfect spiral structure of the galaxy make it hard to believe that this is a real observation and not an artist’s impression or a screenshot taken straight from Star Wars."
Source: http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1122a/
A larger image is here.

 

[DennisN]

"Deep within the Milky Way lies the ancient globular cluster Terzan 5. This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the cluster in wonderful detail, but it is the chaotic motions of its stars that make it particularly interesting to astronomers."
Source: http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1121a/
A larger image is here.

 

[DennisN]

Warning: This post links to a site that may keep you occupied for longer than you had intended . Prepare some coffee...

Hubble Space Telescope/ESA Site - Top 100 Images (and more)
Link to Top 100 Images: http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/archive/top100/
Home page: http://www.spacetelescope.org/

Example:
5. The Bubble Nebula

 

[DennisN]

A nice shot from earlier this month:
"Hubble Peers into the Storm
This shot from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a maelstrom of glowing gas and dark dust within one of the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC)."

Source: http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2016/hubble-peers-into-the-storm
A larger image is here.

 

[DennisN]

Teasers about the upcoming Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST);
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Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST)
WFIRST Site: http://wfirst.gsfc.nasa.gov/

WFIRST: The Best of Both Worlds


WFIRST: Uncovering the Mysteries of the Universe

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James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
JWST Site: http://www.jwst.nasa.gov/

Image: The golden mirror of JWST.

James Webb Space Telescope Deployment In Detail

Seeing Beyond - The James Webb Space Telescope