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Permalink Reply by Dallas the Phallus on April 22, 2010 at 11:13am

What you're seeing here is the highest resolution photograph of the sun available to date, part of a brand new series of NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) observations. The SDO mission promises "10 times better clarity than a high-definition television," NASA says, and this first SDO image doesn't disappoint.

Permalink Reply by Dallas the Phallus on June 27, 2010 at 10:12pm

The Dark Tower in Scorpius

The Red Rectangle Nebula from Hubble

Hydrogen in M51

Regulus and the Red Planet

Orange Sun Simmering

Thor's Helmet

WISE: Heart and Soul Nebulas in Infrared

Permalink Reply by Dallas the Phallus on July 4, 2010 at 7:16pm

The R Coronae Australis region imaged with the Wide Field Imager at La Silla

Permalink Reply by Dallas the Phallus on August 25, 2010 at 1:04pm

Centaurus A, a galaxy about 11 million light-years away, takes on the shape of a whirling dervish in this spectacular composite image of the raw power generated by the supermassive black hole at its core. Jets and lobes (orange) powered by the black hole, which is millions of times the mass of our sun, were imaged by the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope in Chile. X-rays (blue) were seen by the orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory. Visible light data, from the Wide Field Imager on the Max-Planck/ESO 2.2-meter telescope, also in Chile, shows the dust lane in the galaxy, as well as background stars. The x-ray jet in the upper left extends for about 13,000 light-years from the black hole. Material in the jet is travelling at about half the speed of light.

From Air & Space Mag.

Permalink Reply by Dallas the Phallus on November 18, 2010 at 11:19am

GALAXY COLLISION

SPIRAL GALAXY M66

NGC 7023: The Iris Nebula

NGC 4452: An Extremely Thin Galaxy

Spicules: Jets on the Sun

SOLAR PROMINENCE

NGC 2683: Spiral Edge-On

Equinox and the Iron Sun

Permalink Reply by Dallas the Phallus on July 9, 2011 at 9:29pm

 

This image provided by NASA Wednesday June 29, 2011 shows the galaxy best known as Messier 78, the two round greenish nebulae are actually cavities carved out of the surrounding dark dust clouds. The extended dust is mostly dark, even to Spitzer's view, but the edges show up in mid-wavelength infrared light as glowing, red frames surrounding the bright interiors. The image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope exposes the depths of this dusty nebula with its infrared vision, showing stellar infants that are lost behind dark clouds when viewed in visible light. A string of baby stars that have yet to burn their way through their natal shells can be seen as red pinpoints on the outside of the nebula. (AP Photo/NASA)

 

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