The Space Picture Threrad

[timvwcom]

eagle nebula

I've always thought this looked like a woman... The upper portion is her head thrown way back; you see mainly her chin, nose and sweep of hair at the very top. Moving down here are breasts with VERY prominent nipples, then maybe her arm tucked along her side on viewers right?

I'd think it might actually be considered "space pr0n"... Except the jagged piece of wood lodged in her chest kills it for me. Hey wait, this isn't some space rohrshack test is it? Oh oh... Where is the couch?

[summit]

MtnJam's source is a Daily Space Picture courtesy of NASA.
I used to look at it every day but forgot about it.

mimus and saturn's rings

[Andy_B]

The jet from a black hole at the center of a galaxy (lower left) strikes the edge of another galaxy (upper right), the first time such an interaction has been found. NASA/Daniel Evans

[Theodore]

I heart this thread. Truly awesome and gorgeous pictures!

[Sublime]

This shit is so damn cool

That is also one of my favorite pictures, not because it has the best image but just the sheer size of it. I think it's impossible to wrap your mind around it. You could travel for a millions of years and not make it 1/16 of the way there. I have that same picture in a huge book I bought at Borders it's like 18 x 36 and I always look at it when I am in a shitty mood cuz when you look at space you really realize how insignificant some shit is in life.

[cl1953]

This is one of my favorites from the Hubble telescope. I hope they keep it going because the possibilities are staggering.

Anyone got any good Mars shots?

[berko]

87654321

[nick > jesus]

did you take that your self?

either way thats a super cool picture

[berko]

I wish.


Its from the APOD page.

[jonesy]

You are here........

[powder_prophet]

This is just too perfect. Its called the Snowflake Cluster!!



BTW, I'm lovin all the pics in this thread! And for the record, I'm also guilty of staring at the pic of the deep space field (the first in the thread) . I've had a copy since this summer and it never ceases to amaze me. Just like it was said before, it makes our Earthly problems seem somewhat trivial...

I hope they keep it going because the
possibilities are staggering.

Unfortunately, the Hubbell won't be going for too much longer. Its batteries are dying which is effecting its ability to hold steady and to transmit pics. Soon it will be brought back to Earth and will plunge deep into the sea. It will be replaced by a new scope in 2013 with even bigger potential. Its called the James Webb Telescope, and it will collect Infrared light instead of the visible light collected by Hubbell. The really exciting thing about it is that it won't be orbiting Earth in a traditional sense. It will be over a million miles from the Earth, floating at whats called the second LaGrange point (or L2, one of 5 semi-stable points in the earth/sun system). This fixed point lies in a direct line with the Earth and Sun, meaning the Earth will provide a constant solar ecclipse in order for the telescope's view to not be harmed by our solar light pollution. Really cool concept, and should open up a whole new world of pics and discoveries of very distant (and thus very old) galaxies. Here's NASA's website about the new scope, which has some really good info.

http://jwst.gsfc.nasa.gov/


I'm kind of a nerd. Can you tell?

[bfree]

NASA's astronomy picture of the day link:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

and todays picture (if i can do this right) is:

[Smacky]

This pic has always amazed me. The Eagle Nebula.

[GBB]

Pretty cool picture from France:

[Jim S]

Fantabulous!!!

[dbldmnd]

Great pics in here. This one consumed a few years of my life...

[f2f]

[timvwcom]

Coming Spring 2008 to your computer...

WorldWide Telescope. (better in IE than Firefox - surprise! )

This is Microsofts "Google Sky". Not available yet for public download quite yet, but is said to be WAY much more betta'.

[flowtron]

On the way up.
I always liked this shot.

[summit]

[Ripzalot]

this is pretty cool: Largest Known Star

[Rideski]

Space Station over USA tonight.

[adam]

whats just as interesting is how long all of this has been around. our lives comprise such an iota like amount of time, if we were to make all the time our universe proportional to a year, our lives, the life of man, and the existence of Earth would probably be undetectable. Especially considering that if the existence of Earth was made into a year, humans would have started December 31st, 11:45 pm, and civilization December 31st, 11:59:35 pm. We are truly insignificant.

[woodstocksez]

We are truly insignificant.

Speak for yourself. I'm working on some very interesting macrame projects.

[klaxed]

this is pretty cool: Largest Known Star

Wow, just wow.

Some of those space pics look so surreal that they look like paintings.