Astronomy The Space Gallery - Images of and about space

[Strapping Young Lad]

Far Kern isn't the idea of a correct orientation a bit absurd, considering space is infinite in every direction, there really is no up or down.

 

[Far Kern]

Far Kern isn't the idea of a correct orientation a bit absurd, considering space is infinite in every direction, there really is no up or down.

Fair enough, but from the perspective of the astronauts as they first saw it. Ignore that bit, it's an amazing image.

 

[Kennedy Parker]

Mystic Mountain is pretty brilliant, makes a great wallpaper too.

 

[rippersnipper]

Mystic Mountain is pretty brilliant, makes a great wallpaper too.

Carina nebula right? Looks like a few gods going at it with powers and s**t

 

[Kennedy Parker]

Carina nebula right? Looks like a few gods going at it with powers and s**t

Yep, that's the one. A wider view of it actually does look like a fantasy land.

 

[rippersnipper]

Yep, that's the one. A wider view of it actually does look like a fantasy land.

Can just make out eta carinae in this image too, unfortunately not WR 25 although it isn't as obvious as the former in the spectrums that you can see it anyway

 

[M Malice]

i was 9 in july 1969 and was infatuated with the moon landing.

i still have the scrapbook, i have around an inch thick of original articles about the landing including this one below.

 

[David Schwarz]

A little closer to home



Solar prominence

 

[Frank Gallagher]

I briefly got into star gazing a few years back, ended up purchasing a 12 inch Dob, didn't get a lot of satisfaction out of that TBH, reckon I bit off more than I could chew, my best memory was off my little 4 incher I got at a garage sale, the lenses were crap but I got primo lenses with the 12 incher I used, got an absolutely brilliant view of Saturn, stunning views, even the moons were visible.

If you're interested in this subject you don't need to spend big, imaging is a different kettle of fish though.

 

[Dannnnnnnnnn]

Hubble's view of the spiral galaxy NGC 3274, located over 20 million light years away in the constellation of Leo.

Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1647a/

 

[sataris]

My favourite photo of the Earth,

That faint white dot, just below the halo on the left.

 

[Stan_Darsh72]

 

[benchwarmer5]

The other day I was on periscope and they had a live feed from space of earth and astronauts doing repairs on the wateva it was
https://www.periscope.tv/w/1MYGNOgVMqRJw?q=space

 

[SBYM]

Pillars of Creation. Hubbles best work IMO.

Immediately thought of this when I read the thread title.

Indescribably beautiful, same as all the pics in here imo...

 

[Snake_Baker]

The pale blue dot.

Voyager looking back at us.

 

[_Mike_]

The newest galaxy discovered MACS0647-JD appears very young and is only a fraction of the size of our own Milky Way. The galaxy is about 13.3 billion light-years from Earth, the farthest galaxy yet known, and formed 420 million years after the Big Bang. Image taken by Hubble Space Telescope on Nov. 29, 2011, and released Nov. 15, 2012.

Its amazing how a tiny telescope (in comparison) can see a dot in the sky some 13.3 billion light years away.. Mind blowing.

1 light year = 9.461e+12 km

 

[volcboy]

My current wallpaper - a recent image of Io passing over the Great Red Spot on Jupiter, taken by the Juno spacecraft

 

[Snake_Baker]

The Horizon flyover of Pluto

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

The pale blue dot.

Voyager looking back at us.

Neil DeGrasse spent 10 minutes talking about this pic when I saw him a few weeks ago.

Lights dimmed, he quoted Sagan as the screen zoomed in on the "pale blue dot".

4000 people in the room hanging on every word.

 

[Snake_Baker]

The most recent image of Jupiter

 

[HerveyBayTiger]

Wow these images are great .

Thanks.

 

[Snake_Baker]

The Curiosity Rover checks out Mars

 

[Jimmybob]

If we're gonna talk about space, let's get some perspective

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Perfect; I was trying to explain this to the missus last night, and now I can just show her.

 

[KBLT]

An old classic.

 

[Snake_Baker]

Just in from The Hubble

The Southern Aurora on Saturn