TagsTagsI have some non-blog activities to pursue, so here's a Tuesday afternoon open thread with something beautiful to look at:
Open Thread, Video, Vimeo, Short Film, Time Lapse, Milky Way
Using the European Space Agency’s infrared Herschel Space Observatory, astronomer Sergio Molinari discovered a gigantic Moebius Strip at the center of our galaxy: Milky Way’s Core Hides Big Twisted Ribbon. Click to enlarge A space telescope peering into the Milky Way galaxy’s dusty core has spied a colossal twisted ribbon of ...
Astronomy, Herschel Space Observatory, Milky Way, Moebius Strip
A great piece at the New York Times by Dennis Overbye looks at the latest research from the Hubble Space Telescope’s new Wide Field Camera 3, which is recording images from a time ever closer to the beginning of the universe itself: With Updated Hubble Telescope, Reaching Farther Back in ...
Astronomy, Milky Way, Galaxies, Photography, Space, Hubble Space Telescope
Phil Plait has a great description of what you see in this stunning new picture of the center of the Milky Way galaxy, a mosaic comprised of images from the Hubble (visible light), Chandra (X-rays), and Spitzer (infrared) space telescopes. There is so much going on in this image it’s ...
Astrophotographer Axel Mellinger of Central Michigan University has created a new panoramic image of the Milky Way galaxy. You may have seen version 1.0 of Mellinger’s panorama; it’s even for sale as a poster at Amazon. Version 2.0 is an order of magnitude more detailed. It was assembled from more than ...
The Hubble Space Telescope gets all the publicity, but there’s another orbiting telescope that sees into the X-ray spectrum and is also sending back mind-bending images from the depths of space — the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The latest photograph from Chandra shows the center of our Milky Way galaxy, and the ...
Space, Hubble Space Telescope, Chandra Observatory, Astronomy, Milky Way, black hole