Page 1 of 9 12345 ... LastLast
Results 1 to 10 of 90

Thread: Astronomy photography

  1. #1
    `│´ 1312019132512912292038191221 Apricity Funding Member
    "Friend of Apricity"

    Vulpix's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2008
    Last Online
    @
    Location
    in my head, in ur brains
    Meta-Ethnicity
    North Germanic
    Ethnicity
    northern barbarian
    Country
    Sweden
    Taxonomy
    frosty & bloodthirsty
    Politics
    savaging and pillaging
    Religion
    catheist & evil cat propagandist
    Gender
    Posts
    5,871
    Thumbs Up
    Received: 101
    Given: 0

    2 Not allowed!

    Smile Astronomy Picture of the Day

    A nice astronomy picture like this one every day :




    Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
    Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive

    Today's Picture



  2. #2
    Veteran Member Apricity Funding Member
    "Friend of Apricity"

    Absinthe's Avatar
    Join Date
    Dec 2008
    Last Online
    @
    Location
    Krisenland Griechenland
    Meta-Ethnicity
    Psychoactive
    Ethnicity
    Green ;)
    Taxonomy
    Artemisia absinthium
    Religion
    Obscure
    Age
    33
    Gender
    Posts
    8,317
    Thumbs Up
    Received: 351
    Given: 49

    0 Not allowed!

    Thumbs up What Tycko Brahe saw

    This isn't from the same source you provided but this is an important star

    Quote Originally Posted by Wikipedia
    Tycho Brahe, born Tyge Ottesen Brahe (December 14, 1546 Knutstorp Castle – October 24, 1601 Prague), was a Danish nobleman known for his accurate and comprehensive astronomical and planetary observations. Coming from Scania, then part of Denmark, now part of modern-day Sweden, Brahe was well known in his lifetime as an astronomer and alchemist.


    Quote Originally Posted by Wikipedia
    The 1572 supernova

    The Chandra Space Telescope imaged Tycho's Supernova Remnant more than four centuries after its discoveryOn November 11, 1572, Tycho observed (from Herrevad Abbey) a very bright star, now named SN 1572, which had unexpectedly appeared in the constellation Cassiopeia. Because it had been maintained since antiquity that the world beyond the Moon's orbit was eternally unchangeable (celestial immutability was a fundamental axiom of the Aristotelian world-view), other observers held that the phenomenon was something in the terrestrial sphere below the Moon. However, in the first instance Tycho observed that the object showed no daily parallax against the background of the fixed stars. This implied it was at least farther away than the Moon and those planets that do show such parallax.[clarification needed] Moreover he also found the object did not even change its position relative to the fixed stars over several months as all planets did in their periodic orbital motions, even the outer planets for which no daily parallax was detectable. This suggested it was not even a planet, but a fixed star in the stellar sphere beyond all the planets. He published a small book, De Stella Nova (1573), thereby coining the term nova for a "new" star (we now classify this star as a supernova and we know that it is 7500 light-years from Earth). This discovery was decisive for his choice of astronomy as a profession. Tycho was strongly critical of those who dismissed the implications of the astronomical appearance, writing in the preface to De Stella Nova: "O crassa ingenia. O caecos coeli spectatores" ("Oh thick wits. Oh blind watchers of the sky").

    Tycho's discovery was the inspiration for Edgar Allan Poe's poem, "Al Aaraaf."[15] In 1998, Sky & Telescope magazine published an article by Donald W. Olson, Marilynn S. Olson and Russell L. Doescher arguing, in part, that Tycho's supernova was also the same "star that's westward from the pole" in Shakespeare's Hamlet.
    Source
    Last edited by Absinthe; 12-05-2008 at 10:11 AM.

  3. #3
    An Eye for an Eye Zyklop's Avatar
    Join Date
    May 2009
    Last Online
    11-25-2010 @ 04:04 AM
    Location
    Germany
    Meta-Ethnicity
    Central European
    Ethnicity
    German
    Ancestry
    Deutsch
    Region
    Prussia
    Taxonomy
    Chrom-Mangan
    Religion
    none
    Gender
    Posts
    492
    Thumbs Up
    Received: 7
    Given: 0

    0 Not allowed!

    Default

    Attached Thumbnails Attached Thumbnails Click image for larger version. 

Name:	space-500x3183.jpg 
Views:	153 
Size:	414.4 KB 
ID:	4078  

    "If Germany re-establishes her trade in the next 50 years, we shall have fought the war (WW1) in vain
    ."
    Winston Churchill interviewed by the London Times in 1919

    "This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years"
    French marshal Ferdinand Foch on the Treaty of Versailles in 1919

    "Our ideal is to round Poland off with frontiers on the Oder in the West and the Neisse in Lausatia, and to reincorporate Prussia, from the Pregel to the Spree. In this war no prisoners will be taken, there will be no room for humanitarian feelings. We shall surprise the whole world in our war with Germany."
    Polish newspaper Mosarstwowiecz (1930), three years before Hitler's rise to power.




  4. #4
    Don't phone me after 10 pm Apricity Funding Member
    "Friend of Apricity"

    Germanicus's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jun 2009
    Last Online
    @
    Location
    A hamlet near you
    Meta-Ethnicity
    Germanic
    Ethnicity
    Anglo Saxon
    Country
    England
    Region
    England
    Politics
    UKIP
    Hero
    Ironman
    Religion
    Scrap metal
    Gender
    Posts
    7,716
    Thumbs Up
    Received: 167
    Given: 149

    0 Not allowed!

    Default



    The galaxy that ate too much and got gas

    [Hi-res version, Original source]

    It’s been known for a long time that galaxies are not picky eaters. In fact, they’re cannibals.

    Yes, they eat each other. If a little galaxy gets too close to a big one, the gravity of the beefier of the pair will rip the littler one apart, and the contents of the loser get absorbed into the winner. Most big galaxies show evidence of this, and our own Milky Way is eating at least one galaxy right now, and has probably swallowed down dozens before it.

    But we’re pikers compared to NGC 1132, a monster elliptical galaxy over 300 million light years away. In visible light it’s 20% bigger in diameter than the Milky Way, and may outmass our galaxy by a factor of ten! It’s truly gargantuan. This Hubble image reveals the enormous extent of the galaxy, but even that’s only a part of the picture; most of the mass of this galaxy is in hot X-ray emitting gas and invisible dark matter.
    Have you noticed that if you rearrange the letters in ‘illegal immigrants’, and add just a few more letters, it spells, ‘Go home you free-loading, benefit-grabbing, resource-sucking, baby-making, non-English-speaking ********* and take those other hairy-faced, sandal-wearing, bomb-making, camel-riding, goat-f*****g raghead c***s with you.?

  5. #5
    Banned
    Join Date
    Jul 2009
    Last Online
    04-17-2012 @ 01:31 AM
    Location
    Behind you
    Meta-Ethnicity
    Slavic
    Ethnicity
    Serbo-Montenigger
    Ancestry
    Serbia, Montenegro, Hungary
    Country
    Serbia
    Region
    Aboriginal
    Taxonomy
    Monkey
    Politics
    Against the modern world
    Religion
    Orthodox Christian
    Age
    29
    Gender
    Posts
    2,753
    Thumbs Up
    Received: 20
    Given: 0

    0 Not allowed!

    Default Astronomy photography


    Dark clouds of dust, called globules, are silhouetted against nearby, bright stars. Little is known about the globules, except that they are generally associated with areas of star formation.


    This picture of the nebula NGC 3603 shows globules of gas and dust; giant, gaseous pillars; young stars surrounded by debris disks; aging, massive stars; and a blue supergiant star . all various stages in star life.






    The Crab Nebula is a supernova remnant, all that remains of a tremendous stellar explosion. Observers in China and Japan recorded the supernova nearly 1,000 years ago, in 1054.






    HUbbles ultra deep field with dozen of galaxies








    Two galaxies swing past each other in a graceful performance choreographed by gravity. This is one of hundreds of interacting and merging galaxies known in our nearby universe.


  6. #6
    ϞSchwarzkäppchenϞ Zankapfel's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2009
    Last Online
    01-17-2012 @ 04:18 PM
    Politics
    Felinocracy
    Religion
    I dye my hair black
    Posts
    633
    Thumbs Up
    Received: 25
    Given: 0

    0 Not allowed!

    Default

    What's with everyone and their Crab Nebula lovage? ;p

    I'll post some of my favourites, which are mainly star clusters and nebulae.

    M50, an open cluster in Monoceros



    Antares and the Rho Ophiuchi Dark Cloud, on the lower half is the over-exposed image of the red supergiant star Antares.



    At the center of 30 Doradus region, the R136 star cluster.



    The M45: Subaru, the Pleiades and the Seven Sisters, an open cluster in Taurus.



    The star forming region NGC 2170. Think stellar birth and burst: hydrogen emission nebulae, blue reflection and darkabsorption nebulae, newly formed stars and stardust all over.



    NGC 7293 or Helix Nebula, located in Aquarius.



    B33 or Horsehead Nebula, a dark nebula across from red emission nebula IC434, both part of a large complex that is a stellar nursery near Sigma Orionis.



    Last but not least the Corona Australi, an area of young star formation.



    "Bowie could appear on TV, denounce mass immigration, propose a return to 'blood and soil',
    then lead us in a national rendition of Magic Dance to bring us all together"


  7. #7
    Banned
    Join Date
    Jul 2009
    Last Online
    04-17-2012 @ 01:31 AM
    Location
    Behind you
    Meta-Ethnicity
    Slavic
    Ethnicity
    Serbo-Montenigger
    Ancestry
    Serbia, Montenegro, Hungary
    Country
    Serbia
    Region
    Aboriginal
    Taxonomy
    Monkey
    Politics
    Against the modern world
    Religion
    Orthodox Christian
    Age
    29
    Gender
    Posts
    2,753
    Thumbs Up
    Received: 20
    Given: 0

    0 Not allowed!

    Default

    My favorite constellation, Orion and its nebula..


  8. #8
    Det Nordiske Råd™approved Apricity Funding Member
    "Friend of SNPA"


    Apricity Funding Member
    "Friend of Apricity"

    lei.talk's Avatar
    Join Date
    Nov 2008
    Last Online
    Today @ 11:16 AM
    Location
    near njörd eriksson
    Meta-Ethnicity
    nordish
    Ethnicity
    american
    Taxonomy
    homo sapiens nordensis
    Politics
    reality>reason>rights
    Religion
    no beliefs - knowledge
    Gender
    Posts
    4,481
    Thumbs Up
    Received: 2,630
    Given: 6,543

    0 Not allowed!

    Thumbs up द्यौष्पितृ - Dyauṣpitṛ - *Dyēus-pətēr - Zeus Pater - Iuppiter

    Last edited by lei.talk; 08-27-2013 at 11:19 AM. Reason: expired tinypic


  9. #9
    Banned
    Join Date
    Jul 2009
    Last Online
    04-17-2012 @ 01:31 AM
    Location
    Behind you
    Meta-Ethnicity
    Slavic
    Ethnicity
    Serbo-Montenigger
    Ancestry
    Serbia, Montenegro, Hungary
    Country
    Serbia
    Region
    Aboriginal
    Taxonomy
    Monkey
    Politics
    Against the modern world
    Religion
    Orthodox Christian
    Age
    29
    Gender
    Posts
    2,753
    Thumbs Up
    Received: 20
    Given: 0

    0 Not allowed!

    Default

    Wow! Very clear view of Jupiters atmosphere! Thanks for posting this




  10. #10
    Banned
    Join Date
    May 2009
    Last Online
    @
    Meta-Ethnicity
    European-American
    Ethnicity
    British-American
    Gender
    Posts
    8,861
    Blog Entries
    8
    Thumbs Up
    Received: 31
    Given: 0

    0 Not allowed!

    Default

    Supernova:


Page 1 of 9 12345 ... LastLast

Thread Information

Users Browsing this Thread

There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)

Bookmarks

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •