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to photos of the best Hubble Space Telescope photos and other NASA photos,
incredible landscape photos, scenic wonders, wildlife animal
photos, AND the Renaissance Art Masters, art work of the 10th through 20th
Centuries from World Museums.
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Anticrepuscular
Rays Over Colorado Credit & Copyright: John Britton Explanation:
What's happening over the horizon? Although the scene may appear somehow
supernatural, nothing more unusual is occurring than a setting Sun and
some well placed clouds. Pictured above are anticrepuscular rays. To understand
them, start by picturing common crepuscular rays that are seen any time
that sunlight pours though scattered clouds. Now although sunlight indeed
travels along straight lines, the projections of these lines onto the spherical
sky are great circles. Therefore, the crepuscular rays from a setting (or
rising) sun will appear to re-converge on the other side of the sky. At
the anti-solar point 180 degrees around from the Sun, they are referred
to as anticrepuscular rays. Pictured above is a particularly striking set
of anticrepuscular rays photographed earlier this month from a moving car
just outside of Boulder, Colorado, USA. Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (USRA) NASA Technical Rep.: Jay Norris. Specific
rights apply. A service of: LHEA at NASA/ GSFC & Michigan Tech. U.
Spinning
Black Holes and MCG-6-30-15 Drawing Credit: XMM-Newton, ESA, NASA Explanation:
What makes the core of galaxy MCG-6-30-15 so bright? Some astronomers believe
the answer is a massive spinning black hole. If so, this would be the first
observational indication that it is possible to make a black hole act like
a battery -- and tap into its rotational energy. MCG-6-30-15 is a distant
galaxy that has recently been observed with the orbiting XMM-Newton satellite
in X-ray light. These observations show the galaxy's nucleus not only to
be very bright but also to show evidence that much of the light is climbing
out of a deep gravitational well. A spinning black hole could explain both
effects. A strong magnetic field could be the mediator transferring rotational
energy from the black hole to the surrounding gas. Pictured above is an
artist's illustration of a black hole surrounded by an accretion disk.
For clarity, the illustration does not include distorting gravitational
lens effects. Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry
Bonnell (USRA) NASA Technical Rep.: Jay Norris. Specific rights apply.
A service of: LHEA at NASA/ GSFC & Michigan Tech. U.
Elements
in the Aftermath Credit: J.Hughes (Rutgers) et al., CXC, NASA Explanation:
Massive stars spend their brief lives furiously burning nuclear fuel. Through
fusion at extreme temperatures and densities surrounding the stellar core,
nuclei of light elements like Hydrogen and Helium are combined to heavier
elements like Carbon, Oxygen, etc. in a progression which ends with Iron.
And so a supernova explosion, a massive star's inevitable and spectacular
demise, blasts back into space debris enriched in heavier elements to be
incorporated into other stars and planets (and people!). This detailed
false-color x-ray image from the orbiting Chandra Observatory shows such
a hot, expanding stellar debris cloud about 36 light-years across. Cataloged
as G292.0+1.8, this young supernova remnant in the southern constellation
Centaurus resulted from a massive star which exploded an estimated 1,600
years ago. Bluish colors highlight filaments of the mulitmillion degree
gas which are exceptionally rich in Oxygen, Neon, and Magnesium. Just below
and left of center, a point like object in the Chandra image suggests that
the enriching supernova also produced a pulsar in its aftermath, a rotating
neutron star remnant of the collapsed stellar core. Authors & editors:
Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (USRA) NASA Technical Rep.: Jay
Norris. Specific rights apply. A service of: LHEA at NASA/ GSFC & Michigan
Tech. U.
Pluto:
New Horizons Painting Credit & Copyright: Dan Durda (SwRI)
Explanation: Pluto's horizon spans the foreground in this artist's vision,
gazing sunward across that distant and not yet explored world. Titled New
Horizons, the painting also depicts Pluto's companion, Charon, as a darkened,
ghostly apparition with a luminous crescent against a starry background.
Beyond Charon, the diminished Sun is immersed in a flattened cloud of zodiacal
dust. Here, Pluto's ruddy colors are based on existing astronomical observations
while imagined but scientifically tenable details provided by the artist
include high atmospheric cirrus and dark plumes from surface vents, in
analogy to Neptune's large moon Triton explored by the Voyager 2 spacecraft
in 1989. Craters suggest bombardment by Kuiper Belt objects, a newly understood
population of outer solar system bodies likely related to the Pluto-Charon
system. NASA is now considering a future robotic reconnaissance mission
to Pluto-Charon and the Kuiper Belt which could reach the distant worlds
late in the next decade. Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) &
Jerry Bonnell (USRA) NASA Technical Rep.: Jay Norris. Specific rights apply.
A service of: LHEA at NASA/ GSFC & Michigan Tech. U.
A
Yukon Aurora Credit: Yuichi Takasaka Explanation: Last week was another
good week for auroras. The story began about two weeks ago when two large
Coronal Mass Ejections exploded off the Sun. Waves of elementary particles
and ions swept out past the Earth on September 28 and 29, causing many
auroras. A week ago, a flapping sheet that divides north and south regions
of the Sun's magnetic field passed the Earth, again causing auroras. Pictured
above is a particularly good image of one of the October 1 northern lights.
Taken in Canada's Yukon, the city lights of Whitehorse are seen below dark
clouds and a twisting green aurora. Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (USRA) NASA Technical Rep.: Jay Norris.
Specific rights apply. A service of: LHEA at NASA/ GSFC & Michigan
Tech. U.
Southwest
Andromeda Credit & Copyright: Satoshi Miyazaki (NAOJ) et al., Suprime-Cam,
Subaru Telescope, NOAJ Explanation: This new image composite of the southwest
region of M31 from the Subaru Telescope shows many stars, nebulae, and
star clusters never before resolved. An older population of stars near
Andromeda's center causes the yellow hue visible on the upper right. Young
blue stars stand out in the spiral arms on the lower left. Red emission
nebula, blue open clusters of stars, and sweeping lanes of dark dust punctuate
the swirling giant. Andromeda, at about 2.5 million light years distant,
and our Milky Way are the largest galaxies in the Local Group of Galaxies.
Understanding M31 helps astronomers to understand our own Milky Way Galaxy,
since the two are so similar. Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU)
& Jerry Bonnell (USRA) NASA Technical Rep.: Jay Norris. Specific rights
apply. LHEA at NASA/ GSFC & Michigan Tech. U.
Cold
Dust in the Eagle Nebula Credit: ESA, ISO, ISOGAL Team Explanation:
Stars are born in M16's Eagle Nebula, a stellar nursery 7,000 light-years
from Earth toward the constellation Serpens. The striking nebula's star
forming pillars of gas and dust are familiar to astronomers from images
at visible wavelengths, but this false-color picture shows off the nebula
in infrared light. Data from ESA's Infrared Space Observatory satellite
(ISO) was used to construct the detailed two color image, dominated by
infrared emission from clouds of interstellar material at temperatures
below -100 degrees Celsius. Blue colors highlight emission thought to indicate
the presence of complex carbon molecules, known on planet Earth as PAHs,
while red colors trace emission from cold, microscopic dust grains. Hot
young stars are formed as this frigid material condenses under the influence
of gravity. Once begun, the process takes only tens of thousands of years
for truly massive stars and up to tens of millions of years for low mass
stars like the Sun. Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) &
Jerry Bonnell (USRA) NASA Technical Rep.: Jay Norris. Specific rights apply.
A service of: LHEA at NASA/ GSFC & Michigan Tech. U.
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Photo links 69
Web's Best Photo and Art LinksFrom Magic Mike
My collection of recommended links
to photos of the best Hubble Space Telescope photos and other NASA photos,
incredible landscape photos, scenic wonders, wildlife animal
photos, AND the Renaissance Art Masters, art work of the 10th through 20th
Centuries from World Museums.
These photos are links, to sites owned by other people, for private viewing,
not for commercial use.
TO SEARCH FOR A PHOTO, CLICK EDIT/FIND ON YOUR BROWSER.
Refresh and reload on your browser
to see the newest links and not a cached page.
Anticrepuscular
Rays Over Colorado Credit & Copyright: John Britton Explanation:
What's happening over the horizon? Although the scene may appear somehow
supernatural, nothing more unusual is occurring than a setting Sun and
some well placed clouds. Pictured above are anticrepuscular rays. To understand
them, start by picturing common crepuscular rays that are seen any time
that sunlight pours though scattered clouds. Now although sunlight indeed
travels along straight lines, the projections of these lines onto the spherical
sky are great circles. Therefore, the crepuscular rays from a setting (or
rising) sun will appear to re-converge on the other side of the sky. At
the anti-solar point 180 degrees around from the Sun, they are referred
to as anticrepuscular rays. Pictured above is a particularly striking set
of anticrepuscular rays photographed earlier this month from a moving car
just outside of Boulder, Colorado, USA. Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (USRA) NASA Technical Rep.: Jay Norris. Specific
rights apply. A service of: LHEA at NASA/ GSFC & Michigan Tech. U.
Spinning
Black Holes and MCG-6-30-15 Drawing Credit: XMM-Newton, ESA, NASA Explanation:
What makes the core of galaxy MCG-6-30-15 so bright? Some astronomers believe
the answer is a massive spinning black hole. If so, this would be the first
observational indication that it is possible to make a black hole act like
a battery -- and tap into its rotational energy. MCG-6-30-15 is a distant
galaxy that has recently been observed with the orbiting XMM-Newton satellite
in X-ray light. These observations show the galaxy's nucleus not only to
be very bright but also to show evidence that much of the light is climbing
out of a deep gravitational well. A spinning black hole could explain both
effects. A strong magnetic field could be the mediator transferring rotational
energy from the black hole to the surrounding gas. Pictured above is an
artist's illustration of a black hole surrounded by an accretion disk.
For clarity, the illustration does not include distorting gravitational
lens effects. Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry
Bonnell (USRA) NASA Technical Rep.: Jay Norris. Specific rights apply.
A service of: LHEA at NASA/ GSFC & Michigan Tech. U.
Elements
in the Aftermath Credit: J.Hughes (Rutgers) et al., CXC, NASA Explanation:
Massive stars spend their brief lives furiously burning nuclear fuel. Through
fusion at extreme temperatures and densities surrounding the stellar core,
nuclei of light elements like Hydrogen and Helium are combined to heavier
elements like Carbon, Oxygen, etc. in a progression which ends with Iron.
And so a supernova explosion, a massive star's inevitable and spectacular
demise, blasts back into space debris enriched in heavier elements to be
incorporated into other stars and planets (and people!). This detailed
false-color x-ray image from the orbiting Chandra Observatory shows such
a hot, expanding stellar debris cloud about 36 light-years across. Cataloged
as G292.0+1.8, this young supernova remnant in the southern constellation
Centaurus resulted from a massive star which exploded an estimated 1,600
years ago. Bluish colors highlight filaments of the mulitmillion degree
gas which are exceptionally rich in Oxygen, Neon, and Magnesium. Just below
and left of center, a point like object in the Chandra image suggests that
the enriching supernova also produced a pulsar in its aftermath, a rotating
neutron star remnant of the collapsed stellar core. Authors & editors:
Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (USRA) NASA Technical Rep.: Jay
Norris. Specific rights apply. A service of: LHEA at NASA/ GSFC & Michigan
Tech. U.
Pluto:
New Horizons Painting Credit & Copyright: Dan Durda (SwRI)
Explanation: Pluto's horizon spans the foreground in this artist's vision,
gazing sunward across that distant and not yet explored world. Titled New
Horizons, the painting also depicts Pluto's companion, Charon, as a darkened,
ghostly apparition with a luminous crescent against a starry background.
Beyond Charon, the diminished Sun is immersed in a flattened cloud of zodiacal
dust. Here, Pluto's ruddy colors are based on existing astronomical observations
while imagined but scientifically tenable details provided by the artist
include high atmospheric cirrus and dark plumes from surface vents, in
analogy to Neptune's large moon Triton explored by the Voyager 2 spacecraft
in 1989. Craters suggest bombardment by Kuiper Belt objects, a newly understood
population of outer solar system bodies likely related to the Pluto-Charon
system. NASA is now considering a future robotic reconnaissance mission
to Pluto-Charon and the Kuiper Belt which could reach the distant worlds
late in the next decade. Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) &
Jerry Bonnell (USRA) NASA Technical Rep.: Jay Norris. Specific rights apply.
A service of: LHEA at NASA/ GSFC & Michigan Tech. U.
A
Yukon Aurora Credit: Yuichi Takasaka Explanation: Last week was another
good week for auroras. The story began about two weeks ago when two large
Coronal Mass Ejections exploded off the Sun. Waves of elementary particles
and ions swept out past the Earth on September 28 and 29, causing many
auroras. A week ago, a flapping sheet that divides north and south regions
of the Sun's magnetic field passed the Earth, again causing auroras. Pictured
above is a particularly good image of one of the October 1 northern lights.
Taken in Canada's Yukon, the city lights of Whitehorse are seen below dark
clouds and a twisting green aurora. Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (USRA) NASA Technical Rep.: Jay Norris.
Specific rights apply. A service of: LHEA at NASA/ GSFC & Michigan
Tech. U.
Southwest
Andromeda Credit & Copyright: Satoshi Miyazaki (NAOJ) et al., Suprime-Cam,
Subaru Telescope, NOAJ Explanation: This new image composite of the southwest
region of M31 from the Subaru Telescope shows many stars, nebulae, and
star clusters never before resolved. An older population of stars near
Andromeda's center causes the yellow hue visible on the upper right. Young
blue stars stand out in the spiral arms on the lower left. Red emission
nebula, blue open clusters of stars, and sweeping lanes of dark dust punctuate
the swirling giant. Andromeda, at about 2.5 million light years distant,
and our Milky Way are the largest galaxies in the Local Group of Galaxies.
Understanding M31 helps astronomers to understand our own Milky Way Galaxy,
since the two are so similar. Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU)
& Jerry Bonnell (USRA) NASA Technical Rep.: Jay Norris. Specific rights
apply. LHEA at NASA/ GSFC & Michigan Tech. U.
Cold
Dust in the Eagle Nebula Credit: ESA, ISO, ISOGAL Team Explanation:
Stars are born in M16's Eagle Nebula, a stellar nursery 7,000 light-years
from Earth toward the constellation Serpens. The striking nebula's star
forming pillars of gas and dust are familiar to astronomers from images
at visible wavelengths, but this false-color picture shows off the nebula
in infrared light. Data from ESA's Infrared Space Observatory satellite
(ISO) was used to construct the detailed two color image, dominated by
infrared emission from clouds of interstellar material at temperatures
below -100 degrees Celsius. Blue colors highlight emission thought to indicate
the presence of complex carbon molecules, known on planet Earth as PAHs,
while red colors trace emission from cold, microscopic dust grains. Hot
young stars are formed as this frigid material condenses under the influence
of gravity. Once begun, the process takes only tens of thousands of years
for truly massive stars and up to tens of millions of years for low mass
stars like the Sun. Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) &
Jerry Bonnell (USRA) NASA Technical Rep.: Jay Norris. Specific rights apply.
A service of: LHEA at NASA/ GSFC & Michigan Tech. U.
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