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Centuries from World Museums.
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Red
Sunset & Oak - This image was taken after
a very long and fruitless day of driving around the northern Sacramento
Valley. There were incredible clouds in the sky, but for the most part
they blocked the afternoon sun, reducing any potential foreground subjects
to shadowy darkness. However, a gap remained between the clouds and the
horizon. I found this lone oak tree in large flat valley about 45 minutes
before the sun emerged from behind the clouds and set up and waited for
the sun to appear. When it finally did, it lit the scene with an incredible
red-orange light. I waited until the sun was touching the mountains in
the west before taking this image. California Pastorale by Tony Dunn, PhotoTripUSA.
Tuscan
Ridge Sunset - This image was taken during
the peak of the fires in southern Oregon last summer and the entire northern
part of the state was shrouded in smoke. Though this generally made for
poor shooting, since the sun typically just disappeared into the muck,
I was able to get a few workable images. This image was taken on the edge
of the 18th green of a local golf course. About 5 seconds after I took
this photo, I heard a "thunk" about two feet away from me. Startled,
I saw a golf ball roll right by my foot. A golfer chipping to the green
overshot the hole and nearly beaned me. California Pastorale by Tony Dunn,
PhotoTripUSA.
A
Cerro Tololo Sky Credit & Copyright: Roger
Smith, AURA, NOAO, NSF Explanation: High atop a Chilean mountain lies one
of the premier observatories of the southern sky: the Cerro Tololo Inter-American
Observatory (CTIO). Pictured above is the dome surrounding one of the site's
best known instruments, the 4-meter Blanco Telescope. Far behind the dome
are thousands of individual stars and diffuse light from three galaxies:
the Small Magellanic Cloud (upper left), the Large Magellanic Cloud (lower
left), and our Milky Way Galaxy (right). Visible just to Blanco's right
is the famous superposition of four bright stars known as the Southern
Cross. A single 20 second exposure, this digital image was recorded with
a sensitive detector intended for astronomical imaging. The observatory
structures are lit solely by starlight. Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (USRA) NASA Technical Rep.: Jay Norris. Specific
rights apply. A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC & NASA SEU Edu. Forum
& Michigan Tech. U.
Colorful
Clouds of Orion ( Large
version, very good ) Credit & Copyright: Robert Gendler Explanation:
Revisiting one of the most famous nebulae in planet Earth's night sky,
astrophotographer Robert Gendler has constructed this stunning, color-enhanced
mosaic of the region surrounding the Great Nebula in Orion. As seen here,
the clouds of Orion are dominated by the reddish emission nebula M42 near
the bottom of the image, with blue reflection nebulae, including NGC 1977,
near the top. Strewn with dust lanes and dark nebulae, the striking cosmic
apparitions surrounding Orion's stellar nurseries are about 1,500 light-years
away and are themselves several light-years across. Located at the edge
of a giant molecular cloud complex spanning hundreds of light-years, these
nebulae represent only a small, but very visible(!), fraction of this region's
wealth of interstellar material. Within these colorful clouds of Orion,
astronomers have also identified what appear to be numerous infant solar
systems. Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell
(USRA) NASA Technical Rep.: Jay Norris. Specific rights apply. A service
of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC & NASA SEU Edu. Forum & Michigan Tech.
U.
The
Mysterious Voynich Manuscript Credit: Yale University ; Digital
Copyright: B. E. Schaefer (U. Texas) Explanation: The ancient text has
no known title, no known author, and is written in no known language: what
does it say and why does it have many astronomy illustrations? The mysterious
book was once bought by an emperor, forgotten on a library shelf, sold
for thousands of dollars, and later donated to Yale. Possibly written in
the 15th century, the over 200-page volume is known most recently as the
Voynich Manuscript, after its (re-)discoverer in 1912. Pictured above is
an illustration from the book that appears to be somehow related to the
Sun. The book labels some patches of the sky with unfamiliar constellations.
The inability of modern historians of astronomy to understand the origins
of these constellations is perhaps dwarfed by the inability of modern code-breakers
to understand the book's text. The book remains in Yale's rare book collection
under catalog number "MS 408." 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.
The
View from Everest Credit & Copyright: Roddy Mackenzie Explanation:
What would it be like to stand atop the tallest mountain on Earth? To see
a full panoramic vista from there, scroll right. Visible are snow peaked
mountains near and far, tremendous cliffs, distant plateaus, the tops of
clouds, and a dark blue sky. Mt. Everest stands 8.85 kilometers above sea
level, roughly the maximum height reached by international airplane flights,
but much less than the 300 kilometers achieved by a space shuttle. Hundreds
of people have tried and failed to climb the behemoth by foot, a feat first
accomplished successfully in 1953. About 1000 people have now made it to
the summit. Roddy Mackenzie, who climbed the mountain in 1989, captured
the above image. Mt. Everest lies in the Himalayan mountains in the country
of Nepal. In the native language of Nepal, the mountain's name is "Sagarmatha"
which means "goddess of the sky." 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.
Star-Forming
Region RCW38 from 2MASS Credit: R. Hurt, 2MASS Project, UMass,
IPAC/Caltech, NSF, NASA Explanation: The star cluster in RCW38 was hiding.
Looking at the star forming region RCW38 will not normally reveal most
of the stars in this cluster. The reason is that the open cluster is so
young that it is still shrouded in thick dust that absorbs visible light.
This dust typically accompanies the gas that condenses to form young stars.
When viewed in infrared light, however, many stars in RCW38 are revealed,
because dust is less effective at absorbing infrared light. The above representative-color
image mosaic of RCW38 taken by the 2MASS sky survey in infrared light shows
not only many bright blue stars from the star cluster but clouds of brightly
emitting gas and dramatic lanes of dark dust. RCW38 spans about 10 light-years
and is located about 5500 light years away towards the constellation of
Vela. 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.
Hoag's
Object: A Strange Ring Galaxy Credit: R. Lucas (STScI/AURA), Hubble
Heritage Team, NASA Explanation: Is this one galaxy or two? This question
came to light in 1950 when astronomer Art Hoag chanced upon this unusual
extragalactic object. On the outside is a ring dominated by bright blue
stars, while near the center lies a ball of much redder stars that are
likely much older. Between the two is a gap that appears almost completely
dark. How Hoag's Object formed remains unknown, although similar objects
have now been identified and collectively labeled as a form of ring galaxy.
Genesis hypotheses include a galaxy collision billions of years ago and
perturbative gravitational interactions involving an unusually shaped core.
The above photo taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in July 2001 reveals
unprecedented details of Hoag's Object and may yield a better understanding.
Hoag's Object spans about 100,000 light years and lies about 600 million
light years away toward the constellation of Serpens. Coincidentally, visible
in the gap (at about one o'clock) is yet another ring galaxy that likely
lies far in the distance. 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.
Orion
Nebulosities Credit & Copyright: Emmanuel Mallart Explanation:
Adrift 1,500 light-years away in one of the night sky's most recognizable
constellations, the glowing Orion Nebula and the dark Horsehead Nebula
are contrasting cosmic vistas. They both appear in this stunning composite
color photograph along with other nebulosities as part of the giant Orion
Molecular Cloud complex, itself hundreds of light-years across. The magnificent
Orion Nebula (aka M42) lies at the bottom of the image. This emission nebula's
bright central regions were captured on fast film in a relatively short
30 second exposure. Above M42 are a cluster of prominent bluish reflection
nebulae and fainter reddish emission nebulae recorded in additional exposures
lasting up to 40 minutes. The Horsehead appears as a dark nebula, a small
silhouette notched against the long red glow at the upper left. Alnitak
is the easternmost star in Orion's belt and is seen as the brightest star
above the Horsehead. Immediately to Alnitak's left is the Flame Nebula,
with clouds of bright emission and dramatic dark dust lanes. The telescopic
exposures were made from a site in the Southern French Alps at an altitude
of 2,800 meters (a little closer to the stars!) in September of 2001. 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.
0313-192:
The Wrong Galaxy Credit: W. Keel (Univ. Alabama), M. Ledlow (Gemini
Obs.), F. Owen (NRAO), AUI,NSF, NASA Explanation: Centered above is distant
galaxy 0313-192, some one billion light-years away. Radio emission from
the galaxy has been mapped by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's
Very Large Array and is shown in red, composited with a visible light image
from the Hubble Space Telescope's new Advanced Camera for Surveys. Dust
lanes and other features in the Hubble image as well as infrared Gemini
telescope data demonstrate clearly that 0313-192 is a spiral galaxy seen
edge-on. (Note the unrelated spiral galaxy seen face-on above and to the
right.) For years, double cosmic clouds of radio emission such as those
flanking this spiral galaxy's core have been studied and cataloged. But,
at least until now, such radio sources were only known to arise from the
cores of giant elliptical galaxies or in violent merging galaxy systems,
making 0313-192 the wrong kind of galaxy to be found in this scenario.
Astronomers are searching for clues to why this spiral galaxy, potentially
similar to our own Milky Way, shows such powerful activity. Authors &
editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (USRA) NASA Technical
Rep.: Jay Norris. Specific rights apply. A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC
& NASA SEU Edu. Forum & Michigan Tech. U.
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Photo links 74
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.
Red
Sunset & Oak - This image was taken after
a very long and fruitless day of driving around the northern Sacramento
Valley. There were incredible clouds in the sky, but for the most part
they blocked the afternoon sun, reducing any potential foreground subjects
to shadowy darkness. However, a gap remained between the clouds and the
horizon. I found this lone oak tree in large flat valley about 45 minutes
before the sun emerged from behind the clouds and set up and waited for
the sun to appear. When it finally did, it lit the scene with an incredible
red-orange light. I waited until the sun was touching the mountains in
the west before taking this image. California Pastorale by Tony Dunn, PhotoTripUSA.
Tuscan Ridge Sunset - This image was taken during the peak of the fires in southern Oregon last summer and the entire northern part of the state was shrouded in smoke. Though this generally made for poor shooting, since the sun typically just disappeared into the muck, I was able to get a few workable images. This image was taken on the edge of the 18th green of a local golf course. About 5 seconds after I took this photo, I heard a "thunk" about two feet away from me. Startled, I saw a golf ball roll right by my foot. A golfer chipping to the green overshot the hole and nearly beaned me. California Pastorale by Tony Dunn, PhotoTripUSA.
A Cerro Tololo Sky Credit & Copyright: Roger Smith, AURA, NOAO, NSF Explanation: High atop a Chilean mountain lies one of the premier observatories of the southern sky: the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO). Pictured above is the dome surrounding one of the site's best known instruments, the 4-meter Blanco Telescope. Far behind the dome are thousands of individual stars and diffuse light from three galaxies: the Small Magellanic Cloud (upper left), the Large Magellanic Cloud (lower left), and our Milky Way Galaxy (right). Visible just to Blanco's right is the famous superposition of four bright stars known as the Southern Cross. A single 20 second exposure, this digital image was recorded with a sensitive detector intended for astronomical imaging. The observatory structures are lit solely by starlight. Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (USRA) NASA Technical Rep.: Jay Norris. Specific rights apply. A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC & NASA SEU Edu. Forum & Michigan Tech. U.
Colorful Clouds of Orion ( Large version, very good ) Credit & Copyright: Robert Gendler Explanation: Revisiting one of the most famous nebulae in planet Earth's night sky, astrophotographer Robert Gendler has constructed this stunning, color-enhanced mosaic of the region surrounding the Great Nebula in Orion. As seen here, the clouds of Orion are dominated by the reddish emission nebula M42 near the bottom of the image, with blue reflection nebulae, including NGC 1977, near the top. Strewn with dust lanes and dark nebulae, the striking cosmic apparitions surrounding Orion's stellar nurseries are about 1,500 light-years away and are themselves several light-years across. Located at the edge of a giant molecular cloud complex spanning hundreds of light-years, these nebulae represent only a small, but very visible(!), fraction of this region's wealth of interstellar material. Within these colorful clouds of Orion, astronomers have also identified what appear to be numerous infant solar systems. Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (USRA) NASA Technical Rep.: Jay Norris. Specific rights apply. A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC & NASA SEU Edu. Forum & Michigan Tech. U.
The
Mysterious Voynich Manuscript Credit: Yale University ; Digital
Copyright: B. E. Schaefer (U. Texas) Explanation: The ancient text has
no known title, no known author, and is written in no known language: what
does it say and why does it have many astronomy illustrations? The mysterious
book was once bought by an emperor, forgotten on a library shelf, sold
for thousands of dollars, and later donated to Yale. Possibly written in
the 15th century, the over 200-page volume is known most recently as the
Voynich Manuscript, after its (re-)discoverer in 1912. Pictured above is
an illustration from the book that appears to be somehow related to the
Sun. The book labels some patches of the sky with unfamiliar constellations.
The inability of modern historians of astronomy to understand the origins
of these constellations is perhaps dwarfed by the inability of modern code-breakers
to understand the book's text. The book remains in Yale's rare book collection
under catalog number "MS 408." 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.
The
View from Everest Credit & Copyright: Roddy Mackenzie Explanation:
What would it be like to stand atop the tallest mountain on Earth? To see
a full panoramic vista from there, scroll right. Visible are snow peaked
mountains near and far, tremendous cliffs, distant plateaus, the tops of
clouds, and a dark blue sky. Mt. Everest stands 8.85 kilometers above sea
level, roughly the maximum height reached by international airplane flights,
but much less than the 300 kilometers achieved by a space shuttle. Hundreds
of people have tried and failed to climb the behemoth by foot, a feat first
accomplished successfully in 1953. About 1000 people have now made it to
the summit. Roddy Mackenzie, who climbed the mountain in 1989, captured
the above image. Mt. Everest lies in the Himalayan mountains in the country
of Nepal. In the native language of Nepal, the mountain's name is "Sagarmatha"
which means "goddess of the sky." 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.
Star-Forming Region RCW38 from 2MASS Credit: R. Hurt, 2MASS Project, UMass, IPAC/Caltech, NSF, NASA Explanation: The star cluster in RCW38 was hiding. Looking at the star forming region RCW38 will not normally reveal most of the stars in this cluster. The reason is that the open cluster is so young that it is still shrouded in thick dust that absorbs visible light. This dust typically accompanies the gas that condenses to form young stars. When viewed in infrared light, however, many stars in RCW38 are revealed, because dust is less effective at absorbing infrared light. The above representative-color image mosaic of RCW38 taken by the 2MASS sky survey in infrared light shows not only many bright blue stars from the star cluster but clouds of brightly emitting gas and dramatic lanes of dark dust. RCW38 spans about 10 light-years and is located about 5500 light years away towards the constellation of Vela. 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.
Hoag's Object: A Strange Ring Galaxy Credit: R. Lucas (STScI/AURA), Hubble Heritage Team, NASA Explanation: Is this one galaxy or two? This question came to light in 1950 when astronomer Art Hoag chanced upon this unusual extragalactic object. On the outside is a ring dominated by bright blue stars, while near the center lies a ball of much redder stars that are likely much older. Between the two is a gap that appears almost completely dark. How Hoag's Object formed remains unknown, although similar objects have now been identified and collectively labeled as a form of ring galaxy. Genesis hypotheses include a galaxy collision billions of years ago and perturbative gravitational interactions involving an unusually shaped core. The above photo taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in July 2001 reveals unprecedented details of Hoag's Object and may yield a better understanding. Hoag's Object spans about 100,000 light years and lies about 600 million light years away toward the constellation of Serpens. Coincidentally, visible in the gap (at about one o'clock) is yet another ring galaxy that likely lies far in the distance. 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.
Orion
Nebulosities Credit & Copyright: Emmanuel Mallart Explanation:
Adrift 1,500 light-years away in one of the night sky's most recognizable
constellations, the glowing Orion Nebula and the dark Horsehead Nebula
are contrasting cosmic vistas. They both appear in this stunning composite
color photograph along with other nebulosities as part of the giant Orion
Molecular Cloud complex, itself hundreds of light-years across. The magnificent
Orion Nebula (aka M42) lies at the bottom of the image. This emission nebula's
bright central regions were captured on fast film in a relatively short
30 second exposure. Above M42 are a cluster of prominent bluish reflection
nebulae and fainter reddish emission nebulae recorded in additional exposures
lasting up to 40 minutes. The Horsehead appears as a dark nebula, a small
silhouette notched against the long red glow at the upper left. Alnitak
is the easternmost star in Orion's belt and is seen as the brightest star
above the Horsehead. Immediately to Alnitak's left is the Flame Nebula,
with clouds of bright emission and dramatic dark dust lanes. The telescopic
exposures were made from a site in the Southern French Alps at an altitude
of 2,800 meters (a little closer to the stars!) in September of 2001. 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.
0313-192:
The Wrong Galaxy Credit: W. Keel (Univ. Alabama), M. Ledlow (Gemini
Obs.), F. Owen (NRAO), AUI,NSF, NASA Explanation: Centered above is distant
galaxy 0313-192, some one billion light-years away. Radio emission from
the galaxy has been mapped by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's
Very Large Array and is shown in red, composited with a visible light image
from the Hubble Space Telescope's new Advanced Camera for Surveys. Dust
lanes and other features in the Hubble image as well as infrared Gemini
telescope data demonstrate clearly that 0313-192 is a spiral galaxy seen
edge-on. (Note the unrelated spiral galaxy seen face-on above and to the
right.) For years, double cosmic clouds of radio emission such as those
flanking this spiral galaxy's core have been studied and cataloged. But,
at least until now, such radio sources were only known to arise from the
cores of giant elliptical galaxies or in violent merging galaxy systems,
making 0313-192 the wrong kind of galaxy to be found in this scenario.
Astronomers are searching for clues to why this spiral galaxy, potentially
similar to our own Milky Way, shows such powerful activity. Authors &
editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (USRA) NASA Technical
Rep.: Jay Norris. Specific rights apply. A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC
& NASA SEU Edu. Forum & Michigan Tech. U.
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