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Monday, November 30, 2015

Interacting Galaxies in the Capodimonte Deep Field


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Hikers on Mount Rainier at night [1600x1067][OC]


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Night at the Lake [OC] [4550 × 7459]


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Tim arrives in Baikonur on his last stop before space


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Krampus: The Dark Companion of Saint Nick (16 photos)


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LISA Pathfinder launch timeline


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Star Tower Imagination Gateway Magic City Guardians (10)


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Star Tower Imagination Gateway Magic City Guardians (9)


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Star Tower Imagination Gateway Magic City Guardians (8)


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Star Tower Imagination Gateway Magic City Guardians (7)


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Star Tower Imagination Gateway Magic City Guardians (6)


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Star Tower Imagination Gateway Magic City Guardians (5)


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Star Tower Imagination Gateway Magic City Guardians (4)


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Star Tower Imagination Gateway Magic City Guardians (3)


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Star Tower Imagination Gateway Magic City Guardians (2)


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Star Tower Imagination Gateway Magic City Guardians (1)


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NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy points his camera back at Earth while floating in the cupola aboard the ISS [2832x4256]


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A multi-wavelength view of radio galaxy Hercules A [5000 x 3552]


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Talking climate


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ESO: The Earth's Global Virtual Telescope --"Zeroing In on the Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole"


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Water World


Although Enceladus and Saturn's rings are largely made up of water ice, they show very different characteristics. via NASA http://ift.tt/1IvHEuX

Sneak preview


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Hungary and ESA


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In the Center of Spiral Galaxy NGC 3521


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Dark Sand Cascades on Mars


They might look like trees on Mars, but they're not. Groups of dark brown streaks have been photographed by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on melting pinkish sand dunes covered with light frost. The above image was taken in 2008 April near the North Pole of Mars. At that time, dark sand on the interior of Martian sand dunes became more and more visible as the spring Sun melted the lighter carbon dioxide ice. When occurring near the top of a dune, dark sand may cascade down the dune leaving dark surface streaks -- streaks that might appear at first to be trees standing in front of the lighter regions, but cast no shadows. Objects about 25 centimeters across are resolved on this image spanning about one kilometer. Close ups of some parts of this image show billowing plumes indicating that the sand slides were occurring even while the image was being taken. via NASA http://ift.tt/1Oo0Vot

Through the elliptical haze


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Starbirth over ALMA


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Sunday, November 29, 2015

Soviet-era space shuttles left behind at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan [2060×1375] Photographed by David de Rueda


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Rosetta and Comet Outbound


Not a bright comet, 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko now sweeps slowly through planet Earth's predawn skies near the line-up of planets along the ecliptic. Still, this composite of telescopic images follows the comet's progress as it moves away from the Sun beyond the orbit of Mars, from late September (left) through late November (far right). Its faint but extensive coma and tails are viewed against the colorful background of stars near the eastern edge of the constellation Leo. A year ago, before its perihelion passage, the comet was less active, though. Then the Rosetta mission's lander Philae made it's historic landing, touching down on the surface of the comet's nucleus. via NASA http://ift.tt/1kYXBok

Saturday, November 28, 2015

Andromeda and Cassiopeia visible through the trees. [OC][2048x1365]


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Calibrated and stacked amateur Flickr images of Comet 17P/Holmes trace out its path in the sky [1400x1314] [x-post /r/space]


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The Milky Way over Yosemite National Park [2048×1365] Photographed by Rodney Lange


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Ignoring 500 Billion Galaxies: The Extraterrestrial-Life "Probability" Debate (Holiday Weekend Feature)


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Gravity's Grin


Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, published 100 years ago this month, predicted the phenomenon of gravitational lensing. And that's what gives these distant galaxies such a whimsical appearance, seen through the looking glass of X-ray and optical image data from the Chandra and Hubble space telescopes. Nicknamed the Cheshire Cat galaxy group, the group's two large elliptical galaxies are suggestively framed by arcs. The arcs are optical images of distant background galaxies lensed by the foreground group's total distribution of gravitational mass dominated by dark matter. In fact the two large elliptical "eye" galaxies represent the brightest members of their own galaxy groups which are merging. Their relative collisional speed of nearly 1,350 kilometers/second heats gas to millions of degrees producing the X-ray glow shown in purple hues. Curiouser about galaxy group mergers? The Cheshire Cat group grins in the constellation Ursa Major, some 4.6 billion light-years away. via NASA http://ift.tt/1HskNFu