Post your favorite space images here - dialup warning

[pokerfan]

In honor of the Hubble being back in business and releasing the marvelous image of the http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x9026201">Butterfly Nebula, I decided to peruse my collection of astronomical imagery and post some favorites...



Spiral Galaxy M74 (Hubble)



The core of the Milky Way Galaxy (Spitzer)



The Orion Nebula M42 (Hubble)



The Helix Nebula NGC7293 (Spitzer)



The Pleiades Star Cluster M45 (Phillip L. Jones)

[Ptah]

1. earthrise

[pokerfan]

3. Nice!

I keep a similar one in my Wallpaper rotation.

[Call Me Wesley]

2. Biiig one, but I was always in love with this one since I was a child.

Don't ask me why ... NGC 5128:

[pokerfan]

4. Another view

Taken by the Cerro Tololo 4-meter scope in Chile:

[Call Me Wesley]

5. A beauty, isn't it?

Here's the jet it emits - it's around 30,000 light years long:

[pokerfan]

6. It's very energetic in the rf spectrum

Here's the photo from Cerro Tololo combined with the radio-wave emission spectrum obtain by the VLA:



http://www.cosmiclight.com/imagegalleries/supergalaxies.htm

[Bucky]

12. I've been there

Looks nice from the outside. Inside it's a dump. All the alien chicks in that galaxy are like sorority bow heads. None of 'em green, either.

[AllenVanAllen]

7. ~

Sorry. I couldn't help myself on this last one. :)

[mdmc]

8. ha!

love them all..

[AllenVanAllen]

9. And there's also this one

of us taken by Voyager 1. Not so clear but still amazing!



:hi:

[mdmc]

10. thanks for posting

peace and low stress
:toast:

[Bucky]

13. The 2nd & 3rd ones are totally awesome.

Oh, hell, they all are mind blowingly beautiful. Damn, I wish I was in outer space right now.

[Bucky]

11. I'll shrink it down for posting, but this is my current desktop

[hippywife]

14. My current desktop image at work.

The moon rising behind Hurricane Emily taken by the ISS crew July 20, 2005.



I tons of favorites and am giving a presentation to the residents at my retirement center on Monday afternoon.

:hi: