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- Galaxies Beyond the Heart: Maffei 1 and 2 The two galaxies on the far left were unknown until 1968.
- Mars Over the AllalinhornWhat's that bright object in the sky?
- Spirit Rover at Engineering Flats on MarsIs it art?
- Pillar at SunsetPillar at Sunset
- Air Force to Test New Hypersonic Aircraft March 9, 2010The U.S. Air Force is gearing up for the first of four planned test flights of a hypersonic aircraft designed to operate for much longer durations and cover far greater distances than previous platforms of its type.
- Warp Speed Will Kill You March 9, 2010Harmless interstellar hydrogen becomes deadly ionized radiation that would fry the crew and electronics of starships traveling near light speed, according to a physicist.
- Early Earth's Magnetic Field Was a Weakling March 9, 2010Early Earth's magnetic field weaker than today, likely led to water loss from atmosphere, bigger auroras.
- Astronomers Confirm Pair of White Dwarfs as the Fastest Orbiting Stars Known March 9, 2010Astronomers have reported the fastest known orbiting pair of stars ever known, a finding that challenges binary star formation models and could help uncover elusive gravitational waves.
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Panoramic Photography
13/02/10
Weather has been bad. It gave me a little time to edit some Panoramic Images.
Jupiter
15/08/09
From left to right. Jupiter, Ganymede, Io.
My first night out in many months. I was getting rusty but managed to get some images of Jupiter.
July 4, 2009 Fireworks
05/07/09
July 4, 2009 in Cumberland MD. We had a good time and took some good pictures.
NGC 4565
22/10/08
The very large edge-on spiral NGC 4565 is another showpiece for amteurs, and often used in textbooks, as it is assumed that its view may resemble that of our own Milky Way, seen from outside from a place situated near its galactic equatorial plane. NGC 4565 is about 31 million light years away from the Milkyway galaxy.
The Ring Nebula
20/10/08
The
“Ring Nebula”
is located in the northern constellation of Lyra, and also catalogued as Messier 57, M57 or NGC 6720. It is one of the most prominent examples of the deep-sky objects called planetary nebulae (singular, planetary nebula), often abbreviated by astronomers as simply planetaries or PN.
M81
07/10/08
Messier 81 (M81, NGC 3031) in Ursa Major is an easy target for amateur astronomers. It has a little dark matter, as its rotation curve was found to fall off in the outer regions; this is in contrast to many galaxies for which the rotation curve increases outward.