Apod

[burgundia]

Beautiful photos....

[Ross H]

Superb photos, thank you

[Luminari]

http://www.google.com/mars/

I just viewed the region of the mars grotto on google mars.. you can't find it with that, the zoom isn't great enough. I'm going to try NASA Worldwind..

[Luminari]

Holy smoke theres not one hole... but seven in that part of Tharsis Montes.

Seven very dark holes on the north slope of a Martian volcano have been proposed as possible cave skylights, based on day-night temperature patterns suggesting they are openings to subsurface spaces. These six excerpts of images taken in visible-wavelength light by the Thermal Emission Imaging System camera on NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter show the seven openings. Solar illumination comes from the left in each frame. The volcano is Arsia Mons, at 9 degrees south latitude, 239 degrees east longitude.

The features have been given informal names to aid comparative discussion. They range in diameter from about 100 meters (328 feet) to about 225 meters (738 feet). The candidate cave skylights are (A) "Dena," (B) "Chloe," (C) "Wendy," (D) "Annie," (E) "Abby" (left) and "Nikki," and (F) "Jeanne." Arrows signify north and the direction of illumination.

[P4BL0]

[P4BL0]

[Luminari]

Thanks Pablo, thats one of the nicest pictures of the pleiades I've ever seen.

I just took this photo for you, I have the pleiades tattooed underneath my arm.


Edit:
Ink work done by LINK @ ALL STAR TATTOO.

[P4BL0]

[P4BL0]

[Luminari]

Do you have a link for that photo?

It totally looks like an enormous ruined city in a martian valley, look at the geometry.

Nice one.

[P4BL0]

[Luminari]

Dark Dust Devil Tracks in Bright Crater Floor in Southern Noachis Region, Mars.

[Luminari]

"Bright Crater Floor" looks alot like water.

[Luminari]

Frozen ocean?

[mudra]

Originally Posted by P4BL0

Open star cluster, The Pleiades.

My favourite Pab.
On a higher dimension Alcione the Pleiades 's brightest star is the place that holds the entire universal library .



http://images.google.com/imgres?imgu...%3D15%26um%3D1

Love Always
mudra

[Dantheman62]

2009 November 10
Saturn After Equinox
Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, ISS, JPL, ESA, NASA Explanation: The other side of Saturn's ring plane is now directly illuminated by the Sun. For the previous 15 years, the southern side of Saturn and its rings were directly illuminated, but since Saturn's equinox in August, the orientation has reversed. Pictured above last month, the robotic Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn has captured the giant planet and its majestic rings soon after equinox. Imaged from nearly behind, Saturn and its moon Tethys each show a crescent phase to Cassini that is not visible from Earth. As the rings continue to point nearly toward the Sun, only a thin shadow of Saturn's rings is visible across the center of the planet. Close inspection of Saturn's rings, however, shows superposed bright features identified as spokes that are thought to be groups of very small electrically charged ice particles. Understanding the nature and dynamics of spokes is not fully understood and remains a topic of research.

[Dantheman62]

2009 November 11
Great Observatories Explore Galactic Center
Credit: NASA, ESA, SSC, CXC, and STScI Explanation: Where can a telescope take you? Four hundred years ago, a telescope took Galileo to the Moon to discover craters, to Saturn to discover rings, to Jupiter to discover moons, to Venus to discover phases, and to the Sun to discover spots. Today, in celebration of Galileo's telescopic achievements and as part of the International Year of Astronomy, NASA has used its entire fleet of Great Observatories, and the Internet, to bring the center of our Galaxy to you. Pictured above, in greater detail and in more colors than ever seen before, are the combined images of the Hubble Space Telescope in near-infrared light, the Spitzer Space Telescope in infrared light, and the Chandra X-ray Observatory in X-ray light. A menagerie of vast star fields is visible, along with dense star clusters, long filaments of gas and dust, expanding supernova remnants, and the energetic surroundings of what likely is our Galaxy's central black hole. Many of these features are labeled on a complementary annotated image. Of course, a telescope's magnification and light-gathering ability create only an image of what a human could see if visiting these places. To actually go requires rockets.

[TRANCOSO]

Thank you, thank you, thank you, everybody!
Mucking Fajic!!!

[TheObserver]

Originally Posted by P4BL0

Here is an interesting picture of Mars surface taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) mission.

I apologize for the large size. But it is the only way in which the details can be seen.

Looks almost like elephant skin, weird!

[Dantheman62]

2009 November 12
Art and Science in NGC 918
Credit & Copyright: Joseph Brimacombe Explanation: This beautiful telescopic skyscape features spiral galaxy NGC 918. The island universe is about 50,000 light-years across and lies some 60 million light-years away toward the constellation Aries. An artistic presentation, the image shows spiky foreground stars in our own Milky Way Galaxy and convoluted dust clouds that hang hundreds of light-years above our galactic plane, dimly reflecting starlight. It also captures NGC 918 in a cosmic moment important to astrophysicists on planet Earth. Light from supernova SN2009js, absent in previous images, is indicated by the two lines just below and left of the galaxy's center. The supernova itself is the death explosion of a massive star within the plane of galaxy NGC 981. It was just discovered in October by supernova search teams in Japan and the US.

[Luminari]

Rho Ophiuchi Cloud

[Dantheman62]

2009 November 18
Water Discovered in Moon Shadow
Credit: LCROSS, NASA Explanation: Why is there water on the Moon? Last month, the LCROSS mission crashed a large impactor into a permanently shadowed crater near the Moon's South Pole. A plume of dust rose that was visible to the satellite, although hard to discern from Earth. The plume is shown above in visible light. Last week, the results of a preliminary chemical analysis gave a clear indication that the dust plume contained water. Such water is of importance not only for understanding the history of the Moon, but as a possible reservoir for future astronauts trying to live on the Moon for long periods. The source of the lunar water is now a topic of debate. Possible origins include many small meteorites, a comet, or primordial moon soil.

[Dantheman62]

2009 November 20
Meteor between the Clouds
Credit & Copyright: Victor van Wulfen Explanation: This bright meteor streaked through dark night skies over Sutherland, South Africa on November 15. Potentially part of the annual Leonid meteor shower, its sudden, brilliant appearance, likened to a camera's flash, was captured by chance as it passed between two clouds. Of course, the two clouds are also visible to the eye in dark southern skies - the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds - satellite galaxies of our own Milky Way. This year's Leonid meteor shower peaked on November 17 as the Earth passed through the stream of dust from periodic comet Tempel-Tuttle.

[TRANCOSO]

Spectacular video of Saturns aurora!!!

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/20...ora-in-action/

[Luminari]

Annapurna Star Trails