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Pretty space pics: “a wild creature of the dark”
Today’s space picture comes from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope.
Posted by Daniel Cressey on July 24, 2009
Pretty space pics: the Moon's view of a lunar eclipse
The Japanese space agency's SELENE (Selenological and Engineering Explorer, or Kaguya) mission has sent back a stunning movie of the Earth blocking out the Sun during a lunar eclipse - the first time such an image has been seen from the Moon. Gawp away.
Posted by Richard Van Noorden on February 20, 2009
Pretty space pics: the maelstrom
Today’s space picture shows the Carina Nebula, some 7,500 light years away.
Posted by Daniel Cressey on February 13, 2009
Pretty space pics: Centaurus A vs APEX
Today’s image comes from 13 million light-years away, via the European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere. Combining new data from the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) with visible and X-ray observations produces this picture.
Posted by Daniel Cressey on January 29, 2009
Pretty space pic: cosmic shock
Today’s space picture shows rivers of gas and stellar wind smashing together in the Swan nebula. It provides, says NASA, some of the best examples ever seen of the ‘bow shocks’ that form in the turbulence found in star-forming regions.
Posted by Daniel Cressey on December 09, 2008
Pretty space pic: NGC 7331
Resurrecting our occasional series of pictures of space is this snap from Spain’s Calar Alto observatory.
Posted by Daniel Cressey on October 21, 2008
Pretty space pic: monster magnet
A massive black hole sits at the centre of the giant galaxy NGC 1275, which is itself in the centre of the Perseus Cluster.
Posted by Daniel Cressey on August 21, 2008
Pretty space pics: Hubble must be dizzy by now
The Hubble telescope has been spinning round the Earth for a while now. To celebrate its 100,000th orbit NASA and ESA have released this rather striking image, which one of Nature’s editors claims resembles a t-shirt she was rather fond of in the 80s.
Posted by Daniel Cressey on August 11, 2008
Weekly round up
What's been on the Great Beyond this week......
Posted by Daniel Cressey on August 01, 2008
Pretty space pictures of the day
Green and red glasses at the ready, people – the European Space Agency’s Mars Express has sent back the highest resolution pictures ever taken of Phobos, one of two Martian moons, and some of them are in stereo.
Posted by Katharine Sanderson on July 31, 2008
Weekly round up - July 18 2008
What's been on The Great Beyond this week...
Posted by Katharine Sanderson on July 18, 2008
Pretty space pics: Echus Chasma
This shot of the Echus Chasma on Mars was taken by the European Space Agency in 2005 and released yesterday.
Posted by Daniel Cressey on July 16, 2008
Weekly round up
What's been on The Great Beyond this week, plus a few extras......
Posted by Daniel Cressey on June 27, 2008
Pretty space picture: Twin Telescopes, Twin Galaxies
It’s been far too long since the Great Beyond had a pretty space picture. Today’s is newly released by the Gemini Observatory and shows conjoined spiral galaxies 90 million light years away and 60,000 light years apart.
Posted by Daniel Cressey on June 26, 2008
Weekly round up
What’s been on The Great Beyond this week and a few extras......
Posted by Daniel Cressey on April 18, 2008
Today’s pretty space picture
This composite image of the Southern Pinwheel galaxy is almost too perfect. It looks like the cover from a gaudy sci-fi novel rather than combined ultra violet data from some very expensive pieces of kit.
Posted by Daniel Cressey on April 17, 2008
Weekly round up
What’s been on The Great Beyond this week and a few extras......
Posted by Daniel Cressey on April 11, 2008
Pretty space pic: a Martian moon
There was much cooing in the Nature office this morning. Not over news of our colleague’s new baby, but over these pictures of Martian moon Phobos.
Posted by Daniel Cressey on April 10, 2008
Weekly round up
What’s been on The Great Beyond this week and a few extras......
Posted by Daniel Cressey on April 04, 2008
Today’s pretty space picture
“NGC 2397, pictured in this image from Hubble, is a classic spiral galaxy with long prominent dust lanes along the edges of its arms, seen as dark patches and streaks silhouetted against the starlight.”
Posted by Daniel Cressey on March 31, 2008
A Christmas card from Hubble
Today’s pretty space picture is a new snap from the Hubble Space Telescope.
Posted by Daniel Cressey on November 30, 2007