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Shira Callie 21.03.2011 | |
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Shira Callie 21.03.2011 | Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/WISE Team Tuesday, November 2, 2010 This image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) shows the constellation Cassiopeia. The red circle visible in the upper left part of the image is SN 1572, often called "Tycho |
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Berta Baie 21.03.2011 | those stellar size and galactic comparison scale charts always blow my mind, really is almost impossible to comprehend the scale of the universe |
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Shira Callie 21.03.2011 | Credit: ESA 2010 MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/RSSD/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA Tuesday, November 16, 2010 At a distance of 36000 km the OSIRIS Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) on ESA's Rosetta spacecraft took this image of the asteroid Lutetia on July 10, 2010, catching the planet Saturn in the background. |
Shira Callie 21.03.2011 | Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Livio and the Hubble 20th Anniversary Team (STScI) Thursday, November 18, 2010 This Hubble Space Telescope photo released in April 2010 for its 20th birthday is of a small portion of one of the largest seen star-birth regions in the galaxy, the Carina Nebula. Towers of cool hydrogen laced with dust rise from the wall of the nebula. The scene is reminiscent of Hubble's classic "Pillars of Creation" photo from 1995, but is even more striking in appearance. The image captures the top of a three-light-year-tall pillar of gas and dust that is being eaten away by the brilliant light from nearby bright stars. The pillar is also being pushed apart from within, as infant stars buried inside it fire off jets of gas that can be seen streaming from towering peaks like arrows sailing through the air. |
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Shira Callie 21.03.2011 | Credit: SDO/NASA Wednesday, December 1, 2010 This composite image of the Sun taken by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft shows the HMI magnetic field in blue and orange (indicating opposite polarity) aligned with the AIA 171 channel in extreme ultraviolet superimposed over it (May 23, 2010). The juxtaposition is especially effective at showing how the arcs that we observe in UV light emerge from regions of strong magnetic field. |
Shira Callie 21.03.2011 | Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute Thursday, December 2, 2010 This image, taken on August 13, 2010, by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, shows the moon Enceladus over the bright arc of Saturn's atmosphere. |
Shira Callie 21.03.2011 | Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona Friday, December 2, 2010 This Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter image (released Aug. 1, 2007) shows a ridge in Mars' Terra Meridiani that is most likely a former streambed, now exposed in inverted relief. The stream that formed this ridge must have been ancient, as the ridge is buried by brighter rocks, which are themselves very old, having been thickly deposited and then heavily eroded |
Shira Callie 21.03.2011 | Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Malin Space Science Systems Wednesday, December 8, 2010 This view of grains from a sand dune near Christmas Lake, Ore., was taken by a test version of the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) camera on Curiosity, NASA's Mars Science Laboratory, slated to launch in fall 2011. Three 2-millimeter-diameter (0.08-inch-diameter) ball bearings in the scene provide an independent measure of the image scale. This image has a resolution of 15.4 microns per pixel, about twice as high as the camera resolution on Mars Rovers Spirit and Opportunity. The view covers an area about 1 inch, or 2.5 centimeters, across. |
Shira Callie 21.03.2011 | Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona Thursday, December 9, 2010 The dark rippled dunes of Mars' Proctor Crater likely formed more recently than the lighter rock forms they appear to cover. Researchers believe the dunes slowly shift in response to pervasive winds. This image was taken by HiRISE camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter currently circling Mars |
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Shira Callie 21.03.2011 | Credit: NASA Monday, December 13, 2010 Harrat Khaybar, Saudi Arabia. lies in the western half of the Arabian peninsula, and contains extensive lava fields known as haraat (referred to as harrat for a named field). The most recent recorded eruption of this volcanic field took place between 600-700 A.D. The local climate may have been much wetter during some periods of volcanic activity. Today, the regional climate is hyperarid, leading to an almost total lack of vegetation. The image was taken by the Expedition 16 crew aboard the International Space Station in March 2008. |
Shira Callie 21.03.2011 | Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute Tuesday, December 14, 2010 Rings enrobe crescent Saturn in this Cassini spacecraft image. Clouds swirl through the atmosphere of the planet, while barely-visible Prometheus orbits between the planet's main rings and its the thin F ring. Saturn's moon Prometheus appears very small above the rings near the middle of the image. |
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Shira Callie 21.03.2011 | Credit: Kolbj |
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Shira Callie 21.03.2011 | Credit: NASA Earth Observatory/Jesse Allen/NASA/GSFC Distributed Active Archive Center Tuesday, December 21, 2010. Temperatures plunged during the first week of December in much of Europe and parts of the United States. This image shows the temperature of the land surface for December 3-10, 2010, compared to the average temperature for the same period between 2002 and 2009 (blue=colder; red=warmer). A climate pattern known as the Arctic Oscillation caused the temperatures to fall. The unusual cold brought heavy snow to Northern Europe, stopping flights and trains early in December. |
Shira Callie 21.03.2011 | Credit: Nj |
Shira Callie 21.03.2011 | Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/CIW This view is one of the first from the MESSENGER probe's Oct. 6, 2008 flyby of Mercury. |
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Shira Callie 21.03.2011 | Credit: ESA/NASA Photo taken Jan. 9, 2011. Lightning as seen from space, somewhere over Brazil. |
Shira Callie 21.03.2011 | Credit: ESA/NASAFrom Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli: "It was sleeping under the blanket, and now the giant is awakened! Sicily and Mount Etna, seen from ISS,14 Jan 11, 09:40 CET." |
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Shira Callie 21.03.2011 | Credit: ESA/NASA The icy landscape of northern Canada takes center stage in this Jan. 11, 2011 image taken by Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli. |
Shira Callie 21.03.2011 | Credit: ESA/NASAMountain range in Montana, USA, as seen by Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli on Jan. 12, 2011. |
Shira Callie 21.03.2011 | Credit: ESA/NASA"Aircraft contrails - evidence of life on planet Earth!" This photo was taken by astronaut Paolo Nespoli on Jan. 15, 2011 during the Expedition 26/26 mission to the International Space Station. |
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Shira Callie 21.03.2011 | Credit: ESA/NASALake Manicouagan and Ren |
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