May 2012
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Ejecta Blocking Boulders
All credit for this entry goes to forum regular kodemunkey who wrote this article: Hello, and welcome to what will hopefully be the first of many IOTW posts from me. I was exploring the LRO Data using the WMS Browser and I came across Maginus crater. (Maginus crater, as seen in the WMS browser, latitude -48.992774 longitude -5.149416) This is what Wikipedia has to say about the...
May 31st
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May 31st
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May 29th
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May 29th
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kodemunkey asked: Hi, just wondering if you've ever nosed around on the moon zoo forum?
May 28th
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The Swan and the Butterfly
Click to Enlarge This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows NGC 7026, a planetary nebula. Located just beyond the tip of the tail of the constellation of Cygnus (The Swan), this butterfly-shaped cloud of glowing gas and dust is the wreckage of a star similar to the Sun. Planetary nebulae, despite their name, have nothing to do with planets. They are in fact a relatively...
May 28th
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I’ve deactivated my facebook account for a bit, but I’ll still be active on Tumblr and Twitter if anyone needs to get in touch. Pete
May 22nd
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May 21st
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A Spiral Within a Spiral
Click to Enlarge The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of the spiral galaxy known as ESO 498-G5. One interesting feature of this galaxy is that its spiral arms wind all the way into the centre, so that ESO 498-G5’s core looks like a bit like a miniature spiral galaxy. This sort of structure is in contrast to the elliptical star-filled centres (or bulges) of many other...
May 21st
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May 17th
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May 16th
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May 16th
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May 15th
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Edge-on Beauty
Click to Enlarge Visible in the constellation of Andromeda, NGC 891 is located approximately 30 million light-years away from Earth. The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope turned its powerful wide field Advanced Camera for Surveys towards this spiral galaxy and took this close-up of its northern half. The galaxy’s central bulge is just out of the image on the bottom left. The galaxy,...
May 14th
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May 13th
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May 8th
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May 7th
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Using the Moon as a mirror — Hubble to watch...
Click to Enlarge This mottled landscape showing the impact crater Tycho is among the most violent-looking places on our Moon. But astronomers didn’t aim the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope in this direction to study Tycho itself. The image was taken in preparation for the transit of Venus across the Sun’s face on on 5-6 June 2012. Hubble cannot look at the Sun directly, so astronomers are...
May 7th
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May 2nd
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May 2nd
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