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From a spacesuited everyman to a golden-legged invader, the lunar images were astonishingly poetic works of art that captured humanity evolving before our very eyes. Can they ever be surpassed?
Terry saved to Hubble space telescope
La galaxia NGC 4889 luce en calma en una nueva fotografía tomada a distancia; sin embargo, esta galaxia da cobijo a uno de los mayores agujeros negros que...
Nora Tejeda saved to PAISAJES ESPECTALCULARES
Arp 87 and the two spiral galaxies NGC 3808 and NGC 3808A, are in an early state of merging. Already a bridge between them has formed. A polar ring around NGC 3808A attests to a former fusion of galaxies. Constellation: Leo. Distance: 300 million light-years. Visual magnitude: 14.1. Type: Sc D.
Richard Dieterle saved to Galaxies
Edited ESO image of the spiral galaxy NGC 1097. Original caption: It is an almost-true colour composite based on images made with the multi-mode VIMOS instrument on the 8.2-m Melipal (Unit Telescope 3) of ESO's Very Large Telescope. Exposures were taken in three different wavebands which were associated to a given colour : R-band (centred around 652 nm; red), V (540 nm; green) and B (456 nm; blue). The images were taken on the night of December 9 to 10, 2004 in the presence of the President…
Charles Blair saved to Astronomy
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Kim Keever saved to NEBULAS
Sombrero Galaxy Viewing this galaxy from the side is a completely different experience from most of the other views of surrounding galaxies. This galaxy is massive - over 50,000 light-years across!...
Astronomers have found an azure blue planet, the first time they've determined the actual color of a planet outside our solar system, NASA said Thursday.
Whitney Triplett saved to Science geek
A prototypical open cluster, it spans about 15 light-years and holds some 500 stars. These luminaries will disperse over the next few hundred million years. NASA/ESA and AURA/Caltech
Theodoros Angelousis saved to Νεφελώματα
El Hubble captura dos galaxias a punto de chocar entre ellas. El telescopio Hubble ha captado una imagen de dos galaxias cercanas muy próximas a colisionar. Se trata del sistema Arp 256 compuesto por dos galaxias espirales, ambas a mas de 350 millones años luz de nuestro planeta.
DebeSaberlo saved to Publicaciones
