Post awesome space pics here

[Tom]

No reason really, except that I've been reading about galaxies and think they're awesome.

A description with your pic would be nice. This is NGC 1300, and may be what our Milky Way galaxy looks like.

 

[Job]

This one takes me back,

 

[caLLous]

FYI, that's not a space pic.

 

[Job]

At least mine's not been photoshopped to buggary by Nasa to turn a blob into a galaxy.

 

[Tuthmes]

Here's some I got stored.

 

[Wazzerphuk]

At least mine's not been photoshopped to buggary by Nasa to turn a blob into a galaxy.

*massive, extraordinary facepalm*

 

[Job]

Actual Hubble raw image, then a bit of coloring with MS paint.

 

[Tuthmes]

Ill add a couple of things I can remember about those pictures.

Saturn eclipsing the sun.
Reflection of the sun of a lake on Titan.
Hugens probe picture from Titan's surfice.
Atmosphere of titan (Cassini).
Hubble picture of one of the Pleiades stars (Merope) shining its lights on the dust cloud that's surrounding it.
No clue, but waterfalls in space are nice.
The sun.
Russion probe Venera 13 picture from Venus.
Carina Nebule = hours of staring fun alone.
Random galaxy #1.
Random galaxy #2.

The pictures the Cassini probe is bringin back are awesome, aswell as the shots from the Mars rovers. I do like the out of this world shots provided by much of the (space) telescopes, but they are usually in false colours. Which to me makes it unfair to some of the less colourfull shots out there in true colour. Real pictures of planets surrounding other stars (Formalhaut & Beta Pictoris) are awesome aswell.

 

[Scouse]

Actual Hubble raw image, then a bit of coloring with MS paint.

IIRC NASA colours the pictures to how we'd see them with the naked eye for most of those shots.


Love that pic Tom. Zooming in is the fajizzle? (is that even right? If so - what does it mean?)

 

[Tuthmes]

IIRC NASA colours the pictures to how we'd see them with the naked eye for most of those shots.

Alas no. They give gasses colours, like for example hydrogen in red. A lot of telescopes look at spectrums of colours we cannot even see.

 

[Scouse]

Alas no. They give gasses colours, like for example hydrogen in red. A lot of telescopes look at spectrums of colours we cannot even see.

Furry muff. The example given was the horsehead nebula - which I can be seen at visible wavelengths.

Either way - it makes no difference to me - they look cool

 

[Jeros]

We never went into space, ever, wow the reptilians have you all hypnotised! FREE YOUR MIND FROM THE DANGEROUS LASERWAVES THEY ARE BEAMING TO YOU FROM ANOTHER DIMENSIONAL PLANE!

 

[Lamp]

Hubble ultra deep field > all

 

[chipper]

what lamp said deep field owns all
each point of light is a galaxy, your seeing galaxys that were in exsistence before our solar system the sun included was even born. how can you not look at this picture and feel small and insignificant. for me its the most awe inspiring picture ever taken



Edited (by Deebs): to show smaller image which doesn't bring browsing the thread to a standstill.

 

[old.Tohtori]

I just look at the picture and go; "Hmm, where might all the rainbow planets be."

 

[Wazzerphuk]

That tiny little dot? Earth.

 

[Deebs]

For the original HUDF Hi res photos, the official site is here: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2004/07/image/a/warn/

 

[Tom]

IIRC NASA colours the pictures to how we'd see them with the naked eye for most of those shots.


Love that pic Tom. Zooming in is the fajizzle? (is that even right? If so - what does it mean?)

What's amazing about that picture is that each pinprick of light in the galaxy is not a star - each is a cluster of thousands of stars.

 

[Scouse]

What's amazing about that picture is that each pinprick of light in the galaxy is not a star - each is a cluster of thousands of stars.

Star clusters and other galaxies. It's a great pic

 

[Lamp]

Yeah, Deebs is spot on. You've got to check out the hi res image.

I'm not knocking all the amazing pics out there. There are some truly beautiful images on the net, but the HUDF is IMO the greatest space pic ever taken to date

 

[Deebs]

Yeah, Deebs is spot on. You've got to check out the hi res image.

I'm not knocking all the amazing pics out there. There are some truly beautiful images on the net, but the HUDF is IMO the greatest space pic ever taken to date

Indeed, the other pictures of Space look amazing but they are merely of certain objects, the HUDF is just a glimpse of a small portion of sky that shows how small we are and what really is out there. It is truly mind boggling. The Universe is just so fucking big!

 

[Scouse]