Telescope Images

Alright, i know theres a space thread already rollin but what about images from space?I mean they are some of the coolest things u could ever look at.Its sort of like looking at christmas lights except far cooler,when blazed its mesmerizing.So if anyone has images from a telescope you own or the net,throw some on here.












postem if you gotem.

the universe is so big beyond anything we can ever be able to see i dont think it ever stops ever. the amount of stars and planets out there are mind boggling thet sat theres more stars in the sky then there in individual grains of sand on any given beach in the world.

There is nothing in religion or myth to match the awe and majesty of the images from these amazing telescopes! This universe is truly a beautiful place, which is great because it didn't have to be this way. The universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate and in thousands of years from now, astrologers (from this planet and possibly from newer sentient civilizations) will not be able to see any light beyond their own solar system. They say that these folks will come up with the same conclusions that we have about the cosmos through mathematics, but it just won't be the same...

cool, by chance do you have anymore details on the pics? (ie-what scope they were taken from, where are the objects in the pics? when was it taken, etc?
i really hope jwst doesnt have many more delays. last i heard its looking to be 2018 or so at best. (looked it up after saying this, I was correct.) the data we get ia going to be so important and informative.

Also, 10,000's of years is a kind of poor scale. from wiki-
"Galaxies outside the Local Supercluster are no longer detectable2×10[SUP]12[/SUP] (2 trillion) years Assuming that dark energy continues to make the universe expand at an accelerating rate, 2×10[SUP]12[/SUP] (2 trillion) years from now, all galaxies outside the Local Supercluster will be red-shifted to such an extent that even gamma rays they emit will have wavelengths longer than the size of the observable universe of the time. Therefore, these galaxies will no longer be detectable in any way."

heres a cool one from wiki.


The Moon as seen by the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, in gamma rays of greater than 20 MeV. These are produced by cosmic ray bombardment of its surface. The Sun, which has no similar surface of high atomic number to act as target for cosmic rays, cannot usually be seen at all at these energies, which are too high to emerge from primary nuclear reactions, such as solar nuclear fusion (though occasionally the Sun produces gamma rays by cyclotron-type mechanisms, during solar flares). Gamma rays have higher energy than X-rays

For any iPhone users that are interested, there are a couple apps I have called "3D sun" and "starwalk". Star walk used in conjunction with a telescope is really cool. Just point it at the sky, like your going to take a picture and it will show you the visual of what's there, with zoom ability to click on points of interest, to read about. Then just focus your scope. The app also tells you the coordinates to set your scope at to view it. 3Dsun is cool as its 2 satellites that ate focused on the sun only to monitor activity on the surface. Have some amazing shots in their gallery as well.

they are Hubble images,incredible arent they?I dont have the specs on each photo as of yet but ill post them soon.
For the meantime im just stoned viewing,lol.

Wide view of giant radio jet coming from spiral galaxy 0313-192
eye shaped planetary nebula NGC 6826
This Hubble photo 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 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


This one if of a star forming region known as S106.
NGC 6302

I am a stargazer myself I have a 10 inch dobsonian telescope,Im not able to afford to be into astrophotography yet,but I have seen some amazing things with my scope.I have a android phone and I use a google program on it that is called google skymap it is pretty cool if you are interested in the nite sky at all.

I love space. i really hope i get a telescope fer cristmas! i want to look at jupiter, its so bright every night, i bet i could really see it!

hope fully you get one with connectability to your pc!Itd be kool to see some pics from it.

Found 2 earth sized planets with Kepler. 950 lights. Not too far.

http://gothamist.com/2011/12/21/close_encounters_nasa_discovers_two.php

Download google earth and switch it to the space part, trippppy shit

Very kool Satan,didnt realize google earth could do that.

Here's a little Hubble Deep Field trivia............... You can rent time on the Hubble telescope, but your application has to be approved. Hubble was designed to look at anything, but had proposals to look at everything! The space administration had to assign time to projects based on what they thought would be the best use.

Because of that, we have great pictures of other worlds.

BUT

One of the first most eye opening images wasnt from any specific telescope project. The administrators who assign time to the telescope had small chunks of time that they could do whatever they wanted with, without any administrative approval from any boards. One person thought "Lets just point it at nothing, for a week!"........... Which is crazy, right? Why point it at nothing, instead of pointing it at SOMETHING? But, the crazy fuckers did it anyway, and low and behold:



A lot of people didnt think they'd see anything............... It revolutionized the way we look at a lot of things........

There's been other Hubble images that came after, but this one is the one that started it all..........

true research kitty, it was(and still is in a way) one of the most important things hubble has done although the official story has it a bit different from what you said.

"After the spherical aberration was corrected during Space Shuttle mission STS-61 in 1993,[SUP][2][/SUP] the improved imaging capabilities of the telescope were used to study increasingly distant and faint galaxies. The Medium Deep Survey (MDS) used the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) to take deep images of random fields while other instruments were being used for scheduled observations. At the same time, other dedicated programs focused on galaxies that were already known through ground-based observation. All of these studies revealed substantial differences between the properties of galaxies today and those that existed several billion years ago.[SUP][3][/SUP]
Up to 10% of the HST's observation time is designated as Director's Discretionary (DD) Time, and is typically awarded to astronomers who wish to study unexpected transient phenomena, such as supernovae. Once Hubble's corrective optics were shown to be performing well, Robert Williams, the then-director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, decided to devote a substantial fraction of his DD time during 1995 to the study of distant galaxies. A special Institute Advisory Committee recommended that the WFPC2 be used to image a "typical" patch of sky at a high galactic latitude, using several optical filters. A working group was set up to develop and implement the project.[SUP][4][/SUP]

space is so heavenly. In all those pics, earth wouldn't even be a fraction of a pixel. Amazing.

Spot the planet! cn

Kool the little planet in the band of color,I first thought it was a speck of dust on my monitor.
If the weather holds up for tonite Im hoping to get a peek at Jupiter and the red spot would be a bonus too see.

Really, these images are looking very beautiful. All these pictures are giving some information regarding the other planets.

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