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Dec 10 / 4:33am

A simulated voyage through the solar system

by xea Baudoin

Click the image to see the animation. Use the movie controls to examine the planets.
LINK
ClassZone / Exploring Earth / Examine the vast distances between planets in the solar system. classzone.com

 

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Dec 9 / 8:16am

Speed of light from Earth to Moon.gif

by xea Baudoin

Click download to see gif!

via wikimedia.org

 

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Dec 9 / 7:39am

Hubble Telescope discovers distant galaxies formed more than 13 billion years ago

by xea Baudoin

"Distant galaxies: The Hubble Space Telescope's deepest image of the universe ever taken in near-infrared light. The faintest and reddest objects in the image are galaxies that formed 600 million years after the Big Bang.

Images of some of the most distant galaxies in the universe have been captured by the Hubble Space Telescope using infra-red photography.

A special wide field camera that was installed by astronauts on Hubble in May captured several thousand never-before-seen galaxies.

They are the oldest star clusters that have ever been observed  - with the light from them beginning their journey when the universe was just four per cent of its current age."

Take a tour to look at this interesting post! dailymail.co.uk

LINK
http://hubblesite.org/

 

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Dec 1 / 2:57am

Analemma over Ukraine / APOD: 2007 June 17

by xea Baudoin
Credit & Copyright: Vasilij Rumyantsev ( Crimean Astrophysical Obsevatory)

If you took a picture of the Sun at the same time each day, would it remain in the same position?

The answer is no, and the shape traced out by the Sun over the course of a year is called an analemma.

The Sun's apparent shift is caused by the Earth's motion around the Sun when combined with the tilt of the Earth's rotation axis. The Sun will appear at its highest point of the analemma during summer and at its lowest during winter.

Analemmas created from different Earth latitudes would appear at least slightly different, as well as analemmas created at a different time each day.

The analemma pictured to the left was built up by Sun photographs taken from 1998 August through 1999 August from Ukraine.

The foreground picture from the same location was taken during the early evening in 1999 July.

via apod.nasa.gov

 

 

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Nov 30 / 7:24am

Axel Mellinger's Milky Way Panorama

by xea Baudoin

Click on this picture to browse the entire Milky Way!
via galaxy.phy.cmich.edu

 

 

 

 

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Nov 26 / 10:41am

3D TODAY: First images from large Collider

by xea Baudoin
Look at all links! 3d-today.org

 

 

 

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Nov 24 / 7:15am

3D TODAY: The Size of the Universe

by xea Baudoin
via 3d-today.org

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Nov 9 / 10:18am

3D TODAY: Neighbourhood cosmic textures...WOW!

by xea Baudoin
via 3d-today.org

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Nov 7 / 5:07am

Ring Nebula Deep Field / APOD: 2009 November 6

by xea Baudoin
Credit & Copyright: Vicent Peris (DSA / OAUV / PixInsight), Jack Harvey (DSA / SSRO),
Steve Mazlin (DSA / SSRO), Jose Luis Lamadrid (DSA / ceFca), Ana Guijarro (CAHA), RECTA, DSA.

via apod.nasa.gov

 

 

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Nov 2 / 7:39am

3D TODAY: What color is the universe?

by xea Baudoin
via 3d-today.org

 Look at this post! http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap091101.html

 

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