Showing posts with label awesome. Show all posts
Showing posts with label awesome. Show all posts

Thursday, February 18, 2010

WISE: First Spectacular Images Released

 

WISE launched in December and has been toiling away since. This is probably my favourite image, as it's a view of M31 Andromeda Galaxy that we haven't seen before. It looks like something a science fiction illustrator would come up with, but in reality it's a false colour infrared picture of this well known galaxy. I like this so much in fact, it's become my desktop wallpaper!

Some great interpretation of WISE's newest images, as usual, from the Bad Astronomer Phil Plait:http://tinyurl.com/ylluozz

WISE mission home page: http://wise.ssl.berkeley.edu/

 

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Monday, January 11, 2010

Martian Avalanches caused by springtime on the red planet

Fantastically coolesome images of Martian avalaches taken by HiRISE - details, with customary dry, only-the-facts-ma'am delivery ;-)  from the BA:

http://tinyurl.com/y9gzqhf

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