Wired Space Photo of the Day

[longknife]

By Wired Science Staff01.01.13 @ Wired Space Photo of the Day | Wired Science | Wired.com

This Hubble Space Telescope view shows one of the most dynamic and intricately detailed star-forming regions in space, located 210,000 light-years away in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way. At the centre of the region is a brilliant star cluster called NGC 346. A dramatic structure of arched, ragged filaments with a distinct ridge surrounds the cluster.

A torrent of radiation from the hot stars in the cluster NGC 346, at the centre of this Hubble image, eats into denser areas around it, creating a fantasy sculpture of dust and gas. The dark, intricately beaded edge of the ridge, seen in silhouette, is particularly dramatic. It contains several small dust globules that point back towards the central cluster, like windsocks caught in a gale

With links to awesome pictures

 

[TheOldSchool]

Looks like a shrimp

 

[JakeStarkey]

By Wired Science Staff01.01.13 @ Wired Space Photo of the Day | Wired Science | Wired.com

This Hubble Space Telescope view shows one of the most dynamic and intricately detailed star-forming regions in space, located 210,000 light-years away in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way. At the centre of the region is a brilliant star cluster called NGC 346. A dramatic structure of arched, ragged filaments with a distinct ridge surrounds the cluster.

A torrent of radiation from the hot stars in the cluster NGC 346, at the centre of this Hubble image, eats into denser areas around it, creating a fantasy sculpture of dust and gas. The dark, intricately beaded edge of the ridge, seen in silhouette, is particularly dramatic. It contains several small dust globules that point back towards the central cluster, like windsocks caught in a gale

With links to awesome pictures

Thanks, longknife.

 

[longknife]

Thanks, longknife.

Did you check some of the awesome photos at the link?

 

[JakeStarkey]

some of them, yes. nature is amazing.

 

[Dabs]

Pretty amazing photo

 

[g5000]

Looks like a shrimp

I was thinking a pig.

 

[JakeStarkey]

I am hungry.

 

[Mr. H.]

I see a wabbit.

Thanks for that website.

Have you been to Astronomy Picture of the Day ?

 

[JakeStarkey]

kill the wabbit!

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxiv3CBMS4M]Kill The Wabbit - YouTube[/ame]

 

[SanTropez]

Hubble definitely takes awesome pix!

 

[waltky]

Granny wantin' to know...

... is dat a space cat...

... dat's been swattin' dem asteroids at us?

 

[Lipush]

That's beautiful

 

[Mr. H.]

It's a donkey with wings. A sign that Obama was sent to us from the heavens.

 

[longknife]

I see a wabbit.

Thanks for that website.

Have you been to Astronomy Picture of the Day ?

Just been there and added it to my RSS feeds. Thanks

 

[Mr. H.]

I never unnerstood RSS feeds.

 

[longknife]

2013 April 16

 

[longknife]

I never unnerstood RSS feeds.

You have to have Google Reader or another RSS reader such as the one I favor - FeedDemon. You will then be able to read articles from an amazing source of feeds.

 

[longknife]

By Wired Science Staff @ Wired Space Photo of the Day | Wired Science | Wired.com

The Farthest Supernova

 

[longknife]

APOD
2013 April 19

NGC 1788 and the Witch's Whiskers