The Universe: Picture Thread

[fearthebug]

the flame nebula


the pelican nebula (i can kinda see it)


the horse head nebula (needs no explaining)

[fearthebug]

the omega nebula- part of it


tarantula nebula


hourglass nebula (looks like some dude spying on us!)


here's the antenna galaxy, which is a collision of 2 galaxies. according to what i read, the stars in each galaxy will pass right on by but the gravity goes haywire and the 2 galaxies will end up joining together to make 1 galaxy, but spin off a bunch of brand new star clusters. the good news is, our galaxy is set to collide with this one in a few million years, so buckle your seatbelts. imagine how great of a light show that would be

[fearthebug]

here's a galaxy in a 3D rendering. kinda helps put things in place. only difference is, in space, there are no lines to separate what's beyond all that, so there's no real order as to where this place is.

[brownstain]

one with bob marley too



crap and crap loads of stars.

[RaoulDuke]

..epic thread.

a huge thanks from the bottom of my heart to all contributors.

[chiefMOJOrisin]

its nebula time..........



IC 1396..... i think the 'pillars of creation'... a sexy nebula nonetheless


fox fur nebula


another pic of my fav....m42 the orion nebula


eagle nebula


m78 the reflection nebula

[chiefMOJOrisin]

north american nebula


probably my favorite pic....the veil nebula




now some random cosmos shots.................

something i look at through my binoc quite often, m31...andromeda


'chaotic' galaxy m82

[chiefMOJOrisin]

look at the amazing diversity in the shape and type of galaxies. this section of galaxies is known as Hickson 44 and is in the constellation Leo. Very near the middle is NCG 3190. Left of that is NGC 3193. The upper right is NGC 3187 and the lower right is NGC 3185.

[JesusC]

biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiizzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzuu uuuuuuuuuuuummmmmmmmmmmmmp

[JesusC]

[JesusC]

The comet is exploding and its coma, a cloud of gas and dust illuminated by the sun, has grown to be bigger than the planet Jupiter....


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071103/...brighter_comet

[polishpothead]

theres some crazy shit out there.

[JesusC]

BUUUUUUUMP!!!!!!!!


This thread cant die...

[cannabis]

Hubble Telescope





Eagle Nebula



Dumbbell Nebula



NGC



M51



Carina Nebula

[chiefMOJOrisin]

The pictures on this thread are amazing..... some double....but nonetheless awesome.


I don't know how many contributors actually are amateur astonomers, but once you've seen an object in real life...... pictures like these mean a lot more.

Some of my favorites include M42-The Orion Nebula, M31-Andromeda Galaxy, M33-The Triangulum Galaxy, M1-Supernova remnants (The Crab Nebula), M45-The Pleiades Cluster (Subaru Cluster), M2-A Globular cluster near the constellation Aquarius containing 150,000+ stars.....

These are only objects listed in Messier's catalog which goes up to M110 ( I think). Messier worked when technology was obviously nowhere near ours today...... He was a comet hunter in the 1700s that was frustrated he could't find any. So he cataloged several objects he thought looked similar, yet weren't the same. His catalog was ment to be nebulae and clusters...yet many turned out to be galaxies.

The New General Catalog (NCG) has 8,000 or so objects in it.... including Messier's and another.... The Index Catalog (IC) that contains only nebulae and clusters. HOwever, the NGC is the most comprehensive, by far.


http://seds.org/messier/Messier.html
http://www.ngcic.org/dss/dss_messier.asp<< this one
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NGC_objects


^^^^ Check these out!!!!^^^^