Posted on 03/02/2013 9:21:12 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Phil Plait, American astronomer and Science writer-is responsible for the interesting blog about the latest news in astronomy and Space Bad Astronomy (which this year moved to Slate.com), and also led the Discovery Channel program Bad Universe whose episode about asteroids was indispensable to our special article on the destruction of Earth .
As 2012 ends, Plait made a huge article in your blog with the most beautiful images related to astronomy that have taken this year. It is clear that the article includes Photographs of events land as northern lights or even the classic photograph of himself Curiosity. Of all the images of Plait, we selected eight that took our breath away:
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The Venus photo is awesome.
The rotating gas cloud is a good one not included.
In looking at the photo of the Sun, remember that the Best and Brightest scientists remind us that Global Warming is caused by cow farts.
Great pictures. I guess the captions were done using a computer auto-translator?
Awesome!
Many thanks for posting!
thanks for posting
Might be,...they are a bit....strange.
It is actually a reconstruction and animation of what it might look like ...mucha work done on it.
Right,....that photo of the SUN is just incredible in what it shows.
In the center of the galaxy Hercules is a supermassive black hole that absorbs large amounts of material, and forms a rotating disk with a temperature so high that it wants to expand and explode violently. Among the magnetic forces, friction and other, the material is strongly driven by two rays that come from the poles of the disk so fast that travel hundreds of light years before settling down in speed and the two red clouds observed in the image.
The overall structure has more than a million light years from end to end, but what you would expect from an object whose main engine is a black hole with 2,500 million times the mass of the sun?
2,500,000,000 or 2.5x10**9!!
Truly a treat to see!
Thank you so much, dearest Ernest!!
Behold the Heavens in all their glory.
Psalm 19
1 The heavens are telling the glory of God;
and the firmament proclaims his handiwork.
2 Day to day pours forth speech,
and night to night declares knowledge.
3 There is no speech, nor are there words;
their voice is not heard;
4 yet their voice[a] goes out through all the earth,
and their words to the end of the world.
In them he has set a tent for the sun,
5 which comes forth like a bridegroom leaving his chamber,
and like a strong man runs its course with joy.
6 Its rising is from the end of the heavens,
and its circuit to the end of them;
and there is nothing hid from its heat.
Thanks Ernest, an ‘extra, extra’ to APoD members.
Thanks Ernest, an ‘extra, extra’ to APoD members.
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