Astronomy Picture Of The YEAR!

NASA - Hubble ^ | 9-10-09 | Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team

[GeorgiaDawg32]

so does budweiser at 10 minutes to closing time..:)

[BGHater]

To be honest, I don’t know if it is a ‘she’. Hope for the best.

[paulycy]

so does budweiser at 10 minutes to closing time..:)

Hee hee heee.....

[Pistolshot]

You can go HERE.

Or you can ping sig226 to be added to the APOD ping list.

[Shellback Chuck]

God has made us intelligent enough to see a small fraction of the wonders he has created.

[DarthVader]

Tramp Stamp!

[TheOldLady]

Sig226 has an APOD (astronomy picture of the Day) list.

[Rebelbase]

That is one gorgeous, violent event.

[Rebelbase]

We could be looking at a celestial tramp stamp.

[BigCinBigD]

High Flight
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there
I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long delirious, burning blue,
I’ve topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew -
And, while with silent lifting mind I’ve trod
The high untresspassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.

Pilot Officer Gillespie Magee
No 412 squadron, RCAF
Killed 11 December 1941

[Huck]

Do you have any info on the coloration of the picture? I think I read somewhere that technicians add the color after, based on the chemical makeup. The actual photos don’t show colors, and they don’t appear in color to the naked eye. Am I correct about that?

[agrace]

Thank you!

sig226, could you please add me to your daily astro pic ping list? Thanks much.

[bonfire]

Thanks for that, BigCin. Beautiful.

[USCG SimTech]

Tramp Stamp!

The Germans call it what it becomes translated out as an "a$$ angel"

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Better yet, get the desktop widget “APOD Viewer” from Hauberg Software. APOD = Astronomy Photo of the Day. You get them delivered directly to your desktop every day.

[dblshot]

Well now we know where the cow that jumped over the moon landed. Look about half way up the butterfly wing on the right. Ain’t that a cows face?

[bmwcyle]

WOW!

[FreedomOfExpression]

There should be a daily ping list for these photos.

There is an Astronomy Picture of the Day ping list, run by sig226.
It's not limited to Hubble pictures, though.

[OrioleFan]

Now that the Government only talks in terms of billions and trillions, I understand these numbers much better...

[devolve]

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