Live from Hotel Dumort

Hawaii, USA: This 23 image panorama captured what looks like some zodiacal light on the right side of the image, airglow, glow from Kilauea Cauldron, and the glow of Hilo on the left. Im not too sure about the red glow in the air on the left, writes photographer Shane Black.

A blue moon halo over Antarctica. LI Hang

Earth As Art by Friedl et al. 2012

Huzzah for awesome Earth satellite images! This is a free downloadable e-book from NASA available here: http://1.usa.gov/TSIGYL

Above are:

1. Vatnajökull Glacier Ice Cap, Iceland.

2. Ice Waves, Greenland.

3. Dardzha Peninsula, Turkmenistan.

4. Garden City, United States.

5. Dasht-e Kavir, Iran.

6. Alluvial Fan, China.

Cosmos

On Thursday, I went to a lecture by Gordon Squires of Caltech at the Glasgow Science Centre’s new planetarium. He mentioned having worked on the Spitzer Space Telescope, an infrared telescope launched in 2003. Inspired by this, here are a few pictures that have been taken by Spitzer.

1. Taken Under the “Wing” of the Small Magellanic Cloud

2. A Pinwheel Galaxy Rainbow

3. Dusty Space Cloud

4. Cosmic Sparklers

5. The ‘Serpent’ Star-Forming Cloud Spawns Stars

6. Stellar Debris in the Large Magellanic Cloud

7. Living the High Life

A panorama of the Milky Way and Magellanic Clouds over the Quiver Tree Forest in southern Namibia

Stunningly clear view of the Bubble Nebula for Hubble’s 26th birthday

On 24 April 1990, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope was launched into orbit aboard the space shuttle Discovery as the first space telescope of its kind. To celebrate another year since it opened us a new window on the Universe, Hubble annually observes and captures a spectacular view of a special chosen object.

This year it’s the Bubble Nebula which lies 8 000 light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia. Due to its very large size on the sky, previous Hubble images have only shown small sections of the nebula. Now, a mosaic of four images from Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 allows us to see the whole object in one picture for the first time. You can read more about the nebula here.

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