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High ResolutionPeople ask to see stars - my camera does its best in dim light. Our atmosphere glows in the dark.
i want to go to space it’s so pretty ;___;
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James Edward Keeler - Photographs of Nebulae and Clusters (1857 - 1900). Made with the Crossley Reflector.
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sisters: Pleiades star cluster, photographed by Voyager 2, 16th September 1989, with names of the brightest stars.
The 9 brightest stars in the cluster are named after the 7 Sisters of Greek mythology - Alcyone, Celaeno, Electra, Maia, Merope, Sterope, & Taygeta - and their parents, Atlas and Pleione.
Notes:
The name Sterope (sometimes Asterope) is applied to both of the pair of stars. My approach would be to call one Sterope and the other Asterope, but nobody listens to me.
Alcyone is the name of only the large, bright star, and apparently not its smaller companion seen here. (Alcyone actually is a multiple star system, but that composition is not visible here.)This observation was made near the end of Voyager 2’s observations of Neptune. Image dropout errors smoothed. [C1205048].
Image credit: NASA/JPL.
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Milky Way Pics of the Day: These two images are portions of a ginormous new photo showing the central area of the Milky Way galaxy, released by astronomers at the European Southern Observatory’s Paranal Observatory in Chile.
The photo shows 84 million stars in an image measuring 108,500×81,500, which contains nearly 9 billion pixels, and is actually a composite of thousands of individual photographs shot with the observatory’s VISTA survey telescope.
Don’t miss the zoomable version.
[bothsidesofthegun]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcpwicvGIA1qzpwi0o1_1280.jpg)
High ResolutionMilky Way Pics of the Day: These two images are portions of a ginormous new photo showing the central area of the Milky Way galaxy, released by astronomers at the European Southern Observatory’s Paranal Observatory in Chile.
The photo shows 84 million stars in an image measuring 108,500×81,500, which contains nearly 9 billion pixels, and is actually a composite of thousands of individual photographs shot with the observatory’s VISTA survey telescope.
Don’t miss the zoomable version.
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High Resolutionreunion: Ganymede and Jupiter, photographed by Cassini en route to Saturn, 2nd January 2001.
Image credit: NASA/ESA/SSI.
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High ResolutionPhase Of The Moon.
Phases of Venus.
Aspect Of Jupiter.
Aspect of Saturn.
Late 17th century - Bologna, Museo della Specola, Universita di Bologna.
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High ResolutionOne, two, three … 42 million, 42 million and one …
Helping astronomers map the stars, via Wired Science.
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![thedailywhat:
Milky Way Pics of the Day: These two images are portions of a ginormous new photo showing the central area of the Milky Way galaxy, released by astronomers at the European Southern Observatory’s Paranal Observatory in Chile.
The photo shows 84 million stars in an image measuring 108,500×81,500, which contains nearly 9 billion pixels, and is actually a composite of thousands of individual photographs shot with the observatory’s VISTA survey telescope.
Don’t miss the zoomable version.
[bothsidesofthegun]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcpwicvGIA1qzpwi0o1_500.jpg)
