Found Images: 2012 June

[bystander]

Yepun’s Laser and the Magellanic Clouds
ESO Picture of the Week | 2012 June 18

Image Credit: ESO, Babak Tafreshi (TWAN)
viewtopic.php?f=29&t=28911

[starsurfer]

NGC 3532
http://www.glitteringlights.com/Images/deepsky/13667287_7Mtr58#!i=1844260645&k=FJjVKwq&lb=1&s=X3
Copyright: Marco Lorenzi

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[RJN]

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Chandra Examines Jupiter During New Horizons Approach
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SwRI/R.Gladstone et al.; Optical: NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage (AURA/STScI)
Home: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2007/jupiter/
Found: Facebook Professional Astronomers Group (Mark Burke)

[bystander]

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Blue Marble 2012 - Arctic View
NASA IOTD | 2012 June 19

Image Credit: NASA/GSFC/Suomi NPP

[bystander]

http://www.esa.int/images/Carina_B70_G160_R250_10052012_BIS_Comp_H.jpg

Blowing bubbles in the Carina Nebula
ESA Space Science IOTW | Herschel | 2012 June 04

Credits: ESA/PACS/SPIRE/Thomas Preibisch, Universitäts-Sternwarte München, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany.

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[geckzilla]

Local earth, America-centric, but still rad set of images.

Pizza delivery routes in Manhattan:


Oodles of gorgeous graphics here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... erica.html

All seem to be part of a PBS special.
http://www.pbs.org/america-revealed/

[owlice]

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In the Shadows of Saturn’s Rings
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/J. Major
Source: http://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEMYIPAXH3H_index_0.html
Cross-post: viewtopic.php?f=29&t=28922

[bystander]

UGC 5497: 'Like Salt Sprinkled on Black Velvet'
NASA IOTD | 2012 June 20

Image Credit: NASA/ESA/Hubble

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[PDB11]

Today's cartoon on XKCD really blew me away! I think the cartoonist would readily agree to its being hosted here.

http://xkcd.com/1071/

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If you go to the XKCD website and click on the image there, you get an even bigger one.

I find it mind-blowing that we can now detect Mars-sized exoplanets.

Philip.

[bystander]

Today's cartoon on XKCD really blew me away! I think the cartoonist would readily agree to its being hosted here.

http://xkcd.com/1071/

(Sorry, no thumbnail - I'm not sure what the copyright issues would be)

viewtopic.php?f=8&t=8479&p=178034#p178034

[starsurfer]

NGC 6188 widefield
http://members.pcug.org.au/~stevec/ngc6188_STL11K_FSQ106.htm
Copyright: Steve Crouch

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[RJN]

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Meet Tethys
Credit: NASA / JPL / SSI / Gordan Ugarkovic
Found: http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2012/06201210-gordan-tethys.html

[bystander]

Credit: Alan Friedman (Averted Imagination)

http://www.avertedimagination.com/img_pages/deepbluesea.html
http://www.avertedimagination.com/img_pages/deepbluesea2.html

The “Deep Blue Sea” of the Sun
Universe Today | Jason Major | 2012 June 21

No words
Discover Blogs | Bad Astronomy | 2012 June 21

[bystander]

Mars Rocks | NASA IOTD | 2012 Jun 22
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona

[RJN]

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Heliospheric Current Sheet
Illustration Credit: NASA, Werner Heil
Found: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliosphere
Home: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Heliospheric-current-sheet_edit.jpg

[starsurfer]

B35
http://www.pbase.com/tango33/image/143299952
Copyright: Kfir Simon

143299952.pesIiJVH.jpg

[Rothkko]

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/video/index.cfm?id=1090

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[starsurfer]

Antares region
http://www.astrostudio.at/1_Deep%20Sky%20Objects.php?img=images/1_Deep%20Sky%20Objects/171_scorpius_detail.jpg&PHPSESSID=b23ed032acec2471457c230165e6a509
Copyright: Gerald Rhemann

171_scorpius_detail.jpg

[starsurfer]

North America Nebula closeup
http://members.pcug.org.au/~stevec/ngc7000_Maknewt_QSI.htm
Copyright: Steve Crouch

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[Ann]

Has Rogelio Bernal Andreo's incredible portrait of constellation Leo been posted here? It's a totally amazing image, but it's huge, so I'm only providing a link.

Seriously, this image ought to be made Astronomy Picture of the Day!

Ann

[starsurfer]

Southern Milky Way
http://www.astro-austral.cl/imagenes/widefield/Southern%20Winter%20Milky%20Way/info.htm
Copyright: José Joaquín Pérez

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