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by owlice » Wed May 26, 2010 3:32 am
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Widefield of Eta Carinae
http://www.pbase.com/image/124907434/large
Copyright: Mark Wielgosz
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by owlice » Wed May 26, 2010 3:36 am
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by owlice » Wed May 26, 2010 4:00 am
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by owlice » Wed May 26, 2010 4:37 am
ISS-Atlantis Transit over St. Nectarius Chapel, Rhodes
http://ladanyi.csillagaszat.hu
Copyright: Tamas Ladanyi
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by owlice » Wed May 26, 2010 12:30 pm
Prominence Eruption and Ejection
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Copyright: Jesús Carmona de Argila
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by owlice » Wed May 26, 2010 1:10 pm
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by owlice » Thu May 27, 2010 7:52 am
Sunring
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by owlice » Thu May 27, 2010 8:00 am
C/2009 R1 (McNaught) with Disconnection Event
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Copyright: Ernesto Guido & Giovanni Sostero
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by owlice » Thu May 27, 2010 8:19 am
Swan Nebula
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Copyright: Neil Fleming
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by Guest » Tue Jun 01, 2010 11:56 am
These smoky rings of the “dying” carbon stars (top to bottom) AQ And, U Ant and TT Cyg (
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap010304.html )
were observed in the far infrared with the now biggest Space Telescope Herschel (
http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/area/i ... fareaid=16 ) at wavelengths of 70 micron (blue) and 160 micron (red). The cold dust rings represent phases of high mass loss that happened some thousand years ago. Also our sun will experience similar processes in 6 billion years from now.
I hope you like them!
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by Ann » Wed Jun 02, 2010 4:20 pm
Wow, that's some solar prominence and eruption! Where is the "Wow, I'm amazed" emoticon?
The comet and its lost tail was fun to watch too. As for the carbon stars, I don't doubt for a moment that such stars have been hugely important for the enrichment of the interstellar medium with heavy elements, and let's not forget that these super-red guys makes for fun observing at the telescope.... but these false color pictures were not for me. Thanks for posting them anyway!
Ann
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