Astronomy Picture of the Day

redwhine · **#3141** by **redwhine** » May 26, 2014 9:08 am

2014 May 26 - An ALMA Telescope Array Time-Lapse

redwhine · **#3142** by **redwhine** » May 27, 2014 8:16 am

2014 May 27 - Star Factory Messier 17

redwhine · **#3143** by **redwhine** » May 28, 2014 6:16 am

2014 May 28 - The Cone Nebula from Hubble

Made of Stars · **#3144** by **Made of Stars** » May 28, 2014 9:29 am

Oh my god...

redwhine · **#3145** by **redwhine** » May 29, 2014 6:46 am

2014 May 29 - Millions of Stars in Omega Centauri

Tangerine Dream · **#3146** by **Tangerine Dream** » May 30, 2014 5:10 am

122,342,678 to be exact :smoke:

redwhine · **#3147** by **redwhine** » May 30, 2014 9:52 am

2014 May 30 - Planetary Nebula Abell 36

redwhine · **#3148** by **redwhine** » May 31, 2014 8:05 am

2014 May 31 - Satellite Station and Southern Skies

redwhine · **#3149** by **redwhine** » Jun 01, 2014 8:01 am

2014 June 1 - Halo of the Cat's Eye

Tangerine Dream · **#3150** by **Tangerine Dream** » Jun 01, 2014 4:22 pm

Published on 30 May 2014

A coronal mass ejection burst off the side of the sun on May 9, 2014. The giant sheet of solar material erupting was the first CME seen by NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS. The field of view seen here is about five Earth's wide and about seven and a half Earth's tall.

IRIS must commit to pointing at certain areas of the sun at least a day in advance, so catching a CME in the act involves some educated guesses and a little bit of luck.

redwhine · **#3151** by **redwhine** » Jun 02, 2014 7:38 am

2014 June 2 - The Space Station Captures a Dragon Capsule

redwhine · **#3152** by **redwhine** » Jun 03, 2014 7:35 am

2014 June 3 - WR 104: A Pinwheel Star System

redwhine · **#3153** by **redwhine** » Jun 04, 2014 6:14 am

2014 June 4 - A Green Flash from the Sun

DoctorE · **#3154** by **DoctorE** » Jun 04, 2014 10:55 am

On 3 June 2014, the Hubble Space Telescope team revealed their newest masterpiece: Ultra Deep Field 2014.

This image is composed of 841 orbits of Hubble Time, each a 90-minute exposure, from 2003 to 2012 allowing us to see the very early Universe in a wide band of light.

The deep field images are long exposures taken in the visible and near-infrared wavelengths, but now we have something more: the Ultraviolet.
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archiv ... 7/image/a/

redwhine · **#3155** by **redwhine** » Jun 05, 2014 7:57 am

2014 June 5 - Hubble Ultra Deep Field 2014

DavidMcC · **#3156** by **DavidMcC** » Jun 05, 2014 6:35 pm

redwhine wrote:2014 June 5 - Hubble Ultra Deep Field 2014

It's a pity they didn't show two images - one with and one without the UV component of the image. Then we would be able to see for ourselves what difference it made.