redwhine wrote:2010 April 19 - Ash and Lightning Above an Icelandic Volcano

[Stunning picture (...as if the Ring had just been cast into Mount Doom! ...);


...but it's not astronomy! ]

I repent, Gawdzilla!

Mount Doom, the name doesn't invite to family picnic excursions, does it.

redwhine wrote:2010 April 19 - Ash and Lightning Above an Icelandic Volcano

[Stunning picture (...as if the Ring had just been cast into Mount Doom! ...);


...but it's not astronomy! ]

Great photo that one.

The NASA/Solar Dynamics Observatory goes live today.

The Sun as we've never seen it before! 21st April 2:15 pm EDT

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUQElJYIIlI[/youtube]

I love these pictures...especially the vertigo.

newolder wrote:The NASA/Solar Dynamics Observatory goes live today.

The Sun as we've never seen it before! 21st April 2:15 pm EDT

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUQElJYIIlI[/youtube]

The first pictures...



More from here.

Love your avatar, newolder!

SNAP!

2010 April 23 - SDO: The Extreme Ultraviolet Sun

To celebrate the Hubble Space Telescope’s 20th anniversary, NASA released this composite visible-light portrait of a nearby star-forming region, the Carina nebula. Towers of gas and dust, the home to newborn stars, line the walls of the nebula, which lies about 7,500 light-years from Earth. The image captures the violent activity atop a pillar of gas and dust that stands three light-years tall. Intense ultraviolet radiation and streams of charged particles from hot newborn stars just outside this view are compressing the pillar, triggering the formation of new stars within it. Streamers of hot ionized gas flow off the ridges of the pillars while starlit wisps of gas and dust float around the peaks.

From http://www.sciencenews.org/view/access/ ... _spectacle

natselrox wrote:

To celebrate the Hubble Space Telescope’s 20th anniversary, NASA released this composite visible-light portrait of a nearby star-forming region, the Carina nebula. Towers of gas and dust, the home to newborn stars, line the walls of the nebula, which lies about 7,500 light-years from Earth. The image captures the violent activity atop a pillar of gas and dust that stands three light-years tall. Intense ultraviolet radiation and streams of charged particles from hot newborn stars just outside this view are compressing the pillar, triggering the formation of new stars within it. Streamers of hot ionized gas flow off the ridges of the pillars while starlit wisps of gas and dust float around the peaks.

From http://www.sciencenews.org/view/access/ ... _spectacle

The image and link are not working for me. Anybody else? ...or do I have to scrap my pooter again!?

Here's the original Hubblesite news release:

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2010/13/

^^