Space images thread

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Starburst galaxy NGC 4536 in Virgo (50 million ly away)

 

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Today's video is closer to home

 

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Have you ever dabbled in astrophotography or owned a telescope? I used to own an 11" SCT, you can have a lot of fun messing around with that if computers ever get boring. The moon and planets are easy enough to catch, even in a light polluted city.

 

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@Basard Nope unfortunately. Optics are pretty expensive and really hard to get. I should visit observatory but don't know when and where yet but I'm gonna do it sooner rather than later lol

 

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Well, some optics are expensive. For planetary imaging, you can get by with a decent webcam sensor or a cheap astronomy camera.
You'd be surprised how limiting the seeing conditions are on the quality of your work. Nine out of ten days it's the weather holding you back completely--depending on your location. If you're in a good location, you can get by with some pretty cheap gear. I sold my scope because it was just never convenient to set it up when the weather was good. I dove in big with the setup I had because I got a decent inheritance, then just got overwhelmed at the same time.
But then 'cheap' is a relative term I guess.
Anyways, it was a good amount of fun while it lasted, for me anyways. I guess the furthest I got into it was this:

It's a fifty-two frame gif, each frame represents about a minute of Jupiter's rotation. So, in essence, it's a one-hour time lapse of Jupiter with Io transiting.

 

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supernova remnant W49B

 

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Tarantula Nebula

 

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In celebration of the 27th anniversary of the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope on April 24, 1990, astronomers used the legendary telescope to take a portrait of a stunning pair of spiral galaxies. This starry pair offers a glimpse of what our Milky Way galaxy would look like to an outside observer.

 

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Brand new Hubble video:

 

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A view of Earth?

and yes, that is the moon hanging out with us there

 

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Scientists discovered a supernova explosion, being lensed by a foreground galaxy.

The explosion named iPTF16geu can be seen left of the center of the image as a tiny red dot.

 

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the night sky above ESO's Very Large Telescope

TYC 3203-450-1 star and NGC 7250 galaxy

 

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The low angle of the Sun over Tethys' massive canyon, Ithaca Chasma (near the terminator, at right), highlights the contours of this enormous rift.
Ithaca Chasma is up to 100 km wide, and runs nearly 3/4 of the way around icy Tethys (1062 km across). The canyon has a maximum depth of nearly 4 km deep.

 

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Cassini Completes Final Titan Flyby

 

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Intermediate spiral galaxy NGC 2403

 

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4 galaxy clusters and Fuzzy Dark Matter

 

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spiral galaxy NGC 5917

 

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Biggest infrared image ever taken of the Small Magellanic Cloud!

 

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A Wave in the Perseus Cluster 200000 ly Across

 

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North Pole of Enceladus

 

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Download 43223 x 38236 (4.4 GB) image

A sea of galaxies