Tag Archives: NASA

Today’s pretty picture

pleiades_gendler.jpg

The Pleiades, also called the Seven Sisters, although there seem to be more. Above and to the right of Orion the Hunter, 425 light years away. /NASA 

Today’s pretty picture

earthtruecolor_nasa.jpg

The true colors of Earth acquired from space:  green forests, brown mountains, tan deserts, white ice, and oceans of blue. /NASA

V ger phones home

voyager1_med2.jpg

I can’t look at a picture of Voyager 1 without recalling V ger of the Star Trek episode which made a less than satisfying movie. V ger or Voyager, the farthest traveling human-made object in the cosmos (as far as we know), is still sending news as it traverses the outer edge of the gas bubble we live in, about 10 billion miles away. Some people can’t get excited about this stuff. They don’t realize they’re living in a bubble of gas.

Today’s pretty picture

bullet_cluster_c60w

The “bullet cluster,” a mere 3.4 billion light-years away./NASA

Storms & space

154189main1_plasma_bands_smweb.jpg

And you thought space was "out there" and the weather was "down here."

Uh uh.

Today’s pretty picture

HubbleViewofOrionNebula.jpg

Hubble’s take on the Orion Nebula, the nearest star-forming region.