NASA Astronomy Pictures Of The Day [Week 2/2010]

Science & Reason on Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/ScienceReason

NASA Astronomy Pictures of the Day [Week 2/2010].

---
Please subscribe to Science & Reason:
• http://www.youtube.com/Best0fScience
• http://www.youtube.com/ScienceMagazine
• http://www.youtube.com/ScienceTV
• http://www.youtube.com/FFreeThinker
---

► The Spider and The Fly
Bright clusters and nebulae abound in the ancient northern constellation of Auriga. The region includes the open star cluster M38, emission nebula IC 410 with Tadpoles, Auriga's own Flaming Star Nebula IC 405, and this interesting pair IC 417 (lower left) and NGC 1931. An imaginative eye toward the expansive IC 417 and diminutive NGC 1931 suggests a cosmic spider and fly. About 10,000 light-years distant, both represent young, open star clusters formed in interstellar clouds and still embedded in glowing hydrogen gas.
• Learn more: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap100113.html

► Atlantis to Orbit
The launch of a rocket bound for space is an event that inspires awe and challenges description. The Space Shuttle Atlantis lifted off to visit the International Space Station during the early morning hours.
• Learn more: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap100117.html

► Ancient Layered Hills on Mars
What may appear to some as a terrestrial coastline is in fact a formation of ancient layered hills and wind-blown sand on Mars. The pictured region spans about three kilometers in Schiaparelli Crater. What created the layers of sediment is still a topic of research. The image was taken with the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft.
• Learn more: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap091129.html

► The Flame Nebula in Infrared
1500 light years away towards the constellation of Orion lies a nebula which, from its glow and dark dust lanes, appears, on the left, like a billowing fire. But fire is not what makes this Flame glow. Rather the bright star Alnitak, the easternmost star in the Belt of Orion visible just above the nebula, shines energetic light into the Flame that knocks electrons away from the great clouds of hydrogen gas that reside there. The Flame Nebula (NGC 2024) is part of the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex, a star-forming region that includes the famous Horsehead Nebula.
• Learn more: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap100112.html

► Scenes from Two Hemispheres
The stars of a summer night on the left and the winter night sky on the right are the same stars. The left panel shows a scene from a beach on Bruny Island off the coast of Tasmania, Australia, while the right panel features the sky over the snowy Alborz Mountains of northern Iran.
• Learn more: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap100115.html

► New Year Sungrazer
Intense and overwhelming, the direct glare of the Sun is blocked by the smooth occulting disk in this image from the sun-staring SOHO spacecraft. Beyond the disk's outer boundary is a sungrazer comet, one of the brightest yet seen by SOHO.
• Learn more: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap100116.html

► M94: A New Perspective
Beautiful island universe M94 lies a mere 15 million light-years distant in the northern constellation of the hunting dogs, Canes Venatici. A popular target for astronomers, the brighter inner part of the face-on spiral galaxy is about 30,000 light-years across. Traditionally, deep images have been interpreted as showing M94's inner spiral region surrounded by a faint, broad ring of stars. But a new multi-wavelength investigation has revealed previously undetected spiral arms sweeping across the outskirts of the galaxy's disk, an outer disk actively engaged in star formation.
• Learn more: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap100114.html

► Bright Sun and Crescent Earth from ISS
This was just one more breathtaking view from the International Space Station (ISS). The Sun, a crescent Earth, and the long arm of a solar panel were all visible outside a window when the Space Shuttle Atlantis visited the orbiting outpost in January 2010.
• Learn more: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap091130.html
.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• nasa
• astronomy
• pictures
• images
• week
• day
• science
• hubble
• spitzer
• space
• telescopes
• stars
• clusters
• nebulae
• ngc
• shuttle
• atlantis
• international
• station
• iss
• mars
• infrared
• orion
• horsehead
• suns
• soho
• comets
• astronomers
• galaxies
• earth
• solar

[Phelan666]

Atheism: Reality is awesome.

[PlonacyKrzew]

I think I am heavily addicted to these weekly presentations. :-)

[gadionson1]

this video is very educative ...

[4stardust1]

love it

[TheGhostfacekilla86]

@Phelan666 I was being sarcastic, of course it doesn't make sense.

[Phelan666]

@TheGhostfacekilla86 It does if you're not an idiot.

[TheGhostfacekilla86]

@Phelan666 lol, yeah this all happend with simple things like matter+randomness+time+chance. Makes perfect logical sense.

[thespida32]

159 out of 160 votes was a thumbs up for this video. I wonder who's the goober that gave it a thumbs down. This is what we call true beauty.....

[s87343jim]

The word "Awesome" is an understatement to describe these pictures.

[Cosmospectrvm]

Very good video. Muy bueno.