News tagged with sky image
Fermi telescope reveals best-ever view of the gamma-ray sky
Mar 11, 2009 |
4.7 / 5 (15) |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new map combining nearly three months of data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is giving astronomers an unprecedented look at the high-energy cosmos. To Fermi's eyes, the universe ...
Search results for sky image
A pool of distant galaxies -- the deepest ultraviolet image of the universe yet
Nov 07, 2008 |
4.6 / 5 (33) |
5
This uniquely beautiful patchwork image, with its myriad of brightly coloured galaxies, shows the Chandra Deep Field South (CDF-S), arguably the most observed and best studied region in the entire sky. The ...
Zooming to the centre of the Milky Way -- GigaGalaxy Zoom phase 2
Sep 21, 2009 |
4.6 / 5 (16) |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- The second of three images of ESO's GigaGalaxy Zoom project has just been released online. It is a new and wonderful 340-million-pixel vista of the central parts of our home galaxy as seen ...
Astronomers unveil an amazing, interactive, 360-degree panoramic view of the entire night sky
Sep 14, 2009 |
4.9 / 5 (14) |
2
(PhysOrg.com) -- The first of three images of ESO's GigaGalaxy Zoom project — a new magnificent 800-million-pixel panorama of the entire sky as seen from ESO's observing sites in Chile — has just been released ...
The Crab Nebula: Energy for 100,000 Suns
Nov 23, 2009 |
4 / 5 (9) |
1
(PhysOrg.com) -- A star's spectacular death in the constellation Taurus was observed on Earth as the supernova of 1054 A.D.
Google Sky Turns Computer Into Telescope
Aug 22, 2007 |
3.9 / 5 (33) |
0
Imagine cruising the heavens from your desktop and seeing all the spectacular images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Exploding stars and faraway galaxies are just a mouse click away through Sky in Google ...
Physicist makes new high-res panorama of Milky Way
Oct 28, 2009 |
4.6 / 5 (14) |
3
Cobbling together 3000 individual photographs, a physicist has made a new high-resolution panoramic image of the full night sky, with the Milky Way galaxy as its centerpiece. Axel Mellinger, a professor at ...
An Eagle of Cosmic Proportions
Jul 16, 2009 |
4.8 / 5 (9) |
1
(PhysOrg.com) -- Today ESO has released a new and stunning image of the sky around the Eagle Nebula, a stellar nursery where infant star clusters carve out monster columns of dust and gas.
The Planet, the Galaxy and the Laser
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 03, 2007 |
4.3 / 5 (9) |
0
On the night of 21 July, ESO astronomer Yuri Beletsky took images of the night sky above Paranal, the 2600m high mountain in the Chilean Atacama Desert home to ESO's Very Large Telescope. The amazing images ...
Opportunity Continues To Characterize Crater
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 23, 2007 |
3 / 5 (4) |
0
Opportunity is healthy and is currently driving on the promontory "Cabo Corrientes" where its cameras imaged the north face of "Bahia Blanca" cliff walls. The rover is currently driving to another spot in order to image "Cape ...
Computer program makes night sky searchable
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jun 27, 2007 |
4 / 5 (4) |
0
Computer science PhD candidate Dustin Lang has embarked on his own Star Trek as part of astronometry.net, a collaboration between computer scientists at U of T and astronomers at New York University.
List of search results for sky image
