The Untraveled Universe

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cozydark:

The Orion nebula is featured in this sweeping image from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. The constellation of Orion is prominent in the evening sky throughout the world from about December through April of each year.

Read More: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/WISE/multimedia/pia16684.html

blackbobcell1:

Mars ice fields

$manelespace: Venus at the Edge Explanation: As its June 6 2012 transit begins Earth’s sister planet crosses the edge of the Sun in this stunning view from the Hinode spacecraft. The timing of limb crossings during the rare transits was used historically totriangulate the distance to Venus and determine a value for the Earth-Sun distance called the astronomical unit. Still, modern space-based views like this one show the event against an evocative backdrop of the turbulent solar surface with prominences lofted above the Sun’s edge by twisting magnetic fields. Remarkably, the thin ring of light seen surrounding the planet’s dark silhouette is sunlight refracted by Venus’ thick atmosphere. Venus en el borde Explicación: Como su propio 06 de junio 2012 se inicia el tránsito del planeta Tierra hermana cruza el borde del sol en este impresionante vista desde la nave espacial Hinode. El momento de las extremidades durante el cruce de los tránsitos raras se utilizó históricamente para triangular la distancia a Venus y determinar un valor para la distancia Tierra-Sol se llama la unidad astronómica. Sin embargo, los modernos puntos de vista basados en el espacio como éste muestran el caso contra un telón de fondo evocador de la superficie solar turbulento con prominencias loft por encima del borde del Sol. girando campos magnéticos. Sorprendentemente, el delgado anillo de luz que rodea visto la silueta oscura del planeta es la luz solar refractada por la atmósfera espesa de Venus.$

manelespace:

Venus at the Edge

Explanation: As its June 6 2012 transit begins Earth’s sister planet crosses the edge of the Sun in this stunning view from the Hinode spacecraft. The timing of limb crossings during the rare transits was used historically totriangulate the distance to Venus and determine a value for the Earth-Sun distance called the astronomical unit. Still, modern space-based views like this one show the event against an evocative backdrop of the turbulent solar surface with prominences lofted above the Sun’s edge by twisting magnetic fields. Remarkably, the thin ring of light seen surrounding the planet’s dark silhouette is sunlight refracted by Venus’ thick atmosphere.

Venus en el borde

Explicación: Como su propio 06 de junio 2012 se inicia el tránsito del planeta Tierra hermana cruza el borde del sol en este impresionante vista desde la nave espacial Hinode. El momento de las extremidades durante el cruce de los tránsitos raras se utilizó históricamente para triangular la distancia a Venus y determinar un valor para la distancia Tierra-Sol se llama la unidad astronómica. Sin embargo, los modernos puntos de vista basados en el espacio como éste muestran el caso contra un telón de fondo evocador de la superficie solar turbulento con prominencias loft por encima del borde del Sol. girando campos magnéticos. Sorprendentemente, el delgado anillo de luz que rodea visto la silueta oscura del planeta es la luz solar refractada por la atmósfera espesa de Venus.

how-to-be-me-xleannex:

How is it possible that I think that astronomy is very interesting but on the other hand I’m scared as hell of it?

enche:

NASA Space Telescopes See Weather Patterns in Brown Dwarf by NASA Goddard Photo and Video

cedorsey:

Our Home!
Photo Credit: (Pulok Pattanayak)

d0pe-as-fck:

found this on Google today and thought it was really awesome.