Tuesday, February 18, 2014

What Do You Think It Is?

Astronomers have found a mind-bogglingly large structure — so big it takes light 10 billion years to traverse — in a distant part of the universe.
What is it? Find out here: http://oak.ctx.ly/r/ptgn

Sun Spots

The team at NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) have released a fanastic compilation of some of the biggest sunspots and the most massive explosions from the solar surface over the past year.

Check it out here: http://bit.ly/NQ92ye

Monday, February 17, 2014

Space..... Bigger Than You Think

The actual sizes of various different deep space objects. If they were brighter, this is how they would appear in our night sky. The images are in scale with one another, including the Moon, but not to the Milky Way background.

1. The Moon.
2. Andromeda Galaxy.
3. Triangulum Galaxy.
4. Orion Nebula.
5. Lagoon Nebula.
6. Pinwheel Galaxy.
7. Sculptor Galaxy.
8. Supernova remnant 1006.
9. Veil Nebula.
10. Helix Nebula.
11. Sombrero Galaxy.
12. Crab Nebula.
13. Comet Hale-Bopp (c. 1997)
14. Venus.
15. Jupiter.
16. International Space Station.

Image by u/aerospacerocket on Reddit.
Original photograph http://bit.ly/1cJp0PR


Jupiter's Moon