Crab Nebula by Hubble 32
nut writes "I just wanted to draw people's attention to the Image Of The Day courtesy of The Hubble Telescope. There's a couple of other pages with a little more info.
I don't know how anyone can doubt the value of putting the Hubble telescope up there when it gives you desktop wallpaper like this :o)"
500x500px only? (Score:2)
Re:500x500px only? (Score:2)
Re:500x500px only? (Score:1)
Re:500x500px only? (Score:2)
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive
Here: (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Here: (Score:2)
only wall paper? (Score:2)
Joy Joy, billion dollar wall paper.
Please spend my money elsewhere.
Re:only wall paper? (Score:2)
At least the Hubble Billions are going to people who want to work and not going to help insure that those unwilling to work don't have to.
Eww, the evil conservative that I am.
Re:only wall paper? (Score:2)
Demon Noises (Score:1)
Also looks like Cotton Candy.
Re:Demon Noises (Score:2)
Ohh that puffy billowy goodness. Pure evil I tell you. Pure evil...
Upgrade (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Upgrade (Score:2)
Re:Upgrade (Score:2)
Is that before or after your retinas burn out?
Re:Upgrade (Score:2)
Re:Upgrade (Score:2)
-
Re:Upgrade (Score:2)
Re:Upgrade (Score:2)
Hubble Site available as slashbox (Score:5, Informative)
(At least, I assume you'll be glad you did, since, otherwise, why are you bothering to read the discussions about this article in the first place?)
Re:Hubble Site available as slashbox (Score:2)
Astronomy Picture of the Day (Score:1)
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html [nasa.gov]
I also keep an eye on JPL's photojournal (Score:2)
Here is [nasa.gov] one of my favourites of Valles Marineris at 9002x3126 pixels. A good excuse for a second monitor: "now I can use this as wallpaper". (-:
Space image of the day (Score:1)
Favorite Space Pic Site (Score:4, Interesting)
Cassini Saturn Pictures (Score:1)
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/Cassini [nasa.gov]
Here... (Score:2, Informative)
How big is the nebula? (Score:1)
Re:How big is the nebula? (Score:1)
strike
A light nanosecond is about a foot... (Score:2)
A light-second is about a billion feet or 300,000,000m, roughly the same as the distance to the Moon [freemars.org].
86400 seconds in a day, so a light-day is about 26,000,000,000,000m, or 4-5 times the distance to Pluto and Charon, or 170 times as far away as the Sun is from us [ucar.edu].
A light year is 9,500,000,000,000 km [nasa.gov]; and Proxima Centauri (the nearest star) is about 4 of those away, and the Crab nebula is about 4,
Hubble Replacement (Score:2, Informative)