Top 10 Astronomy Images of 2006 75
The Bad Astronomer writes "Astronomical observatories on the ground and in space return many terabytes of data every year. But which bytes are the best? I combed through thousands of pictures to find the Top 10 astronomy images of the year."
A few others (Score:5, Informative)
Here's a couple other pics that I thought were top 10 material:
Man in space [arrl.org]
Earth from Satellite [wallpaper.net.au]
Saturn photo (Score:5, Informative)
Luckily, the copy on APoD [nasa.gov] works fine. I thought I'd post it here in case someone else, like me, was looking to make a desktop out of this amazing photo.
More on the Saturn photo (Score:4, Informative)
Re:A couple of stunning ones (Score:3, Informative)
BTW, the rest of that museum is totally like mecca for any nerd.
-1 Rambling.
Re:Saturn photo (Score:5, Informative)
Re:A couple of stunning ones (Score:3, Informative)
I assume you are talking about these:
http://mmmgroup.altervista.org/e-trees.html [altervista.org]
The new orbiter is about 5-to-10 times clearer than the one that took those "tree" photos. It has a big-ass camera, so if it can get over the right area of Mars, we could have splended images of those "ice trees".
Mirrors of PNG and TIFF (Score:2, Informative)
http://banshee.uchicago.edu/~nathanw/2230_6163_2.
http://banshee.uchicago.edu/~nathanw/2230_6163_3.