This video makes the case for the Ultra Deep Field photograph, taken by the Hubble Telescope, as the most important image ever taken. After watching it, I concur. This is well worth 4 minutes of your time. The Hubble Ultra Deep Field in 3D – YouTube.
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The Hubble Ultra Deep Field
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Hey Don Pettit, stop hogging all the awesome. When he is not flying around Earth at about 18,000 miles per hour, out on space-walks or performing weird zero-gravity experiments, astronaut Don Pettit takes some of the most astounding space photos to date. The images, which look straight out of 2001: A Space Odyssey, as has […]
The Most Unforgettable Space Shuttle Pictures
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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Planet-Mutiny.html Leading astronomers declared Thursday that Pluto is no longer a planet under historic new guidelines that downsize the solar system from nine planets to eight. Astronomy has the same problem with Pluto as Disney has with Goofy: What the hell is it?
APOD: 2006 April 1 – Hubble Resolves Expiration Date For Green Cheese Moon
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060401.html It seems that NASA has the same goofy humour as Google. Must be a geek thing. (Thanks, Gu1tar for the Stumble!) Using the new camera on the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have been able to confirm that the Moon is made of green cheese. The telling clue was the resolution of a marked date […]
Meteorite – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Phil Plaits Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions: Pareidolia
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Curious About Astronomy: Who named the planets and who decides what to name them?
http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=372 Another site about planetary nomenclature, with some possibilities for the newly-discovered orbiting rock 😉
How do planets and their moons get their names?
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http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/nebula_collection/pr2004032d/ And another. Beautiful colours.