The view of earth as darkness falls...from the space station.
M. C. Escher was interested in where sky meets water.
A canoe in the Sandwich Islands by Bowers Masked. More water, but a sail to catch the wind too.
Image Credit & Copyright: Howard Trottier; Text: Emily Rice
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Explanation: Do we dare believe our eyes? When we look at images of space, we often wonder whether they are "real", and just as often the best answer varies. In this case, the scene appears much as our eyes would see it, because it was obtained using RGB (Red, Green, Blue) filters like the cone cells in our eyes, except collecting light for 19 hours, not a fraction of a second. The featured image was captured over six nights, using a 24-inch diameter telescope in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, in California, USA. The bright spiral galaxy at the center (NGC 7497) looks like it is being grasped by an eerie tendril of a space ghost, and therein lies the trick. The galaxy is actually 59 million light years away, while the nebulosity is MBM 54, less than one thousand light years away, making it one of the nearest cool clouds of gas and dust -- galactic cirrus -- within our own Milky Way Galaxy. Both are in the constellation of Pegasus, which can be seen high overhead from northern latitudes in the autumn.
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See the Pillars of Creation like never before!
First made famous by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in 1995, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope revisited this iconic part of the Eagle Nebula, revealing new details and hidden stars: https://go.nasa.gov/3ySxmYS
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Wonderful post. I love the space images and your photo of the space station is cool. Take care, enjoy your day and happy weekend!
ReplyDeleteThanks Eileen...You too, great weekend!
Delete...keep looking up.
ReplyDeleteThe sky is pretty most of the time!
DeletePictues like these really put one in one's place.
ReplyDeleteWe're all part of the big puzzle.
DeleteThe pillars of creation look like Godzilla.
ReplyDeleteYou are the first person who's told me that!
DeleteI love all these space images. The little we actually do get to see of our universe if pretty awesome!
ReplyDeleteThere is such a big amount of space out there!
DeleteI like the space station image you captured. I saw the pillars photo the other day when NASA released it on instagram. Space is still amazing but we have all got used to it I guess.
ReplyDeleteNot me...as a sci-fi fan from my youth, I still am hooked on all the wonders of spacce.
DeleteGreat thinking in putting this these together.
ReplyDeleteThank you,
DeleteGood post.
ReplyDeleteThanks.
DeleteWhen I was teaching I used to get the Astronomy Photo of the Day. I'd forgotten about that. I have seen the ISS fly over but never taken a photo. When we have bonfires we like to look at the stars.
ReplyDeleteOooh, that is a great activity! I haven't sat by a fire for several years...good reminder.
DeleteThese are real mindbenders, Barbara. I enjoyed them very much.
ReplyDeleteGreat capture of the sky station. I saw the photos of the pillars yesterday for the first time. They are simply amazing.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful photo of the ISS. They sure have a nice view of planet Earth!
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