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Friday, November 10, 2006
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Breathtaking Natural Color View of Saturn's Rings
Today I browsed the Cassini mission website and found out that they released new image of the rings in natural color view. Really breathtaking, very sharp, and eye-catching. Photographed on Sept. 29, 2006 at a distance of approximately 1.829 million kilometers (1.137 million miles) from Saturn, it shows the outer B ring, the Cassini Division and the inner part of the A ring.
Click here to view the larger version
This ring image color and lines reminded me with my wallpaper design I made sometime in 2003. I named the work "orbzone". A portion of the artwork is almost very much the same as this cassini image, with the effect of the wallpaper design I made in 3dsmax and Photoshop.
Posted @ 7:15 PM by kinzi
Sunday, November 05, 2006
Soon to Come, Mercury Transit!
Picture below is the Mercury transit on November 15, 1999, and was taken by Transition Region and Coronal Explorer (TRACE) mission.
Image Credit: TRACE
Posted @ 4:53 PM by kinzi
Friday, November 03, 2006
Galaxy Cluster Host to Largest Known Radio Eruption
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This is a new composite image of galaxy cluster MS0735.6+7421, located about 2.6 billion light-years away in the constellation Camelopardus. The three views of the region were taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in Feb. 2006, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory in Nov. 2003, and NRAO's Very Large Array in Oct. 2004. The Hubble image shows dozens of galaxies bound together by gravity. In Jan. 2005, astronomers reported that a supermassive black hole, lurking in the central bright galaxy, generated the most powerful outburst seen in the universe. The VLA radio image shows jets of high energy particles (in red) streaming from the black hole. These jets pushed the X-ray emitting hot gas (shown in blue in the Chandra image) aside to create two giant cavities in the gas. The cavities are evidence for the massive eruption. The X-ray and radio images show the enormous appetite of large black holes and the profound impact they have on their surroundings.
NASA's HST News Release
Posted @ 12:34 PM by kinzi
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