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Earth and Moon seen by MESSENGER

This fantastic image shows the Earth and the Moon as seen from a distance of 114-million miles, or 183-million kilometers.

This picture, reminiscent of the famous ‘pale blue dot’ image captured by Voyager 1, shows our small-fragile world drifting through the vastness of space with its companion. MESSENGER, while exploring the region of space between the Earth and the Sun, turned its camera towards our special dot and sent back this snapshot of reality. For reference, the average Earth-Sun distance is about 93-million miles (150-million kilometers).

Image credit: NASA

The Rosette Nebula

Telescope: 106mm Takahashi

Image: A single Ha exposure, 600 seconds, stretched in Nebulosity and composited in Photoshop.

My second astrophotography image.

Shot with a 12.5” RCOS telescope as an observatory based in southern Australia, this is NGC 3576 —  a nebula drifting within the Sagittarius constellation.  

NGC 33576 is about 9000 light years from earth, and is approx 100 light years across in size.  Massive.  

Nebulas, as you know, are star nurseries.  #ps19

M81 Bode’s Galaxy.  Shot on 1/5/13 with a 250mm telescope in New Mexico.  

LGRB 300secs each

iliveinaspiralgalaxy:

Milky Way by sonaljit on Flickr.

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(Source: guttedcorpse, via heavens-above-and-beyond)

nevver:

― Pablo Picasso

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nevver:

There she goes

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Uganda - 1st upload, a set on Flickr.