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M51 Hubble Remix

jtintle wrote 2 days ago: Credits: S. Beckwith (STScI), Hubble Heritage Team, (STScI/AURA), ESA, NASA Additional Processing: R … more →

Tags: Deep Space, Space Fotos, Constellation Canes Venatici, esa, Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration, M51, NASA, NGC 5195, Robert Gendler.

Planetary Systems Now Forming in Orion

jtintle wrote 2 days ago: Credit: NASA, ESA, M. Robberto (STScI/ESA), the HST Orion Treasury Project Team, & L. Ricci (ESO … more →

Tags: Deep Space, Space Fotos, Constellation Orion, esa, ESO, Great Nebula in Orion, HST Orion Treasury Project Team, L. Ricci, M. Robberto

Koala Fires MPMF.09

Kendall Bruns wrote 3 months ago: Koala Fires will be performing at the MidPoint Music Festival on Friday, September 25, 2009 at 9:30p … more →

Tags: Music, Koala Fires, mpmf, Courtyard Cafe, Midpoint Music Festival, midpoint, NASA, Hubble, Carina Nebula

Science vs Consumer Detectors: Thank you, Mary.

Tom Comeau wrote 4 months ago: I have been trying to figure out recently why people don’t understand what IR detector data lo … more →

Tags: Webb Space Telescope, WSS

The Eagle Has Risen & Other Stellar Public Domain Images

havealittletalk wrote 6 months ago: Did you realize that most of the images the Hubble telescope has relayed home to Earth which have be … more →

Tags: NASA, light echo, Cat's Eye Nebula, Eagle Nebula, Hubble, Public Domain Images, Sombrero Galaxy, Space Telescope Science Institute, Tarantuala Nebula

The Eskimo Nebula from Hubble

jtintle wrote 7 months ago: Credit: Andrew Fruchter (STScI) et al., WFPC2, HST, NASA Explanation: In 1787, astronomer William He … more →

Tags: Deep Space, Space Fotos, Andrew Fruchter, Eskimo Nebula, Hubble Space Telescope, NASA, NGC 2392, WFPC2

Orion Nebula: The Hubble View

jtintle wrote 9 months ago: Credit: NASA, ESA, M. Robberto (STScI/ESA) et al. Description: Few cosmic vistas excite the imaginat … more →

Tags: Deep Space, Space Fotos, esa, European Southern Observatory (ESO), Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration, La Silla, M. Robberto, M42, NASA

HUBBLE TELESCOPE: PHOTOS OF FOMALHAUT PLANET

Particular Kev wrote 1 year ago: NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has been used to take the first visible-light photograph of a planet o … more →

Tags: News, Space, Images, known, Mass, Information, Measures, photos, light

SN 1996cr: Powerful Nearby Supernova Caught By Web

jtintle wrote 1 year ago: Credit: X-ray (NASA/CXC/Columbia/F.Bauer et al); Optical (NASA/STScI/UMD/A.Wilson et al.) Explanatio … more →

Tags: Deep Space, Space Fotos, Anglo-Australian Telescope, Chandra X-ray Observatory, Circinus Galaxy, Columbia University, Franz E. Bauer, NASA, SN 1996cr

A Clash of Clusters Provides Another Clue to Dark Matter

jtintle wrote 1 year ago: Credit: X-ray(NASA/CXC/Stanford/S.Allen); Optical/Lensing(NASA/STScI/UC Santa Barbara/M.Bradac) Addi … more →

Tags: Space Fotos, Deep Space, NASA, Chandra X-ray Observatory, Hubble Space Telescope, Dark Matter, Constellation Cetus, Standford University, University of California - Santa Barbara

NGC 6543: The Cat's Eye Nebula Redux

jtintle wrote 1 year ago: Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: NASA/STScI Addition Images: JPEG (391kb) Tiff (9.3 MB) PS (7.8 … more →

Tags: Deep Space, NASA, CXC, SAO, NGC 6543, Cat's Eye Nebula, Constellation Draco

"No Organics" Zone Circles Pinwheel

jtintle wrote 1 year ago: Description: The Pinwheel galaxy, otherwise known as Messier 101, sports bright reddish edges in thi … more →

Tags: Deep Space, Spitzer Space Telescope (SST), JPL-Caltech, Messier 101, NASA, Pinwheel Galaxy, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

NGC 4649: A New Way To Weigh Giant Black Holes

jtintle wrote 1 year ago: Credit: X-ray (NASA/CXC/Univ. of California Irvine/P.Humphrey et al.); Optical (NASA/STScI) Other Pi … more →

Tags: Space Fotos, NASA, black holes, CXC, Univ. of California Irvine, P.Humphrey, NGC 4649

Macs take over astronomy

Tom Comeau wrote 1 year ago: Okay, maybe not all of astronomy, but I got these numbers yesterday from the people who handle HST p … more →

Tags: Hubble

M33 X-7:Heaviest Stellar Black Hole Discovered in Nearby Galaxy

jtintle wrote 2 years ago: Credit: Illustration: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss; X-ray: NASA/CXC/CfA/P.Plucinsky et al.; Optical: NASA/STScI/ … more →

Tags: Deep Space, Space Fotos, black holes, CFA, Chandra X-ray Observatory, CXC, M33 X-7, NASA, Normal Galaxies & Starburst Galaxies

Eta Carinae: New View of Doomed Star2 comments

jtintle wrote 2 years ago: Credit: X-ray:NASA/CXC/GSFC/M.Corcoran et al.; Optical: NASA/STScI Description: Eta Carinae is a mys … more →

Tags: Deep Space, Space Fotos, Chandra X-ray Observatory, Eta Carinae, Goddard Space Flight Center, Hubble Space Telescope, M. Corcoran, NASA, Nebula

Is Junk E-mail Impeding Postal Mail?1 comment

Tom Comeau wrote 2 years ago: I get 200-300 email messages a day in my three accounts, about two-thirds of them in my STScI (work) … more →

Tags: Process Change, Software

Tim Wise followup: Implicit Preference?

Tom Comeau wrote 2 years ago: Harvard University has a series of tests of implicit assumptions people make, under the aegis of Pro … more →

Tags: Communication

It's not what the software does, it's what the user does.

Tom Comeau wrote 2 years ago: hugh macleod at Gaping Void does these great little cartoons, “drawn on the back of business c … more →

Tags: Software, Seb


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