Thanks for the link thats two gorgeous things ive seen today
me want
Jul-25-2006 00:17
SteelWolf
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^ my dad just bought one of those
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Jul-25-2006 00:24
Nrg2Nfinit
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i miss my car..
Jul-25-2006 01:46
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astronomy lectures can be boring sometimes but its worth it for pretty pictures like these
Kinda looks like a jellyfish swimming through some coral.
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Jul-25-2006 13:38
Omega_M
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FYI the NASA image will not look so spectacular if you ever happen to see it through a telescope. To make such an image, the same object is snapped by different types of cameras each of which can take photo in only one particular part of the Electromagnetic wave spectrum like x-ray, gamma ray, infra red and visual light. This is because objects like stars radiate energy over the entire electromagnetic spectrum.
Because the human eye cannot see any other type of electromagnetic waves the other frequencies are mapped into the visual spectrum by some color. so the variations in x-ray for example would be seen as variations in blue color.
THe information from all such frequencies is superimposed on the image taken by ordinary camera and the result is pretty much spectacular
Jul-25-2006 15:33
Sunsnail
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Originally posted by Omega_M
FYI the NASA image will not look so spectacular if you ever happen to see it through a telescope. To make such an image, the same object is snapped by different types of cameras each of which can take photo in only one particular part of the Electromagnetic wave spectrum like x-ray, gamma ray, infra red and visual light. This is because objects like stars radiate energy over the entire electromagnetic spectrum.
Because the human eye cannot see any other type of electromagnetic waves the other frequencies are mapped into the visual spectrum by some color. so the variations in x-ray for example would be seen as variations in blue color.
THe information from all such frequencies is superimposed on the image taken by ordinary camera and the result is pretty much spectacular
Yea I was about to post that. Still pretty cool pictures though
Jul-25-2006 17:32
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^ my dad just bought one of those