Showing posts with label light years. Show all posts
Showing posts with label light years. Show all posts

Monday, 26 April 2010

Hubble telescope marks 20 years in space CNNcom

For 20 years, it has circled quietly above us, capturing a dark, secret world billions of light years away.

Source:
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/US/04/25/hubble.telescope/

Sunday, 28 February 2010

An Infrared View of the Galaxy [PIC]

This sweeping panorama is the sharpest infrared picture ever made of the Galactic core.

The center of our Milky Way galaxy reveals a new population of massive stars and new details in complex structures in the hot ionized gas swirling around the central 300 light-years.

Source:
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/421530main_GalacticCore_090105_HI_full.jpg