Google Earth goes Cosmic
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Article[^] The package includes 125 Hubble images with captions and links to news and background information. Other photos, showing large swaths of the sky and about a million objects total, come from the Digitized Sky Survey and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Interesting. Certainly not earth shattering, but interesting. Marc
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Article[^] The package includes 125 Hubble images with captions and links to news and background information. Other photos, showing large swaths of the sky and about a million objects total, come from the Digitized Sky Survey and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Interesting. Certainly not earth shattering, but interesting. Marc
Marc Clifton wrote:
Interesting. Certainly not earth shattering, but interesting.
I saw that, I noticed the article I read did not include the open source Stellarium[^] which sounds like what they are trying to do with newer images. But what really got me was the news I missed in January.... http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070109_toppled_pillars.html[^] linked half way down the page.... The pillars have been toppled, I love those images.... at least we have 1000 years to look at them. :)
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Marc Clifton wrote:
Interesting. Certainly not earth shattering, but interesting.
I saw that, I noticed the article I read did not include the open source Stellarium[^] which sounds like what they are trying to do with newer images. But what really got me was the news I missed in January.... http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070109_toppled_pillars.html[^] linked half way down the page.... The pillars have been toppled, I love those images.... at least we have 1000 years to look at them. :)
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
El Corazon wrote:
at least we have 1000 years to look at them
:) I remember when those first were released. I showed them to one of the teachers at my son's school--he was 4 then. Amazing stuff. I bet watching them being blown away by a shockwave is going to be pretty cool too.
El Corazon wrote:
open source Stellarium[^]
Neato. I'll have to play with that! Marc
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El Corazon wrote:
at least we have 1000 years to look at them
:) I remember when those first were released. I showed them to one of the teachers at my son's school--he was 4 then. Amazing stuff. I bet watching them being blown away by a shockwave is going to be pretty cool too.
El Corazon wrote:
open source Stellarium[^]
Neato. I'll have to play with that! Marc
Marc Clifton wrote:
I bet watching them being blown away by a shockwave is going to be pretty cool too.
Once in a lifetime view. I set an alarm, but if I don't wake up, don't wait up for me. ;P
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Article[^] The package includes 125 Hubble images with captions and links to news and background information. Other photos, showing large swaths of the sky and about a million objects total, come from the Digitized Sky Survey and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Interesting. Certainly not earth shattering, but interesting. Marc
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/sombrero_galaxy_000304.html[^] My favorite - The Sombrero galaxy, voted Hubble's best. It's a good desktop background for a laptop, because it looks cool re matter which monitor it's stretched out on.
Tom Garth Developer R. L. Nelson and Associates, Inc., Virginia
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http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/sombrero_galaxy_000304.html[^] My favorite - The Sombrero galaxy, voted Hubble's best. It's a good desktop background for a laptop, because it looks cool re matter which monitor it's stretched out on.
Tom Garth Developer R. L. Nelson and Associates, Inc., Virginia
TomGarth wrote:
The Sombrero galaxy,
Ah yes, that's a cool looking galaxy. Though personally, I really like those Hubble shots that show thousands of galaxies. Marc