Things I Find Important: April 2005

Saturday, April 16, 2005

Illuminated peaks and swirls - the inner region of the Trifid nebula, from Hubble

Some prefer to munch on geometric objects - Centaurus A, from Spitzer

Shuttle, satellites, and us - the view from STS113

Dimly lit by its parent planet - Saturn's moon Dione, from Cassini

I find this image very disturbing - Saturn's moon Tethys, from Cassini

Toiling away - Viking crater on Mars, from Opportunity

Changes visible in the haze - Titan, from Cassini

High voltage activity - x-ray aurora on Jupiter from Chandra

A spiral galaxy resembling our own - NGC 7331 in infrared, from Spitzer

A dance of destruction - Seyfert's sextet, from Hubble

No longer unknown - Titan, from Cassini

Can't see it from here - the lunar farside, from Apollo 11

Never! - Saturn,from Cassini

Tectonics, volcanism, craters - Claritas Fossae, from Mars Express

Lots of stars - globular cluster M13, by Eddie Guscott

I tell my TA to take pretty images of galaxies, and he does it! - NGC 3198, by Jason Cook