The Moon! (lunar eclipse)

If you have a clear sky right now you should go outside and look at the moon right now.

Gigantic, Gorgeous Finale of Hubble Space Telescope's Photon-Hunting Trip

This is what happens when you turn NASA's Hubble Space Telescope loose for one year on a tiny slice of the sky above: A stunning view of 50,000 galaxies -- a massive 5600 x 9000 pixel, fully-high-resolution JPEG photo -- that'll leave you speechless. It's time to nominate NASA's Hubble Space Telescope for a Nobel Prize.

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Moon Images Available in High-Res Soon!

Hot on the heels of the remastering of the Apollo movie footage comes the news that every photograph taken above and on the surface of the Moon is being rescanned digitally and made available to the public!

The work is being done at Arizona State University, and is headed up by Mark Robinson, who is, not-so-coincidentally, the Principal Investigator for LROC, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera, the workhorse camera on the next NASA lunar probe. Over the next three years he and his team will be scanning in the original lunar photographs at high resolution (some are 1.3 Gb per picture, at 100-200 pixels per film millimeter!) and high contrast.

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Interactive Sky Map - 500 million space objects

The main purpose of WIKISKY is to consolidate astronomical, astrophysical and other information about different space objects and astrophysical facts. The system can display about 500 millions the space objects of the star sky.

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Hubble Deep Field: The Most Imp. Image Ever Taken (Redux)

Watch... Listen...

AGF

Not very realistic, but it's just a commercial. :)

1300 black holes

A new image from the Chandra observatory found over 1300 black holes in the centers of galaxies billions of light years away. How can black holes be so bright?



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