Wings to the fantasy

 Wings to the imagination to see the kids astronomy picture
Description: Tuoluo Luo Shan Inter-American Observatory (the CTIO), the famous Southern Observatory, located on a mountain in Chile. The above picture wrapped around the central dome of the Observatory of the most famous one of the devices - the Blanco 4-meter diameter telescope. dome behind the distant sky filled with thousands of stars and galaxies from the three Chaos Star, they are the Small Magellanic Cloud (in the upper left screen), the Large Magellanic Cloud (image lower left) and our own Milky Way (picture right). Blanco telescope in the dome next to the right side is well-known Southern Hemisphere by the four bright stars form the main body of the constellation - the Southern Cross. This digital photo only a short exposure time of 20 seconds, is dedicated to astronomical photography using a high sensitive detector shot.
love Iowa State over the Aurora
Description: Iowa is not the only stars in the sky shining. spectacular northern lights do shine in the sky, and has been extended to the U.S. Midwest, but other areas can not always see the emergence of Aurora. This wide range of auroral activity is caused by a massive solar flare, and a few days ago have high-energy particle cloud erupted from the surface of the sun, after a collision with the Earth's magnetic field. in the shooting aurora observed After the time is ripe, the photographer Stan. Richard in the state capital of Iowa Saylorville Lake near Des Moines to take over this psychedelic image. at the time the colorful light from the sky seems to have been extended to the surface of the water , but in fact they are high enough to have 100 km or more.
panoramic photo Apollo 17: Astronaut Running
Description: Explore the surface of another world would look like? 1972, Awa Law No. 17 mission, astronauts Harrison Schmitt had this first-hand information. this other world is the Earth's satellite - moon. This latest panoramic images of the lunar edited by astronauts Eugene Cernan was originally shot, you can see the barren lunar surface is very desolate. Slide the scroll bar, you can see above the lunar rocks in the foreground, lunar mountains in the background, some small craters, a lunar rover, and astronaut Schmidt is to the moon car door. In a few days after this photo was taken, the human left the moon has not yet been back.
giant radio telescope array in the large dish antenna
Description: They are so great, I feel the same as unreal. great radio telescope array (VLA) radio dish in the dish looks like a dinosaur skeleton and general satellite TV antenna as a strange compound. Array radio telescope in the 27 giant dish antennas combined to form high-sensitivity equipment, high-definition images can be captured, to achieve a series of major astronomical discoveries, including the discovery of ice on Mercury, Milky Way mini-quasars, distant galaxies, the formation of Einstein ring gravitational effect sensors and radio frequency corresponding to the deep space cosmic gamma-ray pulse. The above image is near Socorro in New Mexico last week, captured a great array of dishes. Sweden over a Leonid meteor
Description: Over the past weekend, a distant comet debris left by a small part of the sky lit the earth. According to observations reported in this year's Leonid meteor shower happened more than a few years ago Leonids are small. However, some fanatic who reported that Star Search Meteor burst per minute peak to see a meteor shower. Leonids of the mother is the solar system every 33 years a return to the Temple - Tarter comet particles ejected by the sand-like remains of. When the earth around the sun through these particles run, it will produce a meteor shower. two days ago on November 19 midnight, to take over in Sweden Vallentuna to one in the photo above, the Leonid meteor shower. Despite the level of active meteor shower notoriously difficult to predict, However, some astronomers speculated that next September's Auriga unusual meteor shower will be many bright meteors.
fog over the rainbow
California Description: piece of white arc is that true? image you see the rainbow is a fog, and the rainbow is similar to the formation of water reflecting sunlight, but it does not color. mist did not show itself, arc, and the fog is almost transparent, but the distribution of relative average. the fog is the shape of rainbow mist drops to a specific point of reflection from the sun to the observer. fog rainbow color is not the reason why the wavelength of sunlight and the droplet size is similar to the effects of scattering become strong, and can form a rainbow of colors reflecting the larger droplets can, As the sun as a small prism emission. The above picture of her like a fog last week, Hong Ying captured, when the sun behind the photographer. carefully observe the whole image on the right rear, can be found in two California Golden Gate Bridge tower crane in one.
Paranal Peak moonset times
Note: the rising sun to full light in the northern Chilean Andes up to 2,635 meters before the summit ridge of Paranal, Gordon. Gill photographed on this gorgeous fall image. In this long-distance photographs, the one to bring out the full moon of October, the European Southern Observatory Paranal Observatory telescope array on the spectacular. from left to right, the most famous 4 with a dome diameter of 8.2 meter telescope names are great: the sun, the moon, Venus, and almost covered the Southern Cross. like the Paranal Observatory of the people can see the VLT Survey Telescope, which located in the far right image is a small telescope with a white dome of the telescope secondary. The sun, the moon, Venus, and the Southern Cross is named Mo Buqie indigenous languages. Usually they are translated into the sun, moon, Venus, and the Southern Cross stars.
across Turkey over the Orion meteor shower
Description: meteor flies out from the constellation of Orion. This is what people expected, in mid-October is the annual Orion meteor shower time. The above image is the last weekend in Turkey Boolean a small town near Sa, after continuing for up to 3 hours after exposure, captured more than 12 meteors. The above image shows the track number of bright meteors, all of these tracks can be connected in the sky, Orion Belt The merged into a single point, this point is radiant. Orion meteor shower is heated after the eruption of Halley's Comet into the solar system, the size of the sand-like debris. Halley's comet with two well-known fact about the meteor shower, the other is the famous treasure bottle e meteor shower, visible in May. Next month, from Tampere - Tuttle (Tempel-Tuttle) Leonid meteor shower of comets in some areas will give the left a deep impression.
over Florida anti-gap light
cloud Description: What happened over the horizon? Though this scenario seems a bit unusual, but nothing special, it is just a setting sun and some clouds together form right effect Bale. strange is, in fact the direction of the sunset and the camera toward the opposite. The above picture is the anti-cloud gap light. To understand what happened, let the sun through the clouds from the day when the gap formed by the usual gap of cloud optical begin. Although the sun through the clouds along the straight line is indeed, but when they light the sky to the ball after a great round. So, from sunset (or sun) looks like a cloud in the sky light gap on the other while coming together again, so that the Sun formed a 180.'s point, this convergence is called anti-light cloud gap light. When the photographer in Florida visiting the Kennedy Space Center NASA, is watching the sunset he just found another more exciting over the landscape in the Atlantic, that is above the group's anti-cloud life-gap light.
11-hour star trail map
Description: Put your camera on on a tripod, lock the shutter it has been open, so you can take a star trail map of the. the earth around its axis, the stars in the sky to form a beautiful concentric circular tracks. Of course, the length of track star depends on the exposure time. exposure only lasted 5 minutes to form a clear star trails arc, the exposure time to 12 hours, the shooting stars will be able to describe the half circle. but any long exposure, the background light pollution damage may build up in star trail effect. However, astronomers Josch Hambsch was taken to this beautiful star trail near the Antarctic composite image, the exposure time to reach the entire night, almost 11 hours. In order to make this video, he 128 synthesized in Namibia in the dark sky, shooting 5-minute continuous exposure of a single image.
in this final image, the right of the dim background light from the Milky Way arc over Lake Superior Green Aurora
we all know, Aurora manifestations of a variety of colors and Gemini South Observatory Star track
Description: In this surreal long exposure photos, the stars seem to in the Southern Hemisphere sky and made a road in the arc. This photo was taken before the moon rises, the wisdom of the earth located Li Paqie Aung San (Cerro Pachon) Gemini South Observatory. in up to one hour and forty minutes exposure time, the camera and tripod is fixed, so the center of the star trails with the Earth rotating around its axis of rotation to reflect on Sunday. This photo is facing south viewfinder, and includes the Gemini Observatory in future dome. These curved star trails there is a clear center, this is the south celestial pole, which is located in the upper left edge of the screen a little bit outside the position. two weak and diffuse dark cloud is the size of the track left by the Magellanic Cloud, They are two of the Milky Way galaxy. in the Observatory down the left side there is a meteor across the night sky, and light near the horizon is from Sai Leina (La Serena) and Coquimbo (Coquimbo) that the two coastal city.

clouds over Sweden Description: Sometimes the ground is already in the night, but the sky is still the day. With the rotation of the earth blocking the sun, at dusk on Earth. At this point, the ground is dark, but the sun still shining above the clouds; in normal circumstances, have seen a beautiful sunset, but if there are clouds at high altitude, long after dark, you can see the unusual clouds. The above picture taken in the last month the image, the network-like clouds, the night sky to become both the Swedish Vallentuna colorful and bizarre. It is generally believed by clouds composed of tiny ice crystals, but most of their properties is still unknown.
recent evidence that at least some noctilucent clouds, the water emitted by the crystallization of the space shuttle is made. Sunset Manhattan
: If today's weather
clear, the sun will shine at sunset, Manhattan, from Manhattan, the sun every street down the center line of precision. in New York City, everywhere along the lattice arrangement of high-rise building streets, usually the highest buildings will block the sun, this effect is to Manhattan to become a modern version of Stonehenge, It just points to about 30 degrees north east. If the points are arranged in the Manhattan streets from east to west, the effects we see today will appear in the spring equinox (March 21) and the autumnal equinox (Sept. 21), because in this two days, sunrise and sunset is due east and due west orientation. If today's sunset is a cloud to cover, do not despair, because every year on May 28 and July 12 will appear the same landscape. regardless of under any circumstances, do not look directly at the sun.

Stonehenge solstice sunrise sky in the earth, and today the sun will reach its most northern point of the irradiation. This is the summer solstice, usually is a sign the days of seasonal changes, Earth's northern hemisphere from the spring into the summer, and fall into the earth from the southern hemisphere winter. The figure is in the UK in 2005 to celebrate the summer solstice at Stonehenge scene. This phenomenon is rare, because Stonehenge was not always open, but also because of the recent The summer solstice, where often annoying cloudy. In 2005, several thousand people came to dawn with a 4000-year-old monument to watch the sunrise and the sun. As the Earth orbits the movement axis of thousands of years after the great astronomical significance of the day, the sun will not rise from the Stonehenge over, even though the photographer to find a suitable location, photographed in Stonehenge standing in a huge stone at the top of a sunrise.
Hawaii Harley Yucca pull of the moon over the mountains
Note: this piece in the clouds above the moving image shooting, the waning moon hanging in the dormant volcano Haleakala and observatory domes over. This May 31 in Hawaii West Maui captured images, but also records the horizon behind the city lights of Honolulu. In light of the full moon near the super strength, you can see the bright Saturn, in addition, can also be found in this Hoshino, Mars and Gemini North Creek b (Castor) and the North River III (Pollux). Of course, the observer can be in this evening's night sky, the moon and Saturn to find in between the star cluster known as the Ghost (Beehive Cluster) of the M44. With the continuing near Mars Saturn, it June 15 will cover a ghost in front of the cluster, so in this period the night sky like him to pay attention to the West. (you can not find these objects? Click here to help you find.
Arizona over the nebula
halo over Utah
Description: Have you ever seen the sun halo do ? This phenomenon is quite common, the day high-altitude air contains millions of tiny ice crystals covered with a thin haze occurs when. Each ice was like a mini-prism effect. because most of hexagonal ice crystals are similar to the cylinder , light from entering from the opposite side of ice crystals deflect 22. injection, which is consistent with the radius of the halo. at night may also see a similar halo. The above photo was taken in Utah's Gunlock, and taking pictures chance to capture a group of flying birds in the foreground. the cloud of ice crystals to form is still in
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Maine over the light beam
Description: Have you ever seen a bunch of light beam it? When the sunset or sunrise, if the air was cold, falling ice crystals will reflect sunlight to form an unusual light beam. When the clouds of ice falling from the top, sometimes it will form a flat, angular (Prohibition signs shape ) ice crystals. In these ice crystals float to the ground in the process, the air resistance makes them similar to flat maintaining most of the time. When the ice completely arranged in line, the reflected light will form a light beam effect. the picture was taken late last month sunset midnight, in the United States over the city of Bangor, Maine has a bunch of beams formed by reflecting sunlight.
astrology over the mountain Mauna Yake traces
Note: There is a road leading to the stars? Perhaps there are many, However, the way the image above this physics leads to a dormant volcano is the peak, where the star on the planet and astronomical observation the main place. Hawaii has some top of Mauna Kerouac's largest optical telescopes on Earth, including Kay Bank telescope, the Gemini telescope, Subaru Telescope, CFHT (Canada France Hawaii Telescope) and the NASA Infrared Telescope. The 10-meter telescopes have jointly made a lot of re-definition of the discovery of the universe, including most of the universe is mysterious dark matter and dark energy component, not the substance we know. The above image is a digital camera to a more than 150 photos 1 minute exposure treatment to get. shoot, as the Earth's rotation, making distant stars show traces long astrology. in the foreground in the moonlit picture.
from the moon rises over the horizon of the earth
Description: December 1968, Apollo 8 crew from fly to the moon and then return to Earth 21 .12, moon after running 10 laps in the December 27 return to Earth. Apollo 8 mission to create a lot of impressive first, including: the first human to travel the earth satellite, the first use of rocket for human flight, the first time in photographs of deep space to Earth. When the Apollo 8 command module around to the other side of the moon, with the spacecraft's orbital motion, toward the members were able to see on the direction of the Earth flat line l seq. This floating on the horizon of the earth the moon photos, is a well-known pictures of the blue planet, it is also brought to the world a great gift.
picture of Mount Everest on Mars
lunar month
Description: Each night the moon are changing. This timing diagram shows a lunar month mm in a complete cycle of the moon phase the moon is how to change . When the moon around the Earth is running, to the moon by the sun light in the visual hemisphere, the visible part of getting bigger, and then gradually becomes smaller. The moon is always with the same side toward Earth. However, depending on the size of the moon there are minor changes, because the moon is moving in elliptical orbit, it will produce tiny rock called libration. phase cycle in a month, a different night, the sun from a different angle on the table reflection, it will be light on the formation of a different appearance. a full lunar month is about 29.5 days, so the English in the