Astronomy Shares 12.12.2013

I think it would have looked better if the date were yesterday. Anyway. I'm not usually very familiar with WordPress, but since I started this site, I've been discovering new things. For example, today I installed the gallery plugin. It creates a nice image gallery. I'll try it out here and show you. Let's get started.

Here are some images that are claimed to fit in the palm of your hand, thanks to an effect found in astronomy photography. User ScienceLlama from Imgur.com tilt-shift He created these images using the effect in Photoshop. It didn't seem very small to me, but I tried the image gallery. I saw it and it turned out great.

The nebula in these images is the War and Peace nebula, also known as NGC 6357. It's located 8,000 light-years away in the constellation Scorpius. Like many nebulae, it's a star-making factory. The nebula gets its name from the infrared images of what appear to be skulls on the west and doves on the east. I didn't quite recognize the resemblance, but I don't know about you. However, I did notice something resembling a skull in one of the images.

Between 2004 and 2009 Anthem wandering on the surface robot traveler SpiritIn 2005, he climbed a hill and took a series of photographs over three days. The image above is a 360-degree view of these photographs. panorama It was obtained by adding them together digitally to create a resolution of 100%. When taking the photos, the command given to Spirit was that the resolution should be normal. person to your eye It was intended to be appropriate. My advice is to click on the image to enlarge it and move it left and right.