‘Image of the Week’ Archives
Molecular Cloud Barnard 68
This used to be considered to be a hole in the sky. Here, a high concentration of dust and molecular gas absorb practically all the visible light emitted from background stars. The eerily dark surroundings help make the interiors of molecular clouds some of the coldest and most isolated places in the universe.
A Cool Martian Sunset
When you send a probe to Mars you do it for the science. When you get there you suddenly realize that you can do so many other amazing things.....Like when NASA's Spirit Rover took this image at sunset May 19 2005 at the edge of Gusev Crater. Thank you Spirit, hope you get moving soon!
Stunning selection of raw images from Cassini
Its one thing to send a craft to Saturn, but another to take one stunning image after the next. Here is a collection of some of my favorite images over the last 4 months. These images are "Raw" in that they have not been processed/cleaned etc. But I'd rather get the images early that have to wait months for perfection. Enjoy the set of images. [...]
NightSky.ie Picture of the Week – Oct 31 2009
This week I have selected this image for two reasons. The first reason is because this is a natural colour image. Most images are augmented in some way, so this is what we would see if we were sitting there in the spacecraft. The second reason is that it is just so iconic. The rings cast a narrow shadow due to the equinox and the moon Mimas is [...]
NightSky.ie Picture of the Week – Mars
Each week I take a look at newly released images and select my favourite. This week I found an image of the Martian landscape which put together based on a series of images from the Rover Opportunity.
NightSky.ie Picture of the Week
Each week I take a look at newly released images and select my favourite. This week there has been a wide array of images from Hubble/MRO/IBEX but it was the image taken by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile that I liked best. This image was taken of Bernard's Galaxy, a Dwarf galaxy about 1.6 Million Light Years away. It is one of [...]