From the Top Ten Astronomy Pictures of 2008 comes this spectacular picture (yes picture, not rendering) of spiral galaxy NGC7331, 50 million light years away. The detail in the photo is staggering and every little bit is beautiful. Here is the 3000 pixel wide ‘reduced’ version and for the insane, this page has uncompressed 4000 pixel wide images up to 67 meg in size.
The other top photos of the year are of course worth checking out as well.
I will never ever stop geeking-out over this kind of stuff. I think it’s both extremely fascinating and beautiful.
The nice thing about science is that science doesn’t care what the public believes. That’s what makes it so valuable and so worthy of public support.
Stunning images of our sun from The Big Picture:
On September 30, 2001, TRACE observed an M1.0 flare in an active region very near to the solar limb. Fragments of a prominence hovered above the regions, with filamentary dark (relatively cool) material moving along the field lines, which then spread to form this dragon-like bright outline. (NASA/TRACE)
How. Cool.
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