Thursday, December 27, 2012

Space Pictures This Week

Antara  picture yang menarik perhatian yang aku amik dari website National Geographic.. Indah nian ciptaan tuhan agaknya berapa lama lagi kita buleh nak nengok kecantikan sebegini..


Starry Night

Photograph by Wally Pacholka, TWAN

The Milky Way glitters over Yosemite, California, in a picture taken December 14 and submitted to the astronomy-education project The World at Night (TWAN).

Our galaxy is far larger, brighter, and more massive than most other galaxies. From end to end, the Milky Way's starry disk, observable with the naked eye and through optical telescopes, spans 120,000 light-years.

(See Milky Way pictures inNational Geographic magazine.)



Green Lantern

Image courtesy Caltech/SSI/NASA

Another glorious, backlit view of the planet Saturn and its rings has been captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, as seen in a picture released December 18.

On October 17, during its 174th orbit around the gas giant, Cassini was deliberately positioned within Saturn's shadow, "a perfect location from which to look in the direction of the sun and take a backlit view of the rings and the dark side of the planet," according to NASA.

(Related: "Ten Best Pictures From NASA's Cassini Probe—Saturn, More.")
Published December 26, 2012
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