Very nice recent space related photos.

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An unpiloted ISS Progress resupply vehicle approaches the International Space Station, carrying 2,050 pounds of propellant, 110 pounds oxygen and air, 926 pounds of water and 2,778 pounds of spare parts and experiment hardware for a total of 2.9 tons of food, fuel and equipment for the residents of the space station. Photo taken on January 12, 2012. (NASA)

Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, Expedition 30 flight engineer, participates in a session of extravehicular activity (EVA) to continue outfitting the International Space Station. During the six-hour, 15-minute spacewalk, Shkaplerov and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko (out of frame), flight engineer, moved the Strela-1 crane from the Pirs Docking Compartment to begin preparing the Pirs for its replacement next year with a new laboratory and docking module. Both spacewalkers wore Russian Orlan spacesuits bearing blue stripes and equipped with NASA helmet cameras. (NASA)

Nighttime view from the International Space Station shows the Atlantic coast of the United States in this image dated February 6, 2012. Metropolitan areas from the Virginia/Maryland/Washington, D.C., area are visible in the image that spans almost to Rhode Island. Boston is just out of frame at right. Long Island and the New York City area are visible in the lower right quadrant. Philadelphia and Pittsburgh are near the center. Parts of two Russian vehicles parked at the orbital outpost are seen in left foreground. (Reuters/NASA)

Rhea passes in front of the much larger haze-shrouded moon Titan, both in orbit around Saturn, seen by NASA's Cassini orbiter on August 25, 2011. (NASA/JPL)

A partial solar eclipse, as seen from space, on Tuesday February 21, 2012, when the Moon moved in between NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) satellite and the Sun, on February 22, 2012. (AP Photo/NASA)

The dancing light of the auroras on Saturn. Seen from space, an aurora appears as a ring of glowing gases circling a planet's polar region. Auroral displays are initiated when charged particles in space collide with a planet's magnetic field. The charged particles are accelerated to high energies and stream into the upper atmosphere. Collisions with the gases in the planet's atmosphere produce flashes of glowing energy in the form of visible, ultraviolet, and infrared light. Astronomers combined ultraviolet images of Saturn's southern polar region with visible-light images of the planet and its rings from both Hubble and the Cassini spacecraft to make this picture. The auroral display appears blue because of the glow of ultraviolet light. In reality, the aurora would appear red to an observer at Saturn because of the presence of glowing hydrogen in the atmosphere. This image was taken in January of 2004. More info here. (NASA, ESA, J. Clarke, Boston University, and Z. Leva, STScI)

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[yesboss]

Thanks for these pictures. what is it in the third picture? lights at night ... really?

 

[darkinsky]

good now, where are pampers for yankees??

 

[oFFbEAT]

cool......

Adding one from my side........"Hand of God"
Though not new....still amazing.....

The above picture was taken by Nasa's Chandra X-ray observatory, which is orbiting 360 miles above the Earth's surface.

The hand was created when a star exploded to form a supernova, creating a rapidly-spinning 12-mile-wide star called a pulsar(which is deep inside the white blob at the hand's wrist.)

The pulsar is spewing out enormous amounts of electromagnetic energy, creating a dust and gas cloud so wide that it would take a light beam 150 years to cross from side to side.

The red disc is a separate gas cloud. The fingers are thought to have been created as energy passed from the pulsar to the gas cloud.

Nasa scientists estimate, the moment depicted here actually happened 17,000 years ago.
It has taken since then for the X-rays, travelling at 670million mph, to reach Earth.

 

[Malik Alashter]

Great I'm so interested in the space and it's news, thanks for the pictures

 

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A cool sci-fi looking photo.

In this photo taken from the International Space Station, the European Space Agency’s Automated Transfer Vehicle-3 (ATV-3) is seen on approach for docking. The unmanned cargo spacecraft docked to the space station at 6:31 p.m. EDT on March 28, 2012.
The ATV-3 delivered 220 pounds of oxygen, 628 pounds of water, 4.5 tons of propellant and nearly 2.5 tons of dry cargo. Among other items, the station crew received experiment hardware, spare parts, food and clothing.

Thanks for these pictures. what is it in the third picture? lights at night ... really?

Yes.

 

[Jango]

Not really recent, but amazing space pics by Hubble.

One of the beautiful images of space that Hubble telescope took.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...la_pillars.jpg/608px-Eagle_nebula_pillars.jpg

Eagle nebula pillars of creation.

HORSEHEAD NEBULA>

Really amazing that how these kind of nebulae, stars, galaxies are formed.

Really a diverse universe.

Truly creations of Allah.

 

[BelligerentPacifist]

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Adding one from my side........"Hand of God"
Though not new....still amazing.....
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Why do these people have such small minds? Why not 'hand-like-formation-of-galactic-nebula', why 'hand of God'? Why do you want to limit your idea of God to some giant fiery space monster?

 

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Yo, yo this is a picture thread.
All creationistic, religious, philosophical debates dont belong here.

Space Shuttle VR cockpit


For everyone that's ever wanted to see how a shuttle cockpit looks like.
You can zoom, turn all in amazing detail. If you have a bigger screen it's almost like being in the real thing.

 

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Actual imagery from landing on Saturn's moon Titan.​

This movie, built with data collected during ESA Huygens' mission at Titan on 14 January 2005, shows the operation of the DISR camera during its descent up to touch- down. The almost 4-hour long operation of DISR is shown in less than five minutes - 40 times the actual speed up to landing and 100 times the actual speed thereafter (for a complete description click here).
The first part of the movie shows how Titan looked to DISR as it acquired more and more images during the probe's descent. Each DISR image has a small field of view, and dozens of images were made into mosaics of the whole scene.

The scientists analysed Huygens' speed, direction of motion, rotation and swinging during descent. The DISR movie includes sidebar graphics that show:

(Lower left corner) Huygens' trajectory views from the south, a scale bar for comparison to the height of Mount Everest, colored arrows that point to the sun and to the Cassini orbiter.
(Top left corner) A close-up view of the Huygens probe highlighting large and unexpected parachute movements, and a scale bar for comparison to human height.
(Lower right corner) A compass that shows the changing direction of view as Huygens rotates, along with the relative positions of the sun and Cassini.
(Upper right corner) A clock that shows Universal Time for Jan. 14, 2005 (Universal Time is two hours earlier with respect to Central European Summer Time). Above the clock, events are listed in Mission Time, which starts with the deployment of the first of the three parachutes.
Sounds from a left speaker trace Huygens' motion, with tones changing with rotational speed and the tilt of the parachute. There also are clicks that clock the rotational counter, as well as sounds for the probe's heat shield hitting Titan's atmosphere, parachute deployments, heat shield release, jettison of the DISR cover and touch-down.

Sounds from a right speaker go with DISR activity. There's a continuous tone that represents the strength of Huygens' signal to Cassini. Then there are 13 different chimes - one for each of DISR's 13 different science parts - that keep time with flashing-white-dot exposure counters.

During its descent, DISR took 3500 exposures.

 

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On June 5, 1966, Gemini 9A Commander Eugene Cernan spent more than 2 hours on a spacewalk, taking this photo while standing in the open hatch over the Pacific Ocean. (NASA/JSC/ASU)

Gemini 6A closes to within 35 feet of its sister capsule, Gemini 7, on December 15, 1965. (NASA/JSC/ASU)

 

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Staff members work in the Beijing Aerospace Flight Control Center in Beijing, capital of China, Nov. 14, 2011. China's Shenzhou-8 unmanned spacecraft successfully re-docked with the Tiangong-1, a module of the country's planned space lab on Monday. (Xinhua/Wang Jianmin)

 

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The infiltration of lights in the Alps mountain range in Europe was seen by astronaut André Kuipers from the International Space Station on Feb. 12, 2012. Credit: NASA/ESA

 

[Patriot]

Life on earth is so boring.