Stunning Planetary Portraits and Spacescapes
Posted by brandoniswrite on May 14, 2011
Europa and Jupiter's Great Red Spot, Voyager 1, March 3, 1979. 2003 Credit: NASA; JPL/Kinetikon Pictures. Used by permission. We’ve featured many space images here on Universe Today that have been produced by imaging enthusiasts who take raw images from a mission or spacecraft and refine them into what many consider works of art. Michael [...]
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Tags: Planetary, Portraits, Spacescapes, Stunning
NASA’s Fermi Spots ‘Superflares’ in the Crab Nebula
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The famous Crab Nebula supernova remnant has erupted in an enormous flare five times more powerful than any flare previously seen from the object. On April 12, NASA‘s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope first detected the outburst, which lasted six days. The nebula is the wreckage of an exploded star that emitted light which reached Earth [...]
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Tags: 'Superflares', Crab, Fermi, NASA's, Nebula, Spots
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