"Eye of God"

[ramin2999]

founed it to be cool

[Nazanin]

Whatever it is it's beautiful... wow

[Nushabeh]

woosh chegash jalebeh...an eye in spaceeeee......

[RoadRunner]

kewl picture

[RedWine]

geeee !

[Riaz]

beautiful

[RoadRunner]

Red Rose..

http://www.roadrunner.owns1.com/images/RedRose.jpg

[Nazanin]

Dayum! These are so nice

[Nushabeh]

wow thats pretty

[Anonymous]

Red Rose..



thata is really cool

[Cop]

baba ey val kheili bahal boodan

[RoadRunner]

baba ey val kheili bahal boodan

volek bahali ke bahal mibini =)

[IQ]

damn. very cooooool.

[RedWine]

PASADENA, Calif. - A close flyby of Saturn's big moon Titan by the international Cassini spacecraft revealed an upper atmosphere brimming with complex organic material, a finding that could hold clues to how life arose on Earth, scientists said Monday.


AP Photo



Cassini flew within 638 miles of Titan's frozen surface on April 16 and discovered a hydrocarbon-laced upper atmosphere.


Titan's atmosphere is mainly made up of nitrogen and methane, the simplest type of hydrocarbon. But scientists were surprised to find complex organic material in the latest flyby. Because Titan is extremely cold — about minus 290 degrees — scientists expected the organic material to condense and rain down to the surface.


"We are beginning to appreciate the role of the upper atmosphere in the complex carbon cycle that occurs on Titan," said Hunter Waite, a professor at the University of Michigan.


Scientists believe Titan's atmosphere may be similar to that of the primordial Earth and studying it could provide clues to how life began.


The $3.3 billion Cassini mission, funded by NASA and the European and Italian space agencies, was launched in 1997 and took seven years to reach Saturn. The European Huygens probe carried aboard Cassini was released on Dec. 24 and plunged to the surface of Titan in January

[RedWine]

The planet, known as an exoplanet, is five times bigger and 10 times hotter than the biggest planet in our solar system, Jupiter.

The photograph was taken last year by astronomers working with the Very Large Telescope at Mount Paranaol in Chile, the French National Scientific Research Centre (CNRS) and the European Southern Observatory (ESO) said.

The exoplanet orbits a young brown dwarf star -- a star of low mass, low luminosity and relatively low temperature. Brown dwarf stars are hard to distinguish from planets.

They had earlier said they detected an object 230 lightyears from the Earth close to a brown dwarf, but giving off 100 times less light than it. Scientists were unable to say whether the object was itself a brown dwarf, or a celestial body meeting the criteria of an exoplanet and orbiting its neighbour.

But observations earlier this year confirmed that the object is indeed an exoplanet, the first ever to be photographed, the proof lying in its movement over a year relative to the brown dwarf.

In fact since 1995 the presence of about 150 exoplanets orbiting stars similar to the solar system's sun have been detected. But in every case but one their existence has been deduced from analysis of the light given off by the star which provides evidence of the presence of the planets.

The exoplanet is twice as far from its sun as Neptune is from the Earth's sun and its orbit takes 2,500 years.

The same team has identified another object in a different constellation in the area of a young star which is at the limit of the defintion of an exoplanet.

A full account of the findings will be published shortly in the European review Astronomy and Astrophysics.

[RedWine]

بامداد سه*شنبه 13 ارديبهشت، ماه در حالت مقارنه با سياره مريخ قرار دارد.

حميدرضا شهشهان، عضو شاخه آماتوري انجمن نجوم ايران گفت: ماه در ساعت 40/3 بامداد روز سه*شنبه، 13 ارديبهشت، از افق شرق - جنوب شرقي طلوع مي*كند و به تدريج ارتقاع مي*گيرد.
وي، در ادامه توضيح داد: *سياره مريخ به شكل ستاره*اي نسبتا پرنور و نارنجي رنگ در فاصله حدود 5 درجه*اي بالا و سمت راست ماه ديده مي*شود. وي با اشاره به اينكه سرعتي پيش از طلوع خورشيد اين دو جرم آسماني حدود 20 درجه از افق ارتفاع دارند، خاطر نشان كرد: همچنين سياره اورانوس نيز كه در اين روزها نسبتا در نزديكي مريخ ديده مي شود و در حال نزديك شدن به آن است، بامداد سه*شنبه، در كنار ماه قرار دارد.
شهشهان يادآور شد: علاقه*مندان مي*توانند با كمك ماه آن را پيدا كنند. وي با اشاره به اينكه سياره اورانوس در فاصله 5 درجه*اي سمت چپ و بالاي ماه ديده مي*شود، گفت: براي ديدن سياره اورانوس، حداقل به يك دوربين دو چشمي نياز است. گفتني است: اين سياره به صورت ستاره*اي كم نور و به رنگ سبز ديده مي*شود

[RoadRunner]

amazing and beautifull pictures.. they make u wanna reach out and touch them :)

[RedWine]

PASADENA, Calif. - A close flyby of Saturn's big moon Titan by the international Cassini spacecraft revealed an upper atmosphere brimming with complex organic material, a finding that could hold clues to how life arose on Earth, scientists said.

Cassini flew within 638 miles of Titan's frozen surface on April 16 and discovered a hydrocarbon-laced upper atmosphere.

Titan's atmosphere is mainly made up of nitrogen and methane, the simplest type of hydrocarbon. But scientists were surprised to find complex organic material in the latest flyby. Because Titan is extremely cold — about minus 290 degrees — scientists expected the organic material to condense and rain down to the surface.

"We are beginning to appreciate the role of the upper atmosphere in the complex carbon cycle that occurs on Titan," Hunter Waite, a professor at the University of Michigan, said Monday.

Scientists believe Titan's atmosphere may be similar to that of the primordial Earth and studying it could provide clues to how life began.

The $3.3 billion Cassini mission, funded by NASA and the European and Italian space agencies, was launched in 1997 and took seven years to reach Saturn. The European Huygens probe carried aboard Cassini was released on Dec. 24 and plunged to the surface of Titan in January.

[RedWine]

This image released by NASA Thursday May 5, 2005 shows the Sombrero galaxy. The galaxy, called Messier 104, is commonly known as the Sombrero galaxy because in visible light it resembles a broad-brimmed Mexican hat called a sombrero. The new Sombrero picture combines a recent infrared observation from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope with a well- known visible light image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The Sombrero is one of the most massive objects at the southern edge of the Virgo cluster of galaxies. It is equal in size to 800 billion suns. This spiral galaxy is located 28 million light-years away and is 50,000 light-years across. Viewed from Earth, it is just six degrees away from its equatorial plane.

[RedWine]

This ultraviolet image taken from the Hubble Space Telescope shows Jupiter's atmosphere after many impacts by fragments of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9. A large, dark patch from the impact of fragment H is visible rising on the left side. Proceeding to the right, other dark spots were caused by impacts of fragments Q1, R, D and G, and L, with L covering the largest area of any seen thus far. The spots are very dark in the ultraviolet because a large quantity of dust is being deposited high in Jupiter's stratosphere, and that dust absorbs sunlight. Scientists will be able to track winds in the stratosphere by watching the evolution of these features. Jupiter's moon, Io, is the dark spot just above the center of the planet.

[RedWine]

Is our Milky Way Galaxy out to lunch? Recent wide field images and analyses now indicate that our home galaxy is actually still in the process of devouring one of its closer satellite neighbors. This unfortunate neighbor, the Sagittarius Dwarf galaxy, is now seen to be part of a larger Sagittarius Tidal Stream, a loose filament of stars, gas, and possibly dark matter that entangles the Milky Way. An artist's depiction of the stream is shown above. Speculation also holds that the Sagittarius Dwarf was once pulled through the Milky Way disk very close to our Sun's current location. An important resulting realization is that galaxies contain a jumble of clumps and filaments of both dim and dark matter.

[RedWine]

This image shows a small portion of a nebula called the "Cygnus Loop." This supernova remnant lies 2,500 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus the Swan. (Courtesy of Jeff Hester (Arizona State University) and NASA)

[Nazanin]

Wow, chaghd ghashange, che rang haee

[angel]

lovely

[IQ]

hanooz zamino nashnaakhte raftin soraaghe supernova remnant that lies 2,500 light years away. aval zamino dorost kon redi bad boro ooon doordooraa.

[RedWine]

hanooz zamino nashnaakhte raftin soraaghe supernova remnant that lies 2,500 light years away. aval zamino dorost kon redi bad boro ooon doordooraa.To az babateh khodet harf bezan :D

Vaghti sennet resid bala,khabaram kon. hahaha

[Nazanin]

:lol: az dast shoma 2 ta. Kheili bahalin :D

[RedWine]

Nazanin jan ... IQ shaba ziad loobia mikhoreh,nightmare dareh. haha

[Nazanin]

Kheili bahalin lool, tikehaye bahali miyain :D

[IQ]

redwine ham ziyaad piyaaz mikhore hey baa khodesh var mire. heyam hazyoon mige. :D

[RedWine]

Star.Neblosa Pistola .

[RedWine]

Cartwheel Galaxy .

[Cop]

niceeeee

[RedWine]

niceeeeeBeim unja dokhtar bazi ;) :D ?

[RedWine]

Our Cosmic

[RedWine]

Artist's impression of the Deep Impact spacecraft after firing a probe into the Tempel 1 comet. Scientists hope the collision will reveal the secrets of the Universe.


NASA spacecraft Deep Impact collides with the comet Tempel 1 in this image captured by Deep Impact's fly-by spacecraft and released on July 4, 2005.

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Tempel 1 comet is shown after the impactor probe from the Deep Impact spacecraft collided with the comet early Monday.