COSMIC UNIVERSE: October 2014

Friday 31 October 2014

The Earth with the Hi-Vision Camera of Kaguya in 2007

Earth Image taken by SELenological and Engineering Explorer Satellite "KAGUYA"(SELENE) Hi-Vision Camera

2007/09/29 P-044-14455 This Image taken at far about 110 thousand km from the earth is the first Hi-Vision shot in the world. This is cut from a part of the movie.

JAXA Images

Thursday 30 October 2014

The Earth from space as seen in the Apollo 17 mission to the moon in 1972

View of the Earth as seen by the Apollo 17 crew traveling toward the moon. "The Blue Marble"

Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA-Johnson Space Center. "The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth."

Earth from space Dec. 17, 1972 Apollo 17 mission NASA The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth AS16-118-18885 high res

Earth Image by Galileo Spacecraft 1990

Earth Image by Galileo Spacecraft 11.12.1990 NASA

Description: This color image of the Earth was obtained by the Galileo spacecraft at about 6:10 am PST. The color composite used images taken through the red, green and violet filters. South America is near the center of the picture, and the white, sunlit continent of Antarctica is below. Picturesque weather fronts are visible in the South Atlantic, lower right. This is the first frame of the Galileo Earth spin movie, a 500-frame time-lapse motion picture showing a 25-hour period of Earth's rotation and atmospheric dynamics.

Identifier: AILS_AC91-2008

The world from space on flikr

Earth in Ultraviolet from Apollo 16 in 1972

Earth photographed by UV camera 21. April 1972 NASA commons on flikr

Description: A color enhancement of an ultraviolet photograph of the geocorona, a halo of low density hydrogen around the Earth. Sunlight is shining from the left, and the geocorona is brighter on that side. The UV camera was operated by Astronaut John W. Young on the Apollo 16 lunar landing mission.

UID: SPD-JSC-S72-40818

Earth as seen from the Apollo 8 Astronauts in 1968

Earth from Apollo 8 24.12.1968 NASA Johnson Space Center AS8-16-2606 (GPN-2000-001489)

Detail of Earth from Apollo 8 24.12.1968 NASA Johnson Space Center AS8-16-2606 (GPN-2000-001489)

photographed from a point near the Moon by the Apollo 8 astronauts (80mm lens)
Great Images in NASA

Wednesday 29 October 2014

The milkyway in different wavelengths

Gamma-Ray (Fermi All Sky Survey) high-energy: 10 keV – 300 GeV

X-Ray (ROSAT All Sky Survey) high-energy: 0.1 to 2 keV

The Visual Sky (DSS / Wikisky) 1 – 10 eV the visible electromagnetic spectrum

H-Alpha (WHAM / SHASSA / VTSS / Finkbeiner) Hydrogen gas: 656.3 nanometres wavelength

Far Infrared (IRAS) infrared emission from galaxies and warm dust called infrared cirrus: 12, 25, 60, 100 µm (micrometre)

Microwave (Planck) nine microwave wavelength bands ranging from 10mm to 0.35mm.
As well as seeing the oldest light in the Universe, it also sees gas and dust within our own Galaxy.