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The Art of Photography => The Coffee Corner => Topic started by: DarkPenguin on November 24, 2009, 04:42:52 pm

Title: Smithsonian Chandra images
Post by: DarkPenguin on November 24, 2009, 04:42:52 pm

New Vista of Milky Way Center Unveiled: A 400 by 900 light-year mosaic of images located about 26,000 light years from Earth in the constellation Sagittarius....

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2664/4127624763_cfeb164c9f_b.jpg)


Full set is here ...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/smithsonian/s...57608016866848/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/smithsonian/sets/72157608016866848/)

Title: Smithsonian Chandra images
Post by: bill t. on November 24, 2009, 05:13:40 pm

Chandra sure takes some groovy snaps!

There's a great video of stars doing hyperbolic hairpin turns around the Milky Way Black Hole in this region.  Somewhere.  Anybody have it?

I like the Toltec Supernova face...
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3059/2940666879_6df2417ca5_b.jpg)