Feast Your Eyes.... Options

[noorie]

on these celestial beauties!

Only some are illustrations; the rest are real.


This is the most detailed true-color image of the entire Earth to date. Image credit: NASA/GSFC


Pulsar




Titan








Starburst galaxy M82 (also known as NGC 3031 or Bode's Galaxy) is a spiral galaxy about 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major.


Messier 81
















M51:The Whirlpool Galaxy


The centre of the Milky Way




Mars


The moon, imaged by the Galileo spacecraft during its journey to Jupiter.


The Red Planet: Mars


Barnard 30 in the Orion Nebula. Image credit: NASA


Saturn. Image credit: NASA/JPL/SSI


NGC 2903


The solar cycle
Sun follows a relatively predictable 11-year cycle of solar activity. During the solar minimum, there's very little activity, and only a handful of sunspots. During the solar maximum, there can be frequent and powerful coronal mass ejections and X-ray flares.


The Sun (you need 3-D glasses). Image credit: NASA


The Sun again.


The Orion Nebula


Saturn's icy moon: Enceladus


The Moon


Lunar Phases


Saturn Dione

Noorie

[Mandrake]

Don't be sorry Noorie . It happens to all of us.
Let me start with a bit of (educated) guesswork:
1. Earth
2. a nebula (pls name it)
3. a nebula (name again)
4. Venus?
5. The Beehive cluster in Cancer
6. Saturn's rings and Titan (?)
7. a nebula (Butterfly?)
8. A nebula (Orion?)
9. A galaxy (Andromeda?)
10. Pyramids of Giza?
11. Arcturus in the southern sky
12. Solar Eclipse (false image - digitally produced)
13. Megrez in the Ursa Major
14. Horsehead nebula?
15. ?
16. ?
17. Artist's image of Sedna?
18. Spiral galaxy in Ursa major?
19. Milky way
20. moon
21. phases of moon
22. A-rings of saturn and one moon (Titan again?)
23. Supernova?
24. The terminator line on the moon
25. repeats