Thursday, August 9, 2012

Space (Facebook)

Space photos from facebook, mostly from Milky way scientists


Andromeda Galaxy at ultraviolet wavelengths. image credit - NASA

Center of the Lagoon Nebula. Credit & Copyright - Michael Sherick

Comet Holmes. Credit, Copyright - Tony Cook

M42 ESO Orion Nebula. by Mark McCaughrean (ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT) at Paranal (Chile)

Messier 107 is one of more than 150 globular star clusters found around the disc of the Milky Way galaxy. Image credit - ESA NASA

Milky Way. photo - Carlos Malvar, Stiched panorama

Reflection nebula in the constellation of Orion. Reflection nebulae often look a ghostly bluish color because they reflect scattered light from bright stars nearby

Ring Nebula Deep Field. Credit & Copyright Vicent Peris

Simeis 147 (Spaghetti Nebula) Image Credit Emil Ivanov

Starburst Galaxy NGC 1313, Credit & Copyright - Robert Gendler

Stars, Dust and Nebula in NGC 6559. Copyright Jean-Charles Cuillandre, Hawaiian Starlight, CFHT

Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Credit - ESO

The Bubble Nebula. Image Credit & Copyright - Yves Van den Broek

The Crescent Nebula, a cosmic bubble about 25 light-years across. Photo by Isaac Newton Telescope at Roque de los Muchachos Observatory in the Canary Islands.

The Tarantula Nebula is more than 1,000 light-years in diameter -- a giant star forming region within our neighboring galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud.  Copyright - John P. Gleason

earth sunrise


spiral galaxy NGC 4565. Also known as the Needle Galaxy for its narrow profile. Image Credit & Copyright Ken Crawford (Rancho Del Sol Obs.)




Saturday, August 4, 2012

Facebook - Birds

amazing birds from facebook, mostly from Sun-gazing.

A Paradise tanager
A Rhinoceros Hornbill Carrying A Mouse To His Nest, Thailand. Photographer  Tim Laman.
Bali Starling
Black and red Broadbill
Bluethroat - Photo By Tukki.
Bowerbird. photo by Mark Helle
Bronzed Cowbird. Photographer  Marina Scarr.
Christine Stewart  Tawny Frogmouths at Caboolture, QLD
Farne Islands
Gouldian Finch. Photographer Adrian Van Der Hoh
Hooded Oriole
Hummingbird Siblings In Their Nest. Photo  Alek Komarnitsky
Kori Bustard. Photographer - Chris Bower.
Male Northern Flicker (Red-Shafted) Photographer Darin Ziegler
Northern Cardinal In Snow.  Photographer  Karen Bacon
Northern Saw-Wet Owls
Peruvian Spatuletail
Photo by Robin Fritz
Photographer  Sompob Sasi-Smit
Photography by Isak Pretorius
Prothonotary Warbler
Red-breasted hummingbirds fed by hand in Vancouver Island, Canada
Red-necked Tanager
Roseate Spoonbills. Photographer - Jorja Feldman
Sun Parakeet
Taiwan Blue Magpie
The Bali Mynah
Thick-billed Green Pigeon
Tri-colored Heron, Florida. Photographer Jackie Kramer.
Tricoloured Parrotfinch
Tufted Coquette. Photographer  Michel Giraud-Audine.
Wattled Jacana by www.amazonbirding.com
Waxwings
Waxwings
Waxwings
White-Crested Laughingthrush
photo by Elena Gorenburg
snowy owl