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Tempe AZ (SPX) Jan 05, 2011 On the first day of the new year, NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day published University of Arizona astronomer and astrophotographer Adam Block's 50th image on that site. Block's photo of the Fireworks Galaxy (NGC 6946) was taken with the telescope atop the Santa Catalina Mountains at the UA Mount Lemmon SkyCenter. It was momentous for him, he said, not just because it was the first APOD picture of 2011, but also because it came only two days after his previous post of a cosmically nearby nebula (NGC 2170). APOD has a searchable archive where you can find his other works. Astronomy fans also can likely expect more space shots from Block, whose images have been posted by APOD for 11 years.
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WISE Sees An Explosion Of Infrared LightPasadena CA (JPL) Dec 13, 2010 This oddly colorful nebula is the supernova remnant IC 443 as seen by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. Also known as the Jellyfish nebula, IC 443 is particularly interesting because it provides a look into how stellar explosions interact with their environment. IC 443 can be found near the star Eta Geminorum, which lies near Castor, one of the twins in the constellation ... read more |
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