Hubble ACS broken?

ACS images faulty - produces 'jets' on everything

Process as negative and you will find ALL the galaxies have jets!

And the stars, too.

ALL point left.

Something badly wrong with the ACS or the processing.

CLICK the image to see all the jets.

Pluto – new views

Pluto Express is on its way to rendezvous in July 2015.
But the NASA images from 1994 and 2004 indicate the atmosphere has already frozen out.
Enjoy the novel views. The “black holes” are just where there is no data.

An Eclipse with the HST and ISS

Continuing the series of out-of-this-World views of eclipses.

This is an annular eclipse, where the Moon is so far away in it’s orbit it does not cover the Sun’s disk. Yet it leaves a distinct shadow racing across the Earth called an Antumbra. It also moves more slowly so the eclipse reaches the longest it can at over 11 minutes.

There are three main views:

Over Nairobi at dawn

Malé at noon and

Mandalay at dusk

The last looks down from the Sun at maximum and the ISS and Hubble Space Telescope have been added to give an idea of just how much the event has been slowed down to watch in only a couple of minutes.

See with x-ray eyes

Objects in space rarely look the same in different wavelengths.

Here 3C58 changes quite dramatically moving from soft to hard x-rays and in radio.

Overlaying the x-ray on to of the visible gives and idea of the different scales of the object.

Finally, putting them all together gives an ‘artists rendering’ idea of how it might appear if we could see all of those images at once.