(Untitled)- March 21, 2002 "By the way, the picture above is clipped from Voyager III, an absolutely terrific piece of Software from Carina Software, an independent developer in California's East Bay. You can lock and center on a celestial object, such as the Moon, and move forward and backward through time. You can watch the heavens change over the next 100,000 years. You can watch the Trojan asteroids chase Jupiter around its orbit. You can watch the moons of Jupiter move from any distance or angle, with or without...http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/categories/astronomy/2002/03/21.html#a931 (Untitled)- March 18, 2002 15596 &187; March 18 4:44 AM. Brilliant Astronomy Pix "This page is the gateway to a unique collection of wide-field astronomical photographs, mostly made with the telescopes of the Anglo-Australian Observatory by David Malin.....These are some of the finest pictures made with professional telescopes anywhere and every effort has been made to capture the true colours of distant stars, galaxies and nebulae using innovative photographic techniques and CCD detectors". Found via Scout Project -...http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/categories/astronomy/2002/03/18.html#a859 (Untitled)- March 8, 2002 The Universe Is Not Turquoise - It's Beige "In January, the true colour of the Universe was declared as somewhere between pale turquoise and aquamarine, by Ivan Baldry and Karl Glazebrook at John Hopkin's University in Baltimore Maryland. Glazebrook now says the true colour this data gives is closer to beige. 'I'm very embarrassed,' he says, 'I don't like being wrong.' " New Scientist, via MeFihttp://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/categories/astronomy/2002/03/08.html#a840 |