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Features in the Gallery: Saturn

This recently submitted image looks nothing like the ringed planet Saturn we all know and love. It turns out that there is a planetary nebula named the Saturn Nebula.  SkyView displays images of objects outside our solar system so when … Continue reading

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Features in the Gallery: Color

There has been a whole series of beautiful color images posted to the Gallery recently. Some one (or ones) has been using SkyView‘s RGB capabilities to combine data from multiple surveys into color images. This first image of the center … Continue reading

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Features in the Gallery: Looking at the Big Picture

This image from 2008-12-10 09:39:28 is pretty interesting… It looks like we are seeing some very special object with rings around it. What’s going on here? This is a COMPTEL image, one of the lowest resolution surveys we have in … Continue reading

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Features in the Gallery: Worms in Space

This image from 2008-12-06 15:57:53 shows a very interesting feature that looks like a giant worm squirming amongst the stars. In fact it’s actually a tiny hair that got on the photographic plate sometime in the process of taking, developing … Continue reading

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Features in the Gallery: Very Bright Stars

Lots of people are using the Image gallery. One popular theme is to find images that look very peculiar. E.g., look at the image in the gallery from 2008-11-29 19:02:44 This is a very peculiar looking field in the DSS. … Continue reading

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