Behold: the spiral galaxy NGC4565 (aka ‘The Needle Galaxy’ on account of its narrow profile) viewed on edge from Earth.
40 million light years distant, it’s 100,000 light years across.
(Image: Christoph Kaltseis/ CEDIC)
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A composite image (top) of the Moon and stars created by astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy, who combined 50,000 individual images of the night sky into one huge, highly detailed photo.
Peruse the original full sized image here.
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A foggy morning near the banks of the Donau (Danube) river near Vác in Hungary, captured by photographer Gabor Dvornik.
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An elegant synchronicity (top) captured last month at Valais in Switzerland by Olivier Staiger. To wit:
The contrail would normally appear white, but the large volume of air toward the setting Sun preferentially knocks away blue light, giving the reflected trail a bright red hue. Far in the distance, well behind the plane, is a crescent Moon, also slightly reddened….the featured image was taken so soon after sunset that planes in the sky were still in sunlight, as were their contrails.
Veduta – the abandoned villas and palazzi of Italy, captured in mouldering evocative large format (with an analog 4×5 camera) by French photographer Thomas Jorion.
Part of a solo exhibition running util next month at Esther Woerdehoff Gallery in Paris.
An appulse is an apparent conjunction of two celestial bodies caused by perspective only – in this case, the Moon and (to its apparent left) Venus, viewed in the early morning from the darkness of a crater on the Hawaiian island of O’ahu by Alex Dzierba. To wit:
The Moon was in a crescent phase with its lower left reflecting direct sunlight, while the rest of the Moon is seen because of of Earthshine, sunlight first reflected from the Earth. Some leaves and branches of a foreground kiawe tree are seen in silhouette… Appulses involving the Moon typically occur several times a year: for example the Moon is expected to pass within 0.20 degrees of distant Saturn on March 1.
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A rare and spectacularly vivid 30-image panorama of the central band of the Milky Way galaxy observed by photographer Nicholas Buer from the darkness of Laguna Cejar in Northern Chile last October.
Full image here.
‘Villes Éteintes’ – dual composites consisting of cityscapes and the night sky by French artist Thierry Cohen in an attempt to reveal the stars normally blotted out by light pollution.
From top: Amsterdam, San Francisco, Shanghai, New York, Hong Kong, Rio De Janeiro and Paris.