apod 2.2

This picture is so cool looking. I have never seen a cloud that has different colors in it or that looks kind of smeared like this one does. It looks like it is a rainbow within a cloud. The discription of the picture makes it sound like it is the same thing that happens with rainbows, yet is a lot more difficult to find and occurs much more rarely.

apod 2.1

for last week

The explanation for this picture is very confusing. I am not really sure what all of it means, but I really like the picture. From what i can gather from the explanation, it sounds like there are new results coming from the Auger observatory about high energy cosmic rays that had never been calculated before.

observation 2.0

Wednesday, November 7th
approx 9:30 pm
clear skies, very dark
looking due east
2 hours

Tonight when i was sitting outside in my back yeard, I was able to clearly see the summer triangle. All 3 stars, Deneb, Altair, and Vega, were very bright. They were making an obvious triangle shape. There was one star (the one on top) that seemed to be brighter than the other 2 stars. I am guessing that star was Vega. I had never seen the asterism before so it was very neat to finally be able to notice it.

apod 1.9

It is so interesting how flares from the sun can actually effect things on earth. It would be strange to be watching TV from a satellite and have the satellite picture go fuzzy because of activities on the sun, as it is so far away. It is also crazy that the temperature of the "glowing gas" is over ten million degrees Celsius.

apod 1.8

(last week)


This is a very approproate picture to show on Halloween! It looks just like a ghost with eyes and wings and a flowing bottom end. It is amazing that the Ghost Head Nebula can span 50 light years. It is hard to even imagine a distance that large.