Biography 4

APOD 4.8

The following is a UV image of the sun. This ultraviolet image lets us see things that we normally can't, even if we did what we never should do, and looked at the sun directly. You can see both solar flares, and sunspots from this image. These flares are especially large, and may disrupt electronics on earth.

APOD 4.7

The following is a panoramic image, taken from earth. Despite the almost alien looking sky and terrain, this was taken in Iceland, as evidenced by the human in the photo.  This photo, which is the winner of the 2013 International Earth Sky Photo Contest, shows the arc of the Milky way, and the Andromedia galaxy. This shows that beautiful skies like this aren't only visible on low atmosphere alien planets.

Apod 4.6

The following is a moon time lapse image from western Australia  during an eclipse.  One should remember that for us, this is happening during our day time, as Australia is on the opposite side of the world.  As incredible as the eclipse is, while it was happening for them, it was night where we are.

Apod 4.5

The above image is the spiral galaxy M77. A whopping 47 million light years away, in the direction of the constellation Cetus, this galaxy reminds us of just how massive the universe is. Not only that, but when looking at this, we look back in time, 47 million years back in time to be specific. If this galaxy had life, and that life could look at earth from, they would see a planet completely devoid of civilization.  This shows just how massive, and insane the universe is.

APOD 4.4

The image shows the Orion constellation. This constellation gets this red hazy look from its nebulae.   For example, near Rigel, is the witch head nebula. As cosmic birthing grounds, these nebulae and cosmic wind slowly make new stars.

Apod 4.3

The following is an image taken from the space station, over North America. visible are several major cities, New York, Washington, etc. They are nicely sandwiched between two russian satellites docked to it.  This image shows how humans do have an impact of on the world. Even from space, you can view the lights and power of major population centers. T