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NASA to Reveal Hubble Discovery of Milky Way’s Violent Fate
Figure: Galactic Cannibalism of two galaxies that wandered too close to each other’s orbit.
NASA will reveal new discoveries about the violent fate of our Milky Way galaxy on Thursday (May 31), the space agency has announced.
NASA will hold a press conference at 1 p.m. EDT (1700 GMT) Thursday at the agency’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. Scientists will discuss new Hubble Space Telescope findings about the inevitable crash of the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies, which will occur billions of years from now.
“Because of uncertainties in Andromeda’s motion, it has not been possible to determine whether the Milky Way will have a head-on collision or glancing blow with the neighboring galaxy billions of years in the future,” NASA officials said in a media alert Friday (May 25). “Hubble’s precise observations will settle this question.”
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Stunning view of the Milky Way appears above coconut palms at the shores of Ilha Grande, Brazil. Note Altair, the brightest star in the constellation Aquila, above the palms.
Starry Night of Damghan Desert
Winter stars and the Milky Way are photographed in the starry sky of the desert near Damghan, a historic city of Iran.
Milky Way Visitor
Photograph by Jerome Cassou, Your Shot
Echoing the arc of the Milky Way (center), a meteor—or possibly a satellite reflecting the sun’s rays—streaks earthward near Cagnes-sur-mer in southeastern France in a picture submitted May 17 by National Geographic Your Shot user Jerome Cassou.
Meteors are mostly sand grain-size particles that enter Earth’s atmosphere at high speed, burning up and superheating the air around them, which creates the characteristic short-lived streaks of light.
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LIDAR & The Milky Way above Innsbruck
The LIDAR (DIAL) Laser System of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology at the Schneefernerhaus Research Station below the Zugspitze Peak.
Africa’s First Night Sky ‘Reserve’ Is Stargazing Haven
Image: The Milky Way, photographed from NamibRand reserve. Credit: George Tucker
The NamibRand Nature Reserve, a private nature reserve in southern Namibia, has gotten the stamp of approval to become an official night sky reserve — a spot supremely suited for some of the best stargazing on Earth.
Southern Tip of Sweden
by P-M Heden
The band of the Milky Way is seen above the southern coast of Sweden. Stars of the Summer Triangle are photographed over this seaside known as Sandhammaren beach in Scania. The light dome of nearby town Ystad is visible on the right (west) while it’s dark toward the Baltic Sea (south).
The Milky Way
by Neil Kopicki from Fullerton, CaliforniaThis image shows the part of the sky that lies toward the center of the Milky Way. Scorpius the Scorpion sits at the bottom right, and many bright and dark nebulae of that constellation, as well as Ophiuchus and Sagittarius, fill the central region. To create this shot, the photographer drove two hours from light-polluted Orange County, California, to Joshua Tree National Park. He then waited until 4:30 a.m. until the region he was interested lay in the western sky.
An incredible view of the Milky Way stretched above a distant monsoon
Earth and space combine to create a striking image from photographer Bret Webster. The Milky Way almost looks as though it’s come crashing through our atmosphere in a fury of thunder and lightning.
Webster’s site is filled with incredible photographs juxtoposing the night sky with more terrestrial terrain, resulting in almost supernatural images of the natural world.
[via Bad Astronomy]
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LIDAR & The Milky Way above Innsbruck
The LIDAR (DIAL) Laser System of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology at the Schneefernerhaus Research Station below the Zugspitze Peak.
Milky Way over Kachemak Bay
Copyright: Chris Paduan
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Abandoned Ranch House & Milky Way (by Eric Hines Photography)
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