Thread: Task of the Month for April 2014

Hach ja - I really really love space pictures - so I'll spoiler some more:

Spoiler for more space:

This is done by an amateur with a simple small telescope - I should really get mine out again - it is not exactly easy, anything other than the moon - and I need to get somewhere dark - but I really will this month!!





Horsehead Nebula, Hubble
Not false colour!

These shape-shifting galaxies have taken on the form of a giant mask. The icy blue eyes are actually the cores of two merging galaxies, called NGC 2207 and IC 2163, and the mask is their spiral arms. The false-colored image consists of infrared data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope (red) and visible data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (blue/green).