great astronomy pics

[Perris Calderon]

enjoy

 

[kcnychief]

Very cool stuff indeed, wonder if we can turn some of these into backgrounds?

 

[Perris Calderon]

what's to wonder?

just do it

 

[kcnychief]

I was mostly wondering how they would look on my 2405 when I get home - sometimes when you stretch an image it looks not so good 🙁

 

[Perris Calderon]

I was mostly wondering how they would look on my 2405 when I get home - sometimes when you stretch an image it looks not so good 🙁

*waits for screenies*

 

[failurbydesign]

amazing

 

[Petros]

These are nice pictures...the universe is so huge and fascinating!

 

[Grandmaster]

These are nice pictures...the universe is so huge and fascinating!

I agree man. I find astrophotography so inspirational. In fact I bought a huge poster that has a picture of the Milky Way so I could frame it.

If you guys are looking for some more high resolution stuff, check out:

http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/index.html

http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media/mediaimages/data.shtml

 

[zeke_mo]

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/

Another interesting site, more focused on earth though