NASA Opens Space Image Library
 

"Nasa is to make its huge collection of historic photographs, film and video available to the public for the first time. A partnership with the non-profit Internet Archive will see 21 major Nasa imagery collections merged into a single searchable online resource. The Nasa Images website is expected to go live this week. The content of the site covers all the diverse activities of America's space programme, including imagery from the Apollo missions, Hubble Space Telescope views of the universe and experimental aircraft past and present."


http://www.nasaimages.org


Some damn fine pictures! [thumbup]

I have been waiting for them to finally do this!!!

I knew that they had ftps that you could get stuff off of, but it is nice that they now actually have a site like this.

AWESOME many thanks, for the link. haha, new desktop HERE I COME

Aurora's from space look simply amazing. [shocked]

Finallyfinallyfinallyfinally! You took your bloody time NASA http://discussworldissues.com/forums...ilies/mad1.gifhttp://discussworldissues.com/forums...ies/smile1.gif

Are most of those images taken in the visible light spectrum or not? Could we theoretically travel to one and see it with our own eyes? That would be beyond belief.

Half-no and yes. Most of the images are either false-colour or composites - i.e. they're either taken in infrared and then processed into visible colour differences, or they're taken at multiple visible/infrared/ultraviolet light wavelengths and then blended together. However, many of the objects imaged do produce visible light emissions, so you could theoretically travel to them and see them with your own eyes.

iunfrared images scale down to grey ( black-white) so together with thermal images, and what no more we color them in ourselfs.

I am afraid we see more by using this technique than we do with our own eyes. No matter what.

Err, what? I know English isn't your first language but I haven't a clue what you're trying to say there.

I am afraid we see more by using this technique than we do with our own eyes. No matter what. Correct but that's not what Asylum asked - he/she asked whether we could see them with our own eyes, not whether image compositing or false colour enhancing is better.

I meant to say with all kinds of images taken by all kinds of different filters merged into one it makes it visible to you how large it is and to what it consists of. Only the colors are produced by us human beings.

If I look at the pics it is beautiful, but when I am a pilot of a spacecraft, I might never realize I am going through such a cloud than what is being displayed on one of NASA's images.

I wonder what some things look like taken by ordianiry photocamera so to speak. Capturing wavelenghts I can see.

*blush*..

In some cases, they look remarkably similar - I seen the Orion Nebula through an 18" Schmidt Cassegrain and the structures looked just like they do in the familiar images. What is 'missing' are the colours: the Nebula looked all washed out and faded. This is partly due to our eyes and partly due to the image techniques often used to capture the Orion Nebula.

Makes sense and that is just the thing I needed to be told. Thanks.

I like star watching, but the telescope I've bought is nothing. Want to go for a Meade reflector one. Like this: http://telescoop.nl/product_info.php?products_id=1721

The sky is my area is great for darkness, the light polution is minimal.

Hmm is anybody else having problems with the site (mostly the pics) whilst using Firefox ?
IE works fine for some reason http://discussworldissues.com/forums.../confused1.gif

Firefox works fine for me, but I'm still using version 2.

Needs piclens support!

What sort of problems are you having? I'm using FF3 and had a quick look and it seemed to work ok.

To be honest, I wouldn't go for a 6" equatorial-mounted reflector - at that price range I'd either be looking for the biggest refractor I could get (probably best picking one up in a sale or saving a bit more money - 600 euros can get you a great 5" refractor in the UK) or aim for an 8/10" Dobsonian.