I've just been looking at a set of 13 photos of and from planets on the Christian Science Monitor website and thought you'd enjoy them too. It is amazing what we can see today. My favourite has to be no. 9 Uranus - it's so pretty! 😉
Judy
Great photos Judy! I like number 5, the orange Venus planet - lots of detail there. I often take a look at [url]NASAs Astronomy Picture of the Day[/url] which shows some fascinating pictures.
How about The Horsehead Nebula
The Butterfly Nebula from Upgraded Hubble
NGC 6888: The Crescent Nebula
Ultraviolet Andromeda
or my favourite the Crab Nebula
Thanks, Judy. I love No. 7 because I actually saw it! The smiley face I mean. While I was in India last winter. In fact I phoned a friend to tell him to go outside and look at it. It didn't last long and not many people spotted it. Great memory.
Fabulous pictures! I am loving Neptune and the sunset on Mars. Amazing!
Yes these are quite beautiful, thanks for posting the link
Fabulous pictures! I am loving Neptune and the sunset on Mars. Amazing!
Good work !
Very cool, looking great so far. Keep going, I wanna see it finished!:o:)
Wow... Very beautiful pictures....
I never knew uranus had rings, that and saturn's photo are me favourites 😀
I never knew uranus had rings, that and saturn's photo are me favourites 😀
All of the giant planets have rings: Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune. Just FYI...
Ta for that Scott :), you wouldn't happen to know why would you?
Why do planets have rings? What are they made of?
The rings of Jupiter are made of dust, which probably was knocked off of its moons by meteorite impacts.
The rings of Saturn are made of chunks of water ice, mostly about 2 centimeters in size, the size of a baseball or softball. The rings of Uranus are made of larger ice boulders several meters across, and quite a bit of dust. The rings of Uranus are made of darker stuff than Saturn's rings, probably dirtier ice. We don't know for sure where the rings of Uranus and Saturn came from. Some of the rings might come from moons torn apart by the planet's gravity, or they could have formed as the planets formed.
Neptune's rings are even more mysterious. We don't have a good idea of what they're made of, but the ring particles are probably very small, dark particles of ice and rock.
There you go Calla - if that answers your question?
Taken from [DLMURL] http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=326 [/DLMURL]
Ta for going on the rummage Celia :), yes, that snippet of info has answered my question 😀