Brilliant Astronomy Pix

March 18, 2002 4:44 AM

Brilliant Astronomy Pix "This page is the gateway to a unique collection of wide-field astronomical photographs, mostly made with the telescopes of the Anglo-Australian Observatory by David Malin.....These are some of the finest pictures made with professional telescopes anywhere and every effort has been made to capture the true colours of distant stars, galaxies and nebulae using innovative photographic techniques and CCD detectors". Found via Scout Project - http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/report/sr/)
posted by peacay (3 comments total)

[This is good]

I love the Scout Project, btw, always linking to top quality stuff.

[geek] Anyway, some of the photos on this site, like this one, got me interested in astronomy at an early age.

More favorites here, here and here. The last one sort of reminds me of those deep sea pictures with the glowing jellyfish. It's so cool to me how two things, on vastly different scales, can look so similar. [/geek]
posted by thewittyname at 6:50 AM on March 18, 2002

Great link. Thanks!
posted by SilentSalamander at 9:47 AM on March 18, 2002

I think its worth mentioning Astronomy Picture of the Day for those that dont already know about it. Makes a great browser Home Page.
posted by vacapinta at 12:40 PM on March 18, 2002