IC2948 is the less-than-spectacular catalogue number for a nebula in the constellation Centaurus. The more popular name is the Running Chicken Nebula. Steve Crouch, an avid astro-photographer in the Canberra Astronomical Society, took the image below and asks, “Can everyone see the running chicken?”. Well, can you?
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Astronomical Running Chickens
February 28th, 2008 · No Comments
Jupiter from New horizons
October 11th, 2007 · No Comments
A short while ago I posted images taken of the Tvashtar volcano on Io. The images were snapped by the New Horizons mission to the dwarf planet Pluto. Some months have passed since those images were taken, and the mission’s imaging team has had time to assemble some of the 700 observations the [...]
Eris Puts On Weight
June 16th, 2007 · No Comments
The image to the left was taken by the adaptive optics team at the Keck Observatory during 2005. It shows a distant Kuiper Belt object known at that time as 2003 UB313, and a small companion object. Despite poetic naming not being an astronomy strong point the discoverers of 2003 UB313 [1] had unofficially nicknamed [...]
Fountains on Io
June 11th, 2007 · 2 Comments
A few weeks ago I wrote about my reasons for choosing an image of the volcanic plumes on Io as one of my banner images. The NASA New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Kuiper belt has captured the first movie of one of these plumes. The five images that make up the [...]
In Saturn’s Shadow
May 25th, 2007 · 1 Comment
The image is an excerpt from one of the most spectacular Saturn images I have seen. It was snapped by the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn on 15 Sep 2006. The image is an enhanced composite of images taken over a twelve hour period as the spacecraft passed through the shadow of the planet. [...]