purplecat: A star shining on the edge of a planet. (General:Space)
purplecat ([personal profile] purplecat) wrote2019-02-17 02:47 pm
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Space Icons!


A satellite disk pointing upwards under meteor shower (not that you can really see the meteor shower at 100x100 pixels Bright star on the right, faint space dust on the left. Hubble image of rather dramatic space dust, most coloured orange with a spike of formation through the clouds. Bright star top left, edge of planet bottom right. Hubble image of swirling pink and yellow coloured space dust
Snagging is free. Credit is appreciated. Comments are loved.


Original pictures taken from Astronomy Picture of the Day except for number 4 (no idea where that comes from).
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[personal profile] thisbluespirit 2019-02-17 04:46 pm (UTC)(link)
They're very pretty!
purplecat: A star shining on the edge of a planet. (General:Space)

[personal profile] purplecat 2019-02-18 09:18 am (UTC)(link)
Whatever it is astronomers do to images they get off telescopes nearly always seem to look pretty....
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[personal profile] fred_mouse 2019-03-17 05:50 am (UTC)(link)
Love #4, have snagged it to make it my new 'goals' icon. Much appreciated, thank you.
purplecat: A star shining on the edge of a planet. (General:Space)

[personal profile] purplecat 2019-03-17 11:42 am (UTC)(link)
You're welcome!
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[personal profile] fififolle 2019-02-24 05:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Nice!

[identity profile] deinonychus-1.livejournal.com 2019-02-25 08:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Ooh, very nice. Also, I might need to check out that website. Astronomy is about third on my list of interests, only slightly behind archaeology and palaeontology.
purplecat: A star shining on the edge of a planet. (General:Space)

[personal profile] purplecat 2019-02-26 01:40 pm (UTC)(link)
It's a nice little website and is also syndicated via NASA in some way, though I don't think its actually run by NASA. I use an automated script (via IFTTT) to get the daily picture emailed to me, but you could just subscribe to the RSS feed.

[identity profile] stellarfuzz1.livejournal.com 2021-03-20 08:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Hi, stealing #5 for my default pic. Thanks!
purplecat: A star shining on the edge of a planet. (General:Space)

[personal profile] purplecat 2021-03-21 10:26 am (UTC)(link)
Glad you liked it!!
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