A couple of photos that I took last night in my friends backyard via his Celestron 80LCM. I took these by pressing my Digital Rebel from circa 2005 directly against the eye piece.
In this electron micrograph, which won a “people’s choice” award in photography, ultra-thin layers of a titanium compound make a convincing canyon-like cliff overhang.
Dark matter outweighs visible matter more than 6 to 1, making it a crucial yet invisible galaxy component.
To visualize dark matter’s influence, artists visualized a 240-million-light-year-wide zone of space and depicted the universe’s structure from the Big Bang (left) to the present (right). (The full image is too big to fit in this space, so be sure to view the high-resolution version.)
Orange strings of dark matter coalesce along the edges of 10-million-light-year-wide cosmic voids, giving rise to the filamentous web of galaxies seen in space today. The image won first place in informational graphics.
