The Cool Pictures Thread

[yeahitsrust]

Bump, gonna post later...

Its later! Post away!


I love this thread man. I can look at some of these pics over and over again.

 

[MetalMario]

Ill try too, brb

 

[MetalMario]

1

A rose made of galaxies

2

Extreme star cluster bursts into life in new Hubble image

3

Stellar Nursery in the arms of NGC 1672

4

Colliding galaxies make love, not war

5

New infrared view of the Horsehead Nebula — Hubble’s 23rd anniversary image

6

Magnetic monster NGC 1275

7

Hubble sees galaxies galore

8

Hubble's sharpest view of the Orion Nebula

9

Most detailed image of the Crab Nebula

10

Hubble Mosaic of the Majestic Sombrero Galaxy

11

The magnificent starburst galaxy Messier 82

12

The Eagle has risen: Stellar spire in the Eagle Nebula

13

Pillars of Creation

14

Butterfly emerges from stellar demise in planetary nebula NGC 6302

15

Young stars sculpt gas with powerful outflows

16

A poster-size image of the beautiful barred spiral galaxy NGC 1300

17

Hubble view of M 106

18

Hubble captures view of “Mystic Mountain”

19

Galactic wreckage in Stephan's Quintet

20

Barred spiral galaxy NGC 6217

21

Dramatically backlit dust lanes in NGC 7049

22

Holiday Wishes from the Hubble Space Telescope

23

Star birth in the extreme

24

Nearby Dust Clouds in the Milky Way

25

Largest ever galaxy portrait - stunning HD image of Pinwheel Galaxy

26

Out of this whirl: The Whirlpool Galaxy (M51) and companion galaxy

27

Hubble Spies Cosmic Dust Bunnies

28

Light continues to echo three years after stellar outburst

29

Hubble studies sequences of star formation in neighbouring galaxy

30

A 'wallpaper' of distant galaxies is a stunning backdrop for a runaway galaxy

31

Hubble's newest camera takes a deep look at two merging galaxies

32

Hubble's newest camera images ghostly star-forming pillar of gas and dust

33

The Red Spider Nebula: Surfing in Sagittarius - not for the faint-hearted!

34

Light and Shadow in the Carina Nebula

35

Saturn In Natural Colours

36

Hubble snaps close-up of the Tarantula

37

Flocculent spiral NGC 2841

38

ACS Image of NGC 5866

39

Thackeray's Globules in IC 2944

40

The Spirograph Nebula

41

A Grazing Encounter Between two Spiral Galaxies

42

Hubble image of the Ring Nebula (Messier 57)

43

Galaxies in a swarm of star clusters

44

An extraordinary celestial spiral

45

Collision leaves giant Jupiter bruised

46

Quadruple Saturn moon transit snapped by Hubble

47

Galaxy Playing Twister

48

Looking Down a Barrel of Gas at a Doomed Star

49

Hubble image of Messier 77

50

Spectacular Hubble view of Centaurus A

51

Abell 2218

52

New stars shed light on the past

53

Ghostly Reflections in the Pleiades

54

A Reflection Nebula in Orion

55

True colour Image of Impact Zones D and G

56

Gaseous Streamers Flutter in Stellar Breeze

57

Hubble images remarkable double cluster

58

The Trifid Nebula: Stellar Sibling Rivalry

59

A tale of galactic collisions

60

Hubble image of LRLL 54361 and its surroundings

61

WFC3 visible image of the Carina Nebula

62

Abell 1703

63

Hubble view of star-forming region S106

64

A dying star’s toxic legacy

65

The unique Red Rectangle: sharper than ever before

66

Hubble views NGC 4522

67

Mammoth stars seen by Hubble

68

The Hourglass Nebula

69

Hubble image of Abell 68

70

The Hubble eXtreme Deep Field

71

Hubble view of the huge star formation region N11 in the Large Magellanic Cloud

72

Hubble snaps heavyweight of the Leo Triplet

73

Star on a Hubble diet

74

Cassiopeia A - The colourful aftermath of a violent stellar death

75

A mysterious old spiral

76

Stellar flare hits HD 189733b (artist's impression)

77

Arp 148

78

Stellar fireworks are ablaze in galaxy NGC 4449

79

A New View of the Helix Nebula

80

Nebula NGC 2080, nicknamed the 'Ghost Head Nebula'

81

Hubble snaps NGC 5189

82

Hubble view of NGC 922

83

Hubble revisits an old friend

84

Hubble snaps image of space oddity

85

Hubble spots a celestial bauble

86

Hubble views NGC 4402

87

The gargantuan galaxy NGC 1132

88

IC Beauty

89

NGC 2346

90

Hubble sees a cosmic caterpillar

91

A Unique Hubble View of Comet ISON

92

Galactic fireflies

93

Hubble image of MACS J0717

94

Hubble image of MACS J0717 with mass overlay

95

Glowing gas and dark dust in a side-on spiral

96

Hubble image of Herbig-Haro object HH 110

97

Lensing cluster Abell 383

98

Orion’s lesser-known nebula takes centre stage

99

Doing cartwheels to celebrate the end of an era

100

Barred spiral bares all

 

[T Lo Sweater]

^
Repped

The hourglass joint looks like someone is looking thru

And 79 is also called gods eye

 

[ctidda]

That Caiman aint emm kno it

 

[capricdragon]

This is a picture from the Curiosity Rover on Mars showing Earth from the Perspective of Mars. You are literally looking at your home from the Perspective of another planet.

Quality Thread

 

[lil black jean jacket]

 

[yeahitsrust]

Nah doggie. Thats mad nasty. :x

 

[MetalMario]

classic pic. but I went all spaced out because I just saw Gravity yesterday

also I like space and aliens

 

[younglorious973]

LOLOL @ riceboy's contribution..
:x :x :x :x :x :x but i can't stop laughing.

 

[albooboo]

Saturn's hexagonal storm revealed in color for the first time.

 

[liljrdn]

Quality thread

 

[albooboo]

Diffuse starlight and dark nebulae along the southern Milky Way arc over the horizon. The scene also captures the broad tail and bright coma of Comet McNaught, the Great Comet of 2007.

 

[cliffordsmith]

 

[EddieWinslow1983]

 

[SC kid]

Maaaan i saw those before

I go rock climbing and i would NEVER do that :x

EVER

 

[knowledgebones72]

p4l

 

[a blinkin]

Hell. No.

 

[cliffordsmith]

Hell nah son. FOH with that. They just chilling like its nothing too. Im not gonna lie, it looks like fun. But how the hell do you get out of there?

 

[dunksrnice]

How they sleep though... Eff that.

 

[SC kid]

Them dudes that climb wit no ropes and harnesses tho :x

 

[SC kid]

Great ad for a vibrator

 

[Ox.]

oldest known photos of some of the major cities:

LA - Spring Street- 1870-1880

Philly - 8th & Market - no date (earliest known picture)

Boston - 1860

Denver - Downtown - 1866

Vegas - 1905

D.C - Capitol Building - 1846

Seattle - James Street & Third Avenue - 1865

San Antonio - Alamo Church & Plaza - 1858

New Orleans - Docks - 1880's

Miami - Old Fort Dallas & Seminole Club - 1895

Detroit - Randolph Street - 1890

NY - Upper West Side of Manhattan - 1848

 

 

[a blinkin]

Those were pretty cool pictures. I can only imagine what our major cities will like like in 200 years.

 

[moe fab]

Or what minor cities will become major ones