With the 40th anniversary of the moon landing last week, the images of the Apollo landing sites taken recently by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter were of particular interest. They show all three landing sites along with some equipment left behind and disturbances by the astronauts’ boot prints. That’s very cool, and the LRO isn’t even …
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The Hand of God?
Okay, maybe it’s the “hand” of an x-ray nebula that spans 150 light years. The image was taken by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. The bright object in the center is a “very young and powerful” pulsar. Check out the link for the details and a bigger image. I can SO see this being on the …