The Top 10 Astronomy Pictures of 2006
Number One
This image, taken by the Cassini spacecraft, is actually a mosaic of several images and it shows something we can't see from Earth: Saturn, back-lit by the Sun. I love this image. It's got it all: beauty, scope, power, artistry, and it also happens to have some good scientific value as well.
The rest can be seen here.
posted by American Crusader @ 3:13 PM
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Fantastic Images!
Schwe-e-e-e-t!
I wonder if those "lights" on the backside represent magnetic reconnection (solar wind particle's coming back together in the planets "wake") or are just a Cassini camera lens product.
"magnetic reconnection"
Sorry fj..no idea. I've never heard this term before.
The E-M source of the Earth's northern lights.
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