Apod 3.4- The milky way over paranal

This is a picture of the Earth rising, which makes it look like the milky way is falling. The earths rotation continually gives people a changing view of the night skies. These telescopes that are pictured here are in the Paranal observatory in the Atacama desert.

apod 3.3 Fast stars near the galactic center

This animated gif shows how the stars in the center of our galaxy have moved over the past eight years. The yellow mark in the center of the picture marks where a peculiar radio source named sgr A. If these stars are held in the center by gravity then the object in the center must be incredibly massive.

APOD 3.2- NGC 602 and beyond

This is a picture of a satellite galaxy about 200 light years away from the small magellinic cloud visible in this picture.ridges and swept back shapes strongly suggest that energetic radiation and shock waves from NGC 602's massive young stars have eroded the dusty material and triggered a progresssio of star formation moving away from the cluster's center. It is estimated that this picture spans aobut 200 million light years.

Apod 3.1- upgrading the ISS

This is a picture of the International Space Station. It is being built piece by piece and will be the largest object ever to orbit the earth. This space station has trusses to pass electricity and liquid coolants throughit to keep the space station running