Check out my Amazon Author Page with a trailer of the End of the World 2012 Movie
Galactic Center from the End of the World 2012 Movie and EBook Photo Copyright (c) 2009 Carol Chapman All Rights Reserved
I’ve been putting together my Amazon author page for days, well, actually weeks. It contains posts from this blog, my tweets, my books (I can’t list movies though), a couple of photos of me. However, it looked as if the blog posts were not coming up. Therefore, I took a look at the page from an Amazon customer’s point of view (I’ve been working on it from the back end). Well, guess what! It’s gorgeous. Amazon does such a great job of putting these author pages together. I would have never known if I hadn’t looked at it from the front end! And, the blog posts are there. So, here’s a link to the page, and if you’re interested in seeing the trailer for the End of the World 2012 Movie, just scroll down on the right hand side to the “author video.” It looks like a picture of the Galactic Center. That’s because it is!
If you’re interested in reading more about the End of the World 2012 Movie, here’s the link to the Amazon listing.
Continue readingNASA Photo of the The Galactic Center
Here is a link to a magnificent photograph taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope of the Milky Way’s Galactic Center. Because of dust clouds that hide the light of the stars in the Galactic Center, infrared photography was used, melding over 2,000 photographic images into this one amazing photograph.
Images of the Galactic Center are especially appropriate at this time because of the anticipated line up of the Sun and Earth with the Galactic Center on the Winter Solstice around December 21, 2012.
Just click on the link below the excerpt from the NASA web site:
Explanation: What’s happening at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy? To help find out, the orbiting Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes have combined their efforts to survey the region in unprecedented detail in infrared light. Infrared light is particularly useful for probing the Milky Way’s center because visible light is more greatly obscured by dust. The above image encompasses over 2,000 images from the Hubble Space Telescope‘s NICMOS taken last year. The image spans 300 by 115 light years with such high resolution that structures only 20 times the size of our own Solar System are discernable.
APOD: 2009 January 7 – The Galactic Core in Infrared
Copyright (c) 2009 Carol Chapman
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