Born In Space
Welcome to Born in Space! In this wep-app, you will be able to have a look at the picture of the day chosen by the NASA. You can also enter your birthdate in the search bar to discover what was the “picture of the day” on the day you were born. Unfortunately, this feature will only work if you are born after June 16th, 1995, this date included. But nothing prevents you from trying it out with your friends’ birthdates! You can also use your personal gallery to save pictures from the dates that have marked your life, such as marriages, births… and directly access these images links. On this site, you will also find a section where to type a keyword that will you return you a collection of images, to let you find your favourite planet, for example!
Picture at your birthday :
Active galaxy NGC 1275 is the central, dominant member of the large and relatively nearby Perseus Cluster of Galaxies. Wild-looking at visible wavelengths, the active galaxy is also a prodigious source of x-rays and radio emission. NGC 1275 accretes matter as entire galaxies fall into it, ultimately feeding a supermassive black hole at the galaxy's core. Narrowband image data used in this sharp telescopic image highlights the resulting galactic debris and filaments of glowing gas, some up to 20,000 light-years long. The filaments persist in NGC 1275, even though the turmoil of galactic collisions should destroy them. What keeps the filaments together? Observations indicate that the structures, pushed out from the galaxy's center by the black hole's activity, are held together by magnetic fields. Also known as Perseus A, NGC 1275 itself spans over 100,000 light years and lies about 230 million light years away.
In this section you are able to find some pictures with a keyword about space.