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 :
How well do you know the night sky? OK, but how well can you identify famous sky objects in a very deep image? Either way, here is a test: see if you can find some well-known night-sky icons in a deep image filled with filaments of normally faint dust and gas. This image contains the Pleiades star cluster, Barnard's Loop, Orion Nebula, Aldebaran, Betelgeuse, Witch Head Nebula, Eridanus Loop, and the California Nebula. To find their real locations, here is an annotated image version. The reason this task might be difficult is similar to the reason it is initially hard to identify familiar constellations in a very dark sky: the tapestry of our night sky has an extremely deep hidden complexity. The featured composite reveals some of this complexity in a 16 hours of sky exposure in dark skies over Granada, Spain. Tonight: Total Lunar Eclipse
In this section you are able to find some pictures with a keyword about space.