EARTH SCIENCE NEWS - LIGHTNING LIGHTNING Washington Monument and Lightning Bolt Lightning Display Over Surfers Paradise Queensland Lightning Display Over Central Florida Foreseeing the paths of three orbiting objects sometimes requires precision better than the quantum limit artist's impression of the extrasolar planet HD 189733b, now known to have methane and water. Astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to detect methane - the first organic molecule found on an extrasolar planet. This image, captured with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, is the largest and sharpest image ever taken of the Andromeda galaxy — otherwise known as M31.This is a cropped version of the full image and has 1.5 billion pixels HST ACS/HRC B, V, I composite of microlensing target OGLE-2003-BLG-235/MOA-2003-BLG-53 The two lightsabre-like streams crossing the image are jets of energised gas, ejected from the poles of a young star. If the jets collide with the surrounding gas and dust they can clear vast spaces, and create curved shock waves. A rose made of galaxies.....
