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| The Regolith of Asteroid Eros |
spilling crimson says....
From fifty kilometers above asteroid Eros, the surface inside one of its largest craters appears covered with an unusual substance: regolith
The thickness and composition of the surface dust that is regolith remains a topic of much research. Much of the regolith on 433 Eros was probably created by numerous small impacts during its long history.
( a layer of powdery lunar soil or regolith)
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| M64: The Sleeping Beauty Galaxy |
( The above image was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2001 and released in 2004)
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| Credit & Copyright: Andrea Tamanti |
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Messier 64
Messier 64 (M64, NGC 4826) is the famous Black Eye galaxy, sometimes also called the "Sleeping Beauty galaxy." The conspicuous dark structure is a prominent dust feature obscuring the stars behind. This feature also enables one to determine, or at least estimate, which of the galaxy's sides is nearer and which more remote; in case of M64, it seems that the southern side is nearer to us.
source NASA
