"There are going to be some spectacular rays in this exhibit," Cover promised.
The leading side of Rhea as it orbits Saturn has a remarkable bright crater, Inktomi, with extensive bright rays extending over much of the hemisphere, rather like the spectacular rayed lunar crater Tycho.
Caption: Chandra's image of Pictor A gave scientists their first look at a spectacular X-ray jet.
With its unique mirrors and instrumentation, Chandra has captured these celestial explosions in spectacular X-ray images.
A wealth of spectacular X-ray images of celestial objects from stars to galaxies and diffuse matter have yielded great insight into the nature of these sources.
(Shalom Sesame, $14.95, not rated) WHITE CHRISTMAS Paramount used this 1954 musical to introduce the studio's wide-screen, high-definition VistaVision process, and now it has given the film an appropriately spectacular Blu-ray transfer.
(Lionsgate, Blu-ray $39.99, standard definition $29.95, R) PANDORA AND THE FLYING DUTCHMAN Albert Lewin's dark, dreamlike romance of 1951, with Ava Gardner as a devouring femme fatale and James Mason as a yachtsman with supernatural antecedents, returns in a spectacular Blu-ray upgrade taken from a recent restoration by George Eastman House.
Since its launch aboard the space shuttle Columbia in July of 1999, Chandra has made spectacular X-ray images of nearby and remote celestial objects including comets, exploding stars, jets of gas expelled from the vicinity of black holes, and powerful quasars more than 10 billion light years from Earth.
Since it went into orbit, Chandra has provided a stream of spectacular X-ray images of heavenly bodies, near and far: close-ups of comets, exploding stars, gases jetting from around black holes and awesome quasars about 10 billion light-years from Earth.
A spectacular x-ray image of Cassiopeia A, the remnant of a supernova explosion that happened 320 years ago, shows a point-shaped source of light at its center that "may well be the remnant of the exploded star," says Harvey Tananbaum, director of the Chandra X-ray Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Until Tampa Bay's meltdown Thursday, the Rays' spectacular postseason performance was distinguished by bold moves, free swinging and the uninhibited exuberance of youth.
