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That is maybe one of the coolest astronomical photographs I've ever seen.
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Hates the Infotainment
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...into the light of a dark black night. |
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Hates the Infotainment
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STS, make way for SLS... coming to a launch pad near you (we hope). Men to Mars, asteroids and beyond?
http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/sls1.html Last edited by Moogs : 2011-09-14 at 15:11. |
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Antimatter Man
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Not quite 'farthest from the bright centre of the universe', but...
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M AH - ch ain saw
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NASA Sounds for ringtones. (Found it via macrumors.)
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Antimatter Man
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* Offer not valid yet in Europe, Asia, Africa, or Australasia. Belushi notwithstanding, odds of getting smacked are small... odds of a groovy lightshow are somewhat higher... unless you live in the cloudbound UK All those who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. Last edited by curiousuburb : 2011-09-23 at 02:20. |
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Antimatter Man
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But on the Space Exploration Awesomeness front, check out this movie of the Aurora Australis earlier this week after newly agitated solar activity...
longer 33sec M4V clip Video of the Aurora Australis taken by the crew of Expedition 29 on board the International Space Station. This sequence of shots was taken September 17, 2011 from 17:22:27 to 17:45:12 GMT, on an ascending pass from south of Madagascar to just north of Australia over the Indian Ocean. Last edited by curiousuburb : 2011-09-23 at 03:09. |
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Holy shit that's beautiful !!
The one at night is pretty amazing too with the sunrise at the end... |
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Antimatter Man
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Released about the same time and making the rounds on Twitter, YouTube, Bad Astronomy, etc.... nighttime views down the Pacific coast... in 1080p
What does it feel like to fly over planet Earth? Quote:
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Antimatter Man
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Ron Garan's last day in Space - pic may definitely one of the best from ISS.
<-- click for big awesomeness. "The halo is airglow. Energy released by excited oxygen atoms (visible at night). The line is at about 60 miles above Earth." All those who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. |
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Antimatter Man
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Asteroid updates:
Vesta rocked by mighty impacts Quote:
--- Asteroid 21 Lutetia had a molten metallic core Holy primordial planetesimals, Batman! Bring on the asteroid miners! Quote:
Not your average 'roids. Or maybe we just need to reevaluate what average interplanetary pebbles can be. All those who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. Last edited by curiousuburb : 2011-10-30 at 20:33. |
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Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you not an artist's impression, but an actual photograph of a black hole. Click through for the article.
When I was a kid, people who did wrong were punished, restricted, and forbidden. Now, when someone does wrong, all of the rest of us are punished, restricted, and forbidden... and the one who did the wrong is counselled and "understood" and fed ice cream. |
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Which day was it again that God created Black Holes? Day 3....?
...in the year 013,456,255,872 BC (that's way before Noah gave the boot to the dinosaurs btw). ...into the light of a dark black night. |
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Antimatter Man
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Today's Coolness: Spiral Stars, Progress plasmic reentry, and Near miss Asteroid tonight ... as always, click pics for teh big
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--- How to Spot today's asteroid near-miss (less than Earth-Moon distance)* *valid for Western Europe and North America - clear skies required. Quote:
All those who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. Last edited by curiousuburb : 2011-11-08 at 11:04. Reason: credits and links tweaked |
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Hates the Infotainment
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Damn... beat me to it. [/it'sTheEnd!]
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Space Pirate
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I'm watching this, just to beef up on my continued survival.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLwreD9NL7c ... |
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Thunderbolt, fuck yeah!
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Russia's Phobos-Grunt probe suffers engine (maybe software) failure and is stuck in earth orbit. The Russians have three days to fix the problem before the batteries run out.
An American rocket scientist said to a Danish newspaper that the 14 ton spacecraft carries 7 tons of highly toxic fuel (hydrazine?), potentially making it the most dangerous object to ever crash back onto Earth. Maybe it's just me being too much of a layman, but what kind of rocket fuel chemical can survive reentry on a craft with no heat shields. I'm pretty sure that it's not the fuel itself that can survive reentry, but even the toxic byproducts must get scorched away. Right? |
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There's a wee bit of Cobalt in one of the experiments, too... but not enough to worry about radioactive fallout or serious contamination. Still... the Russkies are 0-for-16 or so on Mars missions in the last few decades. This doesn't help that record. And makes the Chinese piggyback mission 0-for-1. Bet the Chinese are wishing they hitched their ride with NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (Curiosity rover mission due to launch Nov 25th) instead. All those who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. |
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Thunderbolt, fuck yeah!
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Thunderbolt, fuck yeah!
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Apparently the hydrazine tanks are made of aluminium and will go boom according to the Russians. I suppose they have a better track record with explosions than Mars missions.
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Known Exoplanets now total more than 700... so it's about time somebody rated the best destinations.
Most liveable alien worlds ranked There's some dispute which planets of Gliese 581 are confirmed, but several make the top 5, despite it being a Red Dwarf. And despite proximity, our Moon isn't even in the top 5 --- NASA did recently release a new super-accurate and groovy looking elevation map of the Moon though. Quote:
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How's this - Planet - Big thing in the Sky that's not a star?
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Selfish Heathen
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Possible good news followup today for Phobos Grunt: it might be salvageable albeit for a shorter mission!
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Seeing how often these missions go kaput renews my respect for people willing to strap themselves to these vehicles and hurl themselves into orbit.
I saw this photo on the BBC website, and thought it was so good that I looked up the photographer and found him on Flickr. So incongruous to see the scorched capsule sitting in a frozen field like that! |
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Scraping guys off the walls of that scorched capsule, in miraculous shape it seems, is quite a feat. |
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