via danorst:
Moon Rise Time Slice…. this is a collage of 11 photos taken over 27 minutes and 59 seconds
Gorgeous. Also photographic proof that the moon is not, in fact, larger near the horizon. That is merely an illusion.
What do they call that illusion? “The Moon Illusion” of course. ASAPScience did a really nice video about it.
Not only that, but see how the moon is red near the horizon? That’s because of the same science that makes the sunsets red and orange! And I did a video about that: “Why is the Sky Any Color At All?”
It all comes together, man! Science!
Between Harmony and Invention
8” x 10 // Watercolor & ink
The result of those instagram sneak peeks.
love ambird forever
I can’t stop watching this. A simulation of the eventual collision of the Milky Way and Andromeda Galaxies.
Space makes so much more sense to me when sped up. As scary and violent as it seems, there would be very little colliding actually happening do to the insane amount space between objects.
from Wikipedia: While the Andromeda Galaxy contains about one trillion (1012) stars and the Milky Way contains about three hundred billion (3x1011); the chance of even two stars colliding is negligible because of the huge distances between each pair of stars. For example, the nearest star to the Sun is Proxima Centauri, about 3x107 solar diameters (4x1013 km or 4.2 ly) away. If the Sun were a ping-pong ball in Paris, the equivalent Proxima Centauriwould be a pea-sized ball in Berlin (and the Milky Way would be about 1.9x107 km wide, about a third of the distance to Mars).
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Sunset on the Pacific as seen from the International Space Station at an altitude of 235 miles, taken by the ISS 007 crew, July 21, 2003
Image Science and Analysis Laboratory, NASA JSC/Michael Benson/Kinetikon Pictures. (c) All Rights Reserved.
(via A gallery of sublime photographs from across our solar system)
“Let’s Trade”
2011
WTF NASA?
If someone asks you “What has NASA ever done to make our lives any better?” … show them this site. Benefit after benefit from space research to Earth!
(via HuffPost Science)
Since 1972, the Landsat satellites have been capturing jaw dropping images of our world from above. In the collection, “Earth As Art,” these aerial photographs were scored and voted on by more than 14,000 people! Check out the winners below!
“Earth As Art” - Stunning Satellite Photographs of Planet Earth
la foto del fitoplancton es la más bonita e increíble de todas
Eyse Eisinga, Planetarium, Franeker, 1774-1781 (Eisinga built a solar system model on the ceiling of his living room)
Solar eclipse photographs by various photographers in various places all over the world — not photoshopped
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You think it’s like this, but it’s really like this.
The Sun and Inner Planets Moving Through Space
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this changes everything
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Star trails over the Australian Outback by photographer Lincoln Harrison
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Ouch, xkcd. Ouch, ouch, ouch. What do you think, does NASA’s track record of space stations, telescopes and unmanned missions since the Apollo program measure up? Anything on the horizon that particularly excites you?
I’d argue that Voyager leaving the solar system is kind of a big deal.
(via xkcd)