Infinity Imagined

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Fri, 24 May 2013 21:39:16 -0700

4wyvern: Cmdr. Kevin Ford. C. Hadfield, R Romanenko and...

Sat, 18 May 2013 15:52:34 -0700

4wyvern:

Cmdr. Kevin Ford. C. Hadfield, R Romanenko and Marshburn enroute to ISS. Beautiful - amazing!

stellar-indulgence: Space Fantasy Worlds by *QAuZ Sunrise...

Wed, 15 May 2013 23:07:53 -0700

stellar-indulgence:

Space Fantasy Worlds by *QAuZ

Sunrise Outside World

You Gotta Love Space

Beauty of Space

stellar-indulgence: What’s that behind Titan? It’s another of...

Wed, 15 May 2013 19:13:08 -0700

stellar-indulgence:

What’s that behind Titan? It’s another of Saturn’s moons: Tethys. The robotic Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn captured the heavily cratered Tethys slipping behind Saturn’s atmosphere-shrouded Titan. The largest crater on Tethys, Odysseus, is easily visible on the distant moon. Titan shows not only its thick and opaque orange lower atmosphere, but also an unusual upper layer of blue-tinted haze. Tethys, at about 2 million kilometers distant, was twice as far from Cassini as was Titan when the above image was taken. In 2004, Cassini released the Hyugens probe which landed on Titan and provided humanity’s first views of the surface of the Solar System’s only known lake-bearing moon.

Credit: APOD

space-pics: An Awesome Look at Enceladus, the Jet-Powered...

Wed, 15 May 2013 18:48:14 -0700

space-pics:

An Awesome Look at Enceladus, the Jet-Powered Moon

http://space-pics.tumblr.com/

alxndrasplace: (NASA/JPL via Wired Science) Moon Shadow Over...

Wed, 15 May 2013 18:08:24 -0700

alxndrasplace:

(NASA/JPL via Wired Science) Moon Shadow Over Neptune

In 2009, amateur image processor (and philosophy professor) Ted Stryk discovered something no one had recognized before — images that show the shadow of Despina in transit across Neptune’s blue cloud tops. His composite view of Despina and its shadow is composed of four archival frames taken on 24 August 1989, separated by nine minutes. Despina itself has been artificially brightened to make it easier to see.

pappubahry: The comet Tempel 1, photographed by Deep Impact,...

Wed, 15 May 2013 07:39:08 -0700

pappubahry:

The comet Tempel 1, photographed by Deep Impact, just after its 370kg impactor had (deliberately) crashed into the comet, 4 July 2005. There’s about 1 second between frames in the gif.

The impact speed was about 10.2 km/s, so the kinetic energy was about 20 gigajoules – about half a MOAB blast’s worth of energy. The comet’s nucleus is about 7 kilometres across.

colchrishadfield: With deference to the genius of David Bowie,...

Sun, 12 May 2013 20:55:00 -0700

colchrishadfield:

With deference to the genius of David Bowie, here’s Space Oddity, recorded on Station. A last glimpse of the World.

Huge thanks in the making of the video to the talented trio of Emm Gryner, Joe Corcoran and Andrew Tidby, plus Evan Hadfield and all at the CSA.

Commander Hadfield returns to Earth on Monday. What an amazing journey he has shared with us!

River Deltas around the world, imaged with the ASAR radar...

Sun, 12 May 2013 15:25:08 -0700

Ganges

Lena

Irrawaddy

Volga

Yukon

River Deltas around the world, imaged with the ASAR radar instrument on ESA’s Envisat spacecraft. Colors in these images are generated from the differences in surface texture between flybys of each location.

Vancouver Island

Fri, 10 May 2013 17:58:36 -0700

Vancouver Island

NGC 4522 is a spectacular spiral galaxy that is currently being...

Fri, 10 May 2013 00:06:00 -0700

NGC 4522 is a spectacular spiral galaxy that is currently being stripped of its gas content. The galaxy is 60 million light-years away in the Virgo galaxy cluster. Its rapid motion within the cluster results in strong winds across the galaxy as the gas within is left behind. Scientists estimate that NGC 4522 is moving at more than 10 million kilometres per hour. (High Res)

colchrishadfield: Our Sun is immensely, unfathomably powerful.

Thu, 09 May 2013 07:41:38 -0700

colchrishadfield:

Our Sun is immensely, unfathomably powerful.

320gr: Some Strange Things Are Happening To Astronauts...

Thu, 09 May 2013 07:39:51 -0700

320gr:

Some Strange Things Are Happening To Astronauts Returning To Earth

fuckyeahcrystals: Tourmaline. Tourmaline is a piezoelectric...

Wed, 08 May 2013 22:51:13 -0700

fuckyeahcrystals:

Tourmaline.

Tourmaline is a piezoelectric material. Piezoelectrics generate a voltage when compressed along a perpendicular direction. Materials optimized for these properties are commonly used in sensors, scales, speakers, motors, and microscopes.

" “There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world. The fact that we live at..."

Mon, 06 May 2013 07:35:16 -0700

“” “There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world. The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be, but we have done various things over intellectual history to slowly correct some of our misapprehensions.” “”

- Douglas Adams, English writer and dramatist (1952-2001), in a Speech at Digital Biota 2, Cambridge, UK, (1998)

colchrishadfield: Overhead of Puerto Rico and the Dominican...

Mon, 06 May 2013 07:35:07 -0700

colchrishadfield:

Overhead of Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, floating above our glowing blue sphere.

pappubahry: Saturn’s moon Dione, photographed by Cassini, 29...

Sun, 05 May 2013 17:25:00 -0700

pappubahry:

Saturn’s moon Dione, photographed by Cassini, 29 January 2011.

What’s going on with the lighting here? Dione appears to be a crescent with the light hitting only a small part of the bottom of the moon as seen from the camera, but much of the top half is also bathed in light. The streaky stars in the background suggest that these photos are each of quite long exposure, so I suspect that the very bright lower crescent is reflected sunlight, and the moderately bright upper crescent is reflected Saturnshine.

Carina Nebula

Fri, 03 May 2013 21:29:52 -0700

Carina Nebula

Starbirth in the Carina Nebula (High Res)

Fri, 03 May 2013 18:54:00 -0700

Starbirth in the Carina Nebula (High Res)

pappubahry: Mimas exiting a transit of Saturn, with the rings’...

Thu, 02 May 2013 07:35:20 -0700

pappubahry:

Mimas exiting a transit of Saturn, with the rings’ shadows seen on Saturn’s surface. Photographed by Cassini, 18 January 2005.