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My first recording from the International Space Station. You can hear the slight buzz of the station’s fans in the background.
This is the first original, complete song recorded from space.
CSA video of bizarre motion of my wristwatch, on of the first things that struck me when I got to orbit. Like it was alive on my wrist.
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Never-Before-Seen Stage of Planet Birth Revealed
Astronomers studying a newborn star have caught a detailed glimpse of planets forming around it, revealing a never-before seen stage of planetary evolution.
Large gas giant planets appear to be clearing a gap in the disk of material surrounding the star, and using gravity to channel material across the gap to the interior, helping the star to grow. Theoretical simulations have predicted such bridges between outer and inner portions of disks surrounding stars, but none have been directly observed until now. - Continue reading at Live Science.
Photo by: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/M.Kornmesser (ESO)
Ed note: This newly discovered Earth-like planet could be habitable.
Let’s name the planet Gallifrey!
m81 LRGB (4h + 1h52m R, G and B) by pfile on Flickr.
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H Eye Nebula 18”X24” graphite and colored pencils
Thank-you to everyone who reblogged this!
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Richard Feynman
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Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I too can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination - stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one - million - year - old light. A vast pattern - of which I am a part… What is the pattern, or the meaning, or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it. Why do the poets of the present not speak of it? What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent?
The Orion Nebula
Sometimes it amazes me that things like this actually exist.
A cosmic concoction in NGC 2467
A colourful star-forming region is featured in this stunning new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 2467. Looking like a roiling cauldron of some exotic cosmic brew, huge clouds of gas and dust are sprinkled with bright blue, hot young stars.
Strangely shaped dust clouds, resembling spilled liquids, are silhouetted against a colourful background of glowing. Like the familiar Orion Nebula, NGC 2467 is a huge cloud of gas — mostly hydrogen — that serves as an incubator for new stars.
This picture was created from images taken with the Wide Field Channel of the Advanced Camera for Surveys through three different filters (F550M, F660N and F658N, shown in blue, green and red). These filters were selected to let through different colours of red and yellow light arising from different elements in the gas. The total aggregate exposure time was about 2000 seconds and the field of view is about 3.5 arcminutes across. These data were taken in 2004.
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Space sleeve by Dan Henk
Pretty much the most intense shoulder ever.
Pretty much out of this world.
This takes the science ink cake, folks. Speaking of Science Ink, Carl Zimmer has a whole book about that.
A newly identified separate star cluster in front of the Orion Nebula Cluster
Phys.org)—Using images from the 340 Mpx MegaCam camera on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) from the summit of Mauna Kea, astronomers identified the massive cluster of young stars NGC 1980 to be a clearly separate entity from the main cluster of the most studied star formation region in the Galaxy. A technique relying on the combination of optical, infrared, and mid-infrared data ensures astronomers are sampling only stars located in the foreground of the Orion nebula. This technique also led them to the discovery of a nearby small star cluster, baptized L1641W.
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