Astronomy Picture Of The Day

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THE SUN IS ANGRY

http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2010/12/SDO-giant-filament.jpg

A brownish area with points (chap), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 03:18 (fifteen years ago)

two months pass...

giant ring of black holes

http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/516469main_image_1864_946-710.jpg

ship_rex (+ +), Monday, 14 February 2011 19:52 (fifteen years ago)

fucking hell!

the most cuddlesome bug that ever was borned (James Morrison), Monday, 14 February 2011 23:46 (fifteen years ago)

two months pass...

Chap combines multiple NASA images to make gorgeous huge pictures of solar system objects: http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/galleries/beyond_the_known/

You're fucking fired and you know jack shit about horses (James Morrison), Thursday, 5 May 2011 01:52 (fifteen years ago)

Incredible, esp. like Saturn, Mimas and Tethys.

Bill A, Thursday, 5 May 2011 09:27 (fifteen years ago)

one month passes...

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lmvoveChr51qzt4vjo1_r1_500.gif

caek, Thursday, 16 June 2011 16:11 (fourteen years ago)

one month passes...

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1108/mycn18_hst_1280.jpg

those facts at that point were still in the future (c sharp major), Sunday, 7 August 2011 11:57 (fourteen years ago)

apologies if that's huge, i keep images off.

more crucially, though, aaaaaaaah

those facts at that point were still in the future (c sharp major), Sunday, 7 August 2011 12:00 (fourteen years ago)

Whoa, the abyss staring back... What is it?

I for one am (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 7 August 2011 12:03 (fourteen years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SN_1987A i think

caek, Sunday, 7 August 2011 12:06 (fourteen years ago)

so fake

ice cr?m, Sunday, 7 August 2011 12:08 (fourteen years ago)

that's not 1987a.

~awkward~

caek, Sunday, 7 August 2011 12:09 (fourteen years ago)

MyCn18 nebula
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

ledge, Sunday, 7 August 2011 12:12 (fourteen years ago)

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110807.html i mean

ledge, Sunday, 7 August 2011 12:13 (fourteen years ago)

also aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahh

ledge, Sunday, 7 August 2011 12:13 (fourteen years ago)

its a shop i can tell by the pixels

ice cr?m, Sunday, 7 August 2011 12:14 (fourteen years ago)

But... but I want to believe... ;_:

Also: aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh

I for one am (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 7 August 2011 12:15 (fourteen years ago)

it is a philip k dick novel waiting to be written

those facts at that point were still in the future (c sharp major), Sunday, 7 August 2011 12:16 (fourteen years ago)

idk these pix are like real in some sense but theyre totally dressed up and technocolored to insite wonderment in the masses

ice cr?m, Sunday, 7 August 2011 12:18 (fourteen years ago)

its sort of cynical imho!

ice cr?m, Sunday, 7 August 2011 12:18 (fourteen years ago)

if you're just talking about the colours yeah they're false but it doesn't matter, it still looks like a freakin' eye!

http://i55.tinypic.com/ipxr0k.jpg

ledge, Sunday, 7 August 2011 12:28 (fourteen years ago)

it's terrifying

and awesome

ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Sunday, 7 August 2011 12:29 (fourteen years ago)

its not just the colors

ice cr?m, Sunday, 7 August 2011 12:39 (fourteen years ago)

make space stop staring at me

it's freaking me the fuck out

ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Sunday, 7 August 2011 12:42 (fourteen years ago)

its cool space is not staring at you any more than any thing that vaguely looks like an eye can be made to look more like an eye using computers, prob less in this case as a lot of the info in that pic was prob originally observed in a spectrum unseeable by human eyes

ice cr?m, Sunday, 7 August 2011 12:45 (fourteen years ago)

ice cr?m why do you hate magic

those facts at that point were still in the future (c sharp major), Sunday, 7 August 2011 13:28 (fourteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Today's pic is great.

L.P. Hovercraft (WmC), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 12:56 (fourteen years ago)

haha very chillwave

caek, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 12:59 (fourteen years ago)

is it a neutrino?

jel --, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 13:00 (fourteen years ago)

followed the link to the youtube video, do not want to read the comments of the 4 people who found it in themselves to 'dislike' it

(using no way as way) (schlump), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 13:01 (fourteen years ago)

youtube...? Are we looking at the same pic? (pileus iridescent cloud)

L.P. Hovercraft (WmC), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 13:03 (fourteen years ago)

yeah that's what i was looking at

caek, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 13:04 (fourteen years ago)

Seen a few iridescent clouds over London, but not as pretty as that one!

jel --, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 13:05 (fourteen years ago)

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110824.html

the one before isn't too shabby either.

koogs, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 15:04 (fourteen years ago)

Whoa no kidding!

Vaginalogue Bubblebath (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 15:05 (fourteen years ago)

YOU ARE HERE ->

http://news.discovery.com/space/juno-looks-back-snaps-earth-moon-system-110830.html

koogs, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 09:08 (fourteen years ago)

via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot

caek, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 11:12 (fourteen years ago)

dont try to tell me where i am fuckin science

ice cr?m, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 11:21 (fourteen years ago)

four weeks pass...

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110927.html

So pretty:

http://youtu.be/74mhQyuyELQ?hd=1

You need to watch the HD version

not bulimic, just a cat (James Morrison), Thursday, 29 September 2011 00:29 (fourteen years ago)

It is good to see the human-made lights so numerous. One glorious day there will be no natural lights left. We look forward to that time.

Banaka™ (banaka), Thursday, 29 September 2011 02:44 (fourteen years ago)

banaka!!

civilisation and its discotheques (c sharp major), Thursday, 29 September 2011 09:10 (fourteen years ago)

one month passes...

amazing

The Uncanny Frankie Valley (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 19:55 (fourteen years ago)

time-lapse photography from ISS - sdtk by Jan Jellinek

The Uncanny Frankie Valley (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 19:55 (fourteen years ago)

everybody should watch this!

The Uncanny Frankie Valley (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 20:41 (fourteen years ago)

loved it.

Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 20:43 (fourteen years ago)

five months pass...

In writing that long post on the Mad Men thread about the first color photo from space, I ended up thinking about it a bit more and <a href="http://www.quartzcity.net/2012/05/11/it-didnt-bother-you-to-see-the-world-tiny-and-unprotected-surrounded-by-darkness/";>wrote a lot more over here</a> (I posted it to MetaFilter too, but found some horrid typos and missing words).

Anyway, in the middle of all the writing and link checking I ran across this video that took 24 hours of the DISH Earth channel, time-compressed it down to 3:18 and soundtracked it with a banging mid-70s disco funk track from Brass Connection. It's been a shit couple of days and this completely snapped me out of it. Hooray for the Internet! This is the best thing I've seen in days:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-REzr7HB9E

Vini Reilly Invasion (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 11 May 2012 09:59 (fourteen years ago)

fuck! Switching between HTML and BBCode STILL kills me!

Vini Reilly Invasion (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 11 May 2012 10:00 (fourteen years ago)

(and yes, that's the moon crawling along there at the end)

Vini Reilly Invasion (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 11 May 2012 10:04 (fourteen years ago)

Great post. Shame the photo didn't stop people killing each other.

Touché Gödel (ledge), Friday, 11 May 2012 11:07 (fourteen years ago)


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