Astronomy Picture Of The Day

exactly

Oh! You mean you want to get early Floyd ... sorry, didn't get that.

Put on some pink floyd and check this out! (multiple videos in a row, cameras on the rocket boosters from launch to splashdown)

Downward-facing camera that starts at around 12:20 is amazing, but the two forward-facing ones are great when the shuttle separates, it's like "C U later doodz!" ZOOOOM!

Kinda frightening that 120 seconds is all it takes to get from the ground to black skies and being able to see the entire curve of the Earth. I can't even get to an RTA station from where I'm sitting that quickly.

it's only 90,000 feet at that stage, which is like three times higher than a plane goes. that atmosphere is some thin shit.

I know it's not the safest way of going up there and that's why the Shuttle program is being shut down, but seeing these videos, I don't know, I'm overcome with the beauty and elegance of this thing and I'm going to miss Space Shuttles :-/

I've now watched that whole thing four times today. Shadow of the smoke plume during liftoff! Smoke plume in the distance during tumble down! Sound! Chutes! Just the concept of mounting cameras on these things at all! *childishly enthusiastic, as usual* :-)

Companion video...

Someone needs to sync this shit up in a 4 way split screen

Like this one from 1996? http://www.nasa.gov/mov/mov/151917main_sts-121_srb_separation_composite.mov

lol:

http://arxiv.org/abs/0906.1577
http://arxiv.org/abs/0906.1578

On 23 April light from the explosion of a star was detected. the star blew up 600 million years after the big bang, which is over 13 billion years ago.

I.e. six weeks ago some people saw the oldest object anyone has ever seen. Boom.

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/38000/38985/ISS020-E-09048.jpg

Volcano from the ISS

more here

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=38985

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/38000/38985/ISS020-E-09048_lrg.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2437/3656910551_8377ddf36c_o.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2460/3656910999_63dd468fc3_o.jpg

if you put some eyes on that white plume, it would look like waldorf of "statler and" fame.

eat your heart out jeff minter...
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090728.html

another good one today
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090805.html

betelgeuse pops up in this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEheh1BH34Q

(no it doesn't)

ah, ok, it's about the same size as Antares A

meteor shower tonight kids.

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f325/caek/patrick-moore-full.jpg

good grief, the new hubble imager fitted a few months ago is good

http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/images/hs-2009-25-a-large_web.jpg

i mean honestly

good lord

those are photographs or real things, guys!

http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/images/hs-2009-25-e-large_web.jpg

DEAR EARTH,

FUCK YOU

LOVE SPACE

:)

caek do u ever use that celestia program i linked in the space is dope thread

http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/images/hs-2009-25-x-large_web.jpg

CHECK ME OUT I AM SPACE

i saw that, yuh. never used it, but it is on my weekend bookmarks, so will check it out : )

I MEAN HONESTLY

(ok, not literally on the APOD page, but)

HOLY CRAP: a 200 Mb jpg!?

http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/entire/pr2007016a/warn/hires/true/

whole gallery: http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/entire/hires/true/

http://stsciopo.cachefly.net/hu/db/images/hs-2007-16-a-xlarge_web.jpg

MIND FUCK

ONCE YOU SEE IT BRICKS WILL BE SHAT

God's skull! Nietzsche was right, he IS dead! :-)

Oh, you mean that vagina. Nevermind.

nice! http://hubblesite.org/gallery/wall_murals/

false colour is so pretty.

can i just...

http://www.phrenopolis.com/perspective/solarsystem/

orion

http://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/screen/eso1006a.jpg

orly

a splooging came across the sky

zz top

is there a thread about politics/economics/future of space travel/nasa/china/the moon, etc.?

is there a thread about politics/economics/future of space travel/nasa/china/the moon, etc.?

We were sorta talking about it here: NASA: "We're going back to the moon!"

ta.

today's pic of saturn is mindboggling. the thinness of the rings. and those shadows.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap100215.html

Umm... WOW

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/1002/shuttleapproaching_nasa.jpg

I know this isn't APOD, but is anyone else following the tweeting astronaut?

http://twitter.com/Astro_Soichi

Every day he posts a couple of pictures of random cities on earth that the space station has flown over. It's beautiful and amazing, and well worth following.

The cities at night are beautiful, but my favourites are always the natural land formations. It's kind of like APOD meets Google Earth...

http://twitpic.com/14zd4k

that's one long lens...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/8547114.stm

right, someone help me out here. Am i seeing things or are parts of the clouds over the oceans quite clearly PShopped/cloned ?

oh it's probably because the images are pieced together from smaller ones, still i can't stop looking at those parts now and its ruining the image for me