space is dope imo

http://www.break.com/usercontent/2008/7/Space-Shuttle-Launch-Seen-From-Air-Canada-543456.html

wish i was that dude

http://idw-online.de/pages/de/image105391

http://idw-online.de/pages/de/newsimage?id=105391&size=screen

http://idw-online.de/pages/de/news346986

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17jymDn0W6U

the pwn universe

just watched with christian zeal and activity by john adams playing in my headphones <3

Mars:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/1001/almosttrees_mro.jpg

^^ view that big btw

mad dope

totally. looks like a space jungle!

so the "trees" in that martian dune scene are talus/rock debris falling down a grade, right? that's what i remember them being explained as, but i can't reconcile how i'm imagining what that's supposed to look like with what i actually see in the image. it makes it especially difficult with no clues as to scale or perspective to go off of.

they should just admit they're trees.

so is this thread going to turn into astronomy picture of the day for ilx, then?

you guys see trees in that photo? I see a bunch of disembodied, sleeping eyes with bushy lashes and gobs of greyish discharge. it's still dope, but in a weirder and more stomach-churning way.

wallogina-esque

Explanation: They might look like trees on Mars, but they're not. Groups of dark brown streaks have been photographed by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on melting pinkish sand dunes covered with light frost. The above image was taken in 2008 April near the North Pole of Mars. At that time, dark sand on the interior of Martian sand dunes became more and more visible as the spring Sun melted the lighter carbon dioxide ice. When occurring near the top of a dune, dark sand may cascade down the dune leaving dark surface streaks -- streaks that might appear at first to be trees standing in front of the lighter regions, but cast no shadows. Objects about 25 centimeters across are resolved on this image spanning about one kilometer. Close ups of some parts of this image show billowing plumes indicating that the sand slides were occurring even when the image was being taken.

^ lots of those words are links if you click through

they should just admit they're trees though

http://triggerpit.com/2010/11/22/incredible-pics-nasa-astronaut-wheelock/

Yo, space rules. Bye!

new wallpaperz

yeah, those are incredible

we had one of ireland on another thread a week or so ago but not as clear as those

amazing pics, love the florida at night one for the way the moon reflects off the entire atlantic ocean O_O

one of my favorite threads for sure

yesterday i went to dinner at a friend's house and we had dinner, which was great, and the conversation was this wild meandering thing (hi...) that lead us to talking about the planet and then about how astronomers are watching the stars thru telescopes and seeing light shadows pass over the stars, indicative of planets of a certain size and solidity akin to our own. ooh! i love this for so many reasons.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3112/3125740957_38cce71e43.jpg

http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/?CFID=5322751&CFTOKEN=64667737
i guess this is kinda old news but i've been paying attention to other things i mean there's a lot to pay attention to
xp

space

teal & orange.xls

xxp

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1t6ell3AwVE/S0JRtk-Tz-I/AAAAAAAABAw/bJhnYDV-0k4/s400/1974next50yearsmoon4.gif

To quote a friend, "This is hella dope".

http://media.skysurvey.org/interactive360/index.html

oooooh!!

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/25/us-planet-diamond-idUSTRE77O69A20110825

http://www.reuters.com/resources/r/?m=02&d=20110825&t=2&i=486352039&w=460&fh=&fw=&ll=&pl=&r=2011-08-25T182630Z_01_BTRE77O1F8K00_RTROPTP_0_US-PLANET-DIAMOND

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/Spiral_galaxy_arms_diagram.svg

nyowp

listening to ambient, watching SpaceX get ready to dock with the ISS
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-mobile

(admittedly there's not much to see right now, was cooler a while ago with Morocco scrolling past underneath, but I'm led to believe some actual docking may happen any minute... maybe)

dude space is the fuckin best

― :) Mrs Edward Cullen XD (max), Thursday, 20 November 2008 13:37 (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://djer.roe.ac.uk/vsa/vvv/iipmooviewer-2.0-beta/vvvgps5.html

http://home.comcast.net/~nolan.woodard/blog/perspective410px.gif

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFT7ATLQQx8

http://workshop.chromeexperiments.com/stars/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews%3Athinking

The final image is composed of 37,000 separate photographs. Check out the massive zoomable high-definition version of the photo:

http://media.skysurvey.org/interactive360/index.html

0_0

fucking hell

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/1843401223/ref=tmm_hrd_used_olp_sr?ie=UTF8&condition=used&sr=&qid=

"john berkey" is worth a GIS if you like space art!

space is dope imo

http://www.kurzweilai.net/images/galactic-halo.jpg

The Andromeda Galaxy (/ænˈdrɒmᵻdə/), also known as Messier 31, M31, or NGC 224, is a spiral galaxy approximately 780 kiloparsecs (2.5 million light-years) from Earth.[4] It is the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way and was often referred to as the Great Andromeda Nebula in older texts.

There are about 50 galaxies in the Local Group (see list of nearest galaxies for a complete list), on the order of 100,000 in our Local Supercluster and an estimated number of about 170 billion in all of the observable universe.

i'm gonna go pass out

that's not andromeda above, that's the sombrero galaxy. this is andromeda:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Andromeda_Galaxy_%28with_h-alpha%29.jpg/1920px-Andromeda_Galaxy_%28with_h-alpha%29.jpg

The Andromeda Galaxy is the most distant object you can see with your naked eyes, two million light years away. It is visible as a dim, fuzzy star from a dark sky site. With binoculars you can clearly see the elliptical shape of the galaxy.

I need some binoculars. And a trip away from the sodium-bleached London sky.

i got an astronomy textbook, it has the first image on this thread on the cover

dude space is the fuckin best

― :) Mrs Edward Cullen XD (max), Thursday, 20 November 2008 13:37 (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― flopson, Friday, May 25, 2012 10:13 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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sorry didnt realise this was going down in caek's corner

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/01/11/china-shows-first-panoramic-photos-far-side-moon/

See the Sun like never before! @NSF’s Inouye Solar Telescope produces first detailed images of the sun’s surface. https://t.co/c3SPB6gg8w #SolarVision2020

📷: @NatSolarObs/ @AURADC/ NSF pic.twitter.com/1GP2rwkVG0

— National Science Foundation (@NSF) January 29, 2020

dang

i was looking into this (no pun intended) last night, and couldn't manage to find the most important detail that every account has left out.

what is the scale of this image? is that hundred of miles wide or like a square foot? i seriously have no idea

oh wait, here we go:

The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope has produced the highest resolution image of the sun's surface ever taken. In this picture, taken at 789 nanometers (nm), we can see features as small as 30km (18 miles) in size for the first time ever. The image shows a pattern of turbulent, “boiling” gas that covers the entire sun. The cell-like structures -- each about the size of Texas -- are the signature of violent motions that transport heat from the inside of the sun to its surface. Hot solar material (plasma) rises in the bright centers of “cells,” cools off and then sinks below the surface in dark lanes in a process known as convection. In these dark lanes we can also see the tiny, bright markers of magnetic fields. Never before seen to this clarity, these bright specks are thought to channel energy up into the outer layers of the solar atmosphere called the corona. These bright spots may be at the core of why the solar corona is more than a million degrees.

...

The NSF's Inouye Solar Telescope images the sun in more detail than we’ve ever seen before. The telescope can image a region of the sun 38,000km wide. Close up, these images show large cell-like structures hundreds of kilometers across and, for the first time, the smallest features ever seen on the solar surface, some as small as 30km. Background image: NSO Integrated Synoptic Program/GONG

I heard “as big as France” - is Texas really as big as France??

a little bigger, actually! honestly i was surprised france was as big as texas (almost)

that seems insane to me. I guess because most of Texas is basically unvisitable lol

the sun on the other hand

pretty big. I've seen bigger.

space is the size of about 5 to 10 states of texas

citation required

common sense and some research skills, that's all

https://i.imgur.com/X4RY9QH.jpg

you recognize those constellations, don't you? that's texas

now we can gerrymander the entire multiverse

there are going to some sliiiiiiight changes to the galactic trade federation's district lines this year guys. earth is no longer in the same district as the rest of the solar system. the district covering earth also goes through a wormhole and connects to a much larger district in a different dimension. turns out that they are actually really really anti-earth, too, so you're going to have to work across the aisle with your representation. thanks!

lol

earth voters are more than welcome to exercise their right to vote in the upcoming elections, especially since so many of the proposed measures involve destroying the earth, and how to distribute the earth's remaining consumer goods among the rest of the galaxy. however please note that all voting locations are in the other dimension, and remember to bring your new multidimension ID card (only available in other dimension, and you need it to get to the other dimension). thanks!

gotta drill for quarks

https://i.imgur.com/tYEVP6D.jpg
burn baby burn! burn baby burn!

alright guys enough already!! *pumps mossberg 12 gauge*

i'm sorry, i just galactic politics. as a peace offering, i really like this underrated twitter account

...el canal azul está muy cortado que conste... no es color "natural"

ASTEROID #BENNU🔘 #OSIRIS-REx🛰️ MISSION
Instrument OCAMS W+V+B filters
TARGET = BENNU
Distance 2.4 km
Detailed Survey Mission Phasehttps://t.co/LD6RPmiWoV

NASA/Goddard/UoA/j.Roger pic.twitter.com/iiNTVSQ2Jq

— landru79 (@landru79) January 28, 2020

this person digs through publicly released space imagery as it comes out and makes little animations to connect together the different stills in a visualizing pleasing way (this is something i always thought someone should do at NASA, in house)

azul es un color natural iirc

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wxexwz/something-in-deep-space-is-sending-signals-to-earth-in-steady-16-day-cycles?