space is dope imo

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

👌👀👌👀👌👀👌👀👌👀 good shit go౦ԁ sHit👌 thats ✔ some good👌👌shit right👌👌there👌👌👌 right✔there ✔✔if i do ƽaү so my self 💯 i say so 💯 thats what im talking about right there right there (chorus: ʳᶦᵍʰᵗ ᵗʰᵉʳᵉ) mMMMMᎷМ💯 👌👌 👌НO0ОଠOOOOOОଠଠOoooᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒ👌 👌👌 👌 💯 👌 👀 👀 👀 👌👌Good shit

http://www.smokymtnastro.org/images/Autumn/NGC4414Xannotated.jpg

http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/13/health/hubble-telescope-galaxies-trnd/index.html

(CNN)Turns out we were wrong; there aren't 200 billion galaxies in the universe.

It's more like 2 trillion.

Yes, TRILLION!

That's the latest from NASA, which announced Thursday the number of galaxies in our observable universe is 10 times higher than previously projected.

This revelation was possible, thanks to that font of discovery -- the Hubble Space Telescope.

Good bump

One of my stags is gonna be a camping trip here with telescopes and whiskey:

http://darksky.org/first-international-dark-sky-park-in-ireland-receives-accreditation/

All trillion editing mistakes can been

http://io9.gizmodo.com/5799335/five-weird-theories-of-what-lies-outside-the-universe

We know with some certainty that there's "more universe" out there beyond that boundary, though. Astronomers think space might be infinite, with "stuff" (energy, galaxies, etc.) distributed pretty much the same as it is in the observable universe. If it is, that has some seriously weird implications for what lies out there. Beyond the Hubble Volume you won't just find more, different planets. You will eventually find every possible thing. Read that again and let it sink in. Everything. If you go far enough, you'll find another solar system with an Earth identical in every way except that you had cereal for breakfast this morning instead of eggs. And another where you skipped breakfast. And one where you got up early and robbed a bank. In fact, cosmologists think that if you go far enough, you will find another Hubble Volume that is perfectly identical to ours. There's another version of you out there mirroring your every action 10 to the 10^188 meters away. That may seem unlikely, but then, infinity is awfully infinite.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Sun_and_VY_Canis_Majoris.svg/1280px-Sun_and_VY_Canis_Majoris.svg.png

http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2011/06/09/big-star-right-size_custom-30e7583d46a7040d8dde338533e99633e9a3de27-s900-c85.jpg

It's really hard to tell / define how big it really is because it is so big

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VY_Canis_Majoris#Controversy

are there any good quality videos on youtube that talk about huge space is

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?