http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
― kate, Sunday, 22 September 2002 10:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― kate, Sunday, 22 September 2002 10:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mark C (Mark C), Sunday, 22 September 2002 10:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
― chris j (chris j), Sunday, 22 September 2002 10:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
uuuuhhhhhh...
::drools::
― kate, Sunday, 22 September 2002 10:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
I love astronomers with a sense of humour...
― kate, Sunday, 22 September 2002 10:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 22 September 2002 13:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 02:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
― bnw (bnw), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 03:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/02/0209_050209_saturn.html
― koogs (koogs), Monday, 7 March 2005 16:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Huk-L, Monday, 7 March 2005 16:55 (nineteen years ago) link
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060921.html
(click for much bigger image)
― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 10:26 (seventeen years ago) link
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap061009.html
Look how we're mucking up Mars!
― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 10:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 11:33 (seventeen years ago) link
I love pictures of star trails:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060915.html
― chap who would dare to contain two ingredients. Tea and bags. (chap), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 12:23 (seventeen years ago) link
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0610/sweeps16_hst.jpg
― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Friday, 13 October 2006 15:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 13 October 2006 16:08 (seventeen years ago) link
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0610/marshorizon_opportunity.jpg
― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 10:41 (seventeen years ago) link
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/Images/PIA07997_lrg.jpg
― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 10:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― treefell (treefell), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 10:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 10:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 11:00 (seventeen years ago) link
oh roffles, i thought i was the only one who noticed that!
― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 11:08 (seventeen years ago) link
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0610/sh2136_kpno.jpg
Spacerock, indeed!
― Going Through The Motions (kate), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 12:04 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.zero.co.nz/music/images/Spiritualized%20-%20Lazer%20Guided%20Melodies.jpg
― Going Through The Motions (kate), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 12:06 (seventeen years ago) link
Should be good.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 12:27 (seventeen years ago) link
?
― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 01:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 08:55 (seventeen years ago) link
Like the alien giving Mars the finger they've got on today.
― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 09:02 (seventeen years ago) link
Doesn't that get you excited?
― Going Through The Motions (kate), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 13:18 (seventeen years ago) link
Fuck yeah!
I love this Cassini picture of Saturn. Take away the rings and all the moons, and Saturn is still neat to look at.
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGBrowseS25/N00068717.jpg
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 23:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― Going Through The Motions (kate), Thursday, 2 November 2006 11:27 (seventeen years ago) link
http://jmm45.free.fr/planetes/neptune/pia00058.jpg
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 2 November 2006 17:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuesdays With Morimoto (Rock Hardy), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:36 (seventeen years ago) link
WHOOOOOOOO BLOWED UP REAL GOOD
― Tuesdays With Morimoto (Rock Hardy), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― chap, Thursday, 10 May 2007 21:54 (sixteen years ago) link
― StanM, Friday, 11 May 2007 06:07 (sixteen years ago) link
― StanM, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 09:34 (sixteen years ago) link
― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 10:20 (sixteen years ago) link
yyyeeeaaaaahhhhhh... APOD delivers. The first strike in an intergalactic war!!!
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0707/lasergalaxy_beletsky_big.jpg
(Not raelly.)
― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 10:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Anyone have pictures of The Hole yet?
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070823_huge_hole.html
― StanM, Friday, 24 August 2007 11:12 (sixteen years ago) link
except, well, this, but I mean a real pic
http://www.nrao.edu/pr/2007/coldspot/void_small.jpg
― StanM, Friday, 24 August 2007 11:14 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
youtube...? Are we looking at the same pic? (pileus iridescent cloud)
― L.P. Hovercraft (WmC), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 13:03 (twelve years ago) link
yeah that's what i was looking at
― caek, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 13:04 (twelve years ago) link
Seen a few iridescent clouds over London, but not as pretty as that one!
― jel --, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 13:05 (twelve years ago) link
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110824.html
the one before isn't too shabby either.
― koogs, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 15:04 (twelve years ago) link
Whoa no kidding!
― Vaginalogue Bubblebath (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 15:05 (twelve years ago) link
YOU ARE HERE ->
http://news.discovery.com/space/juno-looks-back-snaps-earth-moon-system-110830.html
― koogs, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 09:08 (twelve years ago) link
via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot
― caek, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 11:12 (twelve years ago) link
dont try to tell me where i am fuckin science
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 11:21 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
banaka!!
― civilisation and its discotheques (c sharp major), Thursday, 29 September 2011 09:10 (twelve years ago) link
amazing
― The Uncanny Frankie Valley (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 19:55 (twelve years ago) link
time-lapse photography from ISS - sdtk by Jan Jellinek
everybody should watch this!
― The Uncanny Frankie Valley (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 20:41 (twelve years ago) link
loved it.
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 20:43 (twelve years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
fuck! Switching between HTML and BBCode STILL kills me!
― Vini Reilly Invasion (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 11 May 2012 10:00 (eleven years ago) link
(and yes, that's the moon crawling along there at the end)
― Vini Reilly Invasion (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 11 May 2012 10:04 (eleven years ago) link
Great post. Shame the photo didn't stop people killing each other.
― Touché Gödel (ledge), Friday, 11 May 2012 11:07 (eleven years ago) link
Yes that's beautiful, thanks for posting.
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 11 May 2012 11:26 (eleven years ago) link
It's not on APOD YET - http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2013/12
http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/images/hs-2013-12-a-web.jpg
Unlike other celestial objects there is no question how the Horsehead Nebula got its name. This iconic silhouette of a horse's head and neck pokes up mysteriously from what look like whitecaps of interstellar foam. The nebula has graced astronomy books ever since its discovery over a century ago. But Hubble's infrared vision shows the horse in a new light. The nebula, shadowy in optical light, appears transparent and ethereal when seen at infrared wavelengths. This pillar of tenuous hydrogen gas laced with dust is resisting being eroded away by the radiation from a nearby star. The nebula is a small part of a vast star-forming complex in the constellation Orion. The Horsehead will disintegrate in about 5 million years.
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 20 April 2013 07:18 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/05/07/the_sun_picture_of_a_small_sunspot_bigger_than_earth.html
fuck yeah
― j., Tuesday, 7 May 2013 19:08 (ten years ago) link
http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/05/07/sdo_171_sunmay62013.jpg.CROP.original-original.jpg
http://38.media.tumblr.com/72149346d6e161163b09595dec3da3e6/tumblr_najkod50mC1qbo6leo1_1280.jpg
Fishing boats off of Bangkok
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 07:01 (nine years ago) link
Really rather beautiful short film here: http://vimeo.com/108650530
Worth checking out the stills gallery, too, full of interesting stuff on the physics and the original imagery, etc: http://www.erikwernquist.com/wanderers/gallery.html
http://www.erikwernquist.com/wanderers/images/gallery/WANDERERS_europa_view_01.jpg
― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 23:09 (nine years ago) link
Great Lakes area from the ISS.
http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/lcvqwf5xt6agrsjusavr.jpg
― nickn, Thursday, 11 December 2014 20:06 (nine years ago) link
Two-Kilometer Crater within Pasteur Crater on Mars. From http://beautifulmars.tumblr.com (which everyone in this thread should be following)
http://41.media.tumblr.com/c6a19038504e4435447f259faf37af4f/tumblr_nge4roGJRV1rlz4gso1_1280.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 12 December 2014 00:34 (nine years ago) link
Gah! Molecular Cloud Barnard 68: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap141214.html
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1412/barnard68v2_vlt_960.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 02:04 (nine years ago) link
Volcano on Io.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/12/Tvashtarvideo.gif
― nickn, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 01:06 (nine years ago) link
awesome
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 20:41 (nine years ago) link
it's not just other planets
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-04/01/typhoon-from-space
― koogs, Thursday, 2 April 2015 08:48 (nine years ago) link
Presenting Charon!
https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpt1/v/t1.0-9/12043169_10153579258846772_8883593727963723006_n.jpg?oh=685e18ad896c38ea727ec83bf4e5e6b3&oe=56A3C850
― nickn, Friday, 2 October 2015 00:21 (eight years ago) link
fuck
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 2 October 2015 00:55 (eight years ago) link
In September, the first confirmed extrasolar object visited our solar system. ʻOumuamua is a 230 m × 35 m × 35 m asteroid on a highly inclined hyperbolic orbit which arrived in the Solar System from the direction of Vega with 26.3 km/s relative velocity, accelerated to 87.7 km/s at perihelion inside Mercury's orbit on September 9, 2017, and has departed towards Pegasus, never to return.
Wikipedia: ʻOumuamua
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_vAcv7JGhQ
― Sanpaku, Thursday, 25 January 2018 21:22 (six years ago) link
taken by one of the two 18 cm small bots on Ryugu:
This is a picture from MINERVA-II1. The color photo was captured by Rover-1A on September 21 around 13:08 JST, immediately after separation from the spacecraft. Hayabusa2 is top and Ryugu's surface is below. The image is blurred because the rover is spinning. #asteroidlanding pic.twitter.com/CeeI5ZjgmM— HAYABUSA2@JAXA (@haya2e_jaxa) September 22, 2018
― StanM, Monday, 24 September 2018 14:43 (five years ago) link
(pic 2 & 3 are way better, click on this one ^ )
― StanM, Monday, 24 September 2018 14:44 (five years ago) link
what are some good astronomy pic accounts on twitter
― marcos, Monday, 24 September 2018 14:46 (five years ago) link
I love that those rovers are moving around the asteroid by jumping
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Tuesday, 25 September 2018 00:31 (five years ago) link
Titan dust storm (artist's conception)
http://pasadenanow.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/PIA22482_hires.jpg
― nickn, Tuesday, 25 September 2018 01:09 (five years ago) link
I'd also recommend the unmannedspaceflight.com forumhttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/DnszMxtUUAAS_cD.jpg
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Tuesday, 25 September 2018 01:58 (five years ago) link
these all look like me after a few pints
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 25 September 2018 04:07 (five years ago) link
hey check out this fuckin' black hole
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D3y2S46XkAAwIRl.jpg:large
― he once took my hand and poked Neil Armstrong in the butt (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 13:20 (five years ago) link
pretty cool imo
― he once took my hand and poked Neil Armstrong in the butt (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 13:21 (five years ago) link
Hands up who thinks they have this album somewhere.
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 13:29 (five years ago) link
Seriously cool
― jmm, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 13:35 (five years ago) link
This album, FYI:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superunknown
― dinnerboat, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 13:59 (five years ago) link
Check the simulation
There's a brief write-up at @PhysicsWorld here: https://t.co/dqI3RoCjuL with more images. Here's the image seen (left) compared with a simulation (middle) and the simulation blurred to the expected resolution of the telescope (right). (Image via Akiyama et al & ApJL) pic.twitter.com/UqAVdUtndK— Katie Mack (@AstroKatie) April 10, 2019
― lukas, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 17:04 (five years ago) link
livestream here of Jupiter-Saturn conjunction...this last happened (w/ this visibilty) 800 years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0799Kmke-k
― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 21 December 2020 14:14 (three years ago) link
would wear on a t-shirt. (would make a perfect autechre cover also)
https://eventhorizontelescope.org/blog/astronomers-image-magnetic-fields-edge-m87s-black-hole
― koogs, Thursday, 25 March 2021 12:08 (three years ago) link