http://i38.tinypic.com/16ke3r7.jpg
― ledge, Wednesday, 5 November 2008 16:30 (fifteen years ago) link
wait this one's better
http://i36.tinypic.com/r874lj.jpg
― ledge, Wednesday, 5 November 2008 16:40 (fifteen years ago) link
http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/2003/11/images/i/formats/full_jpg.jpghttp://www.j-m-w-turner.co.uk/images/The_fighting_Temeraire.jpg
Left: The Fighting Temeraire, tugged to her Last Berth to be broken up, 1838, 91 x 122 cm. Right: The mother-fucking Helix Nebula, a trillion mile long tunnel of glowing gas
― caek, Monday, 24 November 2008 00:22 (fifteen years ago) link
More Helix nebula http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2003/11/image/
aren't all the hubble pictures artificially coloured anyway?
http://hubblesite.org/gallery/behind_the_pictures/meaning_of_color/
"The colors in Hubble images, which are assigned for various reasons, aren't always what we'd see if we were able to visit the imaged objects in a spacecraft. We often use color as a tool, whether it is to enhance an object's detail or to visualize what ordinarily could never be seen by the human eye."
― koogs, Monday, 24 November 2008 09:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Kinda. That image was taken with three different filters on two cameras, which allows them to make a pretty good colour version.
The most reliable images colourwise are the old school ones taken with photographic plates, e.g. http://www.aao.gov.au/images/general/emission.html
― caek, Monday, 24 November 2008 14:34 (fifteen years ago) link
In space, no one can see you colour.
― StanM, Monday, 24 November 2008 16:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Does anyone here do DIY astronomy imaging? I've seen some stuff recently and you can take some amazing pictures with digital camera technology (multiple exposures, adding the light in layers, using filters, etc.).
― Adam Bruneau, Monday, 24 November 2008 19:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Holy mother...http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
― not_goodwin, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 13:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Thats the greatest!
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 13:35 (fifteen years ago) link
fucking amazing.
is this the first time they've had a video up on apod?
― Disco/Very (Roz), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 18:25 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/10/enceladus_up_close.html
― caek, Monday, 1 December 2008 09:31 (fifteen years ago) link
http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/enc_10_24/enc09_approach.gif
This sequence of 12 frames was taken over a span of about 45 minutes on March 12, 2008. In that brief time, Cassini covered almost 40,000 kilometers in its approach to a flyby encounter with Enceladus. The overexposure and smearing of the images gives a hint of the raw speed involved - 14.4 km/sec (or 32,211 mph). Shortly after this sequence, at its closest, Casini approached within 52 km (32.3 miles) of the surface of Enceladus. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)
― caek, Monday, 1 December 2008 11:43 (fifteen years ago) link
p.s. if you like astronomy pictures and hate cancer then you should all buy one of these:
http://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/skyphoto/images/double_frame.png
http://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/skyphoto/
This kid is five years old and has had leukemia for four of those years.
― caek, Monday, 1 December 2008 11:49 (fifteen years ago) link
those are U.K. only for the time being, btw, but they're hopefully working on non-U.K. sales.
― caek, Monday, 1 December 2008 11:55 (fifteen years ago) link
That'll make a neat Christmas present for my father. Thanks!
(It's his birthday tomorrow and one of his presents seems to be lost in the post, so if I had my chequebook I might even have tried wandering across town to see if they could produce one on the spot, but no chequebook, so I guess I'm spared being that annoying person...)
(Oh hey, Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell signature editions and everything!)
― ..··¨ rush ~°~ push ~°~ ca$h ¨··.. (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 1 December 2008 12:13 (fifteen years ago) link
: )
(I just realised my post made it sound like those are pictures of cancer. Just to be clear, they are original photographic plates from the Palomar observatory.)
― caek, Monday, 1 December 2008 13:08 (fifteen years ago) link
"Add an extra £5 and get your gift wrapped by real Astrophysicists from Oxford."
is this a good use of their time?
― koogs, Monday, 1 December 2008 13:38 (fifteen years ago) link
They're only grad students. It's not like they have work to oh shit.
― caek, Monday, 1 December 2008 14:29 (fifteen years ago) link
http://cache.boston.com/universal/bigpicture/v838.gif
― caek, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 01:21 (fifteen years ago) link
cosmic zit poppin'
― My lawyers will have a field day with you. THEY are the REAL shark (latebloomer), Tuesday, 2 December 2008 01:22 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/12/hubble_space_telescope_advent.html
― caek, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 01:23 (fifteen years ago) link
KA BOOOOOOM
Whoa. Way cool.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/12/02/no-dyson-spheres-found-yet/
(I hope no one objects to me hijacking this thread for liveblogging things I read over morning coffee. Happy to take this stuff elsewere.)
― caek, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 13:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Awesome - and a mystery too! Awesome²!
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090112.html
― StanM, Monday, 12 January 2009 15:58 (fifteen years ago) link
lol at the (middle) finger nebula:http://heritage.stsci.edu/2000/06/big.html
― caek, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 04:45 (fifteen years ago) link
My APOD:
http://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/html/im0600.htmlhttp://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/images/d5/sunx.jpg
― caek, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 19:05 (fifteen years ago) link
today's would make a good science lesson, if not several:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090115.html
― koogs, Thursday, 15 January 2009 12:41 (fifteen years ago) link
CH4 on Mars.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/4243321/Mars-methane-discovery-hints-at-presence-of-life.html
― Jarlrmai, Thursday, 15 January 2009 15:38 (fifteen years ago) link
I, for one, welcome our new farting Martian overlords.
― StanM, Thursday, 15 January 2009 15:42 (fifteen years ago) link
woah: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090128.html
― koogs, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 10:47 (fifteen years ago) link
BLACK HOLE JETS OMFG
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/images/2009/01/28/blackholejetshires.jpg
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/01/spectacular-new.html
― talk me down off the (ledge), Saturday, 31 January 2009 13:40 (fifteen years ago) link
lol cosmic sonic booms
― caek, Monday, 2 February 2009 15:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Very nice lenticular cloud, today.
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090203.html
― StanM, Tuesday, 3 February 2009 18:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Any Texans see the flaming mountain of space debris? I wish I had!
― Magdalen Goobers (Oilyrags), Monday, 16 February 2009 15:59 (fifteen years ago) link
that video spooked me out, because it featured a ton of people running and shouting. before i realised they were also filming a marathon run at the time.
― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Monday, 16 February 2009 17:02 (fifteen years ago) link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/7891912.stm
― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Monday, 16 February 2009 17:03 (fifteen years ago) link
Bad astronomy seems to suspect that it IS satellite bumpercar fallout.
― Magdalen Goobers (Oilyrags), Monday, 16 February 2009 17:07 (fifteen years ago) link
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/02/15/fireball-over-texas/
in this international year of astronomy, take your own APOD's with your retina and your mind grapes for $15 + shipping.
https://www.galileoscope.org/gs/
i played with one of these at a conference a while back. for the price, they are totally awesome.
― We are all from Northampton now (caek), Monday, 9 March 2009 17:55 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/photos/shuttsm/shutt06.jpg
oh hi we heard you like the hubble advanced camera for surveys so we're off to fix it. be done in 1 week.
― caek, Monday, 16 March 2009 15:30 (fifteen years ago) link
(note: all the good APOD pictures are taken with the ACS, but it broke in summer 2007)
― caek, Monday, 16 March 2009 15:31 (fifteen years ago) link
http://i.gizmodo.com/05173385/shuttle%20riding-bat-dies-the-most-glorious-death-imaginable
― Thrills as Cheap as Gas (Oilyrags), Thursday, 19 March 2009 00:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Not astronomy, but wow anyway:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/7952344.stm
― StanM, Thursday, 19 March 2009 14:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh. it's everywhere.http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1163121/Pictured-The-spectacular-eruption-underwater-volcano-South-Pacific.html
― StanM, Thursday, 19 March 2009 15:04 (fifteen years ago) link
I can't help but think of the movie 'Lifeforce' (or in book form or UK movie title 'the space vampires) with that bat clinging to the shuttle. That little dude was just getting a lift home.
― BlackIronPrison, Thursday, 19 March 2009 15:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh. it's everywhere.
yep just linked to it on the guardian site too
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Thursday, 19 March 2009 15:38 (fifteen years ago) link
yaow
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/04/cassinis_continued_mission.html
― caek, Monday, 20 April 2009 17:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Cheers, caek, that's a superb link. The selection of images and accompanying descriptions are truly mesmeric.
― Bill A, Monday, 20 April 2009 18:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Wow. Just wow.
"The outer edge of the B ring is anchored and sculpted by a powerful gravitational resonance with the moon, Mimas"
Wow. My mind is boggling away here like mad.
― James Morrison, Monday, 20 April 2009 23:02 (fifteen years ago) link