― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― turbogirlwc8ko3.jpg (blastocyst), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr. Alicia D. Titsovich (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― trees (treesessplode), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 01:29 (seventeen years ago) link
http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20061107/i/r3685756597.jpg?x=345&y=345&sig=.LKQGSR.G9C8Mip5qVescQ--
― jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 18:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 18:44 (seventeen years ago) link
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0805/lander2panel_hirisephoenix.jpg
The Phoenix lander's footpads are about the size of a dinner plate. One of three is shown at the right, covered with Martian soil after a successful soft landing on the Red Planet on May 25. Amazingly, the left panel image is of the spacecraft during its descent phase, captured by the HiRISE camera onboard Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter -- the first image ever of a spacecraft descending to the surface of another planet.
― omar little, Saturday, 7 June 2008 18:26 (sixteen years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/790106-0203_Voyager_58M_to_31M_reduced.gif
― omar little, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 00:45 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.skyfactory.org/gammacygni/gammacygni_med.jpg
― dat dude delmar (and what), Thursday, 20 November 2008 18:37 (fifteen years ago) link
dude space is the fuckin best
― :) Mrs Edward Cullen XD (max), Thursday, 20 November 2008 18:37 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.omniluxe.net/wyw/sm2.jpg
― Chaud de poper le wheelie au démarrage (PappaWheelie V), Thursday, 20 November 2008 19:19 (fifteen years ago) link
http://shatters.net/celestia/
i like 2 download
― am0n, Wednesday, 9 September 2009 01:19 (fifteen years ago) link
http://i37.tinypic.com/sc9dp2.jpg
― candice spergin (cankles), Sunday, 1 November 2009 16:15 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.break.com/usercontent/2008/7/Space-Shuttle-Launch-Seen-From-Air-Canada-543456.html
― candice spergin (cankles), Sunday, 1 November 2009 16:18 (fourteen years ago) link
wish i was that dude
― banned, on the run (s1ocki), Sunday, 1 November 2009 19:13 (fourteen years ago) link
http://idw-online.de/pages/de/image105391
http://idw-online.de/pages/de/newsimage?id=105391&size=screen
― luol deng (am0n), Thursday, 3 December 2009 21:57 (fourteen years ago) link
http://idw-online.de/pages/de/news346986
― luol deng (am0n), Thursday, 3 December 2009 21:58 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17jymDn0W6U
― ('_') (omar little), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 22:23 (fourteen years ago) link
the pwn universe
― take me to your lemur (ledge), Thursday, 21 January 2010 00:01 (fourteen years ago) link
just watched with christian zeal and activity by john adams playing in my headphones <3
― schlump, Thursday, 21 January 2010 03:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Mars:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/1001/almosttrees_mro.jpg
― Your Sinclair magazine (sic), Thursday, 21 January 2010 04:08 (fourteen years ago) link
^^ view that big btw
mad dope
― tehresa, Thursday, 21 January 2010 04:27 (fourteen years ago) link
totally. looks like a space jungle!
― cam'ron carr (latebloomer), Thursday, 21 January 2010 06:18 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― iiiijjjj, Thursday, 21 January 2010 19:51 (fourteen years ago) link
so is this thread going to turn into astronomy picture of the day for ilx, then?
― thatwillultimatelyresultingalaxy-galaxymergersonacosmictimescale (jdchurchill), Thursday, 21 January 2010 21:32 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― pass the chicken & listen (unregistered), Thursday, 21 January 2010 23:02 (fourteen years ago) link
wallogina-esque
― circa1916, Thursday, 21 January 2010 23:22 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― innocent snack attack victim (sic), Thursday, 21 January 2010 23:34 (fourteen years ago) link
they should just admit they're trees though
http://triggerpit.com/2010/11/22/incredible-pics-nasa-astronaut-wheelock/
Yo, space rules. Bye!
― Pussy.ogg (Princess TamTam), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 21:34 (thirteen years ago) link
new wallpaperz
― am0n, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 21:52 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, those are incredible
― ENBB, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 21:53 (thirteen years ago) link
we had one of ireland on another thread a week or so ago but not as clear as those
― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 22:03 (thirteen years ago) link
amazing pics, love the florida at night one for the way the moon reflects off the entire atlantic ocean O_O
― omar little, Thursday, 13 January 2011 00:52 (thirteen years ago) link
one of my favorite threads for sure
― ENBB, Thursday, 13 January 2011 00:55 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Friday, 11 February 2011 06:06 (thirteen years ago) link
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3112/3125740957_38cce71e43.jpg
― frankly, mr. cankly (Pillbox), Friday, 11 February 2011 06:08 (thirteen years ago) link
http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/?CFID=5322751&CFTOKEN=64667737i guess this is kinda old news but i've been paying attention to other things i mean there's a lot to pay attention toxp
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Friday, 11 February 2011 06:09 (thirteen years ago) link
space
― max, Friday, 11 February 2011 06:09 (thirteen years ago) link
teal & orange.xls
xxp
― frankly, mr. cankly (Pillbox), Friday, 11 February 2011 06:11 (thirteen years ago) link
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1t6ell3AwVE/S0JRtk-Tz-I/AAAAAAAABAw/bJhnYDV-0k4/s400/1974next50yearsmoon4.gif
― frankly, mr. cankly (Pillbox), Friday, 11 February 2011 06:16 (thirteen years ago) link
To quote a friend, "This is hella dope".
http://media.skysurvey.org/interactive360/index.html
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Thursday, 5 May 2011 19:00 (thirteen years ago) link
oooooh!!
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 5 May 2011 19:35 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― markers aurelius (The Reverend), Saturday, 27 August 2011 21:02 (thirteen years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/Spiral_galaxy_arms_diagram.svg
― the late great, Saturday, 18 February 2012 06:18 (twelve years ago) link
nyowp
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Saturday, 18 February 2012 06:27 (twelve years ago) link
listening to ambient, watching SpaceX get ready to dock with the ISShttp://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)
― instant coffee happening between us (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 25 May 2012 10:56 (twelve years ago) link
http://darksky.org/first-international-dark-sky-park-in-ireland-receives-accreditation/
― the kids are alt right (darraghmac), Thursday, 13 October 2016 22:33 (seven years ago) link
All trillion editing mistakes can been
― veggie sticks potato snacks (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 14 October 2016 05:39 (seven years ago) link
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.
― nomar, Friday, 14 October 2016 18:07 (seven years ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Sun_and_VY_Canis_Majoris.svg/1280px-Sun_and_VY_Canis_Majoris.svg.png
― nomar, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 17:13 (seven years ago) link
http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2011/06/09/big-star-right-size_custom-30e7583d46a7040d8dde338533e99633e9a3de27-s900-c85.jpg
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 18:01 (seven years ago) link
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
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 18:01 (seven years ago) link
are there any good quality videos on youtube that talk about huge space is
― I've read Ta-nehisi Coates. (marcos), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 18:07 (seven years ago) link
like i know there is carl sagan stuff but anything newer?
― I've read Ta-nehisi Coates. (marcos), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 18:08 (seven years ago) link
space is deep imo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGwq620thqo
― nomar, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 18:15 (seven years ago) link
the Sagan stuff in the first ep of Cosmos is still painfully beyond my genuine comprehension, think of how vast one galaxy is and then multiply out by a vast number of galaxies at vast distances from one another, i think it is literally incomprehensible in any sense other than mathematically
― Our Sweet Fredrest (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 18:18 (seven years ago) link
http://cdn.iflscience.com/images/0db4bb8d-d7ba-5e57-8fb6-477b01ea9159/extra_large-1464361445-767-this-is-what-andromeda-would-look-like-at-night-if-it-were-brighter.jpg
http://www.iflscience.com/space/what-andromeda-would-look-night-if-it-were-brighter/
if possible for Andromeda to be more luminous, it would appear roughly six times larger than our moon. But at 2.5 million light-years from Earth, the galaxy is not as easily seen as the crescent in our sky—which is only 238,900 miles (384,400 kilometers) from Earth.“As a side note, its worth noting that the "size" of the Andromeda galaxy only really corresponds to that part of Andromeda that everyone is familiar with,” says McConnachie. “That part of Andromeda is most of the disk, which is where the overwhelming majority of the stars are located. However, if you include the much fainter outer parts of the galaxy, then the actual spatial extent of Andromeda is much, much, much larger.”The full extent of Andromeda, according to McConnachie, is at least 20 degrees across, or the equivalent of more than 40 full moons!
“As a side note, its worth noting that the "size" of the Andromeda galaxy only really corresponds to that part of Andromeda that everyone is familiar with,” says McConnachie. “That part of Andromeda is most of the disk, which is where the overwhelming majority of the stars are located. However, if you include the much fainter outer parts of the galaxy, then the actual spatial extent of Andromeda is much, much, much larger.”
The full extent of Andromeda, according to McConnachie, is at least 20 degrees across, or the equivalent of more than 40 full moons!
― nomar, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 18:21 (seven years ago) link
http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/12/brightest-ever-supernova-isnt-a-supernova-after-all/
...convinced the researchers that the bright flash was probably caused by a star being torn apart and spaghetti-fied.
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 18:49 (seven years ago) link
It's really hard to tell / define how big it really is because it is so bighttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VY_Canis_Majoris#Controversy― El Tomboto
― El Tomboto
it seems that UY Scuti might be a better contender for largest known star at this point
http://i.imgur.com/7aYbwwY.png
UY Scuti is a bright red supergiant and pulsating variable star in the constellation Scutum. It is a current and leading candidate for being the largest known star by radius and is also one of the most luminous of its kind.[citation needed] It has an estimated radius of 1,708 solar radii (1.188×109 kilometres; 7.94 astronomical units); thus a volume nearly 5 billion times that of the Sun. It is approximately 2.9 kiloparsecs (9,500 light-years) from Earth. If placed at the center of the Solar System, its photosphere would at least engulf the orbit of Jupiter.
― nomar, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 23:20 (seven years ago) link
http://pop.h-cdn.co/assets/17/08/768x432/gallery-1487714768-pia21425.jpg
http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a25336/seven-earth-like-planets-trappist-1/
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 22 February 2017 21:59 (seven years ago) link
they make good beer too
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 22 February 2017 22:00 (seven years ago) link
sorry didnt realise this was going down in caek's corner
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 22 February 2017 22:01 (seven years ago) link
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/01/11/china-shows-first-panoramic-photos-far-side-moon/
― omar little, Friday, 11 January 2019 17:30 (five years ago) link
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
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 30 January 2020 02:34 (four years ago) link
dang
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 30 January 2020 17:02 (four years ago) link
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
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Thursday, 30 January 2020 17:20 (four years ago) link
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
...
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
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Thursday, 30 January 2020 17:22 (four years ago) link
I heard “as big as France” - is Texas really as big as France??
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 30 January 2020 17:29 (four years ago) link
a little bigger, actually! honestly i was surprised france was as big as texas (almost)
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Thursday, 30 January 2020 17:44 (four years ago) link
that seems insane to me. I guess because most of Texas is basically unvisitable lol
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 30 January 2020 21:16 (four years ago) link
the sun on the other hand
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 31 January 2020 06:13 (four years ago) link
pretty big. I've seen bigger.
― Paperbag raita (ledge), Friday, 31 January 2020 08:52 (four years ago) link
space is the size of about 5 to 10 states of texas
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Friday, 31 January 2020 15:53 (four years ago) link
citation required
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 31 January 2020 15:56 (four years ago) link
common sense and some research skills, that's all
https://i.imgur.com/X4RY9QH.jpg
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Friday, 31 January 2020 16:02 (four years ago) link
you recognize those constellations, don't you? that's texas
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Friday, 31 January 2020 16:03 (four years ago) link
now we can gerrymander the entire multiverse
― I wanna publish memes and rage against machimes (rip van wanko), Friday, 31 January 2020 16:16 (four years ago) link
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!
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Friday, 31 January 2020 16:18 (four years ago) link
lol
― I wanna publish memes and rage against machimes (rip van wanko), Friday, 31 January 2020 16:20 (four years ago) link
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!
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Friday, 31 January 2020 16:20 (four years ago) link
gotta drill for quarks
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 31 January 2020 16:36 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/tYEVP6D.jpgburn baby burn! burn baby burn!
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Friday, 31 January 2020 16:39 (four years ago) link
alright guys enough already!! *pumps mossberg 12 gauge*
― I wanna publish memes and rage against machimes (rip van wanko), Friday, 31 January 2020 16:43 (four years ago) link
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🛰️ MISSIONInstrument OCAMS W+V+B filtersTARGET = BENNUDistance 2.4 kmDetailed Survey Mission Phasehttps://t.co/LD6RPmiWoVNASA/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)
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Friday, 31 January 2020 16:51 (four years ago) link
azul es un color natural iirc
― I wanna publish memes and rage against machimes (rip van wanko), Friday, 31 January 2020 17:00 (four years ago) link
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wxexwz/something-in-deep-space-is-sending-signals-to-earth-in-steady-16-day-cycles?
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 7 February 2020 21:33 (four years ago) link