Time lapse: All Is Violent, All Is Bright
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: , Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS SpaceFest IV interview Time lapse : All Is Violent , All Is Bright For this , the last day of the US Fiscal Year , here’s a lovely time lapse video from Tadas Janušonis , a photographer in Lithuania . It’s called All is Violent , All is Bright and features a series of interesting optical phenomena in the . sky Did you catch everything There were noctilucent clouds halos moondogs and a brief lunar corona But my favorite is the phenomenal oncoming storm starting three minutes in . That , or the giant spider at 2:40 clearly bent on destroying the world . I’m partial to stuff

NASA’s Curiosity rover, still very early in its two-year search of Gale Crater for evidence of habitable environments, offered strong visual evidence this week that water flowed across the surface of Mars during a warmer earlier period. The findings from the robot explorer also known as the Mars Science Laboratory add to the possiblity [...]
SpaceX says it successfully test-fired the engines on its Falcon 9 rocket today in preparation for Oct. 7's scheduled liftoff of the California-based company's first official cargo delivery to the International Space Station.
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After a three-day delay, the European Space Agency’s “Edoardo Amaldi” Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV-3) undocked from the aft port of the International Space Station’s Zvezda service module at 21:44 UTC (5:44 p.m. EDT) on Friday. Tuesday’s initial attempt to undock the European cargo ship was called off due to a communications error between the Zvezda [...]
Now you see it, now you don’t! Around the solstices, the Solar Dynamics Observatory ends up having an “eclipse season,” where the Sun, Earth, and the SDO line up, and some of the images and video sent down from the spacecraft appear as though the Sun disappears for a while or just part of the [...]
NGC6888 The Crescent Nebula & Wolf Rayet Star (WR136). Credit: John Chumack. Here’s an impressive shot of NGC 6888, also known as the Crescent Nebula, which is a cosmic bubble about 25 light-years across. It is part of the massive Gamma Cygni Nebula region, and in the center is a powerful, bright and massive Wolf-Rayet [...]
Combined images taken simultaneously (06 June 2012, 03:46:18 UTC) from Svalbard and Canberra, showing the Venus parallax effect from 2 different locations on Earth, separated by 11600km. Credit: Pérez Ayúcar/Breitfellner Back in the 18th century, astronomers were trying to determine the distance from the Earth to the Sun. They used the parallax method during the [...]
Saturn’s moon Titan provides the best opportunity to study conditions very similar to Earth – in terms of climate, meteorology and astrobiology. That’s the observation from Athena Coustenis from the Paris-Meudon Observatory in France. The scientist is presenting this perspective today at the European Planetary Science Congress in Madrid. Titan is a “unique world on [...]
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Scratch water off Curiosity's list of things to find in a two-year quest to learn if the planet most like Earth in the solar system could have supported microbial life.
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The original observations (top) and interpretations (bottom) of the first ever amateur albedo map of Ganymede. Credit: Manos Kardasis. As our frequent “Astrophoto” posts from amateur astronomers and photographers attest – as well as the rise of citizen science — , the latest technology allows amatuers to make significant contributions to the field of astronomy. [...]
, Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Two talks in the Old Dominion The life of a star , in 14 minutes A penetrating , double-ringed crater on Mars Mars is weird . Right I mean , it’s a whole other planet So you expect it to be weird . But then I see pictures like this one from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s HiRISE camera , and I am reminded just how weird it : is Click to chicxulubenate . Most craters you see are pretty simple : something impacts the ground at high speed , BOOM and you get a crater like a dish tossed into soft sand . But this one has two rings , one inside the other . That can happen with
A fresh picture from NASA's Curiosity rover shows the Martian moon Phobos as it's never been seen before mdash; as a crescent shining over the Red Planet at dusk.
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How best to put the distance between the Sun and the nearest star in perspective? Now the world’s largest exhibition – extending from New York to Hawaii – is to do just that and will be dedicated this week. The exhibition is named after the late Cornell astronomer Carl Sagan. Called the Sagan Planet Walk [...]
U. S. space policy makers, armed with a new set of exploration options developed by NASA’s Mars Program Planning Group but constrained by little prospect for budget growth, will wrestle with some pretty ambitious goals: **Robotically acquire samples of Martian rock and soil and return them to Earth, where scientists can examine them for [...]
Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Revealing the Universe : the Hubble Extreme Deep Field Water bomb UPDATE on the big UK fireball There’s been a bit more news on that amazingly bright and weird fireball seen moving across the skies of northern UK last . week Marco Langbroek is a paleolithic archaeologist in Amsterdam , and also an amateur satellite tracker though with modern tech , the term amateur is arguable . Anyway , he’s been looking at the track and velocity of the meteor using eyewitness accounts and the video taken and thinks he can rule out the cause being the re-entry of human-made debris from a
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Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Angling in on Saturn Revealing the Universe : the Hubble Extreme Deep Field Endeavour’s last flight seen FROM SPACE I didn’t say much about the last flight of the Space Shuttle Orbiter Endeavour here on the blog though I did tweet links to some cool pictures , so follow me on Twitter to stay up on that sort of thing mostly because I knew pictures would be coming in so fast I wouldn’t be able to keep up But then one very special image came along , and I just had to put it here : Endeavour and its 747 ride as seen from the DigitalGlobe satellite This image was featured on the
Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Space Shuffle Endeavour’s last flight seen FROM SPACE Angling in on Saturn Pretty much every picture of Saturn sent back home from the Cassini spacecraft is devastatingly gorgeous , but it’s confession time : I prefer the greyscale ones to the pictures in color . Why Because this Holy ringed gas giant awesomeness Click to encronosenate . This shot was taken earlier this year , in June , when Cassini was about 3 million kilometers from the planet . Saturn has a thick haze above its cloud tops , obscuring much of the details of the clouds below one of the main reasons it doesn’t
There is a high probability that life came to Earth — or spread from Earth to other planets — during the Solar System’s infancy. New research on this prospect has been presented at the now being held European Planetary Sciences Congress. The findings provide the strongest support yet for “lithopanspermia” – that’s the hypothesis that [...]
: Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS A whole star exploded , and no one told me Social gadfly Uwingu : how you can directly fund science Scientific research is facing a funding crisis , and you can help . A group of top-notch research scientists got the idea that we need a way for people to directly fund space and scientific research . They created Uwingu Swahili for sky a project where they provide services and goods for people , and the money made goes toward furthering exploration . The project needs 75,000 to get started server costs , salaries , and so on and so an IndieGoGo funding drive much like
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Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS The puzzle of dogma A whole star exploded , and no one told me That’s not what the Batsignal is supposed to look like The dark night rises Click to stimulatedemissionate . Nope . This way cool picture is actually the Very Large Telescope observatory in Chile , though that really is a laser being shot into the sky . Our atmosphere boils and writhes , distorting the view of the stars . There’s a layer of sodium atoms in the atmosphere far above the ground , and the laser is designed to make them glow . This creates a very bright point-like source of light that the telescope can
Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS 7000 The puzzle of dogma VERY bright and spectacular meteor seen over northern UK Twitter just exploded with reports , pictures , and videos of an extremely bright fireball moving over the northern part of the UK at around 22:00 UTC . I’ve seen tweets from folks in Ireland , Manchester , and more . It was traveling east-to-west , and broke up into many pieces as it fell . No reports of it hitting the ground yet , though some pieces may fall all the way . down Here’s the best video I’ve seen so : far Other videos are not as clear but do show the same object note the positions of
Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Let those global warming dollars flow 7000 A butterfly in the Swan I am constantly amazed and awed by the sheer beauty of planetary nebulae the gorgeous structures created as stars die . Among the most astonishing of them is NGC 7026, a youngish nebula about 6000 light years away in the constellation Cygnus , the Swan . Here’s a stunningly beautiful picture of it from the Hubble Space Telescope Click to enlepidopterate . Planetary nebulae or PNe for short like this are sometimes called butterfly nebulae because of their shape . It’s easy to see why there are two big lobes that
Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Looking down on the snow of Kilimanjaro Let those global warming dollars flow Ceci est une pipe Oh , have I got a treat for you today . Behold the brain-busting beauty of Barnard 59 Click to ennicotianatabacumenate and seriously , do it or stick the gargantuan 16,000 x 15,000 pixel version into your pipe and smoke it . This incredible picture was taken by the MPG ESO 2.2-metre telescope at the European Southern Observatory’s La Silla Observatory in Chile . The chunk of sky shown in this image is pretty big for a deep sky photo about 6 arcminutes on a side . For comparison , the
The first rock that NASA's Curiosity rover will touch for science's sake on Mars is a pyramid-shaped chunk that's been named in honor of a top engineer who worked on every one of NASA's rover missions — but passed away just days after Curiosity's landing.
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NASA's Curiosity rover has caught sight of its first solar eclipse from the surface of Mars mdash; a slight bite taken out of the sun by the Martian moon Phobos, as seen from the rover's vantage point in Gale Crater on Thursday.
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Uwingu LLC, a space-themed start up is seeking crowd-sourced funding to launch an ongoing series of public engagement projects. Uwingu’s mission is to use those proceeds to generate funding for space exploration, research, and education efforts around the world.
Uwingu LLC (pronounced “oo-wing-oo” and which means “sky” in Swahili) consists of astronomers, planetary scientists, former space [...]