Time lapse: All Is Violent, All Is Bright
Updated: 2012-09-30 14:09:43
: , 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
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 [...]
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Dawn image of Vesta showing its nearly circumferential equatorial grooves (NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA) Even though NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has departed Vesta the trove of data it’s gathered about this fascinating little world continues to fuel new discoveries. Most recently, some researchers are suggesting that Vesta’s curious grooves — long, deep troughs that wrap around its equator, noticed [...]
It Begins Here at Home, Part II
One of the things I absolutely love about astronomy is that it’s just outside the door. You go out, you look up and you see things. During the day you know the Sun’s there, and part of the month you can also see the Moon. At night, the stars [...]
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
: skip to main skip to sidebar Thursday , September 13, 2012 Spiders on a Space Station As astronaut Don Pettit showed us during his Science off the Sphere video series , you can do a lot of cool things in space's microgravity environment . So what science experiments would you conduct aboard the International Space Station , given the chance NASA , the European Space Agency and several other sponsors posed that question to high school students from around the world for the Youtube Spacelab Competition After paring down Youtube video submissions from students , two winning experiments were chosen to be completed on the ISS . Today , the students got to see the results from their experiments beamed down to Earth via a live , streaming broadcast hosted by Bill . Nye One experiment tested the
: : skip to main skip to sidebar Wednesday , August 29, 2012 Obama to Redditors : Space Exploration a Big Priority This afternoon , President Barack Obama surprised the internet with an appearance on a reddit IamA Reddit , a social news site billed as the front page of the internet , regularly hosts IamA threads that allow reddit users to ask the submitter , often a celebrity , anything they want . The submitter then answers a selection of questions live over the internet . As evidence that Obama is truly answering the submitted questions , his campaign sent out a tweet and image of him in front of his . computer So far , Obama has answered a few questions . Most notably for physics fans out there , here's what Obama said in response to a question from the user ormirian about potential
And ironically, it’s XKCD What-if that is wrong. Well, not wrong by commission, but wrong by omission. First off, I’m a huge fan of both XKCD (well the 98% of their comic strips that are SFJ) and XKCD-What If. If I was 1/20th as funny as Randall Munroe, I’d probably be writing witty webcomics instead [...]