“NASA” published a photograph of the eclipse today.
A colorful new collection of galaxies from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, mission reveal a spectacular menagerie of galaxies during its prolific 3-year mission that ended in Feb. 2011. The showcase, released in May 2011 by NASA, shows several galaxy types, from elegant grand design spirals to more patchy flocculent spirals, while others have roundish centers or stretched central bars.
Words Of Wisdom of the Day: Inspired by the acclaimed “Sagan Series,” Evan Schurr pieced together powerful statements made by world-renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson that serve as an alarming wake up call to a nation that has stopped dreaming and underfunded tomorrow.
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Words Of Wisdom of the Day: Neil DeGrasse Tyson responds to the question “What is the most astounding fact you can share with us about the Universe?”
Money: “When I look up at the night sky, and I know that, yes, we are part of this Universe, we are in this Universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the Universe is in us. When I reflect on that fact, I look up — many people feel small, ‘cause they’re small and the Universe is big, but I feel big, because my atoms came from those stars.”
Music: “To Build a Home” by The Cinematic Orchestra.
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#bifrost #I love how 473286432 people reblogged this thinking ‘Oh hey look it’s space how hipster and awesome is that?’ and all of us are like ‘lolno it’s actually from Thor. TROLLED YA’ #excellent
it’s genuinely beautiful, i think, to know that even after life is gone from earth, whether through the vagaries of time or the acts of humanity, life itself will remain in the universe; the potential for life will remain; the universe will continue to eat itself and make new wonders of itself. and even when that dies, if it does die, something else will come of its death.
even if i never become a published writer like i’ve dreamed—even if there is no heaven, no god, no eternal reward—even if death is death and nothing else exists for me, as i am, of myself, it will have been enough just to have lived, to have been born and then to live, to know that when i die, the elemental payload of my body will in time be delivered that all the parts of me gathered to make me—the nitrogen, the calcium, the carbon, all of it, everything—will be used to make something else.
and i think that’s pretty.
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Solar system-themed chocolates, called “Wakusei Shokora” (Planet Chocolates) come from the chocolate shop in Rihga Royal hotel in Kita-ku, Osaka. Each chocolate is priced at 400 yen, and a box of eight is available for 3,200 yen.
Guys what if we’re just an uneaten ball of chocolate and the universe is the box we’re in?
So we are gonna be eaten on Dec 21st 2012 and we will be able to see giant teeth chewing us?
Fun With Perspective of the Day: Brad Goodspeed uses After Effects to imagine what our night sky might look like if other solar bodies occupied the space currently reserved for the moon.
So the basic idea is, each planet you see is the size it would appear in the sky if it shared an orbit with the moon, 380,000 kms from earth. I created this video in After Effects, and because of certain technical considerations had to keep the field of view at 62 degrees. That means the foreground element is not precisely to scale. I realized this after the fact and may update the video at some point in the future. All planets are to correct scale with one another in any case.
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At about 15 full moons wide, this widefield view stretches from Orion’s sword at right through the Horsehead and Flame nebula at center. The huge swaths of hydrogen gas and dust surrounding it all are a great reminder that our galaxy is not just made of stars.
In our darkest hour, Space-Dragon’ll save us
“Just kidding, he’s gonna watch us all burn. And you know what? I don’t blame him. You know how many people I let in front of me while driving this weekend? A good amount. And you know how many waved to show their appreciation instead of acting like self-entitled @$$holes? A bad amount. I swear I’m *this close* to buying an old truck and rocking everybody’s world (and vertebrae).Anyway, Space Dragon — or maybe it’s Space Phoenix. Whatever the case, I don’t even want to know what comes out of his black hole after eating a galaxy. I’m talking stuff not even the crew of the Enterprise would want to admit. Shit that could kill a star.”
via Geekologie
via www.noao.edu
Geekologie is hilarious.
