Posts tagged ‘Astronomy’

April 7th, 2011

I Am Definitely On A Space Kick Today—-Cosmological Fantasia

 

[hattip: Geeks Are Sexy]

April 7th, 2011

Colliding Galaxies

March 22nd, 2011

Photo of the Sun Taking By An Amateur Astronomer

For the massive full size photo, click here.

January 31st, 2011

What would the sky look like if the planets were our moon?

 

Scale from Brad Goodspeed on Vimeo.

[hattip: Laughing Squid]

December 19th, 2010

Space Porn

[hattip: National Geographic]

December 19th, 2010

Sunset on Mars

[hattip: tor.com]

November 23rd, 2009

Can I get an Earth with a side of Saturn rings, please?

October 28th, 2009

50 Years of Space Exploration

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50 years of Exploration map from National Geographic.

It really is amazing how relatively few missions failed considering the use of what we now see as antiquated and, at the time, untested technologies being used to perform such daring missions.  Kudos to every scientist, engineer, astronaut, cosmonaut, astronomer, factory worker, mathematician, physicist, and bureaucrat that made these missions possible and more successful than we could imagine.

[hattip: Laughing Squid]

August 17th, 2009

Absolutely awesome

3D rendering of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field.

“We pointed the most powerful telescope ever built by human beings at absolutely nothing, for no other reason than because we were curious.”