I Love all those space pics.
Passengers (upcoming movie): Looking forward to this:
Passengers (upcoming movie): Looking forward to this:
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DarthMatter
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A visualization of the electric field of Venus. It's the first time anything like this has been measured on a planet and is capable of reaching up to 10V!
This is because the electrons are so much lighter than protons they get pushed further away by surrounding forces, such as the solar-wind crashing into Venus thick atmosphere. The electrons get pushed further away than the protons and creates an electric field.
https: / / twitter.com/Space_Station/status/798196005329977344
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Ohhh i like porn.... I mean space darn it SPACE! :astonished:
It shall rise again, my thread of space dreams :heart_eyes_cat:
Frontier Fields galaxy cluster MACS J0717
Credits: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/van Weeren et al.; Optical: NASA/STScI; Radio: NSF/NRAO/VLA
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/frontier_macsj0717.jpg
Blast From Black Hole in a Galaxy Far, Far Away
Radio Galaxy Pictor A
Credits: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ. of Hertfordshire/M. Hardcastle et al.; Radio: CSIRO/ATNF/ATCA
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pictora.jpg
New Horizons took this image of the icy moon Europa rising above Jupiter's cloud tops after the spacecraft's closest approach to Jupiter. The spacecraft was 2.3 million kilometers (1.4 million miles) from Jupiter and 3 million kilometers (1.8 million miles) from Europa when the picture was taken.
Image Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_feature/public/images/188597main_PIA09361_full.jpg?itok=6G_ki56F
NASA’s Juno spacecraft skimmed the upper wisps of Jupiter’s atmosphere when JunoCam snapped this image on Feb. 2 at 5:13 a.m. PT (8:13 a.m. ET), from an altitude of about 9,000 miles (14,500 kilometers) above the giant planet’s swirling cloudtops.
Streams of clouds spin off a rotating oval-shaped cloud system in the Jovian southern hemisphere. Citizen scientist Roman Tkachenko reconstructed the color and cropped the image to draw viewers’ eyes to the storm and the turbulence around it.
JunoCam's raw images are available at www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam for the public to peruse and process into image products.
More information about Juno is online at http://www.nasa.gov/juno and http://missionjuno.swri.edu.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Roman Tkachenko
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_feature/public/thumbnails/image/pia21383.jpg?itok=q9UW0QJ_
Frontier Fields galaxy cluster MACS J0717
Credits: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/van Weeren et al.; Optical: NASA/STScI; Radio: NSF/NRAO/VLA
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/frontier_macsj0717.jpg
Blast From Black Hole in a Galaxy Far, Far Away
Radio Galaxy Pictor A
Credits: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ. of Hertfordshire/M. Hardcastle et al.; Radio: CSIRO/ATNF/ATCA
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pictora.jpg
New Horizons took this image of the icy moon Europa rising above Jupiter's cloud tops after the spacecraft's closest approach to Jupiter. The spacecraft was 2.3 million kilometers (1.4 million miles) from Jupiter and 3 million kilometers (1.8 million miles) from Europa when the picture was taken.
Image Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_feature/public/images/188597main_PIA09361_full.jpg?itok=6G_ki56F
NASA’s Juno spacecraft skimmed the upper wisps of Jupiter’s atmosphere when JunoCam snapped this image on Feb. 2 at 5:13 a.m. PT (8:13 a.m. ET), from an altitude of about 9,000 miles (14,500 kilometers) above the giant planet’s swirling cloudtops.
Streams of clouds spin off a rotating oval-shaped cloud system in the Jovian southern hemisphere. Citizen scientist Roman Tkachenko reconstructed the color and cropped the image to draw viewers’ eyes to the storm and the turbulence around it.
JunoCam's raw images are available at www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam for the public to peruse and process into image products.
More information about Juno is online at http://www.nasa.gov/juno and http://missionjuno.swri.edu.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Roman Tkachenko
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_feature/public/thumbnails/image/pia21383.jpg?itok=q9UW0QJ_
http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/89000/89748/eclipse_epc_2017057.gif
On February 26, 2017, the skies above Argentina dimmed and the landscape darkened as the Moon moved in front of the Sun, partially blocking its rays. The same thing happened that day in Chile and Angola, as a “ring of fire” (annular eclipse) appeared over the South Atlantic.
An annular eclipse occurs when the Moon passes in front of the Sun but is too far from Earth to completely obscure it. This geometry leaves the Sun’s edges exposed in a red-orange ring. NASA satellites caught several earthly views of the event.
The animation above was assembled from three images acquired on February 26 by NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC), a four-megapixel charge-coupled device (CCD) and Cassegrain telescope on the DSCOVR satellite. In that view, both the Earth and the lunar shadow move.(...)
More: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=89748
An annular eclipse occurs when the Moon passes in front of the Sun but is too far from Earth to completely obscure it. This geometry leaves the Sun’s edges exposed in a red-orange ring. NASA satellites caught several earthly views of the event.
The animation above was assembled from three images acquired on February 26 by NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC), a four-megapixel charge-coupled device (CCD) and Cassegrain telescope on the DSCOVR satellite. In that view, both the Earth and the lunar shadow move.(...)
More: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=89748
download large individual frames image (14 MB, ZIP): http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/89000/89748/eclipse_epc_2017057_lrg.zip
@Montoya : "ALL MY AURORAS, IN A BRA FORMATION!"Astronomers have spotted the hottest and most massive known double star, VFTS 352.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cf_XDp0WsAAqMi6.jpg
Testies: "AYE, SIR!"
A couple of old screenshots from Elite Dangerous on the Xbox. It really can be a very pretty game despite having no where near the graphical prowess of Star Citizen. I can't wait for Star Citizen to get this kind of content out!!!
Me Patrolling a Resource Extraction Site making sure no nasty pirates disturb the Miners.
Me stumbling across the Eye of Sauron in the middle of no where. Luckily lady Galadriel happened to be sitting on my lap at the time so she sorted it out. *phew*
Me Patrolling a Resource Extraction Site making sure no nasty pirates disturb the Miners.
Me stumbling across the Eye of Sauron in the middle of no where. Luckily lady Galadriel happened to be sitting on my lap at the time so she sorted it out. *phew*
Astronomy Picture of the Day
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1707/carina08_hubble_960.jpg
Mountains of Dust in the Carina Nebula
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Livio (STScI)
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1707/carina08_hubble_960.jpg
Mountains of Dust in the Carina Nebula
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Livio (STScI)
It's stars versus dust in the Carina Nebula and the stars are winning. More precisely, the energetic light and winds from massive newly formed stars are evaporating and dispersing the dusty stellar nurseries in which they formed. Located in the Carina Nebula and known informally as Mystic Mountain, these pillar's appearance is dominated by the dark dust even though it is composed mostly of clear hydrogen gas. Dust pillars such as these are actually much thinner than air and only appear as mountains due to relatively small amounts of opaque interstellar dust. About 7,500 light-years distant, the featured image was taken with the Hubble Space Telescope and highlights an interior region of Carina which spans about three light years. Within a few million years, the stars will likely win out completely and the entire dust mountain will evaporate.
Some of the best shots, that you've posted, yet.
Beautiful. Thanks for the new wallpapers.
DarthMatter
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Have not seen this purple-shaded picture style before. Really like it. Thanks for posting! :)
CrudeSasquatch
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Jeez that's a lot of big wordsAstronomy Picture of the Day
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1707/carina08_hubble_960.jpg
Mountains of Dust in the Carina Nebula
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Livio (STScI)
It's stars versus dust in the Carina Nebula and the stars are winning. More precisely, the energetic light and winds from massive newly formed stars are evaporating and dispersing the dusty stellar nurseries in which they formed. Located in the Carina Nebula and known informally as Mystic Mountain, these pillar's appearance is dominated by the dark dust even though it is composed mostly of clear hydrogen gas. Dust pillars such as these are actually much thinner than air and only appear as mountains due to relatively small amounts of opaque interstellar dust. About 7,500 light-years distant, the featured image was taken with the Hubble Space Telescope and highlights an interior region of Carina which spans about three light years. Within a few million years, the stars will likely win out completely and the entire dust mountain will evaporate.
