It's Full of Stars

New sunspot 1035 is growing rapidly and it is now seven times...

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:34:00 -0600

New sunspot 1035 is growing rapidly and it is now seven times wider than Earth. This makes it an easy target for backyard solar telescopes. Yesterday, Rogerio Marcon of Campinas, Brazil, photographed a maelstrom of hot plasma and magnetic filaments connecting the sunspot’s dark cores

(via spaceweather.com)

The Return of the Sunspots! (via BadAstronomy)

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:33:47 -0600

The Return of the Sunspots!

(via BadAstronomy)

moderation: First Global Map of Mercury… — SAN FRANCISCO — The...

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:18:19 -0600

moderation:

First Global Map of Mercury…

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SAN FRANCISCO — The first ever global map of Mercury was released here Tuesday at the American Geophysical Union meeting.

The map combines new observations from the Messenger spacecraft with earlier images captured by Mariner 10 in the 1970s.

Messenger completed the last of its three flybys of the planet on September 29th. The release of the map marks a new phase of the mission for the spacecraft, which will now orbit the sun’s innermost planet for a year.

The U.S. Geological Survey built the map from 917 images of variable resolution and lighting conditions, but sophisticated software was able to match up planetary features from different images to create the near seamless mosaic.

(via wired)

glxp: Just another morning commute to NASA JSC. (via...

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:28:15 -0600

glxp:

Just another morning commute to NASA JSC.

(via spacethebeyond)

spacethebeyond: The First Rocket Launch from Cape Canaveral...

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:01:31 -0600

spacethebeyond:

The First Rocket Launch from Cape Canaveral

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spacerules: monkeytypist: And now here is a comparison video...

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 09:06:14 -0600

spacerules:

monkeytypist:

And now here is a comparison video of stars and planets in the known universe.

A seriously awesome video.

Space Rules

freshphotons: juliasegal: Kids in space.

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 08:34:00 -0600

freshphotons:

juliasegal:

Kids in space.

(via babycakesss, submitted by peaceloveandwonderland)

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 20:56:18 -0600

(via babycakesss, submitted by peaceloveandwonderland)

The force on a solar sail is gentle, if not feeble, but unlike a...

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:00:36 -0600

The force on a solar sail is gentle, if not feeble, but unlike a rocket, which fires for a few minutes at most, it is constant. Over days and years a big enough sail, say a mile on a side, could reach speeds of hundreds of thousands of miles an hour, fast enough to traverse the solar system in 5 years. Riding the beam from a powerful laser, a sail could even make the journey to another star system in 100 years, that is to say, a human lifespan.

New Spacecraft Uses Starlight to Propel its Sails - Gizmodo

julie1: (via geometrica) Absolutely LOVE all of these...

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:01:56 -0600

julie1:

(via geometrica)

Absolutely LOVE all of these incredibly designed International Year of Astronomy posters. So Swiss, so neat, so awesome. :)

crookedindifference: (via simplyalyshia)

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:30:52 -0600

crookedindifference:

(via simplyalyshia)

rymdhiss: spacethebeyond: 8 The core of the spectacular...

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:58:31 -0600

rymdhiss:

spacethebeyond:

8 The core of the spectacular globular cluster Omega Centauri glitters with the combined light of 2 million stars. The entire cluster contains 10 million stars, and is among the biggest and most massive of some 200 globular clusters orbiting the Milky Way Galaxy. Omega Centauri lies 17,000 light-years from Earth. Image acquired in June of 2002. (NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team, STScI/AURA) More (see this on Google Sky) #

Map of the Milky Way. Get a nifty Map of the Known Universe from...

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:24:06 -0600

Map of the Milky Way.

Get a nifty Map of the Known Universe from the Greenwood Space Travel Supply Company. Only $12, well worth it.

Updates

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:13:21 -0600

A couple of updates to the It’s Full of Stars tumblog that you may or may not care to know about:

You can now view all of our posts on one ever-refreshing page using the Tumblr Mosaic Viewer

We’ve also updated our tumblog theme. No more “forward/backward” post navigation! Just load more posts into the same page! Neat! We also got rid of those silly third party comment forms because no one was using them anyway (and they were uuuuugly)

arielwaldman: astro-cat (via DiscoWeasel)

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:50:12 -0600

arielwaldman:

astro-cat (via DiscoWeasel)

propagandery: gravitazero:misuranderstanding:bigfun:are2:Girl...

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:18:19 -0600

propagandery:

gravitazero:misuranderstanding:bigfun:are2:Girl in Space

atompunk:nyood: Greenwood Space Travel Supply Co. - Space...

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 17:50:55 -0600

atompunk:nyood:

Greenwood Space Travel Supply Co. - Space Traveler Poster

“Hypernovas” - The Most Violent Object in the...

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 10:10:06 -0600

“Hypernovas” - The Most Violent Object in the Universe Confirmed

(via The Daily Galaxy)

freshphotons: nevver: Testing the Lunar Motorbike(!?)

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:35:36 -0600

freshphotons:

nevver:

Testing the Lunar Motorbike(!?)

rymdhiss: nyood: Big Sisters Rhea and Titan, Saturn’s two...

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:49:42 -0600

rymdhiss:

nyood:

Big Sisters

Rhea and Titan, Saturn’s two largest moons, align in Cassini’s lens in this image taken on November 19, 2009.

Lights in the Dark