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Contributors: crookedindifference, bumerangue, propagandery, rocketmagic, rostenbach
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Stardust: A Mesmerizing Short Film About the Voyager 1 and the Wonder of the Universe.
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Digitally manipulating images found by NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory, Chris Keegan’s Celestial Artworks feature all sorts of creatures built of the stars, space-clouds and various naturally-occuring visuals found far, far away.
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The Great Exoplanet Debate, part 3: Limits to Determining Habitability
Summary: In part three of The Great Exoplanet Debate, the panel discusses our broadening view of the ‘habitable zone’ around different star types, and our preconceptions of what makes a ‘habitable environment.’
Vitor/bumerangue: a beautiful Moon picture taken by my love last Saturday, at 1130 PM, in Guaíba, Brazil. He used a Nikon 510, 42X zoom, ISO 100.
we’re about to begin a journey through the cosmos
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This digital project by Paris-based photographer Thierry Cohen is an imaginative tale about how urban landscapes might appear if we turned out all of the lights. In a big city glowing with street lamps, store signs, car headlights, and rows of illuminated apartment buildings, it’s almost impossible to see the stars in the sky. One project review says, “Atmospheric and light pollution combine to make looking into the urban sky like looking past bright headlights while driving.”
To bring a sense of nature back into these environments, Cohen has taken a bit of a scientific approach. He travels to places free from light pollution and captures the skies that rotate on the same axis as the urban skylines. Those same skies that were at some point visible above the cities are then superimposed into the darkened cityscapes.
The result is Darkened Cities, Cohen’s project in which cold, dark, and desolate cityscapes sit below these atmospheric wonders overhead. In a sense, Cohen is bringing a forgotten nature back into these places. His darkened landscapes are a frightening visual of what it might look like if a city had to be completely shut down. His images are a reminder of the magical beauty of nature and through this project, he encourages viewers to take a step back from the hustle and bustle of everyday life and to appreciate—most importantly, not take for granted—the natural world around us.
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Beautiful art with starry night.
Last month, the weather conditions for the gemenid were perfect. Cold, clear skies in a new moon. The only thing that wasn’t perfect was the light pollution coming from Times Square. New York City in general.
Anyway, I was at REI and decided to ask a lady where I could go in the area to see some stars.
“Like celebrities?” she asked.
No, not like celebrities. Nothing like celebrities.
From my roof, however, I got to see some meteors whiz about with my eyes but my camera could only get this.
Not a bad constellation prize.
New data suggest the confirmation of the exoplanet Gliese 581g and the best candidate so far of a potential habitable exoplanet. The nearby star Gliese 581 is well known for having four planets with the outermost planet, Gliese 581d, already suspected habitable. This will be the first time evidence for any two potential habitable exoplanets orbiting the same star. Gliese 581g will be included, together with Gliese 667Cc, Kepler-22b, HD85512, and Gliese 581d, in the Habitable Exoplanets Catalog of the PHL @ UPR Arecibo as the best five objects of interest for Earth-like exoplanets. http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2012/07/-image-of-the-day-the-kepler-5-nasas-short-list-of-potential-habitable-exoplanets.html#more
APEX takes part in sharpest observation ever. Telescopes in Chile, Hawaii, and Arizona reach sharpness two million times finer than human vision.
An international team of astronomers has observed the heart of a distant quasar with unprecedented sharpness, two million times finer than human vision. The observations, made by connecting the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope to two others on different continents for the first time, is a crucial step towards the dramatic scientific goal of the “Event Horizon Telescope” project : imaging the supermassive black holes at the centre of our own galaxy and others.
http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1229/
Source: ESO Facebook Fan Page.
This photograph shows the Submillimeter Telescope (SMT) at the Arizona Radio Observatory, at an altitude of 3100 metres on Mount Graham in Arizona, USA.
Credit: ESO/University of Arizona/David Harvey, photographer
The European Extremely Large Telescope primary mirror.
Source: ELT Facebook page.
Pioneer Anomaly Solved!
With the latest piece of the puzzle just published in a scientific journal, a solar system mystery that has perplexed people for more than 20 years has been solved, truly thanks to the support of Planetary Society members. That mystery is the “Pioneer Anomaly,” an anomalous acceleration that affected the two Pioneer spacecraft as they left the solar system.
Intellligent Alien Life Could Resemble Earth’s Extinct Dinosaurs
New scientific research raises the possibility that advanced versions of T. rex and other dinosaurs — monstrous creatures with the intelligence and cunning of humans — may be the life forms that evolved on other planets in the universe. “We would be better off not meeting them,” concludes the study, let by noted scientist Ronald Breslow, Ph.D. The study focuses on the century-old mystery of why the building blocks of terrestrial amino acids (which make up proteins), sugars, and the genetic materials DNA and RNA exist mainly in one orientation or shape.
