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Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Cartoon Cloud/Dr Suess/Psychedelic (AKA "swiss cheese") terrain in sublimating CO2 layers near Mars' south pole [OS] [2048 x 8172]


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Fifth mission for Ariane 5 this year


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NGC6979 in the Veil Nebula [2546x1871][OS][OC]


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Which planet was this taken from? [1280x904][OC]


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Animals in the News (32 photos)


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Venus Rising [OC] [5185 x 3456]


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The Carina Nebula [6614 x 5196]


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Water on the Moon --"The Asteroid Delivery System"


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South Dakota Sky from a few weeks ago. Caught a little Aurora in there! Made it play back and forth because... Well why not? [OC][718x404]


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A Fresh Perspective on an Extraordinary Cluster of Galaxies


Galaxy clusters are often described by superlatives. After all, they are huge conglomerations of galaxies, hot gas, and dark matter and represent the largest structures in the Universe held together by gravity. via NASA http://ift.tt/1O1Z0os

Seasonal Streaks Point to Recent Flowing Water on Mars [1080x648]


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NASA's Search for Extraterrestrial Life in the Universe --"The Next Ten Years"


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kick flip in space [600x800]


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SMOS meets ocean monsters


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Space for visitors


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Supermoon Total Lunar Eclipse and Lightning Storm


What's more rare than a supermoon total lunar eclipse? How about a supermoon total lunar eclipse over a lightning storm. Such an electrifying sequence was captured yesterday from Ibiza, an island in southeastern Spain. After planning the location for beauty, and the timing to capture the entire eclipse sequence, the only thing that had to cooperate for this astrophotographer to capture a memorable eclipse sequence was the weather. What looked to be a bother on the horizon, though, turned out to be a blessing. The composite picture features over 200 digitally combined images from the same location over the course of a night. The full moon is seen setting as it faded to red in Earth's shadow and then returned to normal. The fortuitous lightning is seen reflected in the Mediterranean to the right of the 400-meter tall rocky island of Es Vedra. Although the next total eclipse of a large and bright supermoon will occur in 2033, the next total eclipse of any full moon will occur in January 2018 and be best visible from eastern Asia and Australia. via NASA http://ift.tt/1ODsDxR

Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Observing the Cosmos in Badlands Nat'l Park, SD [OC] [4067x4067]


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The Milky Way over Big Sur [OC] [3456 x 5184]


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Hubble, a window into the soul of space [plus a huge collection in the comments] [500x700]


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Ed White's spacewalk, hand sketched art [600x600] [full album in comments]


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Every Eclipse Moon Brings Wrong Things for Human?[OC][500 x 375]


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Mecca Then and Now, 128 Years of Growth (17 photos)


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Super blood moon over Los Angeles [OC][1600x1068]


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Just some stars, taken from my driveway with my LG G4. (OC) [2560x1440]


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Alan Chinchar's 1991 rendition of the Space Station Freedom (3,000 × 2,292)


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A bit late, but here's my blood moon shot from southern New York [OC] [2560 x 2278]


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Coming This Fall!


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Beyond the Higgs: Nature's Top Quark Hints the "Universe Could Suddenly Collapse"


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Space portrait


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NGC 4522 - a spectacular spiral galaxy that is currently being stripped of its gas content [3666 x 3666]


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Dark, Recurring Streaks on Walls of Garni Crater on Mars


Dark narrow streaks, called "recurring slope lineae," emanate from the walls of Garni Crater on Mars, in this view constructed from observations by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. via NASA http://ift.tt/1jrr9db

Global Warming News: "Communicating Via Electrons Help Deep Sea Microbes Gulp Methane"


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Top Candidates for Alien Life: "Rocky Planets With Magnetic Fields Orbiting Small Stars"


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The motion of the eclipsed Moon relative to the background stars (see comments). [OS][3000x2000]


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Lunar Eclipse and Lighting Storm in Ibiza [1900x1266]


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Total Lunar Eclipse over Waterton Lake


Recorded in 2014 April, this total lunar eclipse sequence looks south down icy Waterton Lake from the Waterton Lakes National Park in Alberta, Canada, planet Earth. The most distant horizon includes peaks in Glacier National Park, USA. An exposure every 10 minutes captured the Moon's position and eclipse phase, as it arced, left to right, above the rugged skyline and Waterton town lights. In fact, the sequence effectively measures the roughly 80 minute duration of the total phase of the eclipse. Around 270 BC, the Greek astronomer Aristarchus also measured the duration of lunar eclipses - though probably without the benefit of digital clocks and cameras. Still, using geometry, he devised a simple and impressively accurate way to calculate the Moon's distance, in terms of the radius of planet Earth, from the eclipse duration. This modern eclipse sequence also tracks the successive positions of Mars, above and right of the Moon, bright star Spica next to the reddened lunar disk, and Saturn to the left and below. via NASA http://ift.tt/1NWb8qX

NASA Image of the Year --“Now We Know There is Liquid Water on the Surface of This Cold, Desert Planet"


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Monday, September 28, 2015

Photographers photographing the super moon in Wellington, New Zealand [OC][1920x1080]


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Shoutout to Mother Nature for clearing the clouds at the last minute possible [OC] [2400x1600]


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Water on Mars: Dark, narrow streaks of salty water flowing downhill on Horowitz Crater, Mars. [1920 x 997]


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I know they're all over the place, but here's my SuperBloodMoon shot [OC][2048x1365]


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The "blood moon" lunar eclipse was obscured by these really amazing clouds over Lake Tahoe, last night, however the Milky Way and other stars were shining brightly [oc][1800x1201]


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Liquid Water on Mars in Hydrated Salt Flows [2560x1920]


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Human Impact on the Earth: Toronto's Leslie Street Spit (16 photos)


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Exploring the ice canyons of Pluto [500x700]


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NASA TV: "Water Found on Mars!" View Live


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The Super Lunar Eclipse(Blood Moon) , as seen from Riyadh, 8 inch telescope [OC] [3110x2073]


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Ice in a Martian crater [3600x2774]


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Spiral Wizard Tower Silver City Library Downtown


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News Flash: NASA to Live-Stream Major Mars Discovery MONDAY @ 11:30 am ET


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