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Thursday, December 31, 2015
[1920x1080] can anyone tell me what this is?
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Lift off of the Mercury-Redstone vehicle with Alan B. Shepard aboard. During the 15-minute suborbital flight, Shepard would become the first American in space. May 5, 1961. [1140 x 900]
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A cosmic question in NGC 4696 [3864 x 1820]
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Happy New Year's Eve! For some celestial fireworks, here's a composite of 40 meteors I captured during 6 hours this summer over Lassen Peak in Northern California. [OC][2500x1875]
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"Beyond the Higgs" --Hints That the Universe Could Suddenly Collapse (2015 Most Popular)
via The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel: Sci, Space, Tech http://ift.tt/1Ui7AjS
[OC]Morning planets over Vistula River in Torun, Poland [1280x853]
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The Fox Fur Nebula
This interstellar canine is formed of cosmic dust and gas interacting with the energetic light and winds from hot young stars. The shape, visual texture, and color, combine to give the region the popular name Fox Fur Nebula. The characteristic blue glow on the left is dust reflecting light from the bright star S Mon, the bright star just below the top edge of the featured image. Textured red and black areas are a combination of the cosmic dust and reddish emission from ionized hydrogen gas. S Mon is part of a young open cluster of stars, NGC 2264, located about 2,500 light years away toward the constellation of the Unicorn (Monoceros). via NASA http://ift.tt/1RRhE5q
Wednesday, December 30, 2015
A Year of Syria's War Seen Through the Lens of Bassam Khabieh (42 photos)
via The Atlantic Photo http://ift.tt/1QZHtQF
The Alps in Winter
European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut and Expedition 46 Flight Engineer Tim Peake (@astro_timpeake) photographed the Alps from orbit on Dec. 27, 2015 and later shared the image with his social media followers, writing, "There may not be much snow in the Alps this winter but they still look stunning from here! #Principia" via NASA http://ift.tt/1miLof5
Hubble Hints at Source of Milky Way's Titanic Eruption 2 Million Years Ago (2015 Most Popular)
via The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel: Sci, Space, Tech http://ift.tt/1RRByNU
Scientists Identify Fragments of Primordial Proteins that Existed 3.5 Billion Years Ago
via The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel: Sci, Space, Tech http://ift.tt/1ZBOybN
The Carina Nebula in Near Infrared [2048×1541] Photographed by Rolf Wahl Olsen
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Dust of the Orion Nebula
What surrounds a hotbed of star formation? In the case of the Orion Nebula -- dust. The entire Orion field, located about 1600 light years away, is inundated with intricate and picturesque filaments of dust. Opaque to visible light, dust is created in the outer atmosphere of massive cool stars and expelled by a strong outer wind of particles. The Trapezium and other forming star clusters are embedded in the nebula. The intricate filaments of dust surrounding M42 and M43 appear brown in the featured image, while central glowing gas is highlighted in red. Over the next few million years much of Orion's dust will be slowly destroyed by the very stars now being formed, or dispersed into the Galaxy. via NASA http://ift.tt/1PuLd9H
Tuesday, December 29, 2015
Halo around the Christmas Full Moon (Long Exposure) [2400x1734]
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NASA/Hubble: "Human Civilization Has Arrived Early in the Universe" (2015 Most Popular)
via The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel: Sci, Space, Tech http://ift.tt/1YM38Ay
Reading the Alphabet From Space
NASA's Earth Observatory has tracked down images resembling all 26 letters of the English alphabet using only NASA satellite imagery and astronaut photography. In this image, the letter 'Y' is for yardangs, elongated landforms sculpted by erosion and similar to sand dunes, but instead comprised of sandstone or siltstone. via NASA http://ift.tt/1ZzD7Bo
Two stars of the DI Cha star system shine through the center of a ring of cascading dust; ESA/Hubble,NASA, Judy Schmidt [2048 x 1536]
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'Does This Tiny Ocean World Harbor Life?'--NASA's Last Flyby of Saturn's Geyser Moon, Enceladus
via The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel: Sci, Space, Tech http://ift.tt/1mO9eiv
Winners of the 2015 National Geographic Photo Contest (13 photos)
via The Atlantic Photo http://ift.tt/1mO5pdn
Monday, December 28, 2015
Image of the Day: "Previously Unknown Part of the Milky Way"
via The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel: Sci, Space, Tech http://ift.tt/1JcireH
Boulders on a Martian Landslide
The striking feature in this image, acquired by the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on March 19, 2014, is a boulder-covered landslide along a canyon wall. Landslides occur when steep slopes fail, sending a mass of soil and rock to flow downhill, leaving behind a scarp at the top of the slope. via NASA http://ift.tt/1ZxnSsx
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