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humanoidhistory:

May 1, 1979 – The prototype Space Shuttle Enterprise rolls out from the Vehicle Assembly Building at Cape Canaveral in Florida.

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cosmicvastness:

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day 2016 May 1 

Contemplating the Sun 

Have you contemplated your home star recently? Featured here, a Sun partially eclipsed on the top left by the Moon is also seen eclipsed by earthlings contemplating the eclipse below. The spectacular menagerie of silhouettes was taken in 2012 from the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area near Page, Arizona, USA, where park rangers and astronomers expounded on the unusual event to interested gatherers. Also faintly visible on the Sun’s disk, just to the lower right of the dark Moon’s disk, is a group of sunspots. Although a partial solar eclipse by the Moon is indeed a good chance to contemplate the Sun, a great chance – and one that is significantly more rare – will occur next week when the Sun undergoes a partial eclipse by the planet Mercury.

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cosmicvastness:

Flying Through the Aurora’s Green Fog

Expedition 46 flight engineer Tim Peake of the European Space Agency (ESA) shared a stunning image of a glowing aurora taken on Feb. 23, 2016, from the International Space Station. Peake wrote, “The @Space_Station just passed straight through a thick green fog of #aurora…eerie but very beautiful. #Principia”

The dancing lights of the aurora provide spectacular views on the ground, but also capture the imagination of scientists who study incoming energy and particles from the sun. Aurora are one effect of such energetic particles, which can speed out from the sun both in a steady stream called the solar wind and due to giant eruptions known as coronal mass ejections or CMEs.

Credit: ESA/NASA

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zerostatereflex:

Golf Ball 70,000fps 150mph. 

The straight up physics of deformation at high speeds is fascinating. Although what is also fascinating is the one thing we really take for granted. TIME. The high frames per SECOND is the only thing that makes this possible to view.

This is a visual example of what happens when you can see TIME, AND physics. I think we forget how important time is in our lives, yet it’s one of the most fascinating. Without time you have no-thing.

Woah I was unprepared for the depth of this post.

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spaceexplorationphotography:

Apollo 13 service module drifts away with the moon in the distance

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fyeahastropics:

Milky Way over the Pinnacles in Australia

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What strange world is this? Earth. In the foreground of the featured image are the Pinnacles, unusual rock spires in Nambung National Park in Western Australia. Made of ancient sea shells (limestone), how these human-sized picturesque spires formed remains unknown. In the background, just past the end of the central Pinnacle, is a bright crescent Moon. The eerie glow around the Moon is mostly zodiacal light, sunlight reflected by dust grains orbiting between the planets in the Solar System. Arching across the top is the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy. Many famous stars and nebula are also visible in the background night sky. The featured 29-panel panorama was taken and composed last September after detailed planning that involved the Moon, the rock spires, and their corresponding shadows. Even so, the strong zodiacal light was a pleasant surprise.

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The closest place to the stars

With an altitude of 6268 meters (20564 ft) above sea level, Chimborazo volcano in Ecuador is the highest equatorial mountain. Mount Everest’s peak is at 8,848 meters (29,029 feet) but the Earth is an oblate spheroid in shape, its equatorial diameter greater than its diameter measured pole to pole. Chimborazo’s peak is nearly on top the greatest equatorial bulge, over 2,000 meters farther from the center of the Earth than Everest’s peak.
That makes Chimborazo’s summit the place on our planet’s surface closest to the stars.

Image: © Stéphane Guisard, Los Cielos de América

christinetheastrophysicist:

Comet Catalina Through Space 

This is a series of images featuring Comet Catalina, formally known as C/2013 US10. This 16-image GIF was compiled by Yasushi Aoshima and shows the comet from Shizuoka, Japan between 14:29 UT and 20:40 UT on January 16, 2016.

Comet Catalina was discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey in October 2013 and is classified as an Oort cloud comet. The bright blue area around the comet’s nucleus is a region of gas and dust called the coma. Behind the comet are its two tails. Pointing upwards is the ion tail and towards the bottom right is the dust tail. The ion tail points in the direction of the solar wind, while the dust tail follows behind the comet.

Image Credit: Yasushi Aoshima

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