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Desadarve III Certamen de Arte Efímero de Tudela. "Esa bruma infinita". Palacio de Marqués de San Adrián
Antalya at night, Turkey, as seen by ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti aboard the International Space Station for her Minerva Mission.
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Credit: ESA/NASA-S.Cristoforetti
Madrugué para que los primeros rayos del sol aparecieran por miespalda y con esa luz dorada del amanecer pusieran color, en este caso, a untrocito de la Ría de Vigo, con su inconfundible puente de Rande que forma yadesde hace décadas, del paisaje de las Rías Baixas.
A veces no ves esa luz...
A veces la buscas...
Con o sin éxito...
Cuando la encuentras, la pierdes´otra vez...
Y cuando de repente un día te tropiezas con ella te come la nostalgia.
No se que es, pero me gusta
:)
Foto tomada desde polideportivo de Santurtzi ^^
Estaba sentada en aquella silla transparente tan moderna, riendo, comiendo, hablando y sobre ella se reflejaba ese tono rojo pasión del neón, me miró y sonrío, enseñándome todos sus dientes y un trozo de lechuga enganchado en uno de ellos, yo me reí y ella siguió comiendo.
Cuando reuní el valor de acercarme y decirle algo ya no estaba, solo quedaba ese neón y su color rojo pasión reflejándose sobre esa silla tan moderna y vacía.
Estos me los regalo mi madre este mismo lunes. Todavía no los he estrenado.
Creo que sobra el perfume en miniatura a la derecha y creo que hay demasiado espacio vacío en la esquina izquierda. Pero ya llevo 2 días intentando sacar algo que merezca la pena y no lo consigo. Y ya me he decidido por esta.
Se me olvidaba: el objetivo una Tamron SP 35-80mm analógico 1: 2.8-3.8. Para esta foto el diafragma esta abierto en 4.
Aurorae observed by ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti aboard the International Space Station for her Minerva Mission. She shared these images to her social media on 21 August 2022 with the caption:
The Sun has been really active lately. Last week we saw the most stunning auroras I have ever experienced in over 300 days in space!
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Credit: ESA/NASA-S.Cristoforetti
The Copernicus Sentinel-2A satellite takes us over the largest island of the Azores: São Miguel. Resting at the intersection of the Eurasian, African and North American tectonic plates, the Azores form a string of volcanic islands in the North Atlantic Ocean, some 1500 km west of mainland Portugal. The nine major islands are divided into three groups, with São Miguel falling into the eastern group.
The archipelago is an autonomous region of Portugal and home to just under 250 000 people. We can see the capital of the region, Ponta Delgada, in the bottom left of the image. The main transport hub of the Azores, João Paulo II de Ponta Delgada International Airport, is clearly visible in the same part of the image. Tourism is an important industry for the islands, with visitors flocking to enjoy the unspoilt beaches and breathtaking landscapes, from the geysers of São Miguel to the natural waterfalls of Flores.
Known locally as the Green Island, São Miguel is the most populous of the islands and amidst the lush foliage, volcanic craters, and freshwater lakes, visitors are spoilt for choice when it comes to visual attractions.
The largest freshwater lake in the Azores, Lagoa das Sete Cidades, can be seen in the top left of the image. It lies in a large volcanic crater and consists of two lakes: Lagoa Azul and Lagoa Verde. On the right of the image we can see Furnas Lake, in the Furnas Valley, famous for its volcanic cones. The volcanic landscape of the island has even influenced local cooking methods. Cozido das Furnas, a stew-type dish, is prepared by lowering a pot filled with meat and vegetables into the hot springs dotted around the valley, and leaving it to cook for around five hours.
The Azores islands are rich in terms of flora and fauna, and are home to a large number of resident and migratory bird populations. Efforts are being made to restore and expand the laurel forests typical of the Macaronesian islands (an area covering the archipelagos of Madeira, Azores, Canary Islands and Cape Verde) as only around 2% of the native laurel forest remains on the islands.
ESA, in collaboration with the French Space Agency, CNES, is organising a symposium on 25 years of progress in radar altimetry, which will be held in Ponta Delgada from 24–29 September. With global sea-level rise a global concern, the symposium will focus on the advances made in our understanding of the open ocean, the cryosphere, and coastal and land processes. The annual meeting of the Ocean Surface Topography Science Team and the International DORIS Service Workshop will also be held in the same week.
This image, which was captured on 8 September 2016, is also featured on the Earth from Space video programme.
Credits: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2016), processed by ESA,CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
A list of all ESA astronauts who have done spacewalks, presented in order of total time spent doing an Extra Vehicular Activity (EVA).
Known to the crew as an EVA (extravehicular activity), each spacewalk provides a valuable opportunity to carry out repairs, test new equipment and even perform science experiments beyond the confines of a spacecraft. Exiting the International Space Station however brings heightened risk and activities are planned down to the minute.
This infographic was updated in July 2021 after the spacewalks of Thomas Pesquet during his Alpha mission.
Updated September 2022 to add ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer and ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti's spacewalks.
Credits: ESA
What looks like a light sabre is actually a laser beam guided in its path through a hair-thin jet of water, in the same manner as conventional fibre optics.
This water jet provides a large ‘processing depth’, allowing parallel cutting of larger samples. Its water also serves to continually cool the cutting zone and efficiently remove cut material.
This Laser Microjet machine from Synova SA in Switzerland is being employed by cosine in the Netherlands to slice novel X-ray optics for ESA’s NewAthena space observatory to survey the hot, energetic Universe.
Energetic X-rays don’t behave like typical light waves: they don’t reflect in a standard mirror. Instead they can only be reflected at shallow angles, like stones skimming along water. So multiple mirrors must be stacked together to focus them. NewAthena will therefore employ ‘silicon pore optics’, based on the precisely-aligned stacking together of tens of thousands of mirror plates made from industrial silicon wafers, which are normally used to manufacture silicon chips.
This technology – developed by ESA, cosine and other partners – will enable the building of a 2.6 m diameter X-ray lens for NewAthena’s telescope. Production of these mirror modules has reached the demonstration stage and their mass production is now being prepared, to ready NewAthena for launch in 2037 as one of ESA’s major ‘Large class’ missions.
Credits: cosine
The ESA JVT (Jovian Transfer Vessel) Europa 3 launched in 2065 ferrying crew and supplies to Jupiter's satellites. Europa 3 was powered by a single large magnetised target fusion engine which allowed for journeys measured in weeks instead of months. And with four centrifugal gravity habs and a multiple layer radiation shielding, passengers (generally) arrived fit for work and still talking to each other...
...So I think it's still September 2019 somewhere on Earth, which means I made it. 116 (I think!) studs of pure frustration and Shiptastic joy.
Merry Shiptember all!
This wafer of Gallium Nitride – a material more typically found at the heart of Blu-Ray players – has been etched with hundreds of space-quality microwave integrated circuits. Many of ESA’s most ambitious future missions for telecommunications and Earth observation have only become possible because of a switch to this high-power and high-temperature capable semiconductor – regarded as the most promising material since silicon.
This image is one of the 99 Objects of ESA ESTEC website, a set of intriguing, often surprising artefacts helping tell the story of more than half a century of activity at ESA’s technical heart.
Credits: ESA-Remedia
It might appear featureless and unexciting at first glance, but NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope observations of this elliptical galaxy — known as Messier 105 — show that the stars near the galaxy’s centre are moving very rapidly. Astronomers have concluded that these stars are zooming around a supermassive black hole with an estimated mass of 200 million Suns! This black hole releases huge amounts of energy as it consumes matter falling into it and causing the centre to shine far brighter than its surroundings. This system is known as an active galactic nucleus.
Hubble also surprised astronomers by revealing a few young stars and clusters in Messer 105, which was thought to be a “dead” galaxy incapable of star formation. Messier 105 is now thought to form roughly one Sun-like star every 10 000 years. Star-forming activity has also been spotted in a vast ring of hydrogen gas encircling both Messier 105 and its closest neighbour, the lenticular galaxy NGC 3384.
Messier 105 was discovered in 1781, lies about 30 million light-years away in the constellation of Leo (The Lion), and is the brightest elliptical galaxy within the Leo I galaxy group.
Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, C. Sarazin et al. ; CC BY 4.0
ESA Kiruna station Credit: ESA - CC BY-SA IGO 3.0
ESA's Kiruna station, near Salmijärvi, Kiruna, Sweden, tracks Cryosat, Integral, the Sentinels and Swarm. Details: www.esa.int/kiruna Credit: ESA - CC BY-SA IGO 3.0
For a planetary science course at my University (VU Amsterdam) we had to conceptualize a mission to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa and present this plan to ESA at ESTEC in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. This model served as our 3D prototype-satellite. I am especially pleased with the hexagonal design and the fact that the wings don’t actually need additional support.
P.S. I've got three other MOC’s coming soon™, stay tuned.
Los caminos se bifurcan, cada uno toma una dirección pensando que al final
los caminos se volverán a unir… pero no es así.
Desde tú camino ves a la otra persona cada vez más pequeña.
No pasa nada, estamos hechos el uno para el otro, ahí está ella, al final solo ocu-
rre una cosa, llega el invierno no hay vuelta atrás, lo sientes, y justo entonces
intentas recordar en que momento comenzó todo y descubres que todo empezó
antes de lo que pensabas…
Mucho antes…y es ahí justo en ese momento cuando te das cuenta de que las
cosas solo ocurren una vez, y que por mucho que te esfuerces, ya nunca volverás
a sentir lo mismo, ya nunca tendrás la sensación de estar a tres metros sobre el
cielo.
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The ways bifurcate, each one takes a direction thinking that ultimately the ways
will return to join … but it is not like that.
From you way you see another person increasingly small.
Nothing happens, we are done one for other one, there she is, ultimately only
a thing happens, comes the winter has not gone back, you feel it, and I joust at
the time you try to remember in that moment began everything and discover
that everything began before what you were thinking … Very much before … and
it is there just in this moment when you realize that the things only happen once,
and that for much that you strain, already you will never return to feel the same
thing, already you will never have the sensation of being to three meters on the
sky.
-Moccia-
Strathtay Scottish SBT1 A112 ESA was a Leyland Tiger with Alexander P type bodywork new to Alexander (Northern) in 1983 and transferred to Strathtay in 1987 in another SBG swap for Nationals.
A112 ESA is seen on Campsie Road in Letham on a Perth town service during June 1987.
©eb2010
Do not use this image without my permission
In anticipation of the upcoming 35th anniversary of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, ESA/Hubble is continuing the celebrations with a new image of the Sombrero Galaxy, also known as Messier 104. An eye-catching target for Hubble and a favourite of amateur astronomers, the enigmatic Sombrero Galaxy has features of both spiral and elliptical galaxies. This image incorporates new processing techniques that highlight the unique structure of this galaxy.
As part of ESA/Hubble’s 35th anniversary celebrations, a new image series is being shared to revisit stunning Hubble targets that were previously released. First, a new image of NGC 346 was published. Now, ESA/Hubble is revisiting a fan-favourite galaxy with new image processing techniques. The new image reveals finer detail in the galaxy’s disc, as well as more background stars and galaxies.
Several Hubble images of the Sombrero Galaxy have been released over the past two decades, including this well-known Hubble image from October 2003. In November 2024, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope also gave an entirely new perspective on this striking galaxy.
Located around 30 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo, the Sombrero Galaxy is instantly recognisable. Viewed nearly edge on, the galaxy’s softly luminous bulge and sharply outlined disc resemble the rounded crown and broad brim of the Mexican hat from which the galaxy gets its name.
Though the Sombrero Galaxy is packed with stars, it’s surprisingly not a hotbed of star formation. Less than one solar mass of gas is converted into stars within the knotted, dusty disc of the galaxy each year. Even the galaxy’s central supermassive black hole, which at 9 billion solar masses is more than 2000 times more massive than the Milky Way’s central black hole, is fairly calm.
The galaxy is too faint to be spotted with unaided vision, but it is readily viewable with a modest amateur telescope. Seen from Earth, the galaxy spans a distance equivalent to roughly one third of the diameter of the full Moon. The galaxy’s size on the sky is too large to fit within Hubble’s narrow field of view, so this image is actually a mosaic of several images stitched together.
One of the things that makes this galaxy especially notable is its viewing angle, which is inclined just six degrees off of the galaxy’s equator. From this vantage point, intricate clumps and strands of dust stand out against the brilliant white galactic nucleus and bulge, creating an effect not unlike Saturn and its rings – but on an epic galactic scale.
[Image description: The Sombrero Galaxy is an oblong, pale white disc with a glowing core. It appears nearly edge-on but is slanted slightly in the front, presenting a slightly top-down view of the inner region of the galaxy and its bright core. The outer disc is darker with shades of brown and black. Different coloured distant galaxies and various stars are speckled among the black background of space surrounding the galaxy.]
Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, K. Noll; CC BY 4.0
Tantas veces pasando esa curva......siempre habia pensado en hecharle una foto ....^^
Para ver en grande aqui:
La vieja casa en silencio
y ninguno se lo explica,
cómo pasan esa cosas
tan feliz que parecía.
Mi madre llora en el patio,
Pedro duerme en la cocina,
y ninguno se ha acordado
de que coman las gallinas.
María llega de lejos
ella que nunca venía,
y el tío Luis a mi hermano
le dice un par de mentiras.
El crucifijo de plata
se lo lleva Catalina,
la mecedora Francisco
y la mantilla Corina.
El perro no entiende nada,
el gato ya lo sabía,
él fue después del abuelo
el que más la conocía.
La vieja casa en silencio
y ninguno se lo explica,
cómo pasan esas cosas
tan feliz que parecía.
Cómo pasan esas cosas...
tan feliz que parecía!
ESAS COSAS
Facundo Cabral
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Fotografía tomada en la base del "Monte Calvario".
Ciudad de Tandil, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Space Science image of the week:
At first sight it might seem obvious which of these ‘models’ is the odd one out: standing between the satellites is apparently a Star Wars stormtrooper.
But the stormtrooper is actually our Rosetta project scientist, Matt Taylor, who is one of three ESA scientists taking the stage at science fiction convention ‘FedCon’ in Bonn, Germany, 2–5 June.
While Matt will present Rosetta’s incredible adventure at a comet, including its dramatic conclusion, ESA Senior Science Advisor Mark McCaughrean will highlight some of our other exciting missions, to Mercury, Mars and Jupiter, along with missions to study planets around other stars.
Paul McNamara, project scientist for LISA Pathfinder, will explore the science of gravitational waves, and how they are portrayed in the Star Trek universe. Think gravitational wavefronts, continuous graviton beams, fluctuating graviton fields and more.
Representatives from ESA’s science and operations teams will also be on hand to answer your questions at our exhibition stand. You can also try our ‘science meets science fiction quiz’ to win ESA goodies. And, of course, keep an eye out for our friendly stormtrooper!
The photograph featured here was taken at ESA’s technical heart, in the Netherlands, and shows test models of various satellites and hardware.
At the far right is ESRO-4, launched in 1972 to study Earth’s atmosphere, ionosphere and radiation belts.
HEOS-1 sits on the other side of the stormtrooper. Launched in 1968, it was the first European probe to venture beyond near-Earth space, in order to study the magnetic fields, radiation and the solar wind outside of Earth’s magnetosphere.
Next in line is the Automated Transport Vehicle docking assembly, used to dock the resupply ship to the International Space Station.
Finally, at the far left is COS-B, which, in 1975, was the first mission launched by ESA following its creation in 1973. COS-B studied gamma-ray objects, and was a precursor to Integral, which is still operating.
You can view this historic space hardware during our annual open day, which this year will be held on 8 October (full details coming soon).
Credit: ESA–C. Carreau, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO