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The iconic Ranger spacecraft from my favourite film of last year, Interstellar, lovingly recreated in Lego.
Getting the "horn wings" right was the biggest challenge, with many attempts before I hit on this solution. It's quite a solid overall construction as I wanted it be strong enough to be properly 'swooshable'!
If you like it and want to see it made into an official lego set, please add your support on Lego Ideas:
ESA's Gaia mission not only maps the stars in our galaxy but tells us what is in between the stars. The space between stars is not empty but instead filled with dust and gas clouds, out of which stars are born.
Through the precise measurements of the stars' positions and their dispersed light, Gaia allows us to map the absorption of the starlight by the interstellar medium. Those maps provide us with essential clues to the physical mechanisms of the formation of stars, galaxies, and the history of our home galaxy.
This map shows the interstellar dust that fills the Milky Way. The dark regions in the centre of the Galactic plane in black are the regions with a lot of interstellar dust fading to the yellow as the amount of dust decreases.The dark blue regions above and below the Galactic plane are regions where there is little dust.
Read more about Gaia's data release 3 here.
Credits: ESA/Gaia/DPAC; CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
I could enjoy imaging of the interstellar comet in the weekend.
The comet was drifting fast toward west northwest in Virgo. Dust coma was small and round. Dust tail was short toward east. Greenish ion halo was small and round. Bluish ion tail was not visible clearly at the date, though there looked bluish hue to the west of the comet on this frame. North is up, and east is to the left.
Sun distance: 1.774 AU ( 31% distant compared to the perihelion )
Earth distance: 1.925 AU ( 7% distant compared to the minimum )
Equipment: Guan Sheng Optical Ritchey–Chrétien telescope RCCF 8" f8 with TS Optics Extension for the Baffle Tube, AT field flattener, and Canon EOS 6D-SP3, modified by Seo-san on ZWO AM5n Equatorial Mount, autoguided at a star nearby with Fujinon 1:2.8/75mm C-Mount Lens, Pentax x2 Extender, ZWO ASI 174MM-mini, and PHD2 Guiding with comet tracking on
Exposure: 5 times x 600 seconds, 4 x 240 sec, and 7 x 60 seconds at ISO 6,400 and focal length 1,600mm
First exposure started at 18:51:19 November 29, 2025 UTC.
This frame was cropped 1,776 x 1,184 pixels of the original 5,472 x 3,648 pixels, and this is comparable to a frame taken with a scope of 4,900mm in focal length.
site: 730m above sea level at lat. 37 09 41 North and long. 139 14 54 East in an empty parking of pre-season ski resort in Okutadami in Uonuma Niigata 新潟県魚沼 奥只見. Higher mountains were covered with snow and beautiful, but there was no snow yet at the elevation. Ambient temperature was around -1 degree Celsius or 30 degrees Fahrenheit. Wind was mild. Atmospheric turbulence was bad, and guide error RMS was around 1.50. Sky was dark, and Sky Quality was 21.53 in SQML. The site was dark toward the east. Local fog interfered at the beginning of imaging session, though weather forecast was nice.
Here is a view of the site at the night:
We're not meant to save the world. We're meant to leave it.
My LEGO homage to Interstellar, built for the current Christopher Nolan contest on RogueBricks.de. It depicts humanity's search for a new home, from Cooper's farm on Earth, through the wormhole into another galaxy, all the way to Dr. Brand's camp on Edmunds's planet at the end of the film.
Instructions for the Endurance can be found on Rebrickable.
Wings of Dust: The Cosmic Bat – LDN 43
Soaring silently across the Opiuchus constellation, LDN 43 stretches its cosmic wings against a canvas of starlight. This dark nebula is composed of thick interstellar dust that obscures the background stars, creating the silhouette of what resembles a celestial bat in flight.
But this bat isn’t just made of shadow - within its dark folds, new stars are being born. LDN 43 is part of a complex region of star formation, where gravity pulls dense dust clouds together until nuclear fusion ignites. The surrounding golden and blue hues come from background stars peeking through less-dense patches of dust, subtly illuminating the edges of this celestial phantom.
Explore the high-res version:
Follow my journey through the dark and dusty corners of our galaxy:
Acquisition & Processing:
Luminance: 32×300″ (2h 40′)
Red: 31×300″ (2h 35′)
Green: 30×300″ (2h 30′)
Blue: 33×300″ (2h 45′)
Image captured under varying moon phases, with transparency ranging from 21% to 76%. Processing focused on preserving the soft gradations of dust while gently enhancing color and contrast.
Total Integration: 10h 30′ in LRGB from Telescope.Live (credit).
Copyright: Rod Prazeres Astrophotography
I was so glad that I was able to see this movie in theaters the day after it came out. It instantly became my favorite movie, and I decided that I wanted to make a Ranger. However, after seeing all the amazing Rangers that others have built, I kind of lost interest for awhile.
It wasn't until the digital release that I decided to try. It's taken me since March to complete this, and I nearly gave up multiple times, but I really wanted a Ranger model in my collection, so I kept with it. Here are the end results. It does have some interior detailing, which was actually easier to do than the exterior. Sadly, I don't have to many Computer panel pieces, so it doesn't have a lot of screen like it does in the movie. Also, one last bit. I tried to scale this based on how big the Endurance is (There is an infographic that shows how big the Endurance -With Rangers- is compared to the U.S. Space Shuttle.) I used that to try and get a rough size for my Ranger model, and while it looks a little large when compared to minifigures, I am quite happy with the results.
i took this photo in Saskatchewan while on a road trip. i thought it need a something to make it more interesting photo and i ended up with this. used photoshop, illustrator, and triangular.
:> IJG-Alpha-12 mainframe ... welcome
:> Proximity alert ... Prometheus ETA 36 hours
:> Requesting authentication codes ... timed out
:> override
:> Prometheus mainframe ... welcome
:> info
:> User id ... IJG-Alpha-12-SP27
Earth date ... 15 01 2593
Mission date ... 19 days, 2 hours and 12 minutes
Mission status ... en route to interstellar jump gate alpha-12
:> diag
Communications array down
Solar panel B4 malfunctioning
Spare part being installed
Diagnostics run completed ...
:> exit
:> Logged off
Tired of building JUST a space craft? Tired of building super awesome amazing SHIPs?
Not sure what a Ma.k is ? need a break from giant ass vertical stabilizers?
Here's a little something to keep your mind and fingers occupied - the Interstellar Outpost Contest 2014!
Build a cool starfighter, landing pad, support vehicle and com unit!
www.flickr.com/groups/2697455@N25/
for more information!
Top prize is a one of a kind set of the 4 components, each built by Legohaulic, Genghis Don, Fazzom, and myself!
'INTERSTELLAR NETWORKS' Volume XII Chapter 32 "The International Network of Feline Observers (INFO) on planet Terra" [Excerpt] Here at Castle Haran in Portland, Blue of the Felis catus people receives and transmits all manner of information via the INFO system. Telepathic conferences take place weekly, or oftener as needed during emergent / urgent situations. Reclining on the communication pad, Blue is shown in conversation with Asuka Langley of the Homo sapiens people. Captain Langley maintains a low planetary orbit in her spacecraft whilst the Chief of INFO (of the Panthera uncia people) observes via a portable desktop transceiver, seen on the left in the photograph. Captain Langley is the link officer in charge of communications between INFO and the Universal Feline Organization (UFO) which exists throughout the universe at locations conducive to feline life. The pill bottle adjacent to the communication pad contains medication tablets which Blue can use if need be, should any telepathy degradations occur.
My second polaroid with the pola back on the Bronica, as the first didn't came out right.
Zenza Bronica SQ-A | Zenzanon-S 80mm f/2.8 | Fuji FP-100C
Paris - Février 2015
Interstellar trip... Looking towards the center of our galaxy, Milkyway, from last night stargazing at Pilida area of Sokraki, Corfu Banquet of interstellar dust matter and looking at the internal threads of our galaxy somewhere between Centaur Sagittarius and the powerful Scorpio in the constellation Ophiuchus, where the secular horse galloping our imagination inside the stars.
I was so glad that I was able to see this movie in theaters the day after it came out. It instantly became my favorite movie, and I decided that I wanted to make a Ranger. However, after seeing all the amazing Rangers that others have built, I kind of lost interest for awhile.
It wasn't until the digital release that I decided to try. It's taken me since March to complete this, and I nearly gave up multiple times, but I really wanted a Ranger model in my collection, so I kept with it. Here are the end results. It does have some interior detailing, which was actually easier to do than the exterior. Sadly, I don't have to many Computer panel pieces, so it doesn't have a lot of screen like it does in the movie. Also, one last bit. I tried to scale this based on how big the Endurance is (There is an infographic that shows how big the Endurance -With Rangers- is compared to the U.S. Space Shuttle.) I used that to try and get a rough size for my Ranger model, and while it looks a little large when compared to minifigures, I am quite happy with the results.
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D700
14-24mm 2.8
This is my second attempt in taking milky way pictures.
Flares are not Photoshopped some might ask :)
Everything is taken in one frame and image is not cropped at all.
All I did was a normal post-process using LR 4.3.
This month’s theme really pushed me outside of my comfort zone and I am glad for it.
Any comments on improving the shot would be appreciated and thank you for viewing.
In complete darkness of Kyrgyz Tien Shan mountains, without the presence of light pollution within several hundred kilometers around, I don't remember the last time I had a such a good view of the disk of our galaxy. As that wasn't already enough even a meteor flew into the frame
A collection of some of the finest SHIPs in the galaxy! Well, one did catch fire and explode, but before that it was pretty fine.
Happy SHIPtember!
The iconic Ranger spacecraft from my favourite film of last year, Interstellar, lovingly recreated in Lego.
This is the lego crew, Cooper (Mathew McConaughey) and Amelia (Anne Hathaway) and of course TARS.
If you like it and want to see it made into an official lego set, please add your support on Lego Ideas:
Managing the water supply on an interstellar colony vessel is just about the best job on board, so the competition for available positions on the water staff is fierce. The primary perk for staff members is occasional access to the water chamber itself, which is vast and beautiful. Here we see lucky water system engineers heading for the far end of the chamber on a quarterly inspection. They will spend several hundred rotation cycles on this task, a time period roughly equivalent to 18 terrrestrial hours. On some inspections they are actually allowed to catch one fish per person... if they have enough skill or luck to land a wily interstellar perch at 1/3 earth-normal gravity. Good luck, fishernauts!