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Interstellar is a fantastic movie. I love the way it explores the depths of time dilation. And the Endurance is a cool unique looking ship.
I saw a lego version of the Ranger in the link below and thought I'd see if I could make one like his. I think it turned out okay. I put and opening hatch on the back and also gave it landing gear.
.lxf file
www.dropbox.com/s/ui40qmsvi2vgzb1/Ranger.lxf?dl=0
link
www.flickr.com/photos/jp_velociraptor/16339532836/in/phot...
NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, spacecraft has made it possible for scientists to construct the first comprehensive sky map of our solar system and its location in the Milky Way galaxy. The new view will change the way researchers view and study the interaction between our galaxy and sun. The sky map was produced with data that two detectors on the spacecraft collected during six months of observations. The detectors measured and counted particles scientists refer to as energetic neutral atoms.
The energetic neutral atoms are created in an area of our solar system known as the interstellar boundary region. This region is where charged particles from the sun, called the solar wind, flow outward far beyond the orbits of the planets and collide with material between stars. The energetic neutral atoms travel inward toward the sun from interstellar space at velocities ranging from 100,000 mph to more than 2.4 million mph. This interstellar boundary emits no light that can be collected by conventional telescopes.
Full story:
www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ibex/allsky_map.html
Animation, detailed caption and color scale information:
svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003600/a003635/
Credit: NASA/GSFC/SwRI/SVS
Strait out of camera!
Combine a dark room, a ceiling fan, some tape, some string, an LED, an old fiber optic lamp, a weird homemade lens filter, a camera, and a penny... and this is what you get.
one hundred and seventy seven.
It was really dirty under there.
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I woke up hours late so I missed the brighter appearance of the Milky Way, but it still shows in the photo, though very faintly.
This is Mt. Pulag on a moonless, cloudless night, with me being 2,700 meters closer to the stars.
The sea of clouds cover the distant cities of Baguio and beyond.
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Reimagining of my new favorite LEGO spaceship, the City Space Interstellar Spaceship set 60430. This reskin features several custom cut stickers and the rear is sculpted to fit the 2025 Renegade cross section and connection standard for modularity!
An attempt at low light shooting with long exposure.
Incidentally it became an interesting comparison of the 2 Panasonic kit lenses.
The 12-32 is very sharp, but with a somewhat flat rendering. Working against a strong highlight it explodes into a big sunstar which I don't mind, but unfortunately this comes with the rather nasty-looking and persistent green flare visible in the center of the image.
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The brilliant tapestry of young stars flaring to life resemble a glittering fireworks display in the 25th anniversary NASA Hubble Space Telescope image to commemorate a quarter century of exploring the solar system and beyond since its launch on April 24, 1990.
"Hubble has completely transformed our view of the universe," said John Grunsfeld, astronaut and associate administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate. "This vista of starry fireworks and glowing gas is a fitting image for our celebration of 25 years of amazing Hubble science."
The sparkling centerpiece of Hubble's silver anniversary fireworks is a giant cluster of about 3,000 stars called Westerlund 2, named for Swedish astronomer Bengt Westerlund, who discovered the grouping in the 1960s. The cluster resides in a raucous stellar breeding ground known as Gum 29, located 20,000 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Carina.
To capture this image, Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 pierced through the dusty veil shrouding the stellar nursery in near-infrared light, giving astronomers a clear view of the nebula and the dense concentration of stars in the central cluster. The cluster measures between 6 to 13 light-years across.
The giant star cluster is only about 2 million years old and contains some of our galaxy's hottest, brightest, and most massive stars. Some of its heftiest stars unleash torrents of ultraviolet light and hurricane-force winds of charged particles that etch at the enveloping hydrogen gas cloud.
The nebula reveals a fantasy landscape of pillars, ridges, and valleys. The pillars, composed of dense gas and thought to be incubators for new stars, are a few light-years tall and point to the central star cluster. Other dense regions surround the pillars, including reddish-brown filaments of gas and dust.
The brilliant stars sculpt the gaseous terrain of the nebula and help create a successive generation of baby stars. When the stellar winds hit dense walls of gas, the shockwaves may spark a new torrent of star birth along the wall of the cavity. The red dots scattered throughout the landscape are a rich population of newly forming stars still wrapped in their gas-and-dust cocoons. These tiny, faint stars are between 1 million and 2 million years old – relatively young stars – that have not yet ignited the hydrogen in their cores. The brilliant blue stars seen throughout the image are mostly foreground stars.
Because the cluster is very young – in astronomical terms – it has not had time to disperse its stars deep into interstellar space, providing astronomers with an opportunity to gather information on how the cluster formed by studying it within its star-birthing environment.
The image's central region, which contains the star cluster, blends visible-light data taken by Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys with near-infrared exposures taken by the Wide Field Camera 3. The surrounding region is composed of visible-light observations taken by the Advanced Camera for Surveys. The red colors in the nebulosity represent hydrogen; the bluish-green hues are predominantly oxygen.
Era da tempo che non mi avvicinavo così tanto ad un palco.
Era da tempo che non mi eclissavo dietro ad un assolo di chitarra o ad un riff di basso.
Io ero lì. O almeno credo...un crescendo, sempre più rapido, sempre più intenso...le mani diventano fredde, l'aria diventa fredda...
...L'odore dei fumi, gli strilli degli strumenti, i musicisti in estasi. Quasi un orgasmo.
Poi la tastiera ti risucchia via , lontanissimo...quel riff ipnotico, di una chitarra... Ed io ero ancora lì, o almeno credo. Ora si lamentano, si contorcono, la musica sembra fluida, liquida, inconsistente..
In lontananza.. il tintinnio di una batteria, ti sveglia. Un sussulto, ho quasi paura, è come sentirsi nudi.
Nudi in un teatro. Anzi, no. è proprio come non avere più corpo.
Help back this awesome poster project -
www.kickstarter.com/projects/126776535/interstellar-limit...
A familiar, zigzag, W pattern in northern constellation Cassiopeia is traced by five bright stars in this colorful and broad mosaic. Stretching about 15 degrees across rich starfields, the celestial scene includes dark clouds, bright nebulae, and star clusters along the Milky Way. In yellow-orange hues Cassiopeia's alpha star Shedar is a standout though. The yellowish giant star is cooler than the Sun, over 40 times the solar diameter, and so luminous it shines brightly in Earth's night from 230 light-years away. A massive, rapidly rotating star at the center of the W, bright Gamma Cas is about 550 light-years distant. Bluish Gamma Cas is much hotter than the Sun. Its intense, invisible ultraviolet radiation ionizes hydrogen atoms in nearby interstellar clouds to produce visible red H-alpha emission as the atoms recombine with electrons. Of course, night skygazers in the Alpha Centauri star system would also see the recognizable outline traced by Cassiopeia's bright stars. But from their perspective a mere 4.3 light-years away they would see our Sun as a sixth bright star in Cassiopeia, extending the zigzag pattern just beyond the left edge of this frame. via NASA ift.tt/1VjfPz3