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This is my first MOC. It started out as a Mining Freighter but shiny white and sleek design does not really match a Space Mining Company now, does it? Interstellar priority freighter it is, for the moment being. :)
Critique and Comments welcome!
NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope's NIRSpec (Near-Infrared Spectrograph) instrument can map specific chemical and molecular signatures, as seen here in its three images of comet 3I/ATLAS, each highlighting a part of the comet’s contents.
Researchers use NIRSpec’s Integral Field Unit, which provides a spectrum of every image pixel, to dive deeper into the details of cosmic objects than they can with the telescope’s imaging instruments alone. This is crucial for a rare object like 3I/ATLAS, which is only the third comet from outside the Solar System ever studied, and the first to be observed by an instrument capable of capturing as much detail as NIRSpec. With NIRSpec’s data, researchers can build a picture of where the comet may have come from and what its home system was like and then compare that to familiar conditions in the Solar System.
[Image description: Comparison of three telescope images side by side. They are roughly spherical but pixelated, with more intense colour saturation in the centre. From left to right: smallest sphere is blue and labeled H2O, orange is larger and labeled CO2, and red is largest and labeled CO. A scale bar at the lower left is labeled 1300 km/1 arcsecond and is about one fourth of each of the three images. A compass at the lower right shows north pointing up to 12 o’clock, east pointing left to 9 o’clock, and a fainter arrow labeled to Sun pointing down to 8 o’clock.]
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, M.Cordiner (Catholic University of America, GSFC); CC BY 4.0
ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has obtained new images of 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar object discovered last week. Identified as a comet, 3I/ATLAS is only the third visitor from outside the Solar System ever found, after 1I/ʻOumuamua and 2I/Borisov. Its highly eccentric hyperbolic orbit, unlike that of objects in the Solar System, gave away its interstellar origin.
In this image, several VLT observations have been overlaid, showing the comet as a series of dots that move towards the right of the image over the course of about 13 minutes on the night of 3 July 2025. The data were obtained with the FORS2 instrument, and are available in the ESO archive.
Credit: ESO/O. Hainaut
Cat Power at the Interstellar Rodeo in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. ©Eric Kozakiewicz/Interstellar Rodeo
Director Christopher Nolan has been keeping us captivated with visuals and still-mysterious storyline of his upcoming epic and original sci-fi adventure INTERSTELLAR. The film blasts onto the big-screen from the 7th November and boasts an all-star line up for a time-travelling journey that ...
They sleep and dream in the interstellar space. Connecting galaxies through cosmic energy. Midjourney v5.
Well, if the neighbours are going to have long, loud firework displays at this time of night, then I'm going to make the most of them by taking some shots.
Interstellar spaceship arriving at an alien Solar System trillions of miles away
Conquering the Sun's Empire
Frederick I. Ordway, III
and Ronald C. Wakeford
Illustrations by Harry H-K Lange
E.P Dutton & Co., 1963
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Margo Price at the Interstellar Rodeo in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. ©Eric Kozakiewicz/Interstellar Rodeo
They sleep and dream in the interstellar space. Connecting galaxies through cosmic energy. Midjourney v5.
Sam Roberts Band at the Interstellar Rodeo in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. ©Eric Kozakiewicz/Interstellar Rodeo
Recently decommission due to budget cuts, these Space Police interstellar transports had more than twice the speed and endurance of a standard Peacekeeper-class transport.
Recently decommission due to budget cuts, these Space Police interstellar transports had more than twice the speed and endurance of a standard Peacekeeper-class transport.
Plans for the next litho print.
Backstory:
When alien spaceships landed in interwar Germany, the two cultures collaborated to develop and market an interstellar cruiser for the Earth market. This rare bilingual advertisement is one of only a few ever printed before the extraterrestrials learned of Hitler's plans and fled the planet, taking their blueprints with them. However, one prototype remained, which was hidden in a Japanese cave until its failed 1947 attempt at Washington DC. Crash landing en route in Roswell, NM, this flying saucer sparked a frenzy of media attention on the subject, and was the only saucer ever to originate from this planet. The USAF holds its remains at Area 51 to this day, researching its antimatter drive for future use in military air and spacecraft.
Christopher Nolan 's Interstellar Double Decker Bus AD Billboard movie film poster astronauts science fiction sci-fi flooding out the windows of a building above the corner of 42nd Street and 7th Avenue in New York City 11/03/2014 NYC traffic taxi cab cabs
Once again, it's time for Mobile Photography sharing on G+
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This was taken with Android on my Nexus S. This is in the International Terminal of the Toronto Airport
Nothing too groundbreaking to report, I've begun painting modules while the ball joint mould cures (again, the first one went wrong).
I tried to achieve the burnt steel look by grinding up charcoal and graphite before mixing a little bit of copper nail/eyeshadow powder, then binding it together with a little isopropyl alcohol. Brushed it quite stiffly onto the boosters....nothing spectacular but a subtle effect in person.
Tomorrow I'll be finishing the Lander paintwork.
I spent today working on texture and realism, going back over the airbrushed work with a flat wide brush and white paint, nothing complex but it immediately subdues the cartoony airbrush shading into something more textured, worn out.
This is a fun challenge in restraint compared with Star Wars models where everything is filthy to excess...I've been looking carefully at the Space Shuttle panelling for reference.
Brain lock channeled into boondock bondage,
Broken brain syndrome in an e-tard fashion.
Colorless morphine dripping from the sky,
Salmonella dreams from a naughty little jungle.
This is how we do it.
This is how we do it.
I dropped kraans and the moon said something to me,
He said man I've got all the kraans you could ever need.
Sipping from a candle in another vivid dream,
Tripping over Percocets and waiting for the screams.
This is how we do it nukkah,
This is how it is.
Interstellar space travel,
Slipping from the seems.
Distant black wasteland ,
Otherworldly fiends.
Interviewing vampires,
A mile in the green.
Catch me if you can,
A ghost-faced scream.
This is how we do it.
This is wait, what?
Long past overdrive,
Nothings what it seems.
Quantamly orderly,
Picking at the weeds.
Lightly salted pigments,
In a plastic jar.
Four exalted figments,
In a dream too far.
This is what I am.
This is what you are.
Fuck that white noise I'm slipping away,
Intercept my signal on the other side.
I ain't got nothing against any gays,
I'm gonna leave this world behind.
This is how we do it,
This is how it's done.
This is how we do it,
It's all in good fun.
I'm coming to you.
I'm coming for you.
I'm coming in you.
Wait, what?
© Nick Ruffolo
The past few days I've spent moulding and casting the thruster module, this morning I cast up another couple which turned out beautifully. The pour spout is crudely cut into the mould, but it appears on a flat panel and all I do with each cast is mill that surface nice and clean before applying filler to any stray bubbles.
This evening I turned my attention back to the ranger, masking off the hull so that I could strategically Bondo the part which I've taken to calling 'The Headscarf'
That took a lot of patient sculpting, but so far so good.
Then later on I milled the retro thrusters, airlock and the four clasp locks that surround it.
Tomorrow I'll machine the thrusters and fit them in place, probably out of acrylic or acetal