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Space Engine 9.7.3
SRWE
7860x1480p (11,6 Mp)
Resolutions are ranging from thrice 4k to four times 4k wide.
We're in there, somewhere.
What a great memory! September 21, 2012.
We were stepping out of the Star Wars ride at Disneyland, looked up to see the Space Shuttle Endeavour fly over on it's Boeing 747 transport, along with it's escort plane, to it's final display location at the California Science Center in Los Angeles. Lucky timing!
Invaders in your stomach space in this case, that is.
"Space Invaders" was the name of an old video game in the 1980s in which an orderly formation of attacking aliens advanced downward toward the ground and your only defense was a gun that could be moved from side to side and fired electronic blip torpedoes upwards in order to hopefully wipe out the advancing armada of Invaders before they touched down onto the ground. The Invaders took the appearance of alien creatures (as much as the rudimentary graphics capabilities allowed at that time) some of which appeared as if they had eyes, appendages or antennae.
This trio of mini strudels from a local bakery resembled some of those invaders featured in that early video game.
The phenomenon of a pattern resembling a face or other recognizable thing is called pareidolia.
SpaceX launched this Falcon 9 mission from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base tonight, carrying a collection of 10 satellites into low-Earth orbit. The payload is destined for a constellation of communications satellites owned by Iridium Communications.
Picture for the MacroMondays group theme on April 14th, 2014: Negative Space.
正在為本週主題發愁，發現這張從下面往上拍的蝴蝶照片，正好有大片天空留白啊！
PS. 標題出自宋代，陸游的「春日暄甚戲作」。
~馬美部落, 尖石鄉, 新竹縣
Mamei Village, Hsinchu, Taiwan
- ISO 640, F5, 1/8000 sec, 100mm
- Canon 5D MarkIII with EF 100mm f/2.8 L macro lens
- Shot @ 11.30am
'Now remember what I told you Syl, go easy with that bottle!'
'I still have to break it, don' tI?'
'Just the bottle Syl, not the ship!'
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Very slightly modified version of the space ship from small set 60224.
I have 2 smallish space shuttles, the one that came with the space station (set 60227) and this one. And for the last 3 weeks I have been trying this and that to come up with my own version, but those Lego designers knew what they were doing. Their design worked best...
In the end, I just added a pair of extra small wings to the front...
That was my third entry for the contest "Out of this World Space Builds" on Lego Idea.
Story:
“We meet again our two fellow classic space figs, Eddy and Cindy with their new outfits. They are now going on a new adventure, exploring space!
Unfortunately, this spaceship doesn't have a rover to explore the surface of new discovered planets but have a little useful speeder bike attached to the rear. Well, Cindy have difficulties to handle the speeder and is kind of scared by its power ... (both minifigs have a double side face, one normal and the other scared ... the speeder bike is definitively difficult to handle!!)”
In fact, it was designed to be with this diorama but it was a large spaceship so I decided to substitute another (smaller) and make this one on his own.
PS: Don’t judge my photoshop skills, I’m a beginner ^_^
Please have your boarding pass ready. Destination: the International Space Station.
ESA project astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski received a symbolic boarding pass to orbit during a rehearsal ahead of liftoff at the historic Pad 39A in Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA.
On launch day, he and the Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4) crew will ride the lift that will take them to the boarding bridge leading to a brand-new Dragon spacecraft atop the Falcon 9 rocket. The latest in SpaceX’s fleet of crewed vehicles has improved storage and propulsion systems.
Suited up for the occasion, Sławosz will board the Dragon about an hour before launch. This time allows for final checks, communication tests and seat adjustments.
Flying as mission specialist for Ax-4, the Polish astronaut will have a window seat next to US commander Peggy Whitson. They will share the ride with pilot Shubhanshu Shukla from India and fellow mission specialist Tibor Kapu from Hungary.
Slawosz is the second ESA crew member on a commercial spaceflight with Axiom Space, after Marcus Wandt’s Muninn mission in 2024. The journey to the International Space Station will take around 30 hours. The European mission, called Ignis, will officially begin as soon as Sławosz passes through the hatch and enters the International Space Station.
The ESA astronaut is ready to board. Stay tuned with the latest updates on our X and BlueSky accounts. Watch Sławosz begin his first space travel live on ESA YouTube.
Sponsored by the Polish government and supported by ESA, the Polish Ministry of Economic Development and Technology (MRiT) and the Polish Space Agency (POLSA), the mission features an ambitious programme of technological and scientific research.
Check the Ignis launch kit to learn more about Sławosz and the 13 experiments proposed by Polish companies and institutions that he will carry out in space.
Credits: SpaceX
HBM!
The perfect bench for me today. I'm in great need of my own space right now in all areas of my life.
These three images are of the central region of the magnificent spiral galaxy M100, taken with three generations of the Hubble Space Telescope cameras that were sequentially swapped out aboard the telescope, and document the consistently improving capability of the observatory.
The image on the left was taken with the Wide Field/Planetary Camera 1 in 1993. The photo is blurry due to a manufacturing flaw (called spherical aberration) in Hubble's primary mirror. Celestial images could not be brought into a single focus. [Credit: NASA, ESA, and Judy Schmidt]
The middle image was taken in late 1993 with Wide Field/Planetary Camera 2 that was installed during the Dec. 2-13 space shuttle servicing mission (SM1, STS-61). The camera contained corrective optics to compensate for the mirror flaw, and so the galaxy snapped into sharp focus when photographed. [Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. DePasquale (STScI)]
The image on the right was taken with a newer instrument, Wide Field Camera 3, that was installed on Hubble during the space shuttle Servicing Mission 4 in May 2009. [Credit: NASA, ESA, and Judy Schmidt]
In celebration of the 25th anniversary of NASA's first space servicing mission to Hubble, these comparison photos of one of the telescope's first targets are being released today.
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission.
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Afocal shot with a Samsung Galaxy S9 through a Meade ultra-wide 14 mm eyepiece in a Coulter Optical 10" Dobsonian. This is the version after some filters in IG
Alien art
The difference between computers and us is we are alive and have emotions and feelings. Computers can have senses and collect information, but they are not alive and have no emotions and feelings. It looks like being alive and emotions -feelings are going together. Being alive, emotions and feelings, senses and the information collected from our brain make us human beings. We function as human beings in our society because of the pressures which affect our feelings and emotions. Fear is the leading one. The additional feelings and emotions which we like to have are love, heroism, helping, enjoying, etc. bond us together to live in a society. We have to be the one which our society wants.
Aliens have to function like us if they exist. They have to be alive and have to have feelings and emotions, but the dominating feelings - emotions and the number of feelings - emotions can be very different. They might have a strong mechanism to control their feelings and emotions.
As human beings, we have to learn to control our feelings and emotions. We can't wait that the biological development created by nature to do the job for us. There is a conflict between what society desires and how we actually function. We are not perfect. The conflict creates for us troubles.
In space, an explosion would not affect technologically advanced aliens. They would be aware of when stars are likely to explode, when comets or asteroids may collide with them, etc.
'Straight at me... slowly... right!
'Why are we this close to these large boulders and rocks? Shouldn't we build a bit further away?'
These rocks will be part of our base... We can build higher this way, and use those natural caves as well...'
'Them rocks look weird, regular, almost build!'
'Ah well, probably just basalt or something, you have those weird geometric rock patterns at some place on earth too...'
Space invader is back.
The pitch of the movie is the same as in round n°1 :
So I'm driving in the icelandic east fjords. Basically, I can't see a thing.
The cloud surrounding me is so thick the sunlight has become an abstract notion.
Until the next turn. From it and it seems magic, the sky is so clear that you should be able to see Pluto's tail.
Going along one of the fjords, I can now see the other side.
Except that I can't.
Another fluffly monstruosity is filling up the lower layers of the sky and most layers of emerged land.
That tells me that I should take my time going there, enjoy the sun for a bit, that if I couldn't see anything before, it must have come from quite some picturesque cloud if taken from the outside.
Recently I bought my most expensive second-hand camera thus far. It's a 1980's vintage Polaroid SLR 680, a single lens reflex foldable camera. So far I've been shooting four different film packs and I'm more than pleased with the result, so I thought I'd share them with you in the upcoming weeks and see what you think.
Taken with Polaroid SLR 680 analog camera. Impossible 600 instant film, black & yellow duochrome (Third Man Records Edition). Non-expired.
To celebrate World Space Week 4th-10th October!
An eclipse montage - on Friday March 20th this year and on Monday 28th September Simon and I were delighted to both observe and photograph the partial solar eclipse and total lunar eclipse!
On both occasions the conditions were challenging - in March we had cloud, in September we had dew and some cloud - but thrilled to witness such awesome events and share the science!
Canon 600D, Mak 127mm
The International Space Station, with a crew of six onboard, is seen in silhouette as it transits the Sun at roughly five miles per second during a partial solar eclipse, Monday, Aug. 21, 2017 from Ross Lake, Northern Cascades National Park, Washington. Onboard as part of Expedition 52 are: NASA astronauts Peggy Whitson, Jack Fischer, and Randy Bresnik; Russian cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin and Sergey Ryazanskiy; and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Paolo Nespoli. A total solar eclipse swept across a narrow portion of the contiguous United States from Lincoln Beach, Oregon to Charleston, South Carolina. A partial solar eclipse was visible across the entire North American continent along with parts of South America, Africa, and Europe. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
I wanted to test out the idea of recording an entire build from start to finish. The full build took about an hour but I sped it up into a 15 minute video. I'd like to do this sort of thing more with smaller builds like this. If you'd be interested in seeing more videos like this, let me know.
Model was inspired by this artwork from fightpunch.