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According the online information,
the first footprints put on the moon will probably be there a long, long time — maybe almost as long as the moon itself lasts.
Unlike on Earth, there is no erosion by wind or water on the moon because it has no atmosphere and all the water on the surface is frozen as ice. Also, there is no volcanic activity on the moon to change the lunar surface features. Nothing gets washed away, and nothing gets folded back inside.
However, the Moon is exposed to bombardment by meteorites, which change the surface. One little space rock could easily wipe out a footprint on the moon. And since the Moon has no atmosphere, it is exposed to the solar wind, a stream of charged particles coming from the sun, and over time this acts almost like weather on Earth to scour surfaces on the moon, but the process is very, very slow.
A fractal based on space travel.
At least four private companies are racing to be the first commercial taxi service to take paying customers into space: Boeing, Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin, and Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic. The first flights will most likely be to the near edge of space—more than 100 miles above Earth—where tourists can experience weightlessness and marvel at the view. If you want to take a ride, prepare for a shock: Virgin -Galactic is selling tickets for $250,000. At least 700 people have signed up so far.
Space Music - Into the Unknown
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This video was made in commission for Tithe and Vanguard to showcase the upcoming sim "The Space Between" April 1st 2023. A dark supernatural roleplay sim where victims without warning are shifted to another world! Be sure to check out the links below if you're interested.
Video Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2V41xQGlvk
Website: www.thespacebetween-sl.com/
Landmark: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Liminal/33/33/3333
Song: Haxan Cloak - Mirror Reflecting Part 2
For 'Crazy Tuesday' theme of 'Negative Space'
Couldn't resist!
This seemed a very simple idea but turned out otherwise.
Made a loop in a piece of thread and then in suspending it the difficulties were:
- getting the loop facing the camera
- preventing the loop getting smaller as the thread was tightened
- getting the thread reasonably vertical
And you are seeing about 1½" of thread.
Russian Jupiter 8 f2 50mm
Jupiter, photographed from my backyard in Long Beach, CA
30 s SER files were taken with a ZWO ASI120MM camera through Optolong CCD RGB filters on a Celestron Edge HD 925 telescope using FireCapture. The top 80% of frames went into 6 stacks of each color filter. These stacks were made in AutoStakkert, then sharpened in PixInsight. Stacks were combined and derotated in WinJUPOS, and the resulting R, G, and B images were combined in WinJUPOS to make a de-rotated single color image. Color balancing in Registax, then final touches in Photoshop.
CM longitudes:
System I: 298.9°
System II: 269.5°
System III: 200.2°
My second Space Truck. This time it's actually long enough to be a SHIP, but just a little late for Shiptember...
In March on a business trip to Las Vegas I roamed around the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada at night. The High Roller is currently the world's tallest Ferris wheel. When I looked at this monochrome photo, Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" came to mind, the epic science fiction film from 1968.
2001: A Space Odyssey - 50th Anniversary mini documentary: bit.ly/2HehaXK
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A spectacular head-on collision between two galaxies, known as Arp 143, has fueled the unusual triangular-shaped star-formation frenzy as captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
The interacting galaxy duo Arp 143 contains the distorted, star-forming spiral galaxy NGC 2445, at right, along with its less flashy companion, NGC 2444, at left. Their frenzied collision takes place against the tapestry of distant galaxies, of which some can be seen through the interacting pair.
Astronomers suggest that the two galaxies passed through each other, igniting the uniquely shaped firestorm of star formation in NGC 2445, where thousands of stars are bursting into life. This galaxy is awash with new stars because it is rich in gas, the raw material from which stars are made. However, it hasn’t yet escaped the gravitational clutches of its partner at left. The pair is waging a cosmic tug-of-war, which NGC 2444 appears to be winning. That galaxy has pulled gas from NGC 2445, forming the oddball triangle of newly minted stars.
NGC 2444 is also responsible for yanking strands of gas from its partner, stoking the streamers of young, blue stars that appear to form a bridge between the two galaxies. These streamers are among the first in what appears to be a wave of star formation that started on the galaxy’s outskirts and continued inward. Researchers estimate the streamer stars were born between 50 million and 100 million years ago. But these infant stars are being left behind as NGC 2445 continues to pull slowly away from NGC 2444.
Stars no older than one million to two million years old are forming closer to the centre of NGC 2445. Hubble’s keen vision reveals some individual stars, the brightest and most massive in the galaxy. Most of the brilliant blue clumps are groupings of stars and the pink blobs are glowing gas clouds enshrouding young, massive star clusters.
Although most of the action is happening in NGC 2445, it doesn’t mean the other member of the interacting pair has escaped unscathed. The gravitational tussle has stretched NGC 2444 into an odd shape, yanking gas far from the galaxy. NGC 2444 contains old stars and no new starbirth because it lost its gas long ago, well before this galactic encounter.
Aside from the star formation in NGC 2445, another interesting feature that Hubble has uncovered is the dark filaments of gas in the starburst galaxy’s bright core. Those features may have been formed by outbursts of material. Radio observations reveal a powerful source in the core that may be spearheading the outbursts. The radio source may have been produced by intense star formation or a black hole gobbling up material flowing into the centre.
It’s not uncommon for star formation to occur in the cores of galaxies, driven by interactions. Plenty of gas from galactic encounters flows into the centre, which can trigger the birth of new stars. Outflows from these stars can drive material out, but the dust created by these outbursts blankets the core and other regions throughout NGC 2445, making it difficult for Hubble to study in visible light.
However, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope will have the infrared vision to peer through the dust covering these regions to reveal the young star clusters that are hidden from view in visible-light images. In this way, Hubble and Webb will provide the full census of stars in NGC 2445. The census will help astronomers answer questions such as what the star-formation rate is, how long it takes for stars to form, and whether the starburst in NGC 2445 is fading or just heating up.
Studying young, massive star clusters still embedded in their dust and gas cocoons is important for understanding how star formation affects the evolution of galaxies. Massive stars that explode as supernovae enrich their environment with chemical elements heavier than hydrogen and helium.
The Arp 143 system is listed in a compendium of 338 unusual-looking interacting galaxies called the “Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies” published in 1966 by astronomer Halton Arp.
Credits: NASA, ESA, STScI, and J. Dalcanton (Center for Computational Astrophysics/Flatiron Inst., UWashington); CC BY 4.0
I was hoping the moon would be positioned so I could pose like I was dunking the moon, and I wish the scale was a little bigger but you can't have everything...
A small module, designed for light maintenance and inspection jobs on space-stations and mega-freighters. Tasks might include checking thruster ports, cleaning engine exhausts, mending radar antennas and opening pod-bay doors...
'Hey Syl, where did we put that experimental hyper drive? I can't find it in storage and its not on the list here either?'
'We put in in that external rocked drive for the space station, remember? To see if it would fit?'
'We did take it out again, right?
'Oh, uh, oops...'
[Explored]
What a gorgeous afternoon this was ... blowing bubbles in a back yard when I saw that one of them had stuck to a strap of a jonquil ... it mirrored perfectly with the inner surface reflecting superbly. I just had to share it with you. Hope you like it as much as I do ... it was incredibly beautiful to watch and then it went *pop* and was no more...
Have a great weekend everyone :-)
The attic space at Brackley Town Hall in Northamptonshire. A heritage building about to undergo a massive restoration project funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund.
Wow! Highest Position Explore #6 April 28,2014 thank You! www.davidrironsjrphotography.com
Again while my nephew was here in town providing chauffeur services while I recovered from my surgery, we hit up the usual "Tourist" spots in downtown Seattle. It truly is rare for us "Seattelites" to make a trip to the top of the iconic Space Needle. Well my nephew wanted to go and I could not resist getting a nice Springtime shot looking towards downtown. The only thing was that Mt Rainer was obscured by the clouds, but that is all right, many other neat things to see.
This is a combination of three images (handheld against the bars of the observation platform) (-2,0, 2) merged and tonemapped in Photomatix. I had to "Paint" some chipped spots on the Space Needle Saucer with the "Clone Stamp" tool. I also removed some dust spots, and did a little "Dodge and Burn" of the highlights and shadows. I sharpened a bit and decreased the luminance of the blues to get the detail in the sky with Lightroom.
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