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Before I wrapped up my night out at this location, I had to capture the Milky Way. It was 1:30 AM and the moon had set. The Milky Way was easily visible because of this. This photo is a panorama that is comprised of 14 photos. I wanted to show as much of the Milky Way spanning the sky as I could.
The view of the southern sky just after sunset from Hat Head, NSW. I believe that is the Large Magellanic Cloud on the right closer to the top, but please correct me if I am wrong.
I am just a tiny spec on this earth at the given slice of time. The earth in turn is such a tiny speck in the Milky Way. To top it off the Milky Way is just one of billions of galaxies in the universe. When u get to witness the celestial grandeur like these - it brings in an amazing feeling of being extraordinarily special and at the same time wonderfully insignificant.
This shot is from the last week drive to the Ottawa National Forest at Michigan to capture the Perseids. Though this does not have any Meteor, i really like this shot for the minimalistic feel and the contemplation that was happening within when I captured the same :) What do u think, How do u like it ?
Read more @ liketheocean.com/2013/08/18/celestial-contemplation/
P.S: Special Thanks to MoodyGoat for getting me to this lovely location :)
As the sun took its final bow, the moon rose gently into a sky of soft amethyst and fading warmth.
Between silhouettes of leaves and branches, she emerged—full, golden, serene.
In this quiet moment, the trees held their breath, and nature seemed to pause,
listening to the hush of the universe as twilight turned to night.
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A scene framed not by architecture, but by life itself—
the architecture of growth, of rhythm, of celestial harmony.
This is an image from 28 months ago, taken on the 10th anniversary of the 911 attacks. This location, on the New Jersey side of the Hudson River, was teeming with people, each with their own camera. Many a tear was shed. I wanted to revisit this special night.
Lego Spaceship MOC: The Celestial Empress is a large nuclear pulse propelled spaceship designed specifically to take a contained colony to Alpha Centauri. The Nuclear warhead propulsion system is based on the Project Orion concept and will take this half million Earth ton vessel to .99.99 of the speed of light. It take a little over a year to reach maxim velocity, it will then cruise for a further 4.5 years before flipping over and using the same propulsion to decelerate for another year before reaching its destination of Alpha Centauri.
There is a transit system from the bow module to the cargo modules
Celestial Empress
Built at Lunar Shipyard by British American Space Exploration Corp (BASECo) for NASA in 2091
Launched: 2107
Propulsion: Nuclear pulse
Weight: net 544,000 Earth tonnes, Gross 791,000 Earth tonnes
Length: 1km
Width: 351m
Height 307m
Crew 33(3 shifts of 11)
Passengers 4,023 (in cryosleep)
Cargo: 200,000 Earth tonnes
Aircraft: 9 Drop-ships, 6 Shuttles, plus Drones
This densely populated group of stars is the globular cluster known as NGC 1841, which is found within the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy to the Milky Way galaxy that lies about 162 000 light-years away. Satellite galaxies are galaxies that are bound by gravity in orbits around a more massive host galaxy. We typically think of our galaxy’s nearest galactic companion as being the Andromeda Galaxy, but it would be more accurate to say that Andromeda is the nearest galaxy that is not in orbit around the Milky Way galaxy. In fact, our galaxy is orbited by tens of known satellite galaxies that are far closer than Andromeda, the largest and brightest of which is the LMC, which is easily visible to the naked eye from the southern hemisphere (although this is decreasingly the case thanks to light pollution).
The LMC is home to many globular clusters. These celestial bodies fall somewhere between open clusters — which are much less dense and tightly bound — and small, compact galaxies. Increasingly sophisticated observations have revealed the stellar populations and other characteristics of globular clusters to be varied and complex, and it is not well understood how these tightly-packed clusters form. However, there are certain consistencies across all globular clusters: they are very stable and so are capable of lasting a long time, and can therefore be very old. This means that globular clusters often contain large numbers of very old stars, which make them something akin to celestial ‘fossils’. Just as fossils provide insight into the early development of life on Earth, globular clusters such as NGC 1841 can provide insights into very early star formation in galaxies.
[Image Description: A cluster of stars. Most of the stars are very small and uniform in size, and they are notably bluish and cluster more densely together towards the centre of the image. Some appear larger in the foreground. The stars give way to a dark background at the corners.]
Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Sarajedini, F. Niederhofer; CC BY 4.0
Acadia National Park is the oldest national park east of the Mississippi River. It occupies most of Mount Desert Island and a few smaller islands in the State of Maine. Pink granite rock adorns much of its coastline, left over from the last ice age. This is a one-hour star trail taken off Ocean Drive in February.
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I looooove this one... :D From the camping trip to Morley Lake.. :) It was pretty epic.
Soooo, i was tagged by the lovely Emily, so here goes... bear with me, its my first.. haha
-What are you looking forward to in the next week?
...... Shopping hopefully
-What if I told you that you were pretty?
I would say thanks.. :P
-Do you want to be single?
Never
-Have you pretended to like someone?
Yes, and it sucks. :(
-Is it hard for you to get over someone?
Incredibly.
-What would you name your future daughter?
Ummm... not sure I want kids, but maybe Clarissa? idk
-Are you good at hiding your feelings?
Not at all...
-Are you listening to music right now?
Yes!! We Are Young, by Fun ;)
-How is your heart lately?
OK
-Are you wearing socks?
nope!
-What do people call you?
Rachel, Rach, probably a few I dont know about.. :P
-Will you talk to the person you like tonight?
I hope so.. :)
-When was the last time a member of the opposite sex hugged you?
Looooooong time.. :(
-Do you get stressed out easily?
Not really.
-Who do you go to when you need to talk to someone?
Austin... haha.. Love you, your the best!! ❤
-What is on your wrists right now?
Uhh.. watch, hair ties, and a cool leather bracelet from Mexico. :D
-What do you like better: hot chocolate or hot apple cider?
Hot chocolate all the way..
-Are you a good artist?
I think so, but it depend on who you ask. haha
-Do you miss the way things were six months ago?
Not at all!
-Ever stayed up all night on the phone, with who?
Not alllll night.. lol
-Do you use chap stick?
Occasionally.
-Do you have a little sister?
Yes.. Sydey.. Love ya Syd!! :)
-Have you hugged someone within the last week?
Nope..
-What were you doing at midnight last night?
Eating burgers.. :P
-Have you ever regretted kissing someone?
No
-Were your last three kisses from the same person?
hahahah.. no.. ;)
-Will next Friday be a good one?
Hopefully!!!
The celestial object that is displayed in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week is NGC 7496, a galaxy located over 24 million light-years away in the constellation Grus (The Crane). NGC 7496 is a dusty spiral galaxy with a bar of stars stretching across its centre. Adding to its intrigue is an active galactic nucleus: a supermassive black hole that feasts on gas at the very heart of the galaxy.
Astronomers have observed NGC 7496 at wavelengths from radio to ultraviolet in order to study the galaxy’s active galactic nucleus, dust clouds, and star formation. Hubble first observed this galaxy as part of the Physics at High Angular resolution in Nearby GalaxieS (PHANGS) programme. This programme has enlisted the abilities of several powerful astronomical observatories, including the Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array (ALMA), the Very Large Telescope, and the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, in addition to Hubble. NGC 7496 was the first galaxy in the PHANGS sample that Webb observed.
Each of these observatories offers a different perspective on this well-studied galaxy. With its unique ultraviolet capabilities and fine resolution, Hubble’s view reveals young star clusters bursting with high-energy radiation. Hubble’s observations of NGC 7496 help to reveal the ages and masses of these young stars, as well as the extent to which their starlight is blocked by dust.
A previous Hubble image of NGC 7496 was released in 2022. Today’s image incorporates new data that highlight the galaxy’s star clusters, which are surrounded by glowing red clouds of hydrogen gas. Astronomers collected these data in order to study nebulae like those that massive stars leave behind when they explode as supernovae and those from which newborn stars are made.
[Image Description: A spiral galaxy featuring a bright, glowing core that is crossed by a horizontal bar of yellowish light. Spiral arms emerge from each end of this bar and wrap around it, creating a disc that is stretched out to the right. Some areas, mostly along the arms, glow pink where stars are forming in nebulae. Webs of dark reddish dust also follow the arms. A star in our galaxy shines prominently, off to the right.]
Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Chandar, J. Lee and the PHANGS-HST team; CC BY 4.0
One of the prettiest things I looked forward to seeing this summer was the combination of wildflowers and starry skies. In this image, I was able to include the Milky Way and a collection of stars known as "The Teapot" in the skies above some beautiful wildflowers.
For a creative composition, I had an idea to follow-up on a bit of an accident that happened awhile back. You see, during some milky way photography over a year ago, I noticed in one accidental, out-of-focus frame, where the Milky Way stars appeared really cool. I saw a couple of blurry stars appearing as starry bokeh balls - something that really caught my eye as I'm not sure if I'd ever seen it before.
There is a lot more to this post...
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Mark and Megan have been working a lot on NASA's Celestial immunity experiment, including weekends. This is one of the reasons I like making timelapses, it compresses hours of work into a short video (also once the camera is set up we can let it be it and do said work). Together with solid support from mission control and scientists on ground, Mark and Megan have been working in the Life Sciences Glovebox in the Japanese Kibo laboratory to run this experiment. They are taking immune cells from elderly people and adults and seeing how they react to being on the International Space Station. This could offer clues to the whole ageing process in general and continues on ground-breaking research in space that is helping us understand the human body in detail. Like much human research in space it capitalises on the fact that cells seem to age faster offering a handy way for researchers to observe changes but sped up. Mark is doing the experiment in the Glovebox so the cells are contained, we do many biological or chemical experiments in gloveboxes for extra safety. youtu.be/vNS_sEfgvdI
Mark et Megan travaillent beaucoup sur l’expérience Celestial immunity dernièrement, y compris les weekends. Les timelapses ont l’avantage de compresser le temps et de montrer l’essentiel des activités en une courte vidéo (et puis je peux installer la caméra et la laisser tourner pendant que je vaque à mes occupations 🆗). Avec le soutien du centre d’opérations et des scientifiques, Megan et Mark utilisent la Life Sciences Glovebox (littéralement « la boîte à gants pour les sciences du vivant) qui se trouve dans le laboratoire :flag japon: Kibo. Grâce à cette boîte, les échantillons restent bien confiner, sans risque d’être abimés. Ils étudient des cellules immunitaires de personnes âgées et d’adultes pour voir comment elles réagissent dans la Station spatiale. L’objectif ? Étudier le vieillissement et plus généralement améliorer la compréhension du corps humain. Comme la plupart des études sur la physiologie humaine, on se sert du fait que les cellules vieillissent plus vite dans l’espace. C’est pratique, on peut observer les changements plus rapidement, comme en accélérer… un peu comme un timelapse dans la vie réelle :) youtu.be/vNS_sEfgvdI
Credits: ESA/NASA–T. Pesquet
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