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Cabin fever + getting a little antsy waiting for my storage array to arrive to get the 2012-2014 stuff back up and running soon = some random light painting, inspired by the movie Interstellar...
Interstellar freighter with 2 fighter escorts. 195 studs in length. Each 'donut' is 62 studs in diameter.
Although I have yet to watch interstellar, knowing that it is shot on film is enough to get me exited. The cinematography looks absolutely amazing. This satellite dish and the trees reminded me of the films feel, and so I tried to capture it as tonally matched as I could.
Thanks again to the FPP for making great film available at the most affordable price around. This is from my first roll of Kodak Portra 800 I ordered from them.
A visually striking collection of interstellar gas and dust is the focus of this week's Hubble Picture of the Week. Named RCW 7, the nebula is located just over 5300 light-years from Earth in the constellation Puppis.
Nebulae are areas of space that are rich in the raw material needed to form new stars. Under the influence of gravity, parts of these molecular clouds collapse until they coalesce into protostars, surrounded by spinning discs of leftover gas and dust. In the case of RCW 7, the protostars forming here are particularly massive, giving off strongly ionising radiation and fierce stellar winds that have transformed it into what is known as a H II region.
H II regions are filled with hydrogen ions — where H I refers to a normal hydrogen atom, H II is hydrogen that has lost its electron. The ultraviolet radiation from the massive protostars excites the hydrogen, causing it to emit light and giving this nebula its soft pinkish glow. Here Hubble is studying a particular massive protostellar binary named IRAS 07299-1651, still in its glowing cocoon of gas in the curling clouds towards the top of the nebula. To expose this star and its siblings, this image was captured using the Wide Field Camera 3 in near-infrared light. The massive protostars here are brightest in ultraviolet light, but they emit plenty of infrared light which can pass through much of the gas and dust around them and be seen by Hubble. Many of the other, larger-looking stars in this image are not part of the nebula, but sit between it and our Solar System.
The creation of an H II region marks the beginning of the end for a molecular cloud. Over only a few million years, the radiation and winds from the massive stars gradually disperse the gas — even more so as the most massive stars come to the end of their lives in supernova explosions. Only a fraction of the gas will be incorporated into new stars in this nebula, with the rest being spread throughout the galaxy to eventually form new molecular clouds.
[Image Description: Clouds of gas and dust with many stars. The clouds form a flat blue background towards the bottom, and become more thick and smoky towards the top. They are lit on one side by stars in the nebula. A thick arc of gas and dust reaches around from the top, where it is brightly lit by many stars in and around it, to the bottom where it is dark and obscuring. Other large stars lie between the clouds and the viewer.]
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Tan (Chalmers University & University of Virginia), R. Fedriani (Institute for Astrophysics of Andalusia)
CC BY 4.0 INT
Banquet of interstellar dust matter and looking at the internal threads of our galaxy somewhere between Centaur Sagittarius and the powerful Scorpio in the constellation Ophiuchus, where the secular horse galloping our imagination inside the stars. The main disc of our galaxy has a diameter of 80,000 to 100,000 light-years, the perimeter 250 to 300 000 light years and a thickness of about 1,000 light years. It consists of 200 up to 400 billion stars. If we define a natural scale and assume that the Milky Way has a diameter of 130 km, the solar system would have a length of 2 mm. The Galactic Halo extends over a diameter of 250,000 and 400,000 light years. As reported extensively in the galaxy structure below, new research has shown that the disk extends much more than we thought until last. Officially, since 2005, the Milky Way is now considered to be a large barred spiral galaxy SBbc type the Hubble sequence (small barred spiral helix) with a total mass of 600 to 3,000 billion solar masses (M☉) [5] [6], comprising from 200 to 400,000,000,000 stars. The galactic disk has an estimated diameter of about 100,000 light years. The distance of the Sun from the center of the galaxy is estimated at 26,000 light years. The disc is protuberant in the center and symperikleietai from the so-called thick disk. The Sun (and thus the Earth and the Solar System) is quite close to the inner ring of the Arm of Orion, local cloud, at 7,94 ± 0,42 kpc from the Galactic Center. The distance between the local arm and immediately nearest, the Perseus Arm, is of the order of 1 · 1019 m (6.500 light years). The Sun and by extension the solar system, located in what scientists call the Galactic Habitable Zone. The direction of the Sun's path (apix or corymb), refers to the direction of the Sun as it travels in the Galaxy. The general direction of galactic motion of the Sun is near the constellation Hercules, at an angle of approximately 86 degrees from the Galactic Center. The orbit of the Sun in the Galaxy is expected to be approximately elliptical with the addition of influences from the galactic arms and uneven mass distribution. We are currently 1/8 of the track before perigalaxio (the shortest distance from the center of the Milky Way). The solar system takes about 225-250000000 years to complete an orbit (one Galactic Year), so speculation has performed approximately 20-25 orbits during its lifetime. The orbital speed of the Solar System is 217 km / sec, ie. One light-year every 1,400 years, and 1 AU in 8 days.
a modern homage to the classic space 6870 space probe launcher. modified from 60431 space explorer rover and 60430 interstellar spaceship
The iconic Ranger spacecraft from my favourite film of last year, Interstellar, lovingly recreated in Lego.
Getting the "horn wings" right was the biggest challenge, with many attempts before I hit on this solution. It's quite a solid overall construction as I wanted it be strong enough to be properly 'swooshable'!
If you like it and want to see it made into an official lego set, please add your support on Lego Ideas:
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has collected its first chemical fingerprint of an interstellar object during a recent revisit to Comet 3I/ATLAS.
This image from the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) shows the interstellar comet in three different light wavelengths and illustrates where different gases were located at the time the comet was viewed.
Water vapour spreads far beyond the nucleus because much of it is released from icy grains in the surrounding coma, while carbon dioxide and methane are more concentrated near the comet’s nucleus.
Webb made the observations on two separate dates as the comet travelled back out of our Solar System after whipping around the Sun. The first observation occurred 15 to 16 December, when the comet was about 330 million km from the Sun. This was followed by a second observation on 17 December, when the comet was about 380 million km from the Sun.
For the first time on an interstellar visitor, Webb directly detected methane gas. Methane was observed only now in Comet 3I/ATLAS, suggesting that it was buried below the comet’s surface. In this way it remained protected from evaporating until heat from the comet’s close pass to the Sun reached deeper parts of the icy outer shell. The amount of methane relative to water found is surprisingly high, and at a level that is rare in our Solar System.
Webb’s observations also confirmed that Comet 3I/ATLAS remains unusually rich in carbon dioxide, releasing far more carbon dioxide relative to water when compared to typical Solar System comets.
Both these findings point to a very different formation environment and chemistry than the vast majority of comets that formed within our Solar System.
Webb observed Comet 3I/ATLAS using MIRI’s Medium Resolution Spectrometer, a powerful instrument designed to break infrared light into its component wavelengths. This spectrometer provides a spectrum at every point in a small patch of sky, allowing the team to measure what gases are present and visualise their distribution around the comet’s nucleus.
[Image description: The composite image shows three side-by-side maps of different chemical species. The maps are mostly red with a bright orange centre, resembling pixelated clouds glowing on a black background. From left to right they are labelled “water”, “carbon dioxide” and “methane”.]
The results were published recently in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
See also NASA 3I/ATLAS blog.
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, M. Belyakov (Caltech), I. Wong (STScI), Image Processing: A. Pagan (STScI); CC BY 4.0
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I am very happy to present the second image in which these interstellar shells can be seen at all, and at the same time, it is the first photo to show the shells so clearly thanks to the long exposure time.
Thanks to several clear nights in the fall, I was able to collect nearly 39.5 hours of narrowband data with the RASA at f/2, along with an additional hour of RGB for the stars. The processing was certainly challenging, but I managed to bring out many details in the OIII structures and the surrounding H-alpha clouds.
A few details about the objects in the image:
The bluish filaments in the center are listed in Simbad as “interstellar shells” with the designation GSH 122+02-77. These are not direct supernova remnants but rather part of the interstellar medium (ISM)—low-density material (mostly gas) that exists between stars. Stellar winds and nearby supernovae can interact with this material, forming irregular shells. The neighboring Wolf-Rayet star HD 4004 (WR1) could possibly be responsible, although there are no definitive research results on this yet.
In the upper left, you can see Sh2-181 with a pronounced OIII shell, while Sh2-175, a small emission nebula, is located on the right.
Celestron RASA 8 400mm f/2
Celestron Motorfocus
EQ6-R Pro
Camera 1 (OSC): ZWO ASI 2600 MC Pro (Gain 100, Offset 18, -10°)
RGB (Stars): 65 × 60″ (1h 5′)
Camera 2 (Mono): TS 2600 MP (Gain 100, Offset 200, -10°)
Baader H-alpha Highspeed Ultra-Narrowband 3.5nm Filter): 700 × 120″ (23h 20‘)
Baader OIII Highspeed Ultra-Narrowband 4nm Filter): 483 × 120″ (16h 6‘)
Total: 40h 31‘
Bortle 5 (19.50 SQM)
N.I.N.A., Guiding: ASI 120MM & PHD2
Astropixelprocessor, Photoshop, Pixinsight
i took this photo in Saskatchewan while on a road trip. i thought it need a something to make it more interesting photo and i ended up with this. used photoshop, illustrator, and triangular.
I was so glad that I was able to see this movie in theaters the day after it came out. It instantly became my favorite movie, and I decided that I wanted to make a Ranger. However, after seeing all the amazing Rangers that others have built, I kind of lost interest for awhile.
It wasn't until the digital release that I decided to try. It's taken me since March to complete this, and I nearly gave up multiple times, but I really wanted a Ranger model in my collection, so I kept with it. Here are the end results. It does have some interior detailing, which was actually easier to do than the exterior. Sadly, I don't have to many Computer panel pieces, so it doesn't have a lot of screen like it does in the movie. Also, one last bit. I tried to scale this based on how big the Endurance is (There is an infographic that shows how big the Endurance -With Rangers- is compared to the U.S. Space Shuttle.) I used that to try and get a rough size for my Ranger model, and while it looks a little large when compared to minifigures, I am quite happy with the results.
NASA’s Psyche observed interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS over the course of eight hours on Sept. 8 and 9, when the comet was about 33 million miles (53 million kilometers) from the spacecraft. Captured by the mission’s multispectral imager, these observations help astronomers refine the trajectory of 3I/ATLAS.
Psyche’s multispectral imager instrument comprises a pair of identical cameras equipped with filters and telescopic lenses to photograph the metal-rich asteroid Psyche’s surface in different wavelengths of light. While comet 3I/ATLAS was distant from the spacecraft during these observations, the imager’s sensitivity to the comet’s reflected sunlight meant that the mission could precisely track the object. Observations by the mission have also provided more information about 3I/ATLAS’s faint coma, or cloud of gas and dust, surrounding its nucleus — the central frozen core of ice and rock.
As shown in this annotated composite image, NASA’s Psyche mission acquired these four observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS over the course of eight hours on Sept. 8 and 9, 2025, when the comet was about 33 million miles (53 million kilometers) from the spacecraft.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU
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:> IJG-Alpha-12 mainframe ... welcome
:> Proximity alert ... Prometheus ETA 36 hours
:> Requesting authentication codes ... timed out
:> override
:> Prometheus mainframe ... welcome
:> info
:> User id ... IJG-Alpha-12-SP27
Earth date ... 15 01 2593
Mission date ... 19 days, 2 hours and 12 minutes
Mission status ... en route to interstellar jump gate alpha-12
:> diag
Communications array down
Solar panel B4 malfunctioning
Spare part being installed
Diagnostics run completed ...
:> exit
:> Logged off
I could enjoy imaging of the interstellar comet in the weekend.
The comet was drifting fast toward west northwest in Virgo. Dust coma was small and round. Dust tail was short toward east. Greenish ion halo was small and round. Bluish ion tail was not visible clearly at the date, though there looked bluish hue to the west of the comet on this frame. North is up, and east is to the left.
Sun distance: 1.774 AU ( 31% distant compared to the perihelion )
Earth distance: 1.925 AU ( 7% distant compared to the minimum )
Equipment: Guan Sheng Optical Ritchey–Chrétien telescope RCCF 8" f8 with TS Optics Extension for the Baffle Tube, AT field flattener, and Canon EOS 6D-SP3, modified by Seo-san on ZWO AM5n Equatorial Mount, autoguided at a star nearby with Fujinon 1:2.8/75mm C-Mount Lens, Pentax x2 Extender, ZWO ASI 174MM-mini, and PHD2 Guiding with comet tracking on
Exposure: 5 times x 600 seconds, 4 x 240 sec, and 7 x 60 seconds at ISO 6,400 and focal length 1,600mm
First exposure started at 18:51:19 November 29, 2025 UTC.
This frame was cropped 1,776 x 1,184 pixels of the original 5,472 x 3,648 pixels, and this is comparable to a frame taken with a scope of 4,900mm in focal length.
site: 730m above sea level at lat. 37 09 41 North and long. 139 14 54 East in an empty parking of pre-season ski resort in Okutadami in Uonuma Niigata 新潟県魚沼 奥只見. Higher mountains were covered with snow and beautiful, but there was no snow yet at the elevation. Ambient temperature was around -1 degree Celsius or 30 degrees Fahrenheit. Wind was mild. Atmospheric turbulence was bad, and guide error RMS was around 1.50. Sky was dark, and Sky Quality was 21.53 in SQML. The site was dark toward the east. Local fog interfered at the beginning of imaging session, though weather forecast was nice.
Here is a view of the site at the night:
My second polaroid with the pola back on the Bronica, as the first didn't came out right.
Zenza Bronica SQ-A | Zenzanon-S 80mm f/2.8 | Fuji FP-100C
Paris - Février 2015
We're not meant to save the world. We're meant to leave it.
My LEGO homage to Interstellar, built for the current Christopher Nolan contest on RogueBricks.de. It depicts humanity's search for a new home, from Cooper's farm on Earth, through the wormhole into another galaxy, all the way to Dr. Brand's camp on Edmunds's planet at the end of the film.
Instructions for the Endurance can be found on Rebrickable.
Interstellar trip... Looking towards the center of our galaxy, Milkyway, from last night stargazing at Pilida area of Sokraki, Corfu Banquet of interstellar dust matter and looking at the internal threads of our galaxy somewhere between Centaur Sagittarius and the powerful Scorpio in the constellation Ophiuchus, where the secular horse galloping our imagination inside the stars.
Tired of building JUST a space craft? Tired of building super awesome amazing SHIPs?
Not sure what a Ma.k is ? need a break from giant ass vertical stabilizers?
Here's a little something to keep your mind and fingers occupied - the Interstellar Outpost Contest 2014!
Build a cool starfighter, landing pad, support vehicle and com unit!
www.flickr.com/groups/2697455@N25/
for more information!
Top prize is a one of a kind set of the 4 components, each built by Legohaulic, Genghis Don, Fazzom, and myself!
'INTERSTELLAR NETWORKS' Volume XII Chapter 32 "The International Network of Feline Observers (INFO) on planet Terra" [Excerpt] Here at Castle Haran in Portland, Blue of the Felis catus people receives and transmits all manner of information via the INFO system. Telepathic conferences take place weekly, or oftener as needed during emergent / urgent situations. Reclining on the communication pad, Blue is shown in conversation with Asuka Langley of the Homo sapiens people. Captain Langley maintains a low planetary orbit in her spacecraft whilst the Chief of INFO (of the Panthera uncia people) observes via a portable desktop transceiver, seen on the left in the photograph. Captain Langley is the link officer in charge of communications between INFO and the Universal Feline Organization (UFO) which exists throughout the universe at locations conducive to feline life. The pill bottle adjacent to the communication pad contains medication tablets which Blue can use if need be, should any telepathy degradations occur.
I was so glad that I was able to see this movie in theaters the day after it came out. It instantly became my favorite movie, and I decided that I wanted to make a Ranger. However, after seeing all the amazing Rangers that others have built, I kind of lost interest for awhile.
It wasn't until the digital release that I decided to try. It's taken me since March to complete this, and I nearly gave up multiple times, but I really wanted a Ranger model in my collection, so I kept with it. Here are the end results. It does have some interior detailing, which was actually easier to do than the exterior. Sadly, I don't have to many Computer panel pieces, so it doesn't have a lot of screen like it does in the movie. Also, one last bit. I tried to scale this based on how big the Endurance is (There is an infographic that shows how big the Endurance -With Rangers- is compared to the U.S. Space Shuttle.) I used that to try and get a rough size for my Ranger model, and while it looks a little large when compared to minifigures, I am quite happy with the results.