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The last days of Expedition 52 onboard the ISS and NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson has accumulated 377 days in space, the most for any U.S. woman at the time of her return to Earth on Saturday, 2 September, 2017.
Video was captured using the new Canon EOS C200 and Canon 800mm Lens, Cinema RAW Light format and processed in Resolve, along with the Canon 1DX MkII and Canon 400mm lens captured in 4K MOV format for the wide shots.
International Space Station
30 August 2017 - 16h39m38.65s
Crosses the Waxing Gibbous Moon (59.0%)
Laidley, Lockyer Valley, South East Queensland, Australia
Transit Duration: 0.52s, Visible Path Width: 4.32km
Diameter of ISS: 61.02" (illuminated)
Size=109.0m x 73.0m x 27.5m
Satellite at Azimuth=81.4° E Altitude=70.7°
Distance=432.84km Angular Velocity=57.7'/s
Ground speed=7.425km/s (27,600 km/h).
Jose Gonzalez at the Interstellar Rodeo in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. ©Eric Kozakiewicz/Interstellar Rodeo
I'll bet you didn't know that inside of Seattle Aquarium interstellar travel is possible. What do you suppose lies beyond the purplish horizon and yellow stars. Do you hear something?
Here is my Get Pushed! challenge from HarryJ. Check out his stream, he's really good with light and has a great sense of humor.
"I'm going to give you two challenges, select just one of them
Photograph an item/thing, not a person, that is partially lit by the light coming from a street lamp. The light should not be "full frontal"
The second one is to take a formal portrait. It does not need to be indoors but it should not be a candid. I hope that the image you post will be one chosen from a number of images of the same person. Oh, and not a family member."
Well, to be brief, #2 was not an option for me. So I went for #1.
In my mind #1 was going to be kind of dark alley-ish, very shadowy, a shaft of light. But I just couldn't create that with the sodium vapor lamps around my part of town which just give out a wash of yellow light.
So to try to get to the point... the photo above is illuminated by the street lamp. That is the glare you see coming from the bottom left corner. The exposure is a long exposure and so it looks as if the tree is illuminated a la "full frontal", but it actually isn't. Believe it or not, the lamp is pointed down and away from the tree. And so, that's it. Thanks for the push HarryJ. It was very challenging for me. I came up with something I totally wasn't expecting, and which barely meets the challenge, but I guess it passes.
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So many fans of the Tatra! I dig these obscure Czech luxury cars too. Here’s another one of the same 2-603 II. Protomachine flashlight set to red and purple. Done as a workshop demo.
nikon d90,sigma 10-20mm,f7.1,sb-600 at 1/4 power with green gel,bare flashlight,2 minute exposure.Best viewed large.
“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
― Arthur C. Clarke
Olá, bom dia!
Finalmente chegou a vez de mostrar esse lindo! Foi muito difícil de fotografar então me contentei com essa aí mesmo.
Dessa vez passei um esmalte de base, mas na próxima vou tentar usar puro.
Usei:
- 1 camada de Base Fortalecedora - Risqué
- 2 camadas do Marinho - Colorama
- 1 camada do Interstellar - ILNP
- 1 camada do roxinho Impala
Ai gente, to ansiosa pelo natal *-* quero que chegue logo hehehehe
Espero que gostem da fotinha.
Bjs =**
Rov ♥
THE INTERSTELLAR PASSAGE
You're probably wondering how he can go back and forth between these two worlds as well?
Good question.
If I had to compare to simplify the thing: it's a bit similar to the Stargate, a kind of cosmic airlock between two worlds, invisible, imperceptible.
I do not really realize when it happens.
Sometimes an animal follows me without I realize it.
And when this happens, it happens then one of the most amazing things that we are the possibility of seeing in its life: the Zorgonaut transmutation, or how a Zorg animal arriving on your planet is undergoing mutagenic combination in another animal, its DNA is combined by the interstellar passage in else that would be your equivalent of an imaginary animal. For Zorgonauts there's no doubt that these are the animals that have combined Zorg via the passage. Today your lack of imagination makes you believe that mermaids, griffins dragons centaurs minotaurs etc ... are merely fabrications, and you bring to believe in evolution according to Darwin.
So my last visit and my last return through the "door", a Cobrafe followed me and the passage was born a GIRABRA
LE PASSAGE INTERSIDERAL
Vous vous demandez certainement comment peut il aller et venir entre ces 2 mondes ainsi ?
Bonne question.
Si je devais comparer pour vous simplifier la chose : c’est un peu comparable à la porte des étoiles, une sorte de sas cosmique entre les 2 univers, invisible, imperceptible.
Je ne me rends vraiment pas compte quand cela se produit.
Quelques fois un animal me suit sans que je ne m’en rende compte.
Et quand cela se produit il se passe alors une des choses les plus incroyables que l’on est la possibilité de voir dans sa vie : la transmutation Zorgonautienne, ou comment un animal de Zorg en arrivant sur votre planète se voit subir une combinaison mutagène en un autre animal, son ADN se combine de par le passage intersidéral en autre chose qui serait pour vous l’équivalent d’un animal imaginaire. Pour les Zorgonautes cela ne fait aucun doute que ce sont des animaux de Zorg qui se sont combinés en empruntant le passage . Aujourd hui votre manque d’imagination vous fait croire que les sirènes, les dragons les griffons les centaures les minotaures etc… ne sont qu’ affabulations , et vous a amenez à croire en l’ évolution selon Darwin.
Ainsi ma dernière visite et mon dernier retour par « la porte », un Cobrafe m’a suivi et le passage a vu naître un GIRABRA
the first one I captured with the CANON EOS 7D mark II + objectif Canon EF 100-400 mm f/4.5-5.6 L IS USM
"We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars, Now we just look down and worry about our place in the dirt."
Coopers Dodge RAM 3500 pickup truck from the film Interstellar, ready to go chasing Indian Air Force Drones
Scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have confirmed the presence of electrically-charged molecules in space shaped like soccer balls, shedding light on the mysterious contents of the interstellar medium (ISM) – the gas and dust that fills interstellar space.
Since stars and planets form from collapsing clouds of gas and dust in space, “The diffuse ISM can be considered as the starting point for the chemical processes that ultimately give rise to planets and life,” said Martin Cordiner of the Catholic University of America, Washington. “So fully identifying its contents provides information on the ingredients available to create stars and planets.” Cordiner, who is stationed at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, is lead author of a paper on this research published April 22nd in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.
The molecules identified by Cordiner and his team are a form of carbon called “Buckminsterfullerene,” also known as “Buckyballs,” which consists of 60 carbon atoms (C60) arranged in a hollow sphere. C60 has been found in some rare cases on Earth in rocks and minerals, and can also turn up in high-temperature combustion soot.
C60 has been seen in space before. However, this is the first time an electrically charged (ionized) version has been confirmed to be present in the diffuse ISM. The C60 gets ionized when ultraviolet light from stars tears off an electron from the molecule, giving the C60 a positive charge (C60+). “The diffuse ISM was historically considered too harsh and tenuous an environment for appreciable abundances of large molecules to occur,” said Cordiner. “Prior to the detection of C60, the largest known molecules in space were only 12 atoms in size. Our confirmation of C60+ shows just how complex astrochemistry can get, even in the lowest density, most strongly ultraviolet-irradiated environments in the Galaxy.”
Life as we know it is based on carbon-bearing molecules, and this discovery shows complex carbon molecules can form and survive in the harsh environment of interstellar space. “In some ways, life can be thought of as the ultimate in chemical complexity,” said Cordiner. “The presence of C60 unequivocally demonstrates a high level of chemical complexity intrinsic to space environments, and points toward a strong likelihood for other extremely complex, carbon-bearing molecules arising spontaneously in space.”
Most of the ISM is hydrogen and helium, but it’s spiked with many compounds that haven’t been identified. Since interstellar space is so remote, scientists study how it affects the light from distant stars to identify its contents. As starlight passes through space, elements and compounds in the ISM absorb and block certain colors (wavelengths) of the light. When scientists analyze starlight by separating it into its component colors (spectrum), the colors that have been absorbed appear dim or are absent. Each element or compound has a unique absorption pattern that acts as a fingerprint allowing it to be identified. However, some absorption patterns from the ISM cover a broader range of colors, which appear different from any known atom or molecule on Earth. These absorption patterns are called Diffuse Interstellar Bands (DIBs). Their identity has remained a mystery ever since they were discovered by Mary Lea Heger, who published observations of the first two DIBs in 1922.
A DIB can be assigned by finding a precise match with the absorption fingerprint of a substance in the laboratory. However, there are millions of different molecular structures to try, so it would take many lifetimes to test them all.
“Today, more than 400 DIBs are known, but (apart from the few newly attributed to C60+), none has been conclusively identified,” said Cordiner. “Together, the appearance of the DIBs indicate the presence of a large amount of carbon-rich molecules in space, some of which may eventually participate in the chemistry that gives rise to life. However, the composition and characteristics of this material will remain unknown until the remaining DIBs are assigned.”
Decades of laboratory studies have failed to find a precise match with any DIBs until the work on C60+. In the new work, the team was able to match the absorption pattern seen from C60+ in the laboratory to that from Hubble observations of the ISM, confirming the recently claimed assignment by a team from University of Basel, Switzerland, whose laboratory studies provided the required C60+ comparison data. The big problem for detecting C60+ using conventional, ground-based telescopes, is that atmospheric water vapor blocks the view of the C60+ absorption pattern. However, orbiting above most of the atmosphere in space, the Hubble telescope has a clear, unobstructed view. Nevertheless, they still had to push Hubble far beyond its usual sensitivity limits to stand a chance of detecting the faint fingerprints of C60+.
The observed stars were all blue supergiants, located in the plane of our Galaxy, the Milky Way. The Milky Way's interstellar material is primarily located in a relatively flat disk, so lines of sight to stars in the Galactic plane traverse the greatest quantities of interstellar matter, and therefore show the strongest absorption features due to interstellar molecules.
The detection of C60+ in the diffuse ISM supports the team’s expectations that very large, carbon-bearing molecules are likely candidates to explain many of the remaining, unidentified DIBs. This suggests that future laboratory efforts measure the absorption patterns of compounds related to C60+, to help identify some of the remaining DIBs.
The team is seeking to detect C60+ in more environments to see just how widespread buckyballs are in the Universe. According to Cordiner, based on their observations so far, it seems that C60+ is very widespread in the Galaxy.
This work was funded by NASA under a grant from the Space Telescope Science Institute. The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between NASA and ESA (European Space Agency). NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, manages the telescope. The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland, conducts Hubble science operations. STScI is operated for NASA by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy in Washington, D.C. NASA is exploring our Solar System and beyond, uncovering worlds, stars, and cosmic mysteries near and far with our powerful fleet of space and ground-based missions.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech
For more information: www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/soccer-balls-in-space
It arrived from outer space.
What was the purpose of this alien probe? Was it pure scientific curiosity, or was it something more sinister? Will we soon be fleeing invaders or welcoming benevolent explorers?
This photo was taken by a Minolta Autocord Seikosha-MX (Chiyoko) TLR using Chiyoko Rokkor 75mm f/3.2 & 3.5 lenses with a HOYA 49mm Infrared [R72] filter attached to a 30mm to 49mm Bayonet TLR adapter using Rollei IR 400 film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitalized by Photoshop.
The Cygnus Wall complex is a vivid skyscape of interstellar gas - a huge star forming region inside the North America nebula. I shot the closeup using my 8” scope.
This nebula displays the typical reddish glow associated with ionized hydrogen but also includes dark, dusty sections that obscure the background star field.
The picture is the result of over three hours of data, a long but satisfying night under the stars.
October 17, 2000. Radiohead at Sears Theatre at the Air Canada Centre, Toronto.
Shot with a Canon Elph APS camera.
OK, I have to admit I'm quite pleased with how the raised section just behind the nose has worked out. That was a eureka moment.
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The iconic Ranger spacecraft from my favourite film of last year, Interstellar, lovingly recreated in Lego.
Initially I was going to build the top using two 6x3 windows and then create some custom stickers for them. But I'm glad I didn't - using 100% Lego is always more satisfying!
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Global corporations have discovered the rich lime goo makes for great rocket fuel! The race is on the exploit the Agreon's natural resource for personal gain. With skilled workers highly sought after from many planets, it's likely you might see someone you recognise.
The mountain contains a black light to illuminate the alien barracks.
Plasmo's franchises are deploying to all major planetary systems, call today to find out how you can be a part of the interstellar grog syndicate!
Hope you like my biggest layout to date. It was too large to set up at home unless I clear the garage out. I had a little help from Taz-maniac, Bricktron and Intrastella on the left side of the display.