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This artist's depiction shows the interstellar visitor
'Oumuamua (pronounced oh-MOO-ah-MOO-ah) racing toward the outskirts of our solar system. The object, heated by the Sun (lower right), is venting gaseous material from its surface, as a comet would.
Using observations from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based observatories, an international team of scientists have confirmed that 'Oumuamua, the first known interstellar object to travel through our solar system, got an unexpected boost in speed and shift in trajectory as it passed through the inner solar system last year. Researchers suggest this outgassing is one possible cause for 'Oumuamua's slight acceleration.
For more information, visit: hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2018/news-2018-25.html
Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. Olmsted and F. Summers (STScI)
Could be Cooper and Dr. Ameilia Brand roaming the vastness of Dr. Mann's frozen planet in Interstellar, and actually that part was filmed here on Svínafellsjökull, an outlet glacier of the vast Vatnajokull icecap in Iceland
Ridges of glowing interstellar gas and dark dust clouds inhabit the turbulent, cosmic depths of the Lagoon Nebula. Also known as M8, the bright star forming region is about 5,000 light-years distant. But it still makes for a popular stop on telescopic tours of the constellation Sagittarius, toward the center of our Milky Way Galaxy. Dominated by the telltale red emission of ionized hydrogen atoms recombining with stripped electrons, this stunning, deep view of the Lagoon is nearly 100 light-years across. Right of center, the bright, compact, hourglass shape is gas ionized and sculpted by energetic radiation and extreme stellar winds from a massive young star. In fact, the many bright stars of open cluster NGC 6530 drift within the nebula, just formed in the Lagoon several million years ago. via NASA go.nasa.gov/2cd84cX
Strumbellas at the Interstellar Rodeo in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. ©Eric Kozakiewicz/ Interstellar Rodeo
NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope's NIRSpec (Near-Infrared Spectrograph) instrument can map specific chemical and molecular signatures, as seen here in its three images of comet 3I/ATLAS, each highlighting a part of the comet’s contents.
Researchers use NIRSpec’s Integral Field Unit, which provides a spectrum of every image pixel, to dive deeper into the details of cosmic objects than they can with the telescope’s imaging instruments alone. This is crucial for a rare object like 3I/ATLAS, which is only the third comet from outside the Solar System ever studied, and the first to be observed by an instrument capable of capturing as much detail as NIRSpec. With NIRSpec’s data, researchers can build a picture of where the comet may have come from and what its home system was like and then compare that to familiar conditions in the Solar System.
[Image description: Comparison of three telescope images side by side. They are roughly spherical but pixelated, with more intense colour saturation in the centre. From left to right: smallest sphere is blue and labeled H2O, orange is larger and labeled CO2, and red is largest and labeled CO. A scale bar at the lower left is labeled 1300 km/1 arcsecond and is about one fourth of each of the three images. A compass at the lower right shows north pointing up to 12 o’clock, east pointing left to 9 o’clock, and a fainter arrow labeled to Sun pointing down to 8 o’clock.]
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, M.Cordiner (Catholic University of America, GSFC); CC BY 4.0
The Stardust Settler in an interstellar traveller designed for more than 70,000 years in deep space. Estimated to travel just close to 3/4 of light speed. It carries a mini fusion star that sheds light on the ship as it travels and creates livable habitats that rotate to create gravity. The Settler carries the Stardust Agitator on it's bow (capable of battle and planetary landing), two solar shuttles, four fighters, and a host of drop shuttles for emergencies and additional planetary reentry. Figures:
Stardust Settler: 140studs or about 44"
With Agitator undocked: 117 studs or about 37"
6 total LED are placed throughout the ship- one in the star, one in the bow as a menacing "eye", three on the rear as blinking thrusters with one additional in the aft bridge. The gravity wheel spins freely through the use of a hand crank the rear of the capital city (future plans may include a motor attachment). This build was started on Aug 31st 2019 and semi-documented via Flickr, Twitch and Discord.
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS imaged from Oxfordshire, UK before dawn on 21st November 2025. My husband Mark captured 3 minute exposures with our 8" Ritchey-Chretien telescope and an Altair Hypercam 294C. I calibrated and aligned all 25 FITS files in Deep Sky Stacker, processed them in Lightroom and used them to produce the timelapse showing the comet's movement over a1hr 50min period starting at 04:18 UT
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The lighting was flat but the clouds were marvelous so I couldn't help but jump out of the Fastpass queue to run some quick brackets before boarding.
4 years later, I finally returned to finish up the Ranger. All the shaping is done, just waiting on some bricklink orders to get everything in the right color. The brick-built solutions I came up with for the windows left me unsatisfied so I'll be printing some stickers to mask them in.
A short brickfilm featuring the model will hopefully be done by early July. Thanks for looking.
Interstellar is a fantastic movie. I love the way it explores the depths of time dilation. And the Endurance is a cool unique looking ship.
I saw a lego version of the Ranger in the link below and thought I'd see if I could make one like his. I think it turned out okay. I put and opening hatch on the back and also gave it landing gear.
.lxf file
www.dropbox.com/s/ui40qmsvi2vgzb1/Ranger.lxf?dl=0
link
www.flickr.com/photos/jp_velociraptor/16339532836/in/phot...
Had a fantastic night out photographing the stars with a great Mate. This was taken at Lake Moogerah. I was going to PS the plane out (bottom left) but decided to leave it in.
IFN = Interstellar Flux Nebula
Imaging telescopes or lenses: Nikon NIKKOR 180 F2,8 AIS ED
Imaging cameras: Nikon d7100
Mounts: ORION Sirius EQ-G
Guiding telescopes or lenses: Nikon NIKKOR 180 F2,8 AIS ED
Software: Photoshop CS 6 Adobe, Noel Carboni's Astro Tools for PhotoShop Noel Carboni Actions, PIXINSIGHT PixInsinght 1.8 RC7
Resolution: 4693x3375
Dates: Jan. 25, 2015, Jan. 26, 2015, Feb. 14, 2015
Frames:
50x150" ISO1250
81x150" ISO2500
7x200" ISO3200
26x150" ISO4000
Integration: 6.9 hours
Avg. Moon age: 11.71 days
Avg. Moon phase: 31.29%
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 3.50
Temperature: -2.50
RA center: 145.811 degrees
DEC center: 70.637 degrees
Orientation: 90.057 degrees
Field radius: 3.754 degrees
Locations: Eldorado (6767' elev), @ Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
15.5'' by 15.5'' acrylic on whiteboard
many thanks to Sangroncito for source photo, seen here: www.flickr.com/photos/sangroncito/7825128728/in/photostream
This one is special.
The first time I saw the movie Interstellar I was moved. The epic adventure across space and time brought the characters to worlds of pure imagination. When I learned that "Dr. Mann's planet" was filmed in Iceland on the Vatnajokull glacier, I knew I had to see it for myself. I set off for Iceland to find the very same glacier. Climbing it was an experience I will never forget, it's unlike any other glacier I've climbed.
Afterward I wanted to create a world of my own out of my experience on the glacier, inspired by Interstellar. The result is the work you see here.