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Strumbellas at the Interstellar Rodeo in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. ©Eric Kozakiewicz/ Interstellar Rodeo
A lightpainting by R W Watson. Search the "Cameratoss" group for info on the technique.
My photostream - www.flickr.com/photos/elray/
Nothing really related to an 'interstellar burst', just could'nt find a name for it. [ did'nt want to leave un-named either ]
Location : Villingili, Maldives
When astronomers see something in the universe that at first glance seems like one-of-a-kind, it's bound to stir up a lot of excitement and attention. Enter comet 2I/Borisov. This mysterious visitor from the depths of space is the first identified comet to arrive here from another star. We don't know from where or when the comet started heading toward our Sun, but it won't hang around for long. The Sun's gravity is slightly deflecting its trajectory, but can't capture it because of the shape of its orbit and high velocity of about 100,000 miles per hour.
Telescopes around the world have been watching the fleeting visitor. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided the sharpest views as the comet skirts by our Sun. Since October the space telescope has been following the comet like a sports photographer following horses speeding around a racetrack. Hubble revealed that the heart of the comet, a loose agglomeration of ices and dust particles, is likely no more than about 3,200 feet across, about the length of nine football fields. Though comet Borisov is the first of its kind, no doubt there are many other comet vagabonds out there, plying the space between stars. Astronomers will eagerly be on the lookout for the next mysterious visitor from far beyond.
These two images, taken by Hubble, capture comet 2I/Borisov streaking though our solar system and on its way back to interstellar space. It is only the second interstellar object known to have passed through the solar system.
Nov. 16, 2019, photo (left)
The comet appears in front of a distant background spiral galaxy (2MASX J10500165-0152029). The galaxy's bright central core is smeared in the image because Hubble was tracking the comet. Comet Borisov was approximately 203 million miles from Earth in this exposure. Its tail of ejected dust streaks off to the upper right. The comet has been artificially colored blue to discriminate fine detail in the halo of dust, or coma, surrounding the central nucleus. It also helps to visually separate the comet from the background galaxy.
View Nov. 16 image (unannotated)
Dec. 9, 2019, photo (right)
Hubble revisited the comet shortly after its closest approach to the Sun where it received maximum heating after spending most of its life in frigid interstellar space. The comet also reached a breathtaking maximum speed of about 100,000 miles per hour. Comet Borisov is 185 million miles from Earth in this photo, near the inner edge of the asteroid belt but below it. The nucleus, an agglomeration of ices and dust, is still too small to be resolved. The bright central portion is a coma made up of dust leaving the surface. The comet will make its closest approach to Earth in late December at a distance of 180 million miles.
View Dec. 9 image (unannotated)
"Hubble gives us the best upper limit of the size of comet Borisov's nucleus, which is the really important part of the comet," said David Jewitt, a UCLA professor of planetary science and astronomy, whose team has captured the best and sharpest look at this first confirmed interstellar comet. "Surprisingly, our Hubble images show that its nucleus is more than 15 times smaller than earlier investigations suggested it might be. Our Hubble images show that the radius is smaller than half a kilometer. Knowing the size is potentially useful for beginning to estimate how common such objects may be in the solar system and our galaxy. Borisov is the first known interstellar comet, and we would like to learn how many others there are."
Crimean amateur astronomer Gennady Borisov discovered the comet on Aug. 30, 2019, and reported the position measurements to the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Center for Near-Earth Object Studies at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, working with the Minor Planet Center, computed an orbit for the comet, which shows that it came from elsewhere in our Milky Way galaxy, point of origin unknown.
Nevertheless, observations by numerous telescopes show that the comet's chemical composition is similar to the comets found inside our solar system, providing evidence that comets also form around other stars. By the middle of 2020 the comet will have already zoomed past Jupiter's distance of 500 million miles on its way back into the frozen abyss of interstellar space.
The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between ESA (the European Space Agency) and NASA. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, manages the telescope. The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore conducts Hubble science operations. STScI is operated for NASA by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy in Washington, D.C. The Minor Planet Center and the Center for Near-Earth Orbit Studies are projects of NASA’s Near-Earth Object Observations Program of the Planetary Defense Coordination Office at NASA Headquarters.
For more information: www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/interstellar-comet-2ibo...
Credits: NASA, ESA and D. Jewitt (UCLA)
A wonderful IMAX evening, and let me just say, without spoiling any of the story line pre-release, that the word “stay” in the movie is the perfect setup for the Sentinel Mission.
Astronaut Ed Edward Lu opened with a story of how they would sit on the shuttle roof flying upside down and backwards — a glass-bottom boat screaming across the panoply of thunderstorms crackling like muted fireworks below, while eating freeze-dried spaghetti and waxing philosophic about the fate of the Earth.
The Interstellar movie itself sprinkled so many 2001 Space Odyssey allusions that it makes my head spin. Perhaps it’s inevitable with a long movie that ends with a trippy sunsplashed jaunt of awe and wonder, but the soundtrack remix, obelisk bot, docking to spinning station, and gas-giant flyby (swap Saturn for Jupiter) drove the point home. But it continued right on to the cover image from Arthur C Clarke’s subsequent novel Rendezvous with Rama.
The opening previews were the Trial by Fire promo for the Orion capsule and the B612 Impact Video on how the nuclear test ban treaty sensors have detected 26 explosions over the past 13 years, ranging in energy from 1 to 600 kilotons, and all of them from outer space.
Sentinel Mission will enable us to defend Earth from catastrophic impacts by detecting the possible threats and modeling their trajectories for the next 50-100 years, allowing plenty of time for deflection of dangerous paths.
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...
They say the flap of a butterfly's wings can set off a tornado on the other side of the world. But what happens when a butterfly flaps its wings in the depths of space?
More information: www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1410a/
Credit:
NASA, ESA, and R. Sahai (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
I spent today working on texture and realism, going back over the airbrushed work with a flat wide brush and white paint, nothing complex but it immediately subdues the cartoony airbrush shading into something more textured, worn out.
This is a fun challenge in restraint compared with Star Wars models where everything is filthy to excess...I've been looking carefully at the Space Shuttle panelling for reference.
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
NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, spacecraft has made it possible for scientists to construct the first comprehensive sky map of our solar system and its location in the Milky Way galaxy. The new view will change the way researchers view and study the interaction between our galaxy and sun. The sky map was produced with data that two detectors on the spacecraft collected during six months of observations. The detectors measured and counted particles scientists refer to as energetic neutral atoms.
The energetic neutral atoms are created in an area of our solar system known as the interstellar boundary region. This region is where charged particles from the sun, called the solar wind, flow outward far beyond the orbits of the planets and collide with material between stars. The energetic neutral atoms travel inward toward the sun from interstellar space at velocities ranging from 100,000 mph to more than 2.4 million mph. This interstellar boundary emits no light that can be collected by conventional telescopes.
Full story:
www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ibex/allsky_map.html
Animation, detailed caption and color scale information:
svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003600/a003635/
Credit: NASA/GSFC/SwRI/SVS
Strait out of camera!
Combine a dark room, a ceiling fan, some tape, some string, an LED, an old fiber optic lamp, a weird homemade lens filter, a camera, and a penny... and this is what you get.
Photos de l'exposition "Pink Floyd Interstellar" à la Cité de la Musique (Porte de la Villette, Paris).
Read the story at www.zdar.net/music/expos/quelques-heures-a-lexpo-pink-flo....
Lire le compte-rendu de l'expo sur www.zdar.net/music/expos/quelques-heures-a-lexpo-pink-flo...
I woke up hours late so I missed the brighter appearance of the Milky Way, but it still shows in the photo, though very faintly.
This is Mt. Pulag on a moonless, cloudless night, with me being 2,700 meters closer to the stars.
The sea of clouds cover the distant cities of Baguio and beyond.
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An attempt at low light shooting with long exposure.
Incidentally it became an interesting comparison of the 2 Panasonic kit lenses.
The 12-32 is very sharp, but with a somewhat flat rendering. Working against a strong highlight it explodes into a big sunstar which I don't mind, but unfortunately this comes with the rather nasty-looking and persistent green flare visible in the center of the image.
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.
Help back this awesome poster project -
www.kickstarter.com/projects/126776535/interstellar-limit...
First of a new class of solo explorer ships equipped with antimatter drives able to make interstellar transits, the Orion One was the vessel that made the first human transit of the hyperspatial leyline between Sol and Tau Ceti. Since this was the first ever human interstellar flight, Captain Michel Laval's Orion One has gone down in System history alongside other celebrated vessels like Naomi Chang's Antares 5 Marslander and Yuri Gagarin's Vostok-1 capsule.
The Federation government insisted on a new white and black livery to serve as a cautionary marking that Orion One was fitted with an antimatter power plant. The antimatter drive being necessary to reach the interstellar leylines' threshold velocity, the new colour scheme became associated with the ships and equipment of the new colony world in the Tau Ceti system, codenamed Futuro.
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Obviously, this is Futuron colours, but I still don't have any Futuron astronauts so it has a red-suited pilot. Even in Real World Classic Space sets, there was a brief overlap of a few sets that were like this before the Futuron faction really got up and running, and it makes sense for a Federation future history that there would be some sort of transitional period as well.
In developing a sort of vague overarching backstory for my version of the Classic Space universe, I feel a need to explain things like how the Futuron got their name. "Planet Futuro" was what I came up with, tying in to that history of Classic Space Federation worlds ending in -o (like the ice planet Krysto or Peter Reid and Tim Goddard's Panduro).
And I worked out how to make a ringed planet. Which was obvious in hindsight. It would have looked better if the rings were brown or tan, but I think black's the only colour I can currently make a complete ring in. Certainly not brown or tan.
And this creation marks my first use of the 1x1 round plate with handle. And what do I use it for? Attaching an antenna :P.