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Data for this image was taken with a 1m (1m0-04) telescope at CTIO (Cerro Tololo, Chile) operated by the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope (LCOGT) Network. The Principal Investigator for this data set was BJ Fulton.
For this image I used publicly available data from the LCOGT Science Archive. The following filters were used:
SDSS I' for Red, V for Green and B for Blue.
This galaxy lies at a distance of about 28 million light years. Also in the image are numerous smaller galaxies including what looks like a pair of interacting galaxies just off the left and a little above M104's disk.
M104 is located in the constellation of Virgo.
NIKON D600 + 14.0 mm f/2.8 @ 14 mm, 61 sec at f/2.8, ISO 1250 x 92 Frames
www.rc.au.net/blog/2015/12/25/interstellar-signals/
© Rodney Campbell
Interstellar Overdrive - a psychedelic composition written by Pink Floyd from album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Due to the new shitty layout decided to put max 1600px pictures in the future.
Have a fantastic weekend my friends :)
Pensaba como en la memoria colectiva se ha arraigado cierta percepción acerca de como lucen cosas desconocidas. Conceptos creados como dioses, extraterrestres y demonios, etc. a todos les hemos asignado rostros y hasta actitudes, todo sin ninguna certeza de la existencia de estos entes.
supongo que es un fenomeno natural de la humanidad el unificar criterios visuales.
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Foto de reflejo de luz de la ciudad hacia las nubes y rebote de iluminacion de luna llena.
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tengo un buen lugar desde donde ver el fin del mundo... Te espero :-)
(Better in large)
Camera: Nikon D90
Lens: Nikkor 10.5 mm f/2.8 Fisheye
Old Kanyaka Ruins.
This is an old sheep station in the Flinders Ranges.
www.flindersranges.com/attract/kanyaka.htm
It was lightpainted and the sky is a combination of two separate shots. One long exposure (1/2 hour) and one short (30 seconds).
Deep Dream Generator Using Base Image "Interstellar" my own Creation www.flickr.com/photos/129036396@N07/21280433503/in/datepo... Eyes Reworked in Photoshop
I have often wondered if my local woodland would be suitable for some night photography, tonight I found out.
Putting all my irrational fear to one side, I walked deep into the woods and held my ground as the light of the day ebbed away and the darkness of the night crept in.
The creaking of branches and snapping of twigs underfoot, the sniffling and snorting of badgers, the shrieks of owls and foxes slowly raised in volume from all around, but my gaze and concentration were transfixed at the appearance of the universe above, I found perspective!
Do not go gentle into that good night
Old age should burn and rave at close of day
Rage, rage against the dying of the light
-Dylan Thomas
With the amount of Octan Space-freighters being attacked by Blacktron forces, the NCSA (Neo Classic Space Agency) brought a nimble attack fighter into production for defenses purposes only.
Subcontracting the assembly out to the highest bidder, the resulting strike craft was an insanely fast and powerful, but shoddily built ship.
With that reputation gaining traction at a rapid rate, the NCSA's enlistment rate for pilots skyrocketed. Each and every dare-devil in the system wanting to gain quick cash, and take one of the infamous "Shriekers" for a spin under protection by international trade law.
This artist’s illustration shows the wayward 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.
Researchers suggest this “outgassing” is one possible cause for ‘Oumuamua’s slight acceleration, as detected by several telescopes. The irregularly shaped object is now traveling away at about 70,000 miles per hour. The orbits of the major planets are included for scale. The box-shaped constellation Corvus is in the background near image center, and the bright blue star Spica is at upper left of center, in the constellation Virgo. The stars at bottom left belong to the constellation Hydra.
As the complex rotation of the object makes it difficult to determine the exact shape, there are many models of what it could look like.
CREDIT: NASA, ESA, and J. Olmsted and F. Summers (STScI)
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The Elephant's Trunk Nebula is a concentration of interstellar gas and dust within the much larger ionized gas region IC 1396 located in the constellation Cepheus about 2,400 light years away from Earth. The piece of the nebula shown here is the dark, dense globule IC 1396A; it is commonly called the Elephant's Trunk nebula because of its appearance at visible light wavelengths, where there is a dark patch with a bright, sinuous rim. The bright rim is the surface of the dense cloud that is being illuminated and ionized by a very bright, massive star (HD 206267) that is just to the east of IC 1396A. (In the Spitzer Space Telescope view shown, the massive star is just to the left of the edge of the image.) The entire IC 1396 region is ionized by the massive star, except for dense globules that can protect themselves from the star's harsh ultraviolet rays.
The Elephant's Trunk Nebula is now thought to be a site of star formation, containing several very young (less than 100,000 yr) stars that were discovered in infrared images in 2003. Two older (but still young, a couple of million years, by the standards of stars, which live for billions of years) stars are present in a small, circular cavity in the head of the globule. Winds from these young stars may have emptied the cavity.
The combined action of the light from the massive star ionizing and compressing the rim of the cloud, and the wind from the young stars shifting gas from the center outward lead to very high compression in the Elephant's Trunk Nebula. This pressure has triggered the current generation of protostars.
Taken over 7 nights in Bortle 6 conditions
288 x 300 Second exposures totalling 24 hours of integration time.
30 flats
30 darks
Mount - EQ6R Pro
Camera - ZWO 2600MC cooled to -10c
Filter - Optolong L Ultimate
Telescope - WO GT81V with 0.8 Reducer
ZWO ASIAIR, ZWO Auto Focuser, ZWO Mini Guide scope and Mono Camera
Processed in Pixinsight
The Milky Way Rises into the night sky at Bodie Island Lighthouse in the Cape Hatteras National Seashore.
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 screens 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.
Turns out my new photo setup takes amazing black background pictures. May have to build more white spaceships.
The interstellar medium fills the ‘empty’ space between the stars in our galaxy. It is a mix of molecular clouds, cold and warm gases, regions of electrically charged hydrogen, and more.
Molecular clouds are the densest part of the interstellar medium, holding most of its mass in the form of hydrogen gas. ESA’s Herschel space observatory has revealed that many are built around filaments, with dense threads snaking throughout each cloud. These filaments potentially transport material, and, when massive enough, are known to form new stars.
This Herschel image shows the Serpens Core, the heart of a giant molecular cloud. The Core is the bright clump towards the upper right, with a more diffuse secondary cluster, named Ser G3-G6, shown at the bottom right. Also visible as a faint yellow glow towards the upper left of the frame is a region known as LDN 583 that shines brightly in the far-infrared.
Giant molecular clouds contain up to 10 million times the mass of the Sun, and can stretch for hundreds of light-years. Compared to the rest of space they are dense, holding up to a thousand atoms per cubic centimetre – and even more in star-forming regions. However, these properties are relative: even at their densest, these clouds are more than 10 times emptier than the best laboratory vacuums we can produce on Earth.
These giant clouds are complex formations, most often made up of filaments mixed with clumpy and irregular folds, sheets and bubble-like structures. A typical spiral galaxy like the Milky Way can contain thousands of them, accompanied by many of their smaller relatives.
Serpens is an ideal target for scientists wanting to know more about giant molecular clouds, because it lies just 1400 light-years from us. Scientists compared Herschel’s observations of this cloud to a state-of-the-art simulation to find out more about the cloud’s properties, and to test the accuracy of their model.
They discovered a radial network of filaments stretching throughout the Serpens Core, filaments that are predicted to break and fragment to form the cores of new stars. These filaments resemble the spokes of a wheel, with the Core forming the hub.
This three-colour image is made from observations with Herschel’s PACS camera (blue and green) and SPIRE camera (red). The size of the region shown is 1.7x1.9º on the sky, where 1º corresponds to about 25 light-years.
Credit: ESA/Herschel/PACS/SPIRE/V. Roccatagliata (U. München, Germany)