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Imagine a shock wave racing through interstellar space. This is what you are looking at. Herschel’s Ray is a sheet of glowing gas that we see almost edge-on from our vantage point. The structure contains many bright intertwined braided filaments giving a three-dimensional look. You can find this beautiful object near the Vela Pulsar in the constellation Vela. At an estimated distance of 800 light years away, and about 5 light years in length, its size is within the grasp of most amateur astrophotographers. The shockwave is moving through interstellar space at over 500,000 kilometres per hour. After the initial explosion, it was travelling in the millions of kilometres per hour range. I guess we all slow down in time.
Traditional broadband imaging of this area reveals some lovely dark voids, a range of colourful stars, and a lovely teal colour not present in many celestial objects. Narrowband filters reveal strong emissions that may not be seen clearly with RGB imaging. My intent was to merge the interesting features from both imaging domains into one, and attempting to retain a colour space similar to that found in traditional RGB imaging.
When I look at the final result, I was pleased with the intermixing of reds and blues at the bottom left of the image. It looks to be glowing and appears to have a three dimensional quality like the main target of the image. The data was pushed fairly hard in an attempt to reveal the background dark voids against a curtain of stellar dust. Hopefully, I didn't introduce to much noise. Herschel’s Ray is an incredible structure racing across the cosmos.
Instruments Used:
10 Inch RCOS fl 9.1
Astro Physics AP-900 Mount
SBIG STL 11000m
FLI Filter Wheel
Astrodon Lum, Red, Green, Blue Filters
Baader Planetarium H-alpha 7nm Narrowband-Filter
Baader Planetarium OIII 8.5nm Narrowband-Filter
Exposure Details:
OIII 87X1800
Ha 58X1800
Lum 52X900
Red 16X450
Green 16X450
Blue 16X450
91.5 Hours
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The Milky Way Rises into the night sky at Bodie Island Lighthouse in the Cape Hatteras National Seashore.
Turns out my new photo setup takes amazing black background pictures. May have to build more white spaceships.
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.
The Colonial Viper could not stay alone in the interstellar space.
So here is the Cylon Raider UCS, scaled to fit the Colonial Viper.
The model is made of 3253 genuine LEGO parts, for a total length of 66,5cm (83,1 studs) and a width of 45,0cm (56,3studs).
Custom lighting provided by Brickstuff (www.brickstuff.com/) and UCS sticker by Ultimate Collector Stickers (www.ultimatecollectorstickers.co.uk/).
Instructions are available starting Feb. 2nd 2018 (326 pages pdf, with fully detailed step-by-step instructions).
Part lists for the Raider and its stand are available here:
Raider: rebrickable.com/users/davdup/lists/20658/
Stand: rebrickable.com/users/davdup/lists/20712/
Enjoy!
David
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)
In the garden the only sound was the birds. Time seemed to move slowly when she was there... she moved slowly, peace washed through her... timeless. Interstellar 🌺
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Dollzone Jocelyn wearing Strega
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This is my parents garden, I go there most weekends and sometimes annoy my mother by taking a doll with me. This tree flowered so quickly, I wasn’t expecting it at all but was glad I’d brought Stellar with me last weekend. It was raining a little but she didn’t mind 🌸
She came and presented herself to us.
She’s beautiful but moving away from us.
The under currents are changing but I’m too distracted by her beauty to notice.
267/365
I've posted the complete series and it's story on Bored Panda
Taken in Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia
This is what happens when the sun is at the right angle. I love the metallic texture of this wall and I have been trying to take a good photo of it for a while. I could never get something good until this day when the sun is at the right angle. It's a little hard to tell but the wall is not flat, hence the peculiar light.
It's called Interstellar because my friend said it reminds her of Interstellar. Don't ask me why she thought that. I couldn't think of a name for this so there you go.
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This is an interpretation of one of Yayoi Kusama's works displayed in Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane: 'Soul under the Moon'
Milky way and a shooting star. But what's the bright smudge close to the shooting star? Another galaxy?
You got Bugs in Space? No Problem! We got the Space Bugs for all your Interstellar Bug Problems. If Bugs are Bugging you, Bug us! Do it now!
You'd be shortchanging yourself if you didn't occasionally glance upwards while in Lower Manhattan's Financial District. Like here in this shot, deep in the canyon somewhere between towering One WTC (left), The New York Academy of Sciences (right) and the Verizon Corporate office in the centre, you could probably see the stars. It was partly cloudy, so I missed out!
Look for it at Getty Images
CROP Interstellar comet Borisov taken remotely on Jan 04 , 2020 from Tiny , Ontario Canada using big T31 PlaneWave 20 "inches - 0.51 m telescope with FLI-PL091000 CCD camera in Siding Spring Observatory in Australia. Full resolution frame 3056 x 3056 /9.3 Megapixels/,Comet brightness 16,5 mag
one of the 1600 transmission towers of the new 900km EnergyConnect grid, which connects the renewables superproducer regions of mid-north south australia to new south wales and northern victoria
( my 174th image to make ‘explore’ )
This is a framing of the Scutum Starcloud in the Milky Way, with the bright and rich Wild Duck Cluster, aka Messier 11, embedded in the Starcloud at upper left. The smaller open star cluster M26 is at bottom centre; while the globular cluster NGC 6712 is at lower left, with the small green planetary nebula IC 1295 visible beside it to the left. The area is a study in contrasts between the rich starclouds of the Milky Way and the dark lanes of interstellar dust. The most prominent and densest of those is at upper right, Barnard 103. At top is B110. The general regime of interstellar dust in the region yellows the starfields.
The field of view is about 7.5° by 5°.
This is a stack of 7 x 4-minute exposures with the Sharpstar 61mm EDPH Mark III refractor and 0.75 Reducer for f/4.4, and the Canon 6D DSLR camera at ISO 800, all on the ZWO AM5 mount autoguided with the ASIAir Mini, as part of testing the configuration. Taken on June 24/25, 2023 during the brief hour or so of semi-darkness on a very clear night near summer solstice from my latitude of 51° N.
I saw this bug on a car window. When I saw the image on the computer I liked the effect and to me it looks as if it is in space.
This bug is genus Riptortus, a pod-sucking true bug, with piercing and sucking mouthparts.
Body length 20 mm.
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Interstellar
The Geminid Meteor Shower is my favorite night out haunt & yet is such a big deal breaker...You know, it falls on our marriage anniversary. Being out the entire night, alone as you might have guessed it, is a big No-No, if I want to stay happily married & yet such are the magnetic powers of these interstellar meteors, that in spite of them falling on almost the same anniversary days, every year I keep a date with "The GMS," with many electoral promises given to my better half.
Geminid meteor shower is not just one shot but a wholesome experience. I reached around sundown & after a 40 minutes hike up the steep incline with my twenty-two kgs of equipment, pitched the tent on top of the Don Hill Station, which now is reckoned as the second highest hill of Gujarat. The shooting began at twilight & lasted till three in the morning. It was one real frigidly cold & windy night with the tent promising to blow away any time but it was one awesome experience. To creak your neck up & see these frequent streaks of magical light radiate from the Gemini constellation & dash all over the sky brought a childlike exuberance. Each shooting star as otherwise called in a layman's parlance, made me cross my fingers & make me wish that I'd not skip my anniversary next year to photograph this again! B|
Wishful thinking!
Happy Anniversary Neha! :)
This photograph is a composite image of ten images taken during the whole shower.