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NASA image captured September 26, 2011
Many aurora appear green, but sometimes — as in this image from the International Space Station — other colors such as red can appear. The colors depend on which atoms are causing the splash of light seen in the aurora. In most cases, the light comes when a charged particle sweeps in from the solar wind and collides with an oxygen atom in Earth’s atmosphere. This produces a green photon, so most aurora appear green. However, lower-energy oxygen collisions as well as collisions with nitrogen atoms can produce red photons -- so sometimes aurora also show a red band as seen here.
Karen Fox
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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This is a shot from back in June when Bry and I took a trip down to central Utah to explore the desert and find some interesting places to shoot the Milky Way. It seems like each night we were down there we had incredible airglow, sometimes overwhelming in the images we took. We found this interesting wind blown rock formation with lots of little nooks and holes eroded in a petrified sand dune, so we decided to put some small LED light balls in the holes to add an interesting light element to the shot. Clouds starting rolling in as I was taking my sky pictures, typical, but the airglow was so intense you can barely see the Milky Way anyways. All in all a cool place to shoot with a beautiful night sky to match.
Interplanetary Cruiser
A “big” Lego space cruiser I have built this week. You might notice that the shape is quite unusual:
==> The main structure is obtained with bent 32x16 blue base plates as you can see in the picture if you zoom in on the front or the rear part of the spaceship.
In addition to an original shape this technique provides a very robust design. Something you really appreciate during the building and when you have to manipulate/move the model.
I love the New Space Police CMF (although not the accessories so much). The design and printing is incredible. I felt inspired to create a few riffs on the figure.
The Space Needle is an observation tower in Seattle, Washington, a landmark of the Pacific Northwest, and an icon of Seattle. It was built in the Seattle Center for the 1962 World's Fair, which drew over 2.3 million visitors, when nearly 20,000 people a day used its elevators.
Captain Rochelle "Rocky" Jones in the cargo hold of the Federation Scout Ship Edward D. Wood Jr
Takara Cy Girls Aurora action figure
M78 - A reflection nebula in Orion
System details:
Location: Murrindindi shire, Victoria, Australia
Telescope: AG Optical Systems 0.3 meter iDK,
Focal length 2121 mm
Camera: mono FLI ML16200 with a Loadstar X2 on an Astrodon MOAG off-axis guider.
Adaptive Optics: SXV-AO-LF
Observatory: Scopedome 3M
Acquisition software: Voyager
Plate size: 44' x 35'
Lum filter 126 x 2 minutes 2x2 binned
RGB filters 40 x 2 minutes each 2x2 binned
210x297 mm - Black Fine Ball Pen on Paper
Original ink drawing on Paper. 210x297 mm © Marco Falchi 2008.
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A rocket pilot asked me on a voyage to go
And I was so romantic, and I couldn't say no
That he was just a servo robot how was I to know?
So I did, I did, I did