The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars
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Cassini begins travelling in and out between Saturn and it's rings later this year taking pics and gathering data. http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160410.html
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Someone Is Watching Us... http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160412.html
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SurSteven:
Someone Is Watching Us... http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160412.html
The blue Iris is false color, no? Wow, the sun is shooting out some coronal solar flares!
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^ Do I have to read everything for you as well??? "Normally, this corona is hard to track far from the Sun, but the featured montage matches it to false-colored observations of the Sun from NASA and ESA's space-based, Sun-orbiting, Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). Observations like this allow the study of the constantly changing magnetic activity both near and far from the Sun, the same activity that ultimately drives Earth's auroras." Now, if the iris were medium green with yellow sunrays coming out from 360 degrees around the pupil...then they would be mine. It is an example how the patterns of nature are everywhere. Our earth has blue skies, blue oceans and green forests and brown earth as dominate colors...which also... are the 3 basic human eye colors.
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^ I thought that's what it said... just needed verification
SurSteven:
WLM A dwarf galaxy out in the lonely wilderness of our local super group of galaxies. Look at all of the new forming blue stars near the center and the older yellowish ones like ours in the periphery. You can click on the pic and zoom in. Beyond Amazing! http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1604/eso1610a_WLMgalaxy.jpg
Yes, not only is this Totally Amazing... it is sooooo incredibly, mind bogglingly, almost incomprehensibly magnificent... I was waiting until I could look at this on a computer, it wouldn't expand on the iPad. This went on the desktop... for times of worries, or just a reality check, in the scheme of things, they are minuscule, a drop of water on the Blue Blue Planet. Seeing this makes me think of being out with my Dad and us looking up to the heavens, and his pointing out constellations to me. Thanks for posting this!! Way Cool!!
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Do you see the Horsehead Nebula? This is so beautiful. http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160413.html Here's a better perspective with the constellation showing up when your curser rests over the photo. http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap101023.html This was always my favorite constellation when I was very young. I always was so mystified with the visible nebula in Orion. I guess many people on Earth, felt a tug towards this constellation!
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Orion is mentioned a lot in ancient folklore. Great stuff! Yes...I agree that it is pretty interesting how Stephen is now gung ho about heading to alpha centauri to photograph our galactic alien neighbors! Need to search more of the details on that! Very Cool! Here's a lot of good info on it! A postage stamp sized spacecraft chip with a "sail" that we "blow" to alpha centauri with an earthbound laser which will push it up to 20% of the speed of light. 134.2 million miles an hour!!! Way Cool!!!
Alpha Centauri...4.37 Light Years away... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_Centauri -
This is incredibly exciting news, isn't it!!! Far Out Here's a good video! http://www.livescience.com/54383-20-percent-light-speed-to-alpha-centauri-nanocraft-concept-unveiled-video.html
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love2travel:
This is incredibly exciting news, isn't it!!! Far Out Here's a good video! http://www.livescience.com/54383-20-percent-light-speed-to-alpha-centauri-nanocraft-concept-unveiled-video.html
Excellent L2T!!! That is the definitive vid to watch about it. It explains and clarifies everything!
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Heard on the news last night that dwarf planet Makemake in the Kuiper Belt has a newly discovered moon (by Hubble ST) orbiting it that is around 100 miles in diameter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makemake
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SurSteven:
Heard on the news last night that dwarf planet Makemake in the Kuiper Belt has a newly discovered moon (by Hubble ST) orbiting it that is around 100 miles in diameter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makemake
I think Jeff Lynne had that in his video Wondering how those stamps are going to navigate through that Kuiper Belt?
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love2travel:
SurSteven:
Heard on the news last night that dwarf planet Makemake in the Kuiper Belt has a newly discovered moon (by Hubble ST) orbiting it that is around 100 miles in diameter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makemake
I think Jeff Lynne had that in his video Wondering how those stamps are going to navigate through that Kuiper Belt?
You have me wondering now, what trajectory will be used for these space "chips"???
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Electric Universe http://www.holoscience.com/wp/ (I listened to his interview last night...pretty interesting ...not quite in agreement with his universe in a steady state beliefs, although) Contemplating The Sun http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160501.html
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Why didn't anyone warn us that we were passing through debris of Halley's Comet this weekend???
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SurSteven:
Why didn't anyone warn us that we were passing through debris of Halley's Comet this weekend???
Was going to warn you, but I figured you already knew about it!! Speaking of comets... a bit of a shocker...no more frozen iceballs! http://www.holoscience.com/wp/congratulations-rosetta-shame-about-the-science/
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Saw this painting from one of my fav painters Joan Mir? and it's named ?quinoxe, so thought I would post it here...
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^ Just saw last night that Stephen Hawking's show on PBS Wednesday May 18th is going to be called 'GENIUS' Heard this morning that Astronauts have put together a new IMAX film they are calling, "A Beautiful Planet" The images they showed were amazing!!!
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Mercury's transit today! http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160508.html
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SurSteven:
Mercury's transit today! http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160508.html
You beat me to it again!!! Well I just got home from work to find my neighbors great photo! End of the Transit of Mercury across the face of the Sun today, 09 May 2016. A rare event astronomically, last transit was in 2006. From the NJ Shore. http://i1316.photobucket.com/albums/t620/love2travel6/Beautiful%20World/image.jpg1_zps5zzixgqb.jpg He takes some amazing photos with his telescope, has met a number of astronauts and is very brilliant! The moon, by the way, was playing tricks with my vision, on the way home from work. Hope he gets a good photo of that too!
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^ Very Cool! Today's APOD is very beautiful! The Milky Way over a Quiver Tree Forest at what appears to be Dawn! Beautiful! http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160515.html