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Eagle Nebula’s Pillars of Creation
Here’s the “Pillars of Creation”… one of the most famous pics taken from the Hubble Space Telescope. The Pillars of Creation are a region within the Eagle Nebula where the birth of new stars takes...
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Extra-vehicular activity (Spacewalking)
Some of my favorite pictures are of American astronauts doing extra-vehicular activities (EVA’s) or spacewalks. They’re typically done in order to conduct maintenance on equipment in space (e.g....
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Shuttle Endeavour Liftoff
At 4:14am this morning, Space Shuttle Endeavour blasted off from Kennedy Space Center, FL. The shuttle is on a 13 day mission to the International Space Station, delivering a new module called the...
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Symphony of Science – Music Videos
I found the above video on Scott Hansen’s awesome BLOG and wanted to share it here. There are actually several more similar music videos on www.symphonyofscience.com. From that website: “The Symphony...
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The Universe – Season 4
The History Channel’s “The Universe” series has just come out with Season 4 on DVD. It comes out in stores in a few days, but you can order it online now. I ordered it a couple of weeks ago and I must...
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3 Remaining Space Shuttles
Atlantis is 1 of 3 remaining space shuttles in the soon to be ended shuttle program & is scheduled for it’s last launch on May 14th, 2010. Space Shuttle Discovery just had it’s 2nd to last launch...
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Extraterrestrial Lightning – Saturn
The Cassini Spacecraft left Earth in 1997 and about 7 years later reached Saturn. Since that time the spacecraft has been gaining new insights about the planet. The video above shows the first video...
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Hubble – 20yr Anniversary
It has been 20 years now since the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into orbit and since that time it has revolutionized our understanding of the cosmos. NASA has a lot of cool stuff going on to...
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Nasaimages.org
Check out these photos from nasaimages.org. From the site: “NASA Images was created through a partnership between NASA and the Internet Archive, a non-profit digital library based in San Francisco, to...
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World’s Largest Digital Camera
This telescope in Hawaii has recently had a digital camera installed that takes pics at 1,400 megapixels (or 1.4 gigapixels). That seems a bit more powerful than my Canon EOS 50D that takes pics at...
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Gliese 581g – Habitable Exoplanet
I thought this was pretty interesting and wanted to share this info… The following text is from http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/09/real-habitable-exoplanet/ After years of saying habitable...
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NASA Ornamentation
NASA put up a new photo set last month called ‘Ornamentation’. Above are a few pics from the set. Check out the rest of the set here along with descriptions and other facts. Filed under: Astronomy
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4th Dimension
The other night I was watching an episode of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos series where he discusses the 4th dimension. I found it very interesting and decided to post the segment (video 1 above) of the...
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Cassini Video
I love these images of the Saturn system. They’re put together in the above video by designer/director Chris Abbas. Check here for more of his work. Filed under: Astronomy, Astrophotography
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StarTalk Radio – Check it out
You know that famous astrophysicist, Neil Degrasse Tyson, right? Hi, I’m Neil. I was named the sexiest astrophysicist alive by People magazine in 2000. Seriously. If you’re not too familiar – he’s the...
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