About half of any spacewalk at the International Space Station is spent in complete darkness.
did-you-kno:
Some amazing pictures taken from space:
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thisdoesnotsuck:
Out & About in L.A.
If you’ve ever visited, you know you can see a lot of strange things here in Los Angeles…but how about a space shuttle rolling through your neighborhood. Going on right now, the 5-story space shuttle Endeavour is sloooowly traveling the streets of L.A. literally clearing homes, businesses, trees, and utility poles by inches, on it’s way to the California Science Center.
This Is the Most Detailed Image of the Universe Ever Captured
NASA has just published the most detailed view of the Universe ever taken. It’s called the Extreme Deep Field—or XDF for short. It took ten years of Hubble Space Telescope photographs to make it and it shows some the oldest galaxies ever observed by humans, going 13.2 billion years back in time.
It’s a mindblowing, extremely humbling view. Not only for what it shows, but for what it doesn’t show. While this image contains about 5,500 galaxies, it only displays a tiny part of the sky, a ridiculously small slice of the Universe.
Time lapse images of Earth at night taken from the International Space Station.
“It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small” - Neil Armstrong
lights-camera-and-rowling:
rawsexting:
Top photo from “Mars” Curiosity. We, of course, have seen that photo 30 years ago in Star Wars.
I just screeched.
theresafoxinmyteacup:
seashelllz:
mcgarrsworld:
Earth, Jupiter and Venus from the skyline of Mars!
incredible.
my heart feels like it’s going to explode. oh my god, this is absolutely incredible.
inkystars:
artsnletters:
thisdanobrien:
codyjohnston:
Breathtaking.
I hope people don’t stop giving a shit about this in a week or two.
This is what Mars looks like. Hey everyone, this is what Mars looks like. We didn’t know this yesterday.
WOW.
Holy fucking shit that’s amazing
Jupiter and its moons Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, and the Earth’s moon all caught in the same photo.
jumpingjacktrash:
allons-ytobakerstreet:
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Time lapse images of Earth at night taken from the International Space Station.
god this planet is fucking beautiful
always reblog forever.
Holy crap the last one, you can really see the Great Wall from space!
amazziiingg
Earth is so beautiful omg.
reblog forever.
woah the lightning storm in the second last panel is amazing
Fucking amazing and so pretty :3
let’s just… send this around tumblr one more time.
![thescienceofreality:
I’ve gotten a similar ask before, which I will copy & paste below, and be adding to. I’m making this rebloggable because I’m sure it will be useful for those of you who need good sources besides just Google/Wikipedia, but don’t know where to look! I compiled a list of good and reliable sites to get information, and constant news update, not only for super science geeks but beginners as well. We’ll start with simple things first.
This list contains basic sites that you’ll definitely want to add to your bookmarks.
This is a list of annual meteor showers on Stardate.org.
Current Moon Phases.
Astronomy on Knoji.
Web Syllabus from Dept. of Physics & Astronomy from the University of Tennessee.
Hubble Telescope site.
NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day.
Astronomy.com - A wonderful magazine online.
Science Daily’s Astronomy News.
A free Introduction to Cosmology.
NASA Science Astrophysics site.
NASA Science directory.
European Southern Observatory online.
European Space Agency online.
Science Daily’s Astrophysics News.
Astronomy Cast online.
A list of more ‘educational’ sites. [x]
A great site from Cornell University’s Astronomy department. Just enter a keyword, or question in the search box, for an easy to understand definition or answer at Ask an Astronomer.
Astronomy Picture of the Day: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
AP of Day (Archives): http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html
Earth and Sky: http://www.earthsky.com/
StarDate: http://stardate.utexas.edu/
Violence in the Cosmos: http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/guidry/violence/index.html
Search Violence in Cosmos: http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/guidry/violence/search_violence.html
The Nine Planets: http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/
Planetary Pictures: http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/picturelist.html
SEDS Galaxy of Images: http://www.seds.org/galaxy/
SEDS Messier Catalog: http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/messier/
Views of the Solar System: http://www.hawastsoc.org/solar/homepage.htm
Abrams Skywatcher’s Diary: http://www.pa.msu.edu/abrams/diary.html
Sky Events: http://www.kalmbach.com/astro/astronomy.html
Sky & Telescope Bulletin: http://www.skypub.com/news/news.shtml
Space Calendar: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/calendar/calendar.html
Astronomy Lecture Notes: http://www.astronomynotes.com
Network Resources: http://www.hq.eso.org/online-resources-paper/rrn.html
Dewey Decimal: http://www.tpl.toronto.on.ca/TRL/astronomy/index.html
AstroWeb: http://fits.cv.nrao.edu/www/astronomy.html
The Astronomy Cafe: http://www.theastronomycafe.net
Astronomy Homework Help: http://members.aol.com/gca7sky/astrohelp.htm
Astr Pict of Day Education Links: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/lib/edlinks.html
Marshall Space Sciences Home Page: http://science.msfc.nasa.gov
Hubble Space Telescope Public Information: http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/
STARBASE: http://www.ph.surrey.ac.uk/astrophysics/
Happy exploring & expanding. If you need any help, or have any questions, my ask is always open!](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m50b03QXXq1r39hw6o1_500.png)
thescienceofreality:
I’ve gotten a similar ask before, which I will copy & paste below, and be adding to. I’m making this rebloggable because I’m sure it will be useful for those of you who need good sources besides just Google/Wikipedia, but don’t know where to look! I compiled a list of good and reliable sites to get information, and constant news update, not only for super science geeks but beginners as well. We’ll start with simple things first.
This list contains basic sites that you’ll definitely want to add to your bookmarks.
A list of more ‘educational’ sites. [x]
Happy exploring & expanding. If you need any help, or have any questions, my ask is always open!
