Címke: Pretty pictures

jún. 01
I’ve been to France once, and only for a short time (basically, driving across the Large Hadron Collider site which straddles Switzerland and France, and only then to eat at a restaurant). I’d love to go and spend more time… especially when I see as lovely a view of L’hexagone as this one: [Click to engrandenate.] C’est magnifique! C’est belle! It looks like a beach picture, the Moon s...
Megosztotta: Pozsi
márc. 02
Our planet is a weird place. I can imagine visiting Antactica, seeing nothing but white ice and gray rocks for days on end… but then, how would you react when you saw this? Yegads! That is a part of Taylor Glacier, specifically the Blood Falls , located in the dry valleys of Antarctica. Apparently, a lake was covered by the glacier about 2 million years ago, trapping the microbial lif...
Megosztotta: tarrask Xeus
dec. 02
If you’re in Chicago, then you might want to head over to the Adler planetarium today, when they unveil an enormous 2.5 billion pixel mosaic of the Galaxy ! It’s composed of 800,000 separate Spitzer Space Telescope images (I mean, c’mon, holy Haleakala, eight hundred thousand images!) stitched together. The image was actually released last year , but the ginormous print version is premiering a...
nov. 19
You know what "galaxy" means in Latin Greek, don’t you? Yeah, it’s Saturn, not the Milky Way, but still. That is made of awesome. I want to go to that coffee shop! Via Reddit .
Megosztotta: timelady paradisetossed
You know what "galaxy" means in Latin Greek, don’t you? Yeah, it’s Saturn, not the Milky Way, but still. That is made of awesome. I want to go to that coffee shop! Via Reddit .
Megosztotta: timelady paradisetossed
nov. 10
Let me show you something. And when I say "something", I mean something . See the red arrow, and where it’s pointing? That arrow is pointing to a place that changed humanity forever. You can divide all of history between the time before and the time after what happened where that arrow points. You see, that arrow is pointing to the spot, the very spot, where Neil Armstrong be...
Megosztotta: paradisetossed
okt. 30
This is very, very cool: The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, currently orbiting the Moon just 50 km off the surface, has taken more shots of the Apollo 17 landing site … and has seen the actual U.S. flag! Behold (and salute): [Click to boldly embiggen.] Well, lookit that! It’s fuzzy and small and hard to be sure it’s the flag in the picture, but there it is. It does match maps mad...
This is very, very cool: The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, currently orbiting the Moon just 50 km off the surface, has taken more shots of the Apollo 17 landing site … and has seen the actual U.S. flag! Behold (and salute): [Click to boldly embiggen.] Well, lookit that! It’s fuzzy and small and hard to be sure it’s the flag in the picture, but there it is. It does match maps mad...
Megosztotta: peter paradisetossed
okt. 16
A couple of days ago, the Netherlands and Germany were treated to a spectacular fireball, a very bright meteor burning up over their skies. Photographer Robert Mikaelyan was at the right place at the right time and got tremendous photos of the bolide: Wow! Click through to see the series; you can see the meteoroid breaking up as it slams through our air. Robert took beautiful shots, espe...
Megosztotta: paradisetossed
szept. 22
Not getting enough Holy crap! in your life? Then try this on for size: Holy crap! Oh yes, you definitely want to click on that to embiggen the heck out of it. This teeny 610 pixel wide version does nothing to give you the sense of awe and glory in this spectacular picture. The full size image is a whopping 7227 x 3847 pixels! Warning: you’ll lose an hour of your life gaping at ...
Megosztotta: peter
júl. 01
Via Ian O’Neill and Richard Drumm I have one more set of shots of the explosive plume from the Russian volcano Saraychev Peak… but oh, is this so worth it. It’s an animation made up of single images taken by astronauts aboard the ISS. Whoa. You really get a sense of how the plume is changing minute by minute, and the view of the lahars (mud and pyrioclastic flows) is truly fanta...
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Megosztotta: Pozsi
ápr. 09
I love love love 3D anaglyphs: those funny red/green images that, when you put on the red/green glasses, pop out of the screen. I’ve written about some space ones before , created by a user named LEM on an Italian space forum. Well, he’s made more, and they are totally awesomely cool. Slip on the bichromatic goggles and soak ‘em in. Like this one: duck! I love that the...
Megosztotta: peter

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