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nationalgeographicmagazine:

Stargazer, Lake Malawi
Photograph by Chris Cannucciari, My Shot
Lake Malawi, Africa. A stargazer looks into the endless cosmos as waves lap along a beach in Southern Malawi.

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Wow, thought it was a painting at first.

22 January 2012 • reblog: nationalgeographicmagazine • photos chris cannucciari africa stargazing malawi space

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milkywaymusings:

THIS is how child curiosity about space should be fostered. Simply amazing. Carl’s answer to the last question always gets me teary-eyed.

29 November 2011 • reblog: milkywaymusings • carl sagan cosmos space science kids

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STELLAR by Vladislav Solovjov

Allow yourself to be lured in by the deep, dark quiet that lives in our intergalactic unknown.

vimeo:

(via theantidote)

19 November 2011 • reblog: vimeo • space motion graphics animation vladislav solovjov

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sirmitchell:

Astronauts on the International Space Station captured these views of the aurora australis (“southern lights”) and wildfires in Australia in mid-September 2011.

Holy SHIT, this is unreal. I’ve watched it multiple times and I am still having a hard time believing it’s real. Wow. 

28 September 2011 • reblog: sirmitchell • earth wildfires aurora australis space nasa iss

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theartofanimation:

Megatruh

berangkat.

2 August 2011 • reblog: theartofanimation • digital art fantasy space ocean drawings

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dvdp:

International Space Station - in the tearful eye of the last space shuttle

20 July 2011 • reblog: dvdp • iss space gifs

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(via ulfdalir)

21 January 2011 • reblog: terroriss • gifs space

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dvdp:

solar eruption (2010-08-24)

8 October 2010 • reblog: dvdp • gifs space

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thedailywhat:

Lights Out: Time-lapse of the skies above Japan’s Iriomote Island on a (mostly) cloudless, moonless night.

[doobybrain.]

(Source: thedailywhat)

24 September 2010 • reblog: thedailywhat • videos time-lapse space

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For a commercial Toshiba sent an ultra-lightweight chair to the edge of space.

(via [Geeks Are Sexy])

16 November 2009 • videos commercials space

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Seti. VI by ~R3V4N

11 November 2009 • images digital art paintings space

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whatson:

lastchatwithphontaine:

Unveiling the true face of Betelgeuse

State of the art observations reveal a vast plume of gas almost as large as our Solar System, and a gigantic bubble boiling on its surface. This artist’s impression includes a scale in terms of the radius of Betelgeuse and the scale of the Solar System. Image: ESO/L. Calçada

Betelgeuse rides on the shoulder of the constellation known as Orion the Hunter. At 1,000 times the size of our Sun it is one of the biggest stars known and also one of the most luminous, emitting more light than 100,000 Suns put together. But such mightiness comes at a cost, for Betelgeuse will meet its fate in a spectacular supernova explosion at an age of only a few million years.

Giant stars like Betelgeuse shed the equivalent mass of the Earth every year, but the mechanism of how they do so is poorly understood. “We know relatively well how much mass supergiants loose, and how it ends up in the interstellar medium as planetary nebulae,” Pierre Kervella of the Paris Observatory tells Astronomy Now. “However, the mechanism of this mass loss is currently poorly understood, i.e. how physically the material escapes the gravitational field of the star.”

rest of the article at astronomynow.com

22 September 2009 • reblog: lastchatwithphontaine • images drawings graphs science space astronomy physics

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