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Posts Tagged ‘astronomy’

The Pale Blue Dot: The 2013 Cassini Edition

By Ben | photography, space

On July 19, 2013, NASA's Cassini spacecraft took images "using the red, green, and blue [&hellip

What Other Planets Would Look Like if they Were as Close as the Moon

By Ben | science, space

The Moon is approximately 1/2 a degree in diameter when you look at it from [&hellip

Earthquake Astrophotography Light Painting

By Ben | photography, science, space

What happens when you combine a long-exposure photograph of Jupiter and the Galilean moons with [&hellip

An Interactive Representation of Time

By Ben | art, infographics, science

Getting a sense of how long various lengths of time, especially the really big [&hellip

What are the odds a meteor will destroy a city?

By Ben | infographics, math, science

via BoingBoing by Per Square Mile

Exoplanets Are As Plentiful As Weeds

By Ben | infographics, science, space

"NASA's Kepler mission has already found more than 100 planets, along with strong hints of [&hellip

The Helical Model of the Solar System (is probably crap)

By Ben | science, space

So, I saw this beautiful & interesting GIF via the twitter: . Intrigued, I hunted [&hellip

Compilation of videos showing the shockwave from the Chelyabinsk Meteor

By Ben | nature, science

I'm assuming if your co-workers understand Russian this video is NSFW. Chelyabinsk Meteor Shockwave Compilation

A Flight Through the Universe, by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey - YouTube

By Ben | science, space, Uncategorized

from The Sloan Digital Sky Survey, animated Miguel Aragon with Mark Subbarao and Alex Szalay [&hellip

A beautiful take on the Drake Equation

By Ben | infographics, science

from BBC Futurevia Information is Beautiful

All 786 Known Exoplanets (as of June 2012)

By Ben | Uncategorized

via xkcd.com

Measuring the Universe: How Astronomers Learned to Measure Distance

By Ben | Uncategorized

via vimeo.com

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