Posts Tagged ‘astronomy’
The Pale Blue Dot: The 2013 Cassini Edition
By Ben | photography, spaceOn 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, spaceThe Moon is approximately 1/2 a degree in diameter when you look at it from [&hellip
Earthquake Astrophotography Light Painting
By Ben | photography, science, spaceWhat 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, scienceGetting 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, sciencevia 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, spaceSo, 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, scienceI'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, Uncategorizedfrom 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, sciencefrom BBC Futurevia Information is Beautiful
All 786 Known Exoplanets (as of June 2012)
By Ben | Uncategorizedvia xkcd.com
Is Pluto a planet?
By Ben | Uncategorizedvia youtube.com
Measuring the Universe: How Astronomers Learned to Measure Distance
By Ben | Uncategorizedvia vimeo.com
Evolution of the Moon
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Makes me want to stare at the Sun...
By Ben | Uncategorizedvia apod.nasa.gov
Symphony of Science - Onward to the Edge!
By Ben | Uncategorizedvia youtube.com
Titan, Dione, Pandora, & Rings [pic]
By Ben | Uncategorizedvia blogs.discovermagazine.com That's so purrty. (Taken by the Cassini spacecraft)
Timeline of the Universe
By Ben | Uncategorizedvia okul8.com Zoom in for the details. There are crazy details
Solar System: A family portrait
By Ben | Uncategorizedvia microbot.ch
Crater Lake Under the Stars
By Ben | nature, photography, spacevia vimeo.com Beautiful time-lapse. Suddenly I have an urge to go West this winter
Milky Way vs. Other Galaxies
By Ben | Uncategorizedvia youtube.com
Acropoclipse: Lunar Eclipse over the Acropolis
By Ben | Uncategorizedvia blog.makezine.com