An excellent example of astrophotography. From YouTube: The final mission of the space shuttle, captured 1.25 hours after sunrise. Tracked with an 8" LX200 Classic Schmidt-Cassegrain @ f/10 using Brent... continue reading
posted by critical_d 1 decade 3 years 2 months 1 week ago • 1,432 views • 1:48Astronomy Domine
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How could someone so bad at math be so interested in Astronomy?
From Youtube: An intimate tour, in 1080p, of Earth's most impressive landscapes as captured by astronauts with their digital cameras. Dr. Justin Wilkinson from NASA's astronaut team describes the special... continue reading
posted by Hive13 1 decade 3 years 4 months ago • 1,485 views • 7:01LiveLeak: Buzz Aldrin described the "Magnificent Desolation" of the lunar surface. Rarely do those words ring as true as in these recent images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Revel in the detail... continue reading
posted by mintbbb 1 decade 3 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 2,929 views • 3:33From the author Tom Guilmette: I captured this moonshot at Fenway Park this past summer using a Sony HDC-910 camera and a Canon 75x (700mm) image stabilized lens.
posted by critical_d 1 decade 3 years 5 months ago • 1,073 views • 45 secsDemo video for SpaceX Commerical Crew Development.
posted by critical_d 1 decade 3 years 5 months ago • 740 views • 1:32From MissCellania: Cady Coleman is a scientist, flautist, and an astronaut, currently aboard the International Space Station. In this video, she gives us the short version of what it's like to play music... continue reading
posted by Paul Richey (Fusionaut) 1 decade 3 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 3,306 views • 6:38The European Space Agency’s "Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer" (GOCE) satellite has produced the most accurate map ever of the Earth's distribution of gravity.
posted by arvana 1 decade 3 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 2,108 views • 48 secsThis week's Space Fan News Ted talks a bit about the images coming back from the Messenger program to Mercury and another recent image showing all of Kepler's finds. He ends with talking about how somebody... continue reading
posted by RFlagg 1 decade 3 years 5 months 4 weeks ago • 1,814 views • 3:59From Vimeo: I spent a week capturing one of the biggest aurora borealis shows in recent years. Shot in and around Kirkenes and Pas National Park bordering Russia, at 70 degree north and 30 degrees east.... continue reading
posted by Zifnab 1 decade 3 years 6 months 1 week ago • 3,705 views • 1:55lot of work in this short animation. Looks flawless, but the data was OFC raw when Cassini flew by Saturn in 2008
posted by marinara 1 decade 3 years 6 months 1 week ago • 407 views • 2:33Via APOD: One of the most spectacular solar sights is an erupting prominence. Two weeks ago, NASA's Sun-orbiting Solar Dynamic Observatory spacecraft imaged an impressively large prominence erupting from... continue reading
posted by dingens 1 decade 3 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 1,190 views • 16 secsNASA has released the first ever up-close, high-definition video of Kennedy Space Center's solid rocket booster (SRB) recovery ships retrieving SRB segments from the Atlantic Ocean following a space shuttle... continue reading
posted by saber2x 1 decade 3 years 6 months 1 week ago • 1,610 views • 10:41(5:30 FTW) Marina Abramović was born in 1946 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Since the beginning of her career, during the early 1970s where she attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade, Abramović has... continue reading
posted by bleedmegood 1 decade 3 years 6 months 1 week ago • 8,221 views • 13:03"awe-inspiring 30-minute video captured from Discovery's twin solid rocket boosters." from http://io9.com/#!5776978/watch-a-dizzying-video-of-the-discoverys-launch-from-the-perspective-of-its-rockets
posted by vaporlock 1 decade 3 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 1,800 views • 29:25Noah and the Whale, a London Street, and an overturned car. Great tune.
posted by taranimator 1 decade 3 years 7 months ago • 1,676 views • 3:18YT: Seeing the whole sun front and back simultaneously will enable significant advances in space weather forecasting for Earth, and improve planning for future robotic or crewed spacecraft missions throughout... continue reading
posted by theali 1 decade 3 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 4,140 views • 2:54as per youtube: Consider that a black hole has the same density as the earth if it was squashed down to the size of a golf ball. It's a difficult fact to comprehend and for a long time black holes... continue reading
posted by BoneRemake 1 decade 3 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 1,466 views • 2:11From Vimeo Here's an animation I did to make you feel small, and also convey the deep awe I feel at the feet of the Universe. While watching the video of the lunar eclipse I posted the other day... continue reading
posted by eric3579 1 decade 3 years 8 months ago • 5,000 views • 1:18