Finding Massive Gas - The International Year of Astronomy

Dublo7

I'd love to do a degree in Astronomy, but the job prospects aren't all that great.

Jedoc

Druhim wrote: »

get in mah butt jedoc

God, fine. Let me go find my snorkel and polyp tweezers.

Fishman

Usagi wrote: »

this is so cool

[hellishly cool image]

APOD wrote:

If every picture tells a story, this one might make a novel. The six month long exposure compresses the time from December 17, 2007 to June 21, 2008 into a single point of view. Dubbed a solargraph, the remarkable image was recorded with a simple pinhole camera made from a drink can lined with a piece of photographic paper.

Yes. Yes it is.

autono-wally, erotibot300

some meteor was visible from northern Germany last night
here's a video by a Swedish news source

Betelgeuse

Usagi and autono-wally, those are fucking awesome.

Jedoc

Damn, you guys. Today's APOD.

Spoiler:

I think Hyperion might be some sort of hive.

Usagi

that thing looks like a petrified sponge

Antimatter

Usagi wrote: »

that thing looks like a petrified sponge

Exactly my opinion.

Druhim

Jedoc that pic is awesome

Usagi

it is really cool, just makes me wonder how exactly it formed in the first place

Faricazy

aerial bombardment

Druhim

space bees

Usagi

we've found Bel's ancestral home

Fishman

We must meet this threat with our valor, our blood, indeed with our very lives to ensure that human civilization, not insect, dominates this galaxy now and always!

Faricazy

Usagi wrote: »

we've found Bel's celestial home

NotASenator

well played

Faricazy

Usagi

bravo fari

The Far Side

Usagi wrote: »

this is so cool

APOD wrote:

If every picture tells a story, this one might make a novel. The six month long exposure compresses the time from December 17, 2007 to June 21, 2008 into a single point of view. Dubbed a solargraph, the remarkable image was recorded with a simple pinhole camera made from a drink can lined with a piece of photographic paper.

The saddest thing about this is that the photographer's father died during the exposure, and he said "I can make out the position of the sun on the day my dad died"

autono-wally, erotibot300

tangentially related to astronomy, but still a fun read

If this doesn't blow your socks off, then Hogan, who has just been appointed director of Fermilab's Center for Particle Astrophysics, has an even bigger shock in store: "If the GEO600 result is what I suspect it is, then we are all living in a giant cosmic hologram."

This is good news for anyone trying to probe the smallest unit of space-time. "Contrary to all expectations, it brings its microscopic quantum structure within reach of current experiments," says Hogan. So while the Planck length is too small for experiments to detect, the holographic "projection" of that graininess could be much, much larger, at around 10-16 metres. "If you lived inside a hologram, you could tell by measuring the blurring," he says.

Weaver

I posted that in the junk science thread I think. Neato stuff

Veretas

HOLY FUUUUCK SPAAAAAAACE!

Space is so fucking cool my droogs

Veretas

LOOK AT THIS

HOLY FUCK

HOLLYY FUUUUUUCK

ISS006-E-26867 (16 February 2003) --- View of surface tension demonstration using water that is being held in place by a metal loop. Astronaut Donald R. Pettit, Expedition Six NASA ISS science officer, photographed these demonstrations for educational purposes. The experiment took place in the Destiny laboratory on the International Space Station (ISS).

Faricazy

oh my

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090116.html

The_Scarab

That is cool.

Weaver

Be awesome if you could see an astronaut looking back at you from a window

Mysst

Weaver wrote: »

Be awesome if you could see an astronaut's butt looking back at you from a window

NotASenator

Once we saw the ISS but it was a little blur through a crappy shakey telescope.

Usagi

Mysst wrote: »

Weaver wrote: »

Be awesome if you could see an astronaut's butt looking back at you from a window

THAT'S NO MOON

NotASenator

Oh god dammit Usagi.

<3

Usagi

it was either that or a something about the methane on Mars

I went for the sure bet

Sami

Druhim

Veretas wrote: »

LOOK AT THIS

HOLY FUCK

HOLLYY FUUUUUUCK

ISS006-E-26867 (16 February 2003) --- View of surface tension demonstration using water that is being held in place by a metal loop. Astronaut Donald R. Pettit, Expedition Six NASA ISS science officer, photographed these demonstrations for educational purposes. The experiment took place in the Destiny laboratory on the International Space Station (ISS).

The Far Side

carl sagan is my brostronomy bro

Faricazy

i wonder what i can see through the brolescope

The Far Side

Tau Ceti-Bro

also the left over junk from the Bropollo missions

Mysst

Druhim wrote: »

Veretas wrote: »

LOOK AT THIS

HOLY FUCK

HOLLYY FUUUUUUCK

ISS006-E-26867 (16 February 2003) --- View of surface tension demonstration using water that is being held in place by a metal loop. Astronaut Donald R. Pettit, Expedition Six NASA ISS science officer, photographed these demonstrations for educational purposes. The experiment took place in the Destiny laboratory on the International Space Station (ISS).

dru that is underwater. I know it's a bit confusing, but space is up, while the abyss stares back at you.

Faricazy

view of the presidential box from the LER:

Spoiler:

we're gonna have some hella cool footage of the moon from this thing

Clint Eastwood

When are they scheduled to put that thing on the moon anyway?

Faricazy

2020