Several years worth of astronomy pictures with a brief description. Interesting if you have some time to kill. picked by Chimerical 8 months ago tags Stars Astronomy Picture Day Space |
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Well, from Wednesday.(check out the whole site) picked by Bornbad 7 months ago 0 comments edit related share science |
Fraser Cain of Universe Today and Dr. Pamela Gay of Slacker Astronomy have launched a new podcast called Astronomy Cast picked by Galoot 2 years ago 0 comments edit related share science |
This instructable will show you how to make a picture worth more than a thousand words (literally). 0 comments edit related share plime.comThis is a self portrait using the text of Thoreau's "Walden". PS. its not mine. picked by squirmster 1 year ago |
The imagination of the artist is just great. picked by cybour 1 year ago 3 comments edit related share arts |
In a CNN fluff/filler article, a professional star-gazer whines that a technology side effect is that "Some of the romance of astronomy is gone". Maybe they wouldn't have that problem if they took the time to stop and look at URANUS more often! picked by Moe 1 year ago 2 comments edit related share plime.com |
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An Iridescent Cloud Over Colorado 2 comments edit related share plime.comA relatively rare phenomenon known as iridescent clouds can show unusual colors vividly or a whole spectrum of colors simultaneously. picked by AutumnLotus 9 months ago |
The picture is of Europe and Africa when the sun is setting -- half of the picture is in night. picked by 1krazykorean 11 months ago 6 comments edit related share plime.com |
Everything you wanted to know about the night sky. Check out this month's activity in the cosmos. Astronomy for the media generation! "The medium is the massage." picked by Turtle 9 months ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
Picture a cool place, teeming with a multitude of hot bodies twirling about in rapidly changing formations of singles and couples, partners and groups, constantly dissolving and reforming. If you were thinking of the dance floor in a modern nightclub, think again. It's a description of the shells around dying stars, the place where newly formed elements make compounds and life takes off. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago 3 comments edit related share plime.com |
The AstroStar is ideal for astronomy or astrology fans, romantics, kids who’d appreciate a nightlight with a difference or anyone who wants to bring some starlight into their home. picked by MissWinkle 3 months ago 0 comments edit related share technology |
Huge image of Rosetta Nebula, as detailed in AutumnLotus' informative post here. So now you get a combination of the woo and the why. Teamwork. picked by pocksucket 8 months ago 5 comments edit related share plime.com |
Experts from high-ranking UK universities and research institutes expect that the first evidence of primitive alien life, such as microbes and vegetation, will emerge within 10 years, with more substantial finds following future space missions. picked by DrNothing 1 year ago 2 comments edit related share plime.com |
"A friend's granddaughter who works for NASA sent us these pictures - I am assuming the last picture is Hurricane Dean - I am going to drop her a note to make sure. Pictures from the past mission." picked by misswinkle 11 months ago 10 comments edit related share plime.com |
Astronomers think they’ve got a handle on how Sun-sized stars come together. But the formation of the largest stars - more than 10 times the mass of the Sun - still puzzle astronomers. 1 comments edit related share scienceNew observations may change that... picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago |
View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth in successive orders of magnitude until you reach a tall oak tree just outside the buildings of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida. After that, begin to move from the actual size of a leaf into a microscopic world that reveals leaf cell walls, the cell nucleus, ch... read full post picked by wags273 7 months ago 2 comments edit related share science |
This is astronomical picked by buddha 4 months ago 0 comments edit related share science |