#Space
See NASA’s MESSENGER Bid Earth Adieu.
NASA’s MESSENGER is their mission to study the surface of Mercury. However back in 2005 as it hurtled away from good old planet Earth, it took a series of photographs. Intrepid researchers have since then stitched those photographs together to make a rather pretty farewell video.
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The Moon Goes Rainbow In Sexy Surface Study.
You may think that the Moon is some boring ass rock lingering above us. Threatening to smash us down like innocent whelps as though we were living in Majora’s Mask. You’d be wrong! There’s a lot of shenanigans populating the Moon’s surface. This colorized NASA image shows the differences in surface composition.
Hubble Celebrates Neptune’s First Birthday.
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We’re all celebrating Neptune’s first birthday here on Earth. You know, since we discovered it. We have that habit, us humans. Deciding that when we find something that’s existed that it’s some sort of achievement. Anyways, to celebrate Neptune’s first birf-day, Hubble dropped some pictures to celebrate.
Today Is The First Anniversary Of Discovering Neptune! In Neptune Years.
Happy birthday! Or something. Today marks the first anniversary of us intrepid human beings discovering Neptune. First anniversary…in Neptune years.
The Triangulum Galaxy Is A Faint Cosmic Swoon!
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The Triangulum Galaxy is the second-closet spiral galaxy to our own, and yet we can barely see the son of a gun. What’s the reasoning behind that? Our boy (or gal!) the Triangulum Galaxy is small, only half the size of our own Milky Way. Due to that, its light is faint, and gets washed out in the night sky.
BSG Composer Bear McCreary Scored the Shuttle Launch
That’s all she wrote, ladies and gentlemen.The curtain closed on America’s greatest achievement yesterday with the final shuttle launch in U.S. history. I was about 11-10 miles away and it was hard not to get emotional as the Atlantis disappeared behind the cloud line; leaving behind an enormous trail of exhaust and history in its wake. And my god, the sound wave. It took about one minute for the sound wave to hit and once it did, it shook me something fierce. But what I wish I was hearing at the time of launch was Bear McCreary’s “Fanfare for STS-135.”
Space Shuttle Atlantis Takes Off For The Final Time. Sadness Time.
Today the Space Shuttle Atlantis broke through the sky for the final time. Taking with it the hopes and dreams of millions of space-loving dorks like myself. Silently wondering just when the fuck we’re going to get up there again, take exploring the Universe seriously once more.
Watch A Comet Streak Across The Sun’s Surface. A Glorious Burning Death.
NASA’s Solar Dynamic Observatory caught a comet locked into a path across the Sun’s surface on July 5 or 6 of this year. It’s a glorious descent into death, providing us entertainment whilst it surely screamed to itself in pure horror. Right?
Hit the jump to check it out.
Storm Wraps All The Way Around Saturn. Friggin’ Amazing.
Most Water In the Universe May Come From Young Stars’ Erupting Geyers.
Scientists have observed a proto-star shooting water from its poles. This type of righteous action may continue on for thousands of years, and could account for most of the free-floating water in our good old Universe.
