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Solar Eclipse From Space Shows Moon Reversing Direction. Wut?
This video of the solar eclipse is rad for several reasons. For starters, you can see some pretty righteous magnetic activity on the Sun’s surface. The Sun is spittin’ like a mad dragon, fiery hotness! Also, it features an optical illusion wherein the Moon appears to enter the scene, and then somehow, reverse direction.
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Sunflower Galaxy Is A Spiraling Beauty.
Bioluminescent Star Trail Photography Is Ocular Porn.
New Proof Earth Life Came From Space. Sick.
Knock knock! What’s that? Oh, it’s just new evidence that life on Earth may have been carried to our glorious Marble by some fucking runaway asteroid. The concept of this happening is either enough to give you a Carl Sagan boner, or to point at the sky and say, “Yes, something is definitely up there.”
California Gets Its Own Nebula; Swank and Cosmic.
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Oh shit! Just when you thought that California couldn’t be any more out of touch with reality, the son of a bitch has taken to the cosmos. The California Nebula, or if you want to call it by its slave name, NGC 1499, is straight-up chilling out in Orion’s Arm, in our own goddamn galaxy. We’re famous!
Saturn’s Moon Rhea Takes A Beautiful Picture; Dione Isn’t Shabby Either.
Check Out Discovery’s Launch From An Airplane. Perspective ++
The Space Shuttle Discovery took its final journey off of this this giant blue-skinned rock on Thursday. All us dorks peeped the launch in a variety of manners, but I sure hadn’t seen it like this. NeilMonday on YouTube was in an airplane when he caught the beauty in motion. It’s a different perspective than I’m used to catching these launches at, and I’ll be goddamned it isn’t gorgeous.
Look at that scrapheap of ingenuity that us humans cobbled together. Sometimes we’re capable of some pretty impressive shit.
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Yo, The Pisces Constellation Got Itself Some Weird Galaxies.
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Behind the stars that form the Pisces constellation, there’s some flamboyant galaxies. When you’re in (relatively, but of course everything is relative) close proximity to a total famous constellation, you’re going to have to do things to stand out. Right? Right!
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Video Of An Enormous Solar Flare Erupting On The Sun; Solar Splooge.
The Sun’s fucking cranky these days. We’re in an increased period of solar activity, and one benefit for geeks like me is that it’s giving us a plethora of sun ejaculation flicks to enjoy. I mean, I like ejaculation videos as-is, but now we’re taking them onto a scale the size of the solar system? I vote yes.
The latest solar flare to rock our socks off occurred on February 24.
‘Sidereal Motion’; Video That Shows The Motion Of The Stars
A new video by José Francisco Salgado featured over at Bad Astronomy displays the beauty of sidereal motion. That fancy term is used to describe the movement of the stars in the night sky. As Phil Plait explains, it is “the apparent rising and setting caused by the rotation of the Earth. You don’t notice it second-by-second as you watch the sky, but over minutes and hours the inevitability of our planet’s angular momentum makes itself known.”
Ah, our perceptions. I can’t help but wish I was capable of perceiving the Milky Way rise across a night sky without the aid of time-lapse. But for now, this’ll do.
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