NASA's Flying Lady with Long Distance Eyes, SOFIA
NASA has many telescopes in play, optical or otherwise, in a variety of different forms. We have the Hubble Space Telescope that peers into the celestial bodies in several ways, we have ground-based...
View ArticleThe Large Magellanic Cloud
Hey, wanna see something ridiculously beautiful? This image is of a really young star cluster called R136 – scientists think that it's only a couple of million years old (you know, only), and lives...
View ArticleJax's Link-O-Rama: Goose Crap Edition
Light isn't always a glamorous business, it's true. Sometimes you gotta get dirty. Photo belongs to MistyDays. Pretty, no? Excellent breakdown of the lighting for a sunset beach photoshoot, goose...
View ArticleWhat A Fun… Unusual Cosmic Blast!
Have you seen the news stories about this "unexplained cosmic blast" that NASA's Swift Satellite captured a few weeks ago? NASA scientists have been checking out this crazy monstrous gamma ray...
View ArticleLaser Powered Broadband? In Space? Wait. What?
Ok, there is something very interesting taking place with NASA this month. On September 23, NASA decided to approve three projects that are being called "Technology Demonstration Projects." A...
View ArticleThe ISS Presents The Light Friday Fantastic
My friend Jules posted this I think yesterday — a bunch of images from Don Pettit, flight engineer aboard the International Space Station. Not regular ol' images of life in space or anything, nay....
View ArticleHurricane Sandy – New York and New Jersey Blackout Satellite Images
This is really unfortunate and pretty telling as to the power and fury of Mother Nature – the Earth Observatory at NASA has published images, both before and after, of the East Coast where Sandy came...
View ArticleWe Can't Stop Asteroids from Smashing Humanity into Powder
With a headline like that, one would think this would be bigger news than anything Kim Kardashian might produce, even trumping what color baby bib little cranky monkey Justin Bieber might be wearing...
View ArticleGood Morning Inspiration! Berlin, from Space, at Night, from Colonel Chris...
Good morning, Earth! An awesome piece of inspiration this morning from Canadian Colonel Chris Hadfield, Commander of the International Space Station. Col. Hadfield took a photo of Berlin at night from...
View ArticleAmazing Vintage Black and White NASA Project and Facilities Photos
Guide vanes in the 19-foot Pressure Wind Tunnel at Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, form an ellipse 33 feet high and 47 feet wide. The 23 vanes force the...
View ArticleThinking of You, Shuttle Challenger Crew
Mission patch for the failed mission, STS-61, of shuttle Challenger, on January 28, 1986 It was this day back in 1986 that we said hello and goodbye to the crew of the shuttle Challenger (OV-099) as...
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