"In 1912, Oskar von Miller, an electrical engineer and founder of the Deutsches Museum, had an idea: Could you project an artificial starry sky onto a dome, as a way of demonstrating astronomical principles to the public?"
Picture of the day: This wild-looking supernova remnant is nicknamed the Jellyfish Nebula. Supernovas produce some of the strangest objects in the night sky.
The image by astronomer Lóránd Fényes shows the dark cloud Barnard 344, which lies ahead of a larger complex called the Gamma Cygni Nebula, to which it is closely related. Dark clouds like Barnard 344 become visible when in front of bright objects, such as emission nebulae or dense star fields. These clouds contain a large amount of dust and..... #astronomy#space#astrophysics#astrophotography
The image by astronomer Lóránd Fényes shows the dark cloud Barnard 344, which lies ahead of a larger complex called the Gamma Cygni Nebula, to which it is closely related. Dark clouds like Barnard 344 become visible when in front of bright objects, such as emission nebulae or dense star fields. These clouds contain a large amount of dust and..... #astronomy#space#astrophysics#astrophotography
"While there are still hurdles to overcome and challenges to solve before LSST can deliver on its extraordinary promises, thankfully, dealing with tiny bits of space junk likely won’t be one of them."
#PPOD: As carbon dioxide frost sublimates with the warming Martian spring, a pattern emerges of dark brown sand dunes interspersed with the remaining bright frost. Image taken by the HiRISE camera onboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / University of Arizona
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The image is a crop from this 96° HFOV NAVCAM mosaic, from the same RMC (there is a reason I'm using RMC and NOT Sols; they tell location and attitude unambiguously):
Processed NAVCAM_RIGHT
looking WNW (300°) from RMC 52.2540
Sol 1148, LMST: 13:00:01
Wow 300 images captured by Curiosity to build a panoramic survey at her Sol 4175 location, ten days ago. This video show them at a rate of 10/second. It took about 50 minutes for the rover to complete this scan with her left mast camera.
With a lot of volcanoes, this new planet is hotter than the stars. (www.infoterkiniviral.com)
A team of researchers led by researchers at the University of California Riverside has launched a new member of the star system