“Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.”
Star Formation in Orion
The nebulae are cavities lying in the dark surrounding dust clouds. Even in Spitzer’s infrared vision the dust is mainly dark. The two nebulae is better known as Messier 78 and can easily be seen using a small telescope just to the northeast of Orion. Blue at 3.6 microns, green at 5.8 and 8 microns, and red at 24 microns.
(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
Van Gogh’s Where The Wild Things Are
Praça das Flores - Nova Petrópolis, Rio Grande do Sul.
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“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
Tom Araya, Slayer - american thrash metal, also called death metal. harnessing the ESP LTD TA-600
“We will always be so much more human than we wish to be.”
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Solar Eclipse, May 20th, 2012.
遙望 Missing (by samyaoo 山姆搖)
Read the rest at http://theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla! Apparently tumblr has max height for posts. Ew.
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Crowdsourcing the Hunt for Potentially Dangerous Asteroids
Image: Faulkes Telescope, Hawaii. Credit: ESA
What’s the best way to look for potentially hazardous asteroids? Get as many eyes on the sky as you can. That’s the impetus behind a new partnership between the European Space Agency and the Faulkes Telescope Project, which will encourage amateur astronomers to look for asteroids, as well as providing educational opportunities that will allow students to discover potentially dangerous space rocks, too.
Top Ten Infrared Space Pictures
1. Helix Nebula. A newly expanded image of the Helix Nebula (pictured) is one of the ten infrared pictures chosen by scientists to celebrate the thousand days that the Spitzer Space Telescope has been working past its retirement date. Image courtesy J. Hora, HSCfA, W. Latter, Herschel, and Caltech/NASA
2. Mountains of Creation. An infrared photograph of the star-forming region W5, aka the Mountains of Creation (pictured), was taken before Spitzer’s coolant ran out. Image courtesy L. Allen, HSCfA, and Caltech/NASA
3. See-Through Sombrero. At visible wavelengths, the Sombrero galaxy is a fuzzy white ball encircled by a black-rimmed ring of dust. Yet in infrared (pictured), the dust glows with splendor. Image courtesy R. Kennicutt, U. Arizona, and Caltech/NASA
4. Cygnus Constellation. This close-up of the Cygnus constellation was the very first picture taken after Spitzer ran out of coolant in 2009. Image courtesy Caltech/NASA
5. Trifid Nebula. One of the more striking objects in the visible-light sky is the Trifid Nebula.Image courtesy J. Rho, SSC/Caltech/NASA
6. Ancient Galaxies. Spitzer is widely known for its see-through views of nebulae, the Milky Way, and nearby galaxies, but it was also designed to peer back in time-possible because of the time it takes light to travel from distant objects to reach Earth. Image Courtesy Spitzer Space Telescope
