Topic: Space - on August 22, 2013 at 2:44:00 PM CEST
Spectacular Video Captures Northern Lights in Real Time
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Topic: Space - on August 17, 2013 at 2:40:00 PM CEST
Incredible Footage Shows a Perseid Meteor Exploding
Personally, I’ve never seen anything like this, and photographer and digital artist Michael K. Chung said he couldn’t believe what he saw when he was processing images he took for a timelapse of the Perseid meteor shower. It appears he captured a meteor explosion and the resulting expansion of a shock wave or debris ring.
“It was taken early in the morning on August 12, 2013 from my backyard in Victorville, CA,” Michael told Universe Today via email. “The fade to white is NOT an edit- it is overexposure due to the sun coming up. From what I can tell, the timelapse sequence of the explosion and expanding debris span an actual time of approximately 20 minutes.”
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Topic: Space - on July 23, 2013 at 12:42:00 PM CEST
Ride with the Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn
This beautiful video shows a selection from more than 200,000 pictures taken by NASA’s Cassini as it has orbited in and among Saturn’s rings and moons over the past years. Fabio Di Donato posted it on Vimeo yesterday, as part of the celebration today honoring a new photo of Earth to be taken by Cassini today.
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Topic: Space - on July 22, 2013 at 5:36:00 PM CEST
This Is Earth From 900 Billion Miles Away
NASA's Cassini snapped this photo of Earth and the moon from 898,410,414 miles away as the spacecraft orbited Saturn on July 19.
Earth is the bright object near the center of the photo with the moon just below it. This is the "raw" unprocessed image that came directly from the Cassini spacecraft and onto the web. The Cassini imaging team will process the image, combining various filters and using both narrow-angle and wide-angle views of Earth. Their version will be released later Monday.
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Topic: Space - on May 3, 2012 at 9:44:00 AM CEST
Spy-High: Amateur Astronomers Scour the Sky for Government Secrets
As consumer telescopes and techniques improve, will there be implications for national security?
Earlier this year Iran's defense minister put the world on notice: His nation had developed the ability to "easily" watch spacewalking astronauts from the ground. The announcement was largely ignored, in part because it made the minister sound like a James Bond villain. The boast was also a bit anticlimactic, given that even amateur astronomers are already recording in detail what happens in low Earth orbit. Both the technology involved and the techniques used to observe satellites and even the occasional astronaut perched outside the International Space Station (ISS) are improving, much to the presumed chagrin of governments looking to keep certain on orbital activity confidential.
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Topic: Space - on April 7, 2012 at 7:29:00 PM CEST
Astronauts Snap 1 Million Photos from Space Station
Astronauts on the International Space Station have the ultimate 24/7 view of planet Earth, and the photo album to prove it: The shutterbug astronauts recently snapped the millionth photo from the orbiting lab.
The millionth photo from the space station is, not surprisingly, a view of Earth from one of the outpost's windows as the orbiting lab sailed 240 miles (386 kilometers) above the southeastern Tasman Sea. Two Russian spacecraft are also visible, along with a green band of aurora light and the Earth in the background.
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Topic: Space - on February 17, 2012 at 10:24:00 AM CET
Propaganda posters of Soviet space program 1958-1963
Several interesting posters of historical epoch
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Topic: Space - on December 17, 2011 at 9:44:00 AM CET
Awesome ISS Space-Timelapse in HD
Time lapse sequences of photographs taken by the crew of expeditions 28 & 29 onboard the International Space Station from August to October, 2011, who to my knowledge shot these pictures at an altitude of around 350 km. All credit goes to them.
HD, refurbished, smoothed, retimed, denoised, deflickered, cut, etc. All in all I tried to keep the looks of the material as original as possible, avoided adjusting the colors and the like, since in my opinion the original footage itself already has an almost surreal and aestethical visual nature.
Earth | Time Lapse View from Space, Fly Over | NASA, ISS from Michael König on Vimeo.
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Topic: Space - on December 15, 2011 at 10:12:00 AM CET
The Milky Way's black hole may spring to life in 2013
Quasars, the brightest objects we're aware of, are powered by the supermassive black holes that are thought to reside at the center of every galaxy. But many galaxies fail to feed their black holes enough matter, leading to a body that's quiet and difficult to detect. Our own galaxy's central black hole, called Sgr A*, falls into the latter category. We can detect it at wavelengths up to the X-ray range, but it's dim enough that we'd have a hard time spotting it if it weren't so close.
That may be about to change, however. Astronomers have spotted a cloud of gas with a mass about three times that of Earth that's on a trajectory that will have it pass close to Sgr A* in 2013. When it does, it may feed matter into the black hole's accretion disk, powering a sudden surge in Sgr A*'s output.
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Topic: Space - on September 24, 2011 at 11:48:00 AM CEST
Satellitenabsturz
Die NASA hat ihre Vorhersage zum Absturz des Erdbeobachtungssatelliten "UARS" erneut präzisiert. Statt wie noch bis vor Kurzem angenommen, wird der Satellit nicht in der Nacht von Freitag auf Samstag, sondern am Samstagmorgen in die Erdatmsphäre eintreten.
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Topic: Space - on February 3, 2011 at 1:00:00 PM CET
NASA finds 1000 possible new planets
Scientists with NASA's Kepler mission announced Wednesday that they had identified more than 1,200 likely new planets in the past year - a revolutionary development in the quest to understand what lies beyond our solar system.
This celestial bonanza represents more than a tripling of the number of known distant planets. It also includes a remarkable single system with at least six planets orbiting its sun - the most populated solar system found so far outside our own.
nasa.gov washingtonpost.com latimes.com voanews.com bbc.co.uk
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Topic: Space - on August 10, 2010 at 11:28:00 AM CEST
Excellent Perseid Meteor Shower Expected Aug. 11-13
Every August, just when many people go vacationing in the country where skies are dark, the best-known meteor shower — the Perseid meteor shower — makes its appearance.
The "shooting stars" promise to deliver an excellent show this year to anyone with clear and dark skies away from urban and suburban lights.
The best time to watch for meteors will be from the late-night hours of Wednesday, Aug, 11 on through the predawn hours of Aug. 13 – two full nights and early mornings. Patient skywatchers with good conditions could see up to 60 shooting stars an hour or more.
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