Brilliant graphic of the great lunar cycle. #awesome
I can’t begin to describe how wonderful this illustration is. Bonus – you can buy it as a print!
By Aaron Thong.
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Tag: astronomy
March 9, 2012
OMGspace! Freakin’ cool posters!
Do check out this site of posters that highlight space exploration. It is aptly named.
By designer Margot Trudell.
February 29, 2012
Awesome animated gif of a physics blackboard
Can’t find out the source for this (do let me know if you know).
February 20, 2012
Today’s “Whoa…” A tornado on the Sun.
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This footage was caught over a 30 hour period on February 7th and 8th.
…The tornado might be as large as the Earth itself and have gusts up to 300,000 miles per hour. By comparison, the strongest tornadoes on earth, F5 storms, clock wind speeds at a relatively paltry (though incredibly destructive) 300 mph.
Via NPR.
February 19, 2012
The Universe: An awesome poster
by Mike Gottschalk. This and other astronomical scale posters for sale at society6.com
January 16, 2012
Beautiful vintage illustration of clusters, nebulae and comets. #want
I would pay some serious money for this print. Does anyone know what book it came from?
January 5, 2012
This dude strongly pushed the existence of intelligent Martian Canals. His initials also influenced the naming of Pluto.
Science history rocks! This is a picture of Percival Lowell. More at his wiki entry.
December 5, 2011
3 month ultraviolet time lapse image of the sun. #amazing
“This video is a complete time-lapse video of the Sun spanning the entire months of September, October and November 2011 as seen through the SWAP ultraviolet instrument onboard the European Space Agency spacecraft Proba-2 (PRoject for OnBoard Autonomy).”
You can also see the slowed down YouTube version (also awesome).
November 14, 2011
This is Cape Canaveral.
Awesome image by Miroslav Sasek:: via flickr.com
November 9, 2011
Tycho Brahe gets put in his place. #funny #sciencehistory
From the talented Kate Beaton, who has a number of wonderful pieces concerning greats in scientific history: so much so that I feel compelled to create a new popperfont category (science history). Oh yeah, and here’s the wiki link to Tycho Brahe if you’re curious (the assumption is that you know who Kepler is already, right?)
October 20, 2011
Our Future in Space
This is a great panel on the topic of the next steps in NASA’s space program (and other space/astrophysics programs generally). It’s long, but it’s always fun to watch Bill Nye and Neil deGrasse Tyson duke it out.
TAM Panel – Our Future in Space from JREF on Vimeo.
October 7, 2011
Powers of Ten. Like Star Wars, the original version is still the best.
I remember seeing this in elementary school and thinking, “Whoa…” The remarkable thing is that it is still awesome.
October 5, 2011
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. #greatquote
Via “What Do you Care What Other People Think?” by Richard Feynman.
October 2, 2011
Pluto: power up?
First: the context – “Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope discovered a fourth moon orbiting the icy dwarf planet Pluto. The tiny, new satellite – temporarily designated P4 — was uncovered in a Hubble survey searching for rings around the dwarf planet.”
Next: the funny: (although note that technically, number of moons don’t actually have anything to do with “planet” designation)
Via Defective Yeti.
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