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[xabre]

So no one tried Celestia? Light years ahead of google earth's sky feature.

http://www.shatters.net/celestia/download.html

Here's some pics I got from it -

 

[AndersTheSwede]

Speaking of inflatable space craft:

Bigelow Aerospace's Genesis I inflatable prototype in space.

Full-scale mock-up of their production model the BA 330.

What they eventually want to do with the BA 330.

 

[RiZ III]

What makes deep space pictures truly awesome is that they are literally images of the past. Thousands or millions of years in the past. How cool is that? Beyond words I say. Now if they could just warp a satellite millions of light years away from earth and then takes pictures of the earth.... ::head explodes::

 

[Forceatowulf]

Wow, our planet is like really beautiful. We truly take Earth for granted.

 

[Windu]

So no one tried Celestia? Light years ahead of google earth's sky feature.

http://www.shatters.net/celestia/download.html

Ha, cool thanks.

Pics from it:

ISS

Moon

Hubble

Mars

 

[dark_chris]

Bizarre Object Found Circling Star

That is so awesome. =D

 

[Windu]

Click for High Res


Click for High Res


Click for High Res

 

[Thai]

Damn it people !!!

I've changed my desktop 4 times today already....

oh an a nice picture from APOD from me

GALACTIC GOATSE!!

 

[Hootie]

Whoa.

 

[Windu]

Whoa.

Whoa indeed. What is that?

 

[dark_chris]

GALACTIC GOATSE!!

I can't unsee it now! :lol :lol
You bastard!

 

[Tr4nce]

I came across an image of the Carina Nebula in a picture book called "The Universe 365 Days"...

8,000 light years away the Carina Nebula is giving us the finger :lol

I'm sorry about this question, because I'm a real space fanatic too (everyone in this thread should download Stellarium right now), but is that a hand giving us the middle finger on the left side of the pic?

 

[Hootie]

Whoa indeed. What is that?

I found it on NASA's website, heres a description:

This is a composite image of N49, the brightest supernova remnant in optical light in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The Chandra X-ray image (blue) shows million-degree gas in the center. Much cooler gas at the outer parts of the remnant is seen in the infrared image from Spitzer (red). While astronomers expected that dust particles were generating most of the infrared emission, the study of this object indicates that much of the infrared is instead generated in heated gas.

The unique filamentary structure seen in the optical image by Hubble (white and yellow) has long set N49 apart from other well understood supernova remnants, as most supernova remnants appear roughly circular in visible light. Recent mapping of molecular clouds suggests that this supernova remnant is expanding into a denser region to the southeast, which would cause its asymmetrical appearance. This idea is confirmed by the Chandra data. Although X-rays reveal a round shell of emission, the X-rays also show brightening in the southeast, confirming the idea of colliding material in that area.

Image credit: NASA/CXC/STScI/JPL-Caltech/UIUC/Univ. of Minn.

 

[Tr4nce]

This picture is so important to me, for some reason. I could gaze for hours at the stars or look for hours even weeks non-stop at this picture, but I will never be able to understand it. I don't know how to explain it, I just can not comprehend. All the people you know, all the people you have ever heard of live on that blue planet in this picture. I just cab't understand.

Sometimes when I lie in bed, I picture myself lying in bed from above and them zoom out to some sort of space view and the only thing I can think of is how small we are in all that space, all that universe. Again, I can never fathom it. All of this is so awesome. We can NOT be alone, it's just against all odds. There MUST be something out there.

 

[Hootie]

This picture is so important to me, for some reason. I could gaze for hours at the stars or look for hours even weeks non-stop at this picture, but I will never be able to understand it. I don't know how to explain it, I just can not comprehend. All the people you know, all the people you have ever heard of live on that blue planet in this picture. I just cab't understand.

Sometimes when I lie in bed, I picture myself lying in bed from above and them zoom out to some sort of space view and the only thing I can think of is how small we are in all that space, all that universe. Again, I can never fathom it. All of this is so awesome. We can NOT be alone, it's just against all odds. There MUST be something out there.

Well said my friend, and yes, the idea that we're alone in the ENTIRE UNIVERSE? That's just absurd and ignorant. "The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence". Solar systems, stars, galaxies; they are all just so far away that the chances of us ever meeting an intelligent alien species is one in a trillion, but that in no way means they are not out there, possibly looking for us just as we are looking for them.

That would be so strange to meet a completely alien species...imagine the cultural differences, how much different they'd likely look...and how hostile they are. I'm banking on that if we ever do by some chance come in contact that it'll be like Mass Effect and we'll just integrate ourselves into the others. :lol

 

[Nooreo]

I love space!
a cool wallpaper for a cool topic

 

[Windu]

Apollo 11

 

[Hootie]

I've actually had that "Deep Space" photo as my desktop since last summer, it's really awesome:

Sometimes I just end up staring at it for long periods of time, just amazed and awe-struck.

 

[DrForester]

It's mean, but I love this photo because while they were smart enough to send a man to the moon, no one thought planting a flag 20 from the LEM's accent engine was a bad idea and the flag was blown over when they launched.

 

[Windu]

It's mean, but I love this photo because while they were smart enough to send a man to the moon, no one thought planting a flag 20 from the LEM's accent engine was a bad idea and the flag was blown over when they launched.

:lol I wonder if they got it right all the other times.

 

[DrForester]

:lol I wonder if they got it right all the other times.

They did.

 

[Windu]

Article

 

[fallout]

APOD is kind of cool today ... SUPERNOVAS!



http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080118.html

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

Pale Blue Dot

Watch, contemplate!

Thank you so much for that. I've watched it a few times now. Best video I've seen in a while.

 

[AndersTheSwede]

It's mean, but I love this photo because while they were smart enough to send a man to the moon, no one thought planting a flag 20 from the LEM's accent engine was a bad idea and the flag was blown over when they launched.

Was it actually blown over? From the video I've seen it was blasted around, but managed to stay upright.
Weird that I would care, but it its rather symbolic.

 

[professor_t]

Say VY Canis Majoris exploded... how long would it take until we felt the affects and Earth was destroyed? or would Earth ever be destroyed by something exploding that far away?

At that distance, me passing gas would have a greater impact on you.

 

[professor_t]

i inserted some outlines. wow, i mean, it looks like the solhouette of en elf

I thought you were drawing the Cloverfield monster . . .

 

[Alfarif]

At that distance, me passing gas would have a greater impact on you.

Please keep your gas to yourself then.

I'm still lurking in here... it's on my work browser, my home browser, and if I had a cellphone, it'd be the home page on that. LOL

 

[Alfarif]

I thought you were drawing the Cloverfield monster . . .

Oh you mean

Spoiler

Godzilla? Let's use it's original name please. Thanks.

 

[Fuzzery]

Actually statistics are hugely in favor of life existing out there. Chance are, in the billions of trillions of star systems that exist out there, and over the billions of years that the universe has existed, there are planetary conditions which are/or have been nearly identical to pre-life earth's. This isn't even counting the possibility of other forms of life, or our kind of "life" arising under different conditions.

 

[Alfarif]

Weren't there some bacterium found on Mars that weren't carbon-based? Or am I confusing that with some fiction book I read?

 

[Fuzzery]

Weren't there some bacterium found on Mars that weren't carbon-based? Or am I confusing that with some fiction book I read?

Nope. There's been much speculation, however, and circumstantial evidence seems to suggest it. But I mean, if life occured on GODDAMN MARS, just 1 planet away from us, imagine what's happened out there in the rest of the galaxy.

 

[C.Dark.DN]

Nope. There's been much speculation, however, and circumstantial evidence seems to suggest it. But I mean, if life occured on GODDAMN MARS, just 1 planet away from us, imagine what's happened out there in the rest of the galaxy.

Yeah. When it comes to life in other galaxies, they try to think of the odds of another planet being the exact distance from the sun that earth is somewhere out there. But if there is life on mars, then that widens the possibilities.

 

[C.Dark.DN]

Someone complie a list of the best space movies. I gotta watch this shit and daydream now.

 

[VaLiancY]

Man, I'm sleeping good today. All of these images floating in my head, I can't have nothing to spoil (creep Saturn sound gtfo) it cept' I won't be able to see it with my own eyes. But its good enough I got sight to see it in these awesome pictures with some incredible insight and information. May this thread live on strong.

 

[Ogni-XR21]

Great thread! I wasn't clicking on it until now because I thought it was about some TV show.

So much to catch up...

 

[Lost Fragment]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=0Ztl8CG3Sys

Neat

 

[Stridone]

Someone complie a list of the best space movies. I gotta watch this shit and daydream now.

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Sunshine

 

[Shiver]

This may be of interest to some people in this thread.

Burt Rutan: Entrepreneurs are the future of space flight

"In this passionate talk, legendary spacecraft designer Burt Rutan lambastes the US government-funded space program for stagnating: "Houston, we have a problem. We're entering a second generation of no progress." He calls for entrepreneurs to lead the next wave of space exploration, funding new crafts, new (manned) missions, and entirely new approaches to space exploration."

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/4

 

[mr_nexus]

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Sunshine
3. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

 

[Danne-Danger]

Spoiler

1. Sunshine
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey

Oh and watch Futurama.

 

[AndersTheSwede]

Sorry but I thought Sunshine was pretty bad. Don't go into it expecting it to be as good as 28 days later, but its not even close. There are much better sci-fi movies to spend your time on.

 

[Stridone]

Sorry but I thought Sunshine was pretty bad. Don't go into it expecting it to be as good as 28 days later, but its not even close. There are much better sci-fi movies to spend your time on.

I found it quite overwhelming myself. It's really a "hate it or love it" movie, though.

 

[AndersTheSwede]

I found it quite overwhelming myself. It's really a "hate it or love it" movie, though.

I suppose I can see that.

For me though the weird Sun fetishes (why would someone like that be chosen for the most important crew in human history?), and then the devolving into an Event Horizon-style horror film just made me roll my eyes.

A decent movie, but IMO no where near one of the "greats" of sci-fi.

 

[Blablurn]

Man, I'm sleeping good today. All of these images floating in my head, I can't have nothing to spoil (creep Saturn sound gtfo) it cept' I won't be able to see it with my own eyes. But its good enough I got sight to see it in these awesome pictures with some incredible insight and information. May this thread live on strong.

SILENTO WALL!

 

[saelz8]

Etna Erupting

 

[Mama Smurf]

Apologies if any of these have been posted:

Helix Nebula

Helix Nebula (infrared)

Vela Supernova Remnant

Carina Nebula (can anyone else see the balrog just to the upper right of the centre?)

Aurora Australis

 

[asa]

Amazing pictures Quellex and Mama smurf! keep 'em coming everyone!

 

[Sallokin]

Olympus Mons - Tallest mountain/volcano in the Solar System

Valles Marineris

Not sure if either of those are real, but they really are nice looking IMO.

 

[HotByCold]

Olympus Mons - Tallest mountain/volcano in the Solar System

We should terraform Mars asap.