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This time-lapse shot from the International Space Station reveals the Milky Way as storms illuminate Africa below. The video is courtesy of the Crew Earth Observations group at NASA Johnson Space Center.
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Asteroid the ‘Size of a Minivan’ Exploded Over California
The source of loud “booms” accompanied by a bright object traveling through the skies of Nevada and California on Sunday morning has been confirmed: it was a meteor. A big one.
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A Gorgeous Time-Lapse of Lighting Storms Over Africa From Space
The world is beautiful, especially from a view like this.
Dutch Astronaut Brings Cheese To Space
Dutch astronaut André Kuipers got official permission to take a whole bunch of gouda with him when he heads up to the International Space Station for six months. Kuipers gets to take nine containers of bonus food and every single one of those babies is going to be packed full of gouda.
How to Spot Planet Venus in the Sky
Pictured above: The Moon and Venus shine in the skies of Cerro Paranal, home of ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT). Below them, the Milky Way glows crimson.
Here’s a nifty little guide courtesy of SPACE, detailing how you can spot planet Venus any time in night sky. It also specifies how it will look to the unaided eye or a telescope and why. Here’s an excerpt from the article I particularly liked;
When Venus is on the opposite side of the sun from us, it appears full (or nearly so) and rather small because it is far from us. But because Venus moves with a greater velocity around the sun than Earth, it gradually gets closer and looms progressively larger in apparent size; the angle of sunlight striking it as seen from our Earthly vantage point also appears to change as well.
Ultimately, as Venus prepares to pass between the Earth and the sun, it appears as a thinning crescent. And since, at this point in its orbit, it is nearly six times closer to us compared to when it was on the opposite side of the sun, Venus appears much larger to us as well.
They also provide a schedule of how Venus’ appearance will change during the coming months. Be sure to check out the guide in full details and don’t be shy to put it to use tonight or any other night!
(via scinerds)
A satellite designed to study the Earth’s weather and climate launched into space aboard a Delta II rocket early Friday.
(Photo credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls)
A time-lapse taken from the front of the International Space Station as it orbits our planet at night. This movie begins over the Pacific Ocean and continues over North and South America before entering daylight near Antarctica. (via phil)
the lightening storms in the clouds… favorite part.
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Space shuttle: History in the making - in pictures
Photograph: Nasa
We have brought together some of the iconic images from the space shuttle’s three decades of service. The pictures are not in chronological order but follow the typical course of a mission, recording the triumphs and disasters along the way
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This image of space shuttle Atlantis was taken shortly after the rotating service structure was rolled back at Launch Pad 39A, Thursday, July 7, 2011. Atlantis is set to liftoff today, Friday, July 8, at 11:26 a.m. EDT on the final flight of the Space Shuttle Program.
We also have a nice video retrospective of the shuttle program over at NPR.org. —Wright
In 1981, when the shuttle program was in its infancy, many thought it seemed unreal. Now, as Atlantis readies to take the program’s final flight, space enthusiasts are looking back at the 30 years as a golden chapter in human exploration.
(via alittlespace)
Discovery Lands for Final Time at Cape Canaveral: After a 13-day mission, NASA’s space shuttle Discovery landed in Cape Canaveral today for the final time. Discovery leaves behind a historic legacy, having made 39 space missions and travelling more than 148 million miles. It has carried nearly 250 crew members in the past 27 years
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A Discover blog pointed out this one-of-a-kind image of the moon, compiled from about 1,300 separate images taken over two weeks from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter’s wide-angle camera.
Discover calls it the highest resolution picture ever taken of the near side of the moon.
FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY On Valentine’s Day (ET) the Sun unleashed one of its most powerful explosions, an X-class flare. The blast was the largest so far in the new solar cycle. Erupting from active region AR1158 in the Sun’s southern hemisphere, the flare is captured here in this extreme ultraviolet image from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). The intense burst of electromagnetic radiation momentarily overwhelmed pixels in SDO’s detectors causing the bright vertical blemish. This X-class flare was also accompanied by a coronal mass ejection (CME), a massive cloud of charged particles traveling outward at nearly 900 kilometers per second. (Photo: APOD / NASA)
