Fuck Yeah The Universe

This is so calming to me.

moon--moth — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 02:34:16 -0400

This is so calming to me.

infinity-imagined: The Sun completes one rotation every 25...

moon--moth — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 22:31:53 -0400

infinity-imagined:

The Sun completes one rotation every 25 days.

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moon--moth — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 19:36:34 -0400

pappubahry: Eruption of the Tvashtar volcano on Jupiter’s moon...

moon--moth — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 18:45:47 -0400

pappubahry:

Eruption of the Tvashtar volcano on Jupiter’s moon Io, photographed by New Horizons, 1 March 2007, during its gravity-assist Jupiter flyby on its way to Pluto. I’ve brightened the pictures so that some detail on the darker part of Io is clearer.

The gif covers about 8 minutes of real time. If you count pixels and look up Io’s diameter, it looks like the plume’s “only” being thrown up to an altitude of 200km or so. But in fact the volcano is in the opposite hemisphere to the one we see here (albeit at a high latitude of about 67 degrees), and the plumes are reaching a height of over 300km.

There is much more detail about this volcano at the Gish Bar Times blog.

heavymuffintop: full moon in libra

moon--moth — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 04:03:22 -0400

heavymuffintop:

full moon in libra

we-are-star-stuff: This seems relevant today.

moon--moth — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 15:26:02 -0400

we-are-star-stuff:

This seems relevant today.

infinity-imagined: Earth seen by the Messenger spacecraft

moon--moth — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 00:37:27 -0500

infinity-imagined:

Earth seen by the Messenger spacecraft

pappubahry: Earth, photographed by Galileo after its first...

moon--moth — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 00:49:53 -0500

pappubahry:

Earth, photographed by Galileo after its first gravity-assist flyby of the planet.

infinity-imagined: The actual distance between the Earth and...

moon--moth — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 00:49:14 -0500

infinity-imagined:

The actual distance between the Earth and the Moon.

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moon--moth — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:36:58 -0500

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moon--moth — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 03:13:40 -0500

Pluto’s currently named moon is Charon. In Greek...

moon--moth — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 16:28:00 -0500

Pluto’s currently named moon is Charon. In Greek mythology, Charon or Kharon is the ferryman of Hades who carries souls of the newly deceased across the rivers Styx and Acheron that divided the world of the living from the world of the dead. A coin to pay Charon for passage, usually an obolus or danake, was sometimes placed in or on the mouth of a dead person. Some authors say that those who could not pay the fee, or those whose bodies were left unburied, had to wander the shores for one hundred years. [x]

Help Name the Moons of Pluto

moon--moth — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 16:16:00 -0500

Help Name the Moons of Pluto:

Images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2011 and 2012 revealed two previously unknown moons of Pluto. So far, we have been calling them “P4” and “P5”, but the time has come to give them permanent names. If it were up to you, what would you choose?

By tradition, the names of Pluto’s moons come from Greek and Roman mythology, and are related to the ancient tales about Hades and the Underworld.

Ground Rules: Feel free to come back, but please do not vote more than once per day, just so everybody gets a fair chance to make their opinion known. We will take your votes and suggestions into consideration when we propose the names for P4 and P5 to the International Astronomical Union (IAU). Voting ends at noon EST on Monday, February 25th, 2013.

Go vote and reblog!

Asteroid 2012 DA14, set to make its closest approach to Earth on...

moon--moth — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 20:25:42 -0500

Asteroid 2012 DA14, set to make its closest approach to Earth on Feb. 15, is captured in early images from Australia.

Meteorite hits Russian Urals

moon--moth — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 20:13:00 -0500

Meteorite hits Russian Urals

This series is on Netflix, it’s really great, go check it...

moon--moth — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 14:51:15 -0500

This series is on Netflix, it’s really great, go check it out!

capturedphotos: 8 Minutes of the Earth’s Rotation How I wish...

moon--moth — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 14:49:55 -0500

capturedphotos:

8 Minutes of the Earth’s Rotation

How I wish our planet’s movement was this apparent while staring at the night sky. It could probably make a lot more people realize just how tiny we are compared to this vast unexplored galaxy above our heads.

This is a stack of 70 pictures with a 5 second exposure each at ISO 3200 and f/2.2.

Photographed by: Paolo Nacpil

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moon--moth — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 06:24:52 -0500

mydarkenedeyes: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer - Flatsun (2011) This...

moon--moth — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 21:09:06 -0500

mydarkenedeyes:

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer - Flatsun (2011)

This interactive installation is a circular display that simulates the turbulence at the surface of the sun using mathematical equations. The piece reacts to the presence of the public by varying the speed and type of animation displayed. If no one is in front of the piece, the turbulence slows down and eventually turns off. As the built-in camera detects people, more solar flares are generated and the sun shows more activity. The piece consists of custom-made panels with 60,000 red and yellow LED lights.

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moon--moth — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 21:07:12 -0500