Stralucirea verde al apusului

Cati dintre voi au vazut verdele unui apus de soare?

Planetary Resources - Asteroid mining

Mai multe informatii: http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/04/25/how-planetary-resources-can-make-a-profit/

Pagina proiectului:http://www.planetaryresources.com/

Space Station Blues

Turul statiei spatiale internationale (ISS) si putina muzica.

Mars rover "Spirit" - intreaga misiune

La sfarsit se impotmoleste in nisip. Acolo este blocat si acum.

How far away is the moon?

Numarul de planete din galaxia noastra estimat

Scientists have estimated the first cosmic census of planets in our galaxy and the numbers are astronomical: at least 50 billion planets in the Milky Way.

At least 500 million of those planets are in the not-too-hot, not-too-cold zone where life could exist. The numbers were extrapolated from the early results of NASA's planet-hunting Kepler telescope.

Kepler science chief William Borucki says scientists took the number of planets they found in the first year of searching a small part of the night sky and then made an estimate on how likely stars are to have planets. Kepler spots planets as they pass between Earth and the star it orbits.

So far Kepler has found 1,235 candidate planets, with 54 in the Goldilocks zone, where life could possibly exist. Kepler's main mission is not to examine individual worlds, but give astronomers a sense of how many planets, especially potentially habitable ones, there are likely to be in our galaxy. They would use the one-four-hundredth of the night sky that Kepler is looking at and extrapolate from there.

Borucki and colleagues figured one of two stars has planets and one of 200 stars has planets in the habitable zone, announcing these ratios Saturday at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual conference in Washington. And that's a minimum because these stars can have more than one planet and Kepler has yet to get a long enough glimpse to see planets that are further out from the star, like Earth, Borucki said.

Tot articolul: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_sci_cosmic_census

Cum s-ar vedea planetele daca ar fi la ceeasi distanta ca si Luna?

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si "explicatia" video:

Scale from Brad Goodspeed on Vimeo.

Prima poza clara a unei planete extrasolare

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This photo taken by Gemini Observatory's adaptive optics system in infrared light shows the star 1RSX J160929.1-210524 and its likely ~8 Jupiter-mass planet(dot at upper left). The extrasolar planet is touted as the first directly photographed.Credit: Gemini Observatory

In acest moment va uitati la o planeta din alt sistem solar de 8 ori mai mare decat Jupiter.
Se afla la 500 de ani lumina ceea ce inseamna ca ce vedem noi acuma s-a intamplat pe 29 iunie 1510.

Tot articolul: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/first-alien-planet-photographed-confirmed-100629.html

Universul cunoscut

Fullscreen si HD obligatoriu

La soare te poti uita

No, these photographs weren't taken by an astrophysicist or whipped up in a special-effects lab. Photographer Larry Alvarez takes these pictures of the sun in his backyard using a camera, a telescope, and some homemade gear. With some tips from Alvarez, you can build your own solar telescope camera, too.

Galerie: http://io9.com/325082/solar-eruptions-captured-by-diy-astronomer

Cat e ora? (acum 1000 de ani)

Cum se vede galaxia noastra

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Toate pozele acelea pe care le vedeti cu o galaxie spirala care zic ca asa arata galaxia noastra nu sunt poze ale galaxiei noastre (din motive evidente). Poza de mai sus este prima poza completa a galaxiei noastre privita de pe Terra spre centrul galaxiei. A fost facuta din 3000 de fotografii individuale facute din diverse zone ale pamantului pentru claritate maxima.

Versiuni mai mari si toata povestea: http://home.arcor.de/axel.mellinger/

50 de ani de misiuni spatiale

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Tiny little world

Partea cea mai interesanta este de la 3:00

Saptamana trecuta pe luna

Poate nu stiati dar agentia spatiala japoneza are in orbita deasupra lunii o nava automata care are la bord of camera superHD (rezolutie 4k). Pana in acest moment este cea mai grozava camera care a fost trimisa pana la luna. It gets better! Sunt postate periodic fotografii si filme facute de nava:





Aceste filme sunt REALE nu sunt CGI

Din orbita pana pe pamant

Aterizarea navetei spatiale vazuta din interior:


Original Video - More videos at TinyPic

Canon papercraft models

Canon (da acel Canon) ofera o serie de modele de papercraft gratis. Acestea se downloadeaza ca PDF, se tipares pe hartie, se taie cu cutterul si se asambleaza in forme 3D. Ca o macheta.

Sursa: http://cp.c-ij.com/en/contents/1006/

Covorul in spatiu

Centrul galactic

Galactic Center of Milky Way Rises over Texas Star Party from William Castleman on Vimeo.