Bollocks.

ohmysagan: Please be my house.

Sun, 13 Jan 2013 08:51:18 -0500

Please be my house.

infinity-imagined: City lights photographed from the...

Sun, 13 Jan 2013 08:51:08 -0500

City lights photographed from the International Space Station and Neurons imaged with fluorescence microscopy.

Source images; Cities (1) (2) (3) (4) (5), Neurons (1) (2) (3) (4) (5)

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Thu, 10 Jan 2013 20:54:24 -0500

introspectivebeat: NASA took a picture of Earth just to prove...

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 20:53:53 -0500

introspectivebeat:

NASA took a picture of Earth just to prove it’s still here.

"It’s bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They’re not. They’re just..."

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 20:52:50 -0500

“It’s bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They’re not. They’re just variations of the same love. Variations of the same desire to be close.”

- David Levithan (via dopatonin)

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Tue, 18 Dec 2012 15:58:59 -0500

n-a-s-a: The Nebular Blob in N214C Credit: ESO

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 17:35:52 -0500

n-a-s-a:

The Nebular Blob in N214C

Credit: ESO

jesusmanero: c/ jessus n se brinca

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 17:35:40 -0500

jesusmanero:

c/ jessus n se brinca

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jtotheizzoe: moderation: NASA’s Unprecedented Science Twins...

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 20:23:47 -0500

jtotheizzoe:

moderation:

NASA’s Unprecedented Science Twins are GO to Orbit our Moon on New Year’s Eve

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In less than three days, NASA will deliver a double barreled New Year’s package to our Moon when an unprecedented pair of science satellites fire up their critical braking thrusters for insertion into lunar orbit on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day.

NASA’s dynamic duo of GRAIL probes are “GO” for Lunar Orbit Insertion said the mission team at a briefing for reporters today, Dec. 28. GRAIL’s goal is to exquisitely map the moons interior from the gritty outer crust to the depths of the core with unparalled precision.

“GRAIL is a Journey to the Center of the Moon”, said Maria Zuber, GRAIL principal investigator from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge at the press briefing.

This newfound knowledge will fundamentally alter our understanding of how the moon and other rocky bodies in our solar system – including Earth – formed and evolved over 4.5 Billion years time.

After a three month voyage of more than 2.5 million miles (4 million kilometers) since launching from Florida on Sept. 10, 2011, NASA’s twin GRAIL spacecraft, dubbed Grail-A and GRAIL-B, are now on final approach and are rapidly closing in on the Moon following a trajectory that will hurl them low over the south pole and into an initially near polar elliptical lunar orbit lasting 11.5 hours.

(via universetoday)

GRAIL is a really exciting project to map the interior of the moon by detecting tiny gravitational differences and relating those to interior structure. They call it a “CT scan for the Moon”.

Here’s a superb video from NASA detailing the mission, why there’s a pair of satellites instead of one, and what they hope to learn:

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Wed, 28 Nov 2012 04:08:15 -0500

n-a-s-a: Bright Jupiter in Taurus Image Credit &...

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:41:02 -0500

n-a-s-a:

Bright Jupiter in Taurus

Image Credit & Copyright: Tunç Tezel

n-a-s-a: A Galaxy Full of Surprises — NGC 3621 is bulgeless but...

Thu, 22 Nov 2012 18:10:30 -0500

n-a-s-a:

A Galaxy Full of Surprises — NGC 3621 is bulgeless but has three central black holes

Credit: ESO

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