areg:

Wernher von Braun by the F-1 engines of the Saturn V first stage at the US Space and Rocket Center

NASA

alanfriedman:

Nephelococcygia

It’s the long way of describing our love for seeing likenesses in the shapes of clouds. If you are bitten by this bug and find yourself with a solar telescope, watch out. The fantastic plumes of hydrogen plasma we call solar prominences seen at the edge of sun will tempt you to identify them in earthly forms. I once set out to classify a bunch and this was the result. A Yeti, a bonsai, Don Quixote, the angel that fell to earth… there’s even one that looks like me or did, when I wore a goatee. Click on the picture to see the big version from my website. Each image there is a hot link to a little bit of averted imagination. Enjoy!

andrewgreene:

Composite image from the new ALMA radio telescope. One part of the image is 75 million light-years away.

discoverynews:

The Weather On Other Planets

We might be inclined to believe that the weather on Earth is sometimes less than hospitable to the life that inhabits it.

But compared to other planets, stars and bodies in the cosmos, the weather on Earth is downright mild.

In fact, the storms on this tiny brown drawf located approximately 47 light-years away blow any earth storm away.

Here’s a look at the weather on planets and galaxies near and far.

approachingsignificance:

This is a real image taken by the robotic spacecraft Cassini of Saturn eclipsing the sun (via).

Amazing.  There is a little blue dot on the left side of the image just above the bright main rings.  That is Earth, approximately a billion miles away.

Not psychology related, just an incredible image.  Click for high resolution to see Earth.

discoverynews:

Martian Life’s Last Stand

If there was life on Mars, scientists may have found its final resting spot.

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thedailyfeed:

A NASA satellite the size of a bus will hit the Earth sometime this afternoon - and scientists have little to no idea where it will land. 

The latest projections last night were that the defunct NASA satellite would tumble to Earth from space sometime this afternoon, but because the satellite is free-falling, the space agency and the U.S. Air Force cannot make a precise prediction about when and where it will hit.

The 13,000-pound Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, or UARS, was about 115 miles above Earth yesterday. It had been slowly falling back to the planet since it completed its mission in 2005.

Measuring 35 feet long and 15 feet in diameter, the satellite was launched into orbit aboard the space shuttle Discovery in September 1991 to study ozone and other chemicals in the Earth’s atmosphere.

discoverynews:

NASA’s Asteroid Mission in the Sea

NEEMO will send a six-person team to an underwater laboratory near Key Largo, Florida, to “field test” new technologies for a possible manned mission to an asteroid in the future.

discoverynews:

Happy Birthday, H.G. Wells.

Here’s a look at how Wells’ fictional visions became 21st-century reality.

For one, the title of one of his books foretold one of the greatest technological achievements in the history of humankind: landing men on the moon.

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