Space thread

[Nangle]

Yes. Have you seen his show "Wonders of the Universe" ? Love that show.

I've seen just about every program featuring him. He's what i consider to be great Sunday night television.

[badass]

hey @Katadunkass i ordered this badass laser light projector that projects a nebula and lots of galaxies and starts into your ceiling...cool as shit with trance and some

this bad boy...

http://www.amazon.com/Laser-Stars-In.../dp/B000VBNIP2

[Katadunkass]

hey @Katadunkass i ordered this badass laser light projector that projects a nebula and lots of galaxies and starts into your ceiling...cool as shit with trance and some

this bad boy...

http://www.amazon.com/Laser-Stars-In.../dp/B000VBNIP2

Wow, make a video when you have it! Would love to see it in action

[badass]

Yes. Have you seen his show "Wonders of the Universe" ? Love that show.

with brian cox OMFG my favorite show on TV hands down...too bad that they only made like 4 episodes of this AMAZING and EDUCATIONAL show...people need to watch more stuff like this than reality fucking tv cuz that shit is killing their brain cells /rant

[badass]

Wow, make a video when you have it! Would love to see it in action

i already did haha...remind me to upload please cuz my ass will forget haha...badass...i'm gonna project this with the astrophysical nebula playing in the background...i have reached nirvana!

[AustralianGQ]

hey @Katadunkass i ordered this badass laser light projector that projects a nebula and lots of galaxies and starts into your ceiling...cool as shit with trance and some

this bad boy...

http://www.amazon.com/Laser-Stars-In.../dp/B000VBNIP2

ive been meaning to buy one of those. they are pretty sweet. it would be fun to watch the stars after smoking a joint.

[badass]

high fives @AustralianGQ

[Darren]

The below work is humbling, absolutely incredible work.



http://petapixel.com/2011/05/04/amat...the-night-sky/

What you see above is the largest true-color photograph of the night sky ever created, shot by 28-year-old amateur astrophotographer Nick Risinger using six astronomical cameras. It’s not just the view of the sky from one location, but is instead a 360-panoramic view of the sky taken by trekking 60,000 miles across the western United States and South Africa starting in March 2010. The final image is composed of 37,000 separate photographs. Check out the massive zoomable high-definition version of the photo here.

http://media.skysurvey.org/interactive360/index.html

[Katadunkass]

The below work is humbling, absolutely incredible work.

image

http://petapixel.com/2011/05/04/amat...the-night-sky/



http://media.skysurvey.org/interactive360/index.html

Mindblowing!

[AustralianGQ]

^^^indeed. i spent about 10 minutes looking around at stuff.

[engineKUBWA]

Thought you guys might be interested in this: http://en.spaceengine.org/

[Katadunkass]

Signs of Water Found on 5 Alien Planets by Hubble Telescope

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected water in the atmospheres of five planets beyond our solar system, two recent studies reveal.
The five exoplanets with hints of water are all scorching-hot, Jupiter-size worlds that are unlikely to host life as we know it. But finding water in their atmospheres still marks a step forward in the search for distant planets that may be capable of supporting alien life, researchers said.
"We're very confident that we see a water signature for multiple planets," Avi Mandell, of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., lead author of one of the studies, said in a statement. "This work really opens the door for comparing how much water is present in atmospheres on different kinds of exoplanets — for example, hotter versus cooler ones." [?The Strangest Alien Planets (Gallery)]
The two research teams used Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 to analyze starlight passing through the atmospheres of the five "hot Jupiter" planets, which are known as WASP-17b, HD209458b, WASP-12b, WASP-19b and XO-1b.
The atmospheres of all five planets showed signs of water, with the strongest signatures found in the air of WASP-17b and HD209458b.
"To actually detect the atmosphere of an exoplanet is extraordinarily difficult. But we were able to pull out a very clear signal, and it is water," Drake Deming of the University of Maryland, lead author of the other recent study, said in a statement.
Water is thought to be a common constituent of exoplanet atmospheres and has been found in the air of several other distant worlds to date. But the new work marks the first time scientists have measured and compared profiles of the substance in detail across multiple alien worlds, researchers said.
The water signatures were less intense than expected in all cases, likely because the five hot Jupiters are surrounded by a haze of dust, researchers said.
"These studies, combined with other Hubble observations, are showing us that there are a surprisingly large number of systems for which the signal of water is either attenuated or completely absent," Heather Knutson of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, a co-author on Deming's paper, said in a statement. "This suggests that cloudy or hazy atmospheres may in fact be rather common for hot Jupiters."
The study led by Mandell came out today (Dec. 3) in The Astrophysical Journal, while the paper led by Deming was published in September in the same journal.

http://in.news.yahoo.com/signs-water...210932232.html

[Halon]

The below work is humbling, absolutely incredible work.

image

http://petapixel.com/2011/05/04/amat...the-night-sky/



http://media.skysurvey.org/interactive360/index.html

Mindblowing!

Thought you guys might be interested in this: http://en.spaceengine.org/

Signs of Water Found on 5 Alien Planets by Hubble Telescope



http://in.news.yahoo.com/signs-water...210932232.html

Going to be busy for a while, thanks.

[Alex E]

The below work is humbling, absolutely incredible work.

image

http://petapixel.com/2011/05/04/amat...the-night-sky/



http://media.skysurvey.org/interactive360/index.html

What have you been doing?

[Darren]

What have you been doing?

Will let you and others on here know more in depth if things are right for me to, and only when ready. Quick synopsis though, it's nothing revolutionary like changing the world but more an effort to giving time to changing myself. I won't be contributing on here as I have in the past but might come on from time to time chipping in with things which I'm urged to share like that work which I thought was pretty amazing. Basically just trying to find some balance that wasn't there for a long time and trying to make the right choices in my life and not necessarily the easy ones.

Hope that makes some sense but I haven't forgotten about this place nor all the great people I've come to know from it. Just need some time to myself free from everything to make some clear decisions and push my life in the right direction.