NASA photos

I mean some of these are pretty amazing

http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/492456main_Swift_M31_large_UV_full.jpg

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/iotd.html

"This cloud of interstellar dust cannot be seen directly in visible light, but WISE's detectors observed the nebula at infrared wavelengths...Reflection nebulae are of interest to astronomers because they are often the sites of new star formation. "

This is blowing my mind...new stars are forming and we can't even see that shit

beeyootiful!

yes :)

i was v into this one yesterday - montreal at night
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/48000/48471/ISS026-E-012474_lrg.jpg

Not a photo, but a video of COMET LOVEJOY

International Space Station Commander Dan Burbank captured spectacular imagery of Comet Lovejoy as seen from about 240 miles above the Earth’s horizon on Wednesday, Dec. 21. Burbank described seeing the comet as “the most amazing thing I have ever seen in space,” in an interview with WDIV-TV in Detroit.

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html?media_id=125774121

Is anyone listening to the breathy nerd circus going on over @ nasa.gov?

Lord no. Muted the feed, just enjoying the video

http://venustransit.nasa.gov/webcasts/nasaedge/

yeah I loaded some feed, not NASA but maybe using thier feed and had to shut it off, the running commentary was worse than a Simpsons DVD

Love the guys up top of Mauna Kea right now but speak into the mike, duders.

gorgeous NASA time lapse footage
http://vimeo.com/32001208

awesome

http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/689186main_pia15806-43_946-710.jpg

A Glimmer From a Dark Cosmic Era

With the combined power of NASA's Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes, as well as a cosmic magnification effect, astronomers have spotted what could be the most distant galaxy ever seen. Light from the primordial galaxy traveled approximately 13.2 billion light-years before reaching NASA's telescopes, shining forth from the so-called cosmic dark ages when the universe was just 3.6 percent of its present age.

Astronomers relied on gravitational lensing to catch sight of the early, distant galaxy. In this phenomenon, predicted by Albert Einstein a century ago, the gravity of foreground objects warps and magnifies the light from background objects.

In the big image at left, the many galaxies of a massive cluster called MACS J1149+2223 dominate the scene. Gravitational lensing by the giant cluster brightened the light from the newfound galaxy, known as MACS 1149-JD, some 15 times, bringing the remote object into view.

At upper right, a partial zoom-in shows MACS 1149-JD in more detail, and a deeper zoom appears to the lower right. In these visible and infrared light images from Hubble, MACS 1149-JD looks like a dim, red speck. The small galaxy's starlight has been stretched into longer wavelengths, or "redshifted," by the expansion of the universe. MACS 1149-JD's stars originally emitted the infrared light seen here at much shorter, higher-energy wavelengths, such as ultraviolet.

The far-off galaxy existed within an important era when the universe transformed from a starless expanse during the dark ages to a recognizable cosmos full of galaxies. The discovery of the faint, small galaxy opens a window onto the deepest, remotest epochs of cosmic history.

damn
The discovery of the faint, small galaxy opens a window onto the deepest, remotest epochs of cosmic history.
that's the kind of sentence that sticks with me

seeing a galaxy as it was 13.2 billion years ago is mind-numbing.

I think I'm going to use that sentence on an exam. It's so deep and so simple (structurally) at the same time.

http://petapixel.com/2013/06/10/photographing-earth-from-the-cupola-on-the-international-space-station/

http://cdn.petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2013/06/issphotospot.jpg

NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko are scheduled to return to Earth aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft Tuesday night after a record-setting 340 days aboard the ISS. In the window above, you can watch the Soyuz's hatch closure at 4:40 p.m. EST (2140 GMT); the vehicle's departure from the orbiting lab at 8:05 p.m. EST (0105 GMT on March 2); and its landing on the steppes of Kazakhstan at 11:25 p.m. EST (0425 GMT on March 2), all courtesy of NASA TV.

- See more at: http://www.space.com/17933-nasa-television-webcasts-live-space-tv.html

happening live right now

beautiful pic of kelly and kornienko returning to earth

https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/t31.0-8/12771473_1144814882218108_8503917308712176196_o.jpg

wow <3

GodDAMN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Co8Z8BQgWc

Per this:

In December, the Apollo 11 filmmakers told Vanity Fair that Dan Rooney, an archivist at the National Archives and Records Administration, knew the footage was boxed up in a vault somewhere but he had no idea what kind of treasure he was sitting on. As NASA was preparing the Apollo 11 launch, it made a deal with MGM Studios to film the mission preparations and their aftermath. MGM set up a crew to film it all using the same epic Todd-AO 70mm treatment it gave to blockbusters like The Sound of Music. Six weeks before launch, MGM lost interest but NASA wanted to go through with it anyway and managed to get the crew filming. Some of the footage was used in a short documentary, but most of it was locked away. Now it’s coming to the big screen along with audio culled from 11,000 hours worth of uncatalogued recordings.

WHOA

that looks amazing!

I AM V EXCITE

this looks gorge too:

https://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/photography/all/01176/facts.the_nasa_archives_60_years_in_space.htm?utm_source=tas&utm_medium=nl&utm_campaign=xl_nasa&mobile=1

Looks fabulous!

It's blurbed as "a visual celebration of humankind’s unstoppable urge to travel away from Earth to worlds beyond". I'd only take issue with the word "unstoppable". There's nothing inherent in that urge which makes it impossible to stop. It's like calling capitalism unstoppable.

i bought a copy of that this weekend! we allied about it a bit in the ilb space-books thraed

it is incredibly well-produced and it weighs about as much as a large toddler, so much so that it comes in a box with a carrying handle

talked not allied, wtf autocorrect

this is cool

NASA's Parker Solar Probe plunged deep into the Sun's corona & passed directly through streamers of solar plasma. The view out the window was...staggering. https://t.co/LLy8fB2dmZ pic.twitter.com/4fWkHIgmlA

— Corey S. Powell (@coreyspowell) December 15, 2021

The DART mission (deflecting an asteroid) is about to culminate. Live video feed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RA8Tfa6Sck

https://www.nasa.gov/content/live-coverage-of-nasas-double-asteroid-redirection-test-dart-mission

The auto-caption system is having fun with Dimorphos and Didymos.

shit the Little Prince is on there! Hit the brakes!

that was pretty cool.. I'd written off the SPACE FORCE but watching them save our planet was pretty incredible

gotta be real it was def thrilling watching the asteroid get closer and closer and fill up the screen and then boom lol

I just googled 'nasa dart' to find the video, and lol.

https://c.tenor.com/0a6GdoapOTQAAAAM/clangers-trans-radio.gif

Here's the orbiting rice crispie treat that we smashed into:

https://s.abcnews.com/images/International/nasa-dart-asteroid-close-03-gty-llr-220926_1664235375082_hpMain_16x9_992.jpg