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I am addicted to this site. It's so pretty.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

― kate, Sunday, 22 September 2002 10:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Today it's the clouds of Neptune. Ooooooooh. Pretty!

― kate, Sunday, 22 September 2002 10:01 (twenty-three years ago)

I know! I go there every day. I even link to it on my blog! Go there, go on. You can look through thousands of archive pictures too. It's so cool!

― Mark C (Mark C), Sunday, 22 September 2002 10:04 (twenty-three years ago)

The Hubble Site is always worth a visit as well.

― chris j (chris j), Sunday, 22 September 2002 10:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Hubble Space Telescope ...

uuuuhhhhhh...

::drools::

― kate, Sunday, 22 September 2002 10:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Hold the pickles; hold the lettuce. Space is serving up giant hamburgers.

I love astronomers with a sense of humour...

― kate, Sunday, 22 September 2002 10:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Space pixs = rah! Admittedly a lot of the colors are deduced and added by computer, but the planets usually appear as they are. The space channel I get around here maximizes the effect -- just put on some Sonic Boom and watch and achieve higher planes.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 22 September 2002 13:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Totally awesome site and one of the ones I check every day. Great source of desktop pictures (once I finally get bored of the Kandinsky)

― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 02:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Great site. SOme of the pics from there rotating on my desktop: Cassiopeia, Big Q thing, A Chandra pic.

― bnw (bnw), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 03:18 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

That recent picture of Mimas is lovely:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/02/0209_050209_saturn.html

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 7 March 2005 16:52 (twenty years ago)

Gasp.

― Huk-L, Monday, 7 March 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

this was in the papers last week or so

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060921.html

(click for much bigger image)

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 10:26 (nineteen years ago)

Nice, but I liked this one better:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap061009.html

Look how we're mucking up Mars!

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 10:29 (nineteen years ago)

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 11:33 (nineteen years ago)

er...

I love pictures of star trails:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060915.html

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 11:33 (nineteen years ago)

This one is gorgeous:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap061003.html

― chap who would dare to contain two ingredients. Tea and bags. (chap), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 12:23 (nineteen years ago)

This would make good wrapping paper...

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0610/sweeps16_hst.jpg

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Friday, 13 October 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

They call that the "heart nebula" but it clearly has a wang.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 13 October 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

It's Mars, y'all!!!

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0610/marshorizon_opportunity.jpg

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 10:41 (nineteen years ago)

A Martian Sunset, dudes & dudettes:

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/Images/PIA07997_lrg.jpg

― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 10:52 (nineteen years ago)

These Mars pictures are stunning

― treefell (treefell), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 10:57 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, I took them mine self. ;-)

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 10:59 (nineteen years ago)

― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 11:00 (nineteen years ago)

They call that the "heart nebula" but it clearly has a wang.

oh roffles, i thought i was the only one who noticed that!

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 11:08 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

This is CLEARLY a Spiritualized album cover!

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0610/sh2136_kpno.jpg

Spacerock, indeed!

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 12:04 (eighteen years ago)

OK, it's reversed, but still very clearly the same image!

http://www.zero.co.nz/music/images/Spiritualized%20-%20Lazer%20Guided%20Melodies.jpg

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 12:06 (eighteen years ago)

Tomorrow's picture: open space

Should be good.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 12:27 (eighteen years ago)

Tomorrow's picture: almost mars

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 01:33 (eighteen years ago)

They keep putting open space off :-(

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 08:55 (eighteen years ago)

I bet "open space" is astronomyspeak for "(blank, to be entered as soon as we've censored out the aliens from the picture)"

Like the alien giving Mars the finger they've got on today.

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 09:02 (eighteen years ago)

God, you guys that is THE SURFACE OF ANOTHER PLANET!!! It's MARS, FFS!

Doesn't that get you excited?

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 13:18 (eighteen years ago)

Doesn't that get you excited?

Fuck yeah!

I love this Cassini picture of Saturn. Take away the rings and all the moons, and Saturn is still neat to look at.

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGBrowseS25/N00068717.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 23:34 (eighteen years ago)

Wow, gas giants are so beautiful. Though that photo is a bit pixilated for me - though APOD promises us Pixilated Space tomorrow.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Thursday, 2 November 2006 11:27 (eighteen years ago)

If I had Bill Gates/James Bond villain levels of cash, I would fund my own Neptune orbiter just so I could get pictures like this:

http://jmm45.free.fr/planetes/neptune/pia00058.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 2 November 2006 17:29 (eighteen years ago)

three months pass...

Today's is KRAZY KOOL.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

― Tuesdays With Morimoto (Rock Hardy), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:13 (eighteen years ago)

Wow, this is just like... what I look at all day for work! Except probably not copyrighted material...

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:24 (eighteen years ago)

That's pretty damn sharp.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:26 (eighteen years ago)

That's the saddest picture I've ever seen!

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:28 (eighteen years ago)

If VH1 had a Behind the Comet show, that one would talk about fireworks like hair-metal bands talk about Nirvana.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:29 (eighteen years ago)

lol: Tomorrow's picture: sun explodes

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:30 (eighteen years ago)

I'm gonna be bummed when that happens.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:36 (eighteen years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/WilliamCrump63/farmfilm.jpg

WHOOOOOOOO BLOWED UP REAL GOOD

― Tuesdays With Morimoto (Rock Hardy), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:41 (eighteen years ago)

three months pass...

Wikipedia's photo of the day:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d3/Map_of_Jupiter.jpg

― chap, Thursday, 10 May 2007 21:54 (eighteen years ago)

Kind of looks like a tunnel.

― chap, Thursday, 10 May 2007 21:54 (eighteen years ago)

http://i4.tinypic.com/5yis901.jpg

― StanM, Friday, 11 May 2007 06:07 (eighteen years ago)

http://time-blog.com/eye_on_science/2007/05/dark_matter_revealed_1.html?xid=rss-eyeonscience : a ring of dark matter.

http://i5.tinypic.com/4kutstf.jpg

― StanM, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 09:34 (eighteen years ago)

Gravitational lense, ooooohhhh... that one really pleased me this morning.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 10:20 (eighteen years ago)

two months pass...

yyyeeeaaaaahhhhhh... APOD delivers. The first strike in an intergalactic war!!!

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0707/lasergalaxy_beletsky_big.jpg

(Not raelly.)

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 10:47 (eighteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

Anyone have pictures of The Hole yet?

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070823_huge_hole.html

― StanM, Friday, 24 August 2007 11:12 (eighteen years ago)

except, well, this, but I mean a real pic

http://www.nrao.edu/pr/2007/coldspot/void_small.jpg

― StanM, Friday, 24 August 2007 11:14 (eighteen years ago)

Skipping 225 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110824.html

the one before isn't too shabby either.

― koogs, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 15:04 (fourteen years ago)

Whoa no kidding!

― Vaginalogue Bubblebath (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 15:05 (fourteen years ago)

YOU ARE HERE ->

http://news.discovery.com/space/juno-looks-back-snaps-earth-moon-system-110830.html

― koogs, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 09:08 (fourteen years ago)

via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot

― caek, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 11:12 (fourteen years ago)

dont try to tell me where i am fuckin science

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 11:21 (fourteen years ago)

four weeks pass...

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110927.html

So pretty:

http://youtu.be/74mhQyuyELQ?hd=1

You need to watch the HD version

― not bulimic, just a cat (James Morrison), Thursday, 29 September 2011 00:29 (fourteen years ago)

It is good to see the human-made lights so numerous. One glorious day there will be no natural lights left. We look forward to that time.

― Banaka™ (banaka), Thursday, 29 September 2011 02:44 (fourteen years ago)

banaka!!

― civilisation and its discotheques (c sharp major), Thursday, 29 September 2011 09:10 (fourteen years ago)

one month passes...

amazing

― The Uncanny Frankie Valley (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 19:55 (thirteen years ago)

time-lapse photography from ISS - sdtk by Jan Jellinek

― The Uncanny Frankie Valley (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 19:55 (thirteen years ago)

everybody should watch this!

― The Uncanny Frankie Valley (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 20:41 (thirteen years ago)

loved it.

― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 20:43 (thirteen years ago)

five months pass...

In writing that long post on the Mad Men thread about the first color photo from space, I ended up thinking about it a bit more and <a href="http://www.quartzcity.net/2012/05/11/it-didnt-bother-you-to-see-the-world-tiny-and-unprotected-surrounded-by-darkness/";>wrote a lot more over here</a> (I posted it to MetaFilter too, but found some horrid typos and missing words).

Anyway, in the middle of all the writing and link checking I ran across this video that took 24 hours of the DISH Earth channel, time-compressed it down to 3:18 and soundtracked it with a banging mid-70s disco funk track from Brass Connection. It's been a shit couple of days and this completely snapped me out of it. Hooray for the Internet! This is the best thing I've seen in days:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-REzr7HB9E

― Vini Reilly Invasion (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 11 May 2012 09:59 (thirteen years ago)

fuck! Switching between HTML and BBCode STILL kills me!

― Vini Reilly Invasion (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 11 May 2012 10:00 (thirteen years ago)

(and yes, that's the moon crawling along there at the end)

― Vini Reilly Invasion (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 11 May 2012 10:04 (thirteen years ago)

Great post. Shame the photo didn't stop people killing each other.

― Touché Gödel (ledge), Friday, 11 May 2012 11:07 (thirteen years ago)

Yes that's beautiful, thanks for posting.

― Ismael Klata, Friday, 11 May 2012 11:26 (thirteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

It's not on APOD YET - http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2013/12

http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/images/hs-2013-12-a-web.jpg

Unlike other celestial objects there is no question how the Horsehead Nebula got its name. This iconic silhouette of a horse's head and neck pokes up mysteriously from what look like whitecaps of interstellar foam. The nebula has graced astronomy books ever since its discovery over a century ago. But Hubble's infrared vision shows the horse in a new light. The nebula, shadowy in optical light, appears transparent and ethereal when seen at infrared wavelengths. This pillar of tenuous hydrogen gas laced with dust is resisting being eroded away by the radiation from a nearby star. The nebula is a small part of a vast star-forming complex in the constellation Orion. The Horsehead will disintegrate in about 5 million years.

― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 20 April 2013 07:18 (twelve years ago)

two weeks pass...

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/05/07/the_sun_picture_of_a_small_sunspot_bigger_than_earth.html

fuck yeah

― j., Tuesday, 7 May 2013 19:08 (twelve years ago)

http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/05/07/sdo_171_sunmay62013.jpg.CROP.original-original.jpg

― j., Tuesday, 7 May 2013 19:08 (twelve years ago)

one year passes...

http://38.media.tumblr.com/72149346d6e161163b09595dec3da3e6/tumblr_najkod50mC1qbo6leo1_1280.jpg

Fishing boats off of Bangkok

― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 07:01 (eleven years ago)

three months pass...

Really rather beautiful short film here: http://vimeo.com/108650530

Worth checking out the stills gallery, too, full of interesting stuff on the physics and the original imagery, etc: http://www.erikwernquist.com/wanderers/gallery.html

http://www.erikwernquist.com/wanderers/images/gallery/WANDERERS_europa_view_01.jpg

― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 23:09 (ten years ago)

Great Lakes area from the ISS.

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/lcvqwf5xt6agrsjusavr.jpg

― nickn, Thursday, 11 December 2014 20:06 (ten years ago)

Two-Kilometer Crater within Pasteur Crater on Mars. From http://beautifulmars.tumblr.com (which everyone in this thread should be following)

http://41.media.tumblr.com/c6a19038504e4435447f259faf37af4f/tumblr_nge4roGJRV1rlz4gso1_1280.jpg

― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 12 December 2014 00:34 (ten years ago)

Gah! Molecular Cloud Barnard 68: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap141214.html

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1412/barnard68v2_vlt_960.jpg

― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 02:04 (ten years ago)

Volcano on Io.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/12/Tvashtarvideo.gif

― nickn, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 01:06 (ten years ago)

awesome

― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 20:41 (ten years ago)

three months pass...

it's not just other planets

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-04/01/typhoon-from-space

― koogs, Thursday, 2 April 2015 08:48 (ten years ago)

six months pass...

Presenting Charon!

https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpt1/v/t1.0-9/12043169_10153579258846772_8883593727963723006_n.jpg?oh=685e18ad896c38ea727ec83bf4e5e6b3&oe=56A3C850

― nickn, Friday, 2 October 2015 00:21 (ten years ago)

fuck

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 2 October 2015 00:55 (ten years ago)

two years pass...

In September, the first confirmed extrasolar object visited our solar system. ʻOumuamua is a 230 m × 35 m × 35 m asteroid on a highly inclined hyperbolic orbit which arrived in the Solar System from the direction of Vega with 26.3 km/s relative velocity, accelerated to 87.7 km/s at perihelion inside Mercury's orbit on September 9, 2017, and has departed towards Pegasus, never to return.

Wikipedia: ʻOumuamua

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_vAcv7JGhQ

― Sanpaku, Thursday, 25 January 2018 21:22 (seven years ago)

seven months pass...

taken by one of the two 18 cm small bots on Ryugu:

This is a picture from MINERVA-II1. The color photo was captured by Rover-1A on September 21 around 13:08 JST, immediately after separation from the spacecraft. Hayabusa2 is top and Ryugu's surface is below. The image is blurred because the rover is spinning. #asteroidlanding pic.twitter.com/CeeI5ZjgmM
— HAYABUSA2@JAXA (@haya2e_jaxa) September 22, 2018

― StanM, Monday, 24 September 2018 14:43 (seven years ago)

(pic 2 & 3 are way better, click on this one ^ )

― StanM, Monday, 24 September 2018 14:44 (seven years ago)

what are some good astronomy pic accounts on twitter

― marcos, Monday, 24 September 2018 14:46 (seven years ago)

I love that those rovers are moving around the asteroid by jumping

― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Tuesday, 25 September 2018 00:31 (seven years ago)

Titan dust storm (artist's conception)

http://pasadenanow.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/PIA22482_hires.jpg

― nickn, Tuesday, 25 September 2018 01:09 (seven years ago)

I'd also recommend the unmannedspaceflight.com forum
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DnszMxtUUAAS_cD.jpg

― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Tuesday, 25 September 2018 01:58 (seven years ago)

these all look like me after a few pints

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 25 September 2018 04:07 (seven years ago)

six months pass...

hey check out this fuckin' black hole

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D3y2S46XkAAwIRl.jpg:large

― he once took my hand and poked Neil Armstrong in the butt (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 13:20 (six years ago)

pretty cool imo

― he once took my hand and poked Neil Armstrong in the butt (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 13:21 (six years ago)

Hands up who thinks they have this album somewhere.

― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 13:29 (six years ago)

Seriously cool

― jmm, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 13:35 (six years ago)

This album, FYI:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superunknown

― dinnerboat, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 13:59 (six years ago)

Check the simulation

There's a brief write-up at @PhysicsWorld here: https://t.co/dqI3RoCjuL with more images. Here's the image seen (left) compared with a simulation (middle) and the simulation blurred to the expected resolution of the telescope (right). (Image via Akiyama et al & ApJL) pic.twitter.com/UqAVdUtndK
— Katie Mack (@AstroKatie) April 10, 2019

― lukas, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 17:04 (six years ago)

one year passes...

livestream here of Jupiter-Saturn conjunction...this last happened (w/ this visibilty) 800 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0799Kmke-k

― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 21 December 2020 14:14 (four years ago)

three months pass...

would wear on a t-shirt. (would make a perfect autechre cover also)

https://eventhorizontelescope.org/blog/astronomers-image-magnetic-fields-edge-m87s-black-hole

― koogs, Thursday, 25 March 2021 12:08 (four years ago)

four years pass...

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

― koogs, Monday, 16 June 2025 10:07 (four months ago)

^ oh, that's the main page, which will be different tomorrow. this is today's

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap191023.html

which is the 30th anniversary.

― koogs, Monday, 16 June 2025 10:10 (four months ago)

(and that second one is wrong too, a link to a previous entry.

but this one is correct https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250616.html )

― koogs, Monday, 16 June 2025 10:12 (four months ago)

awesome, though i'd like a 64 gigapixel zoomable version.

― the wrong witch roams the earth (ledge), Monday, 16 June 2025 11:36 (four months ago)

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