lordy lordy

On January 5, NASA released an image of the Andromeda galaxy, our closest galactic neighbour, captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The full image is made up of 411 Hubble images, takes you through a 100 million stars and travels over more than 40,000 light years. Well, a section of it anyway. (via)

saturn is definitely the coolest planet

Colossal Glow via @NASAViz is massively cool! Read more: http://t.co/8NMUDueoLb pic.twitter.com/4MIVYhVSY2

— NASA Goddard Images (@NASA_GoddardPix) December 3, 2013

NASA launched a rocket to mars today, no big deal

And lift off of the #MAVEN spacecraft on a journey to Mars aboard an #Atlas5 rocket: pic.twitter.com/kbAWwvMoZE

— NASA (@NASA) November 18, 2013

rocket launched into space

last night NASA launched this rocket into space from a launching pad in Virginia. this is what it looked like from the top of the rock in NYC. coooool.

NASA answers all your questions about that Russian meteor

I'm not some kind of paranoid freak, but I do believe that WTC tower 7 was a controlled demolition and I find it very difficult to believe that two space rocks happened to arrive within hours of each other. via

BRANDY! SHOW ME THE NOTE!

curiosity descent

Using an editing technique known as interpolation, redittor God22 (aka Dominic Muller) has artificially boosted the framerate of Curiosity's descent footage from four frames per second to twenty five frames per second. Also known as "tweening" (short for Inbetweening), interpolation involves rendering missing frames artificially, to give the appearance of smooth transitions between actual frames. It's still playing in real-time, it just appears much, much smoother. (via)

sunrise on mars

the curiosity uploaded this to instagram.

spaaaaaacceeee!!!

Here's the best space video we've ever seen: 18 time-lapse sequences of photos taken from the International Space Station, gorgeously processed and edited by Michael König. (via)

wondering wtf you're looking at?

Shooting locations in order of appearance:

1. Aurora Borealis Pass over the United States at Night
2. Aurora Borealis and eastern United States at Night
3. Aurora Australis from Madagascar to southwest of Australia
4. Aurora Australis south of Australia
5. Northwest coast of United States to Central South America at Night
6. Aurora Australis from the Southern to the Northern Pacific Ocean
7. Halfway around the World
8. Night Pass over Central Africa and the Middle East
9. Evening Pass over the Sahara Desert and the Middle East
10. Pass over Canada and Central United States at Night
11. Pass over Southern California to Hudson Bay
12. Islands in the Philippine Sea at Night
13. Pass over Eastern Asia to Philippine Sea and Guam
14. Views of the Mideast at Night
15. Night Pass over Mediterranean Sea
16. Aurora Borealis and the United States at Night
17. Aurora Australis over Indian Ocean
18. Eastern Europe to Southeastern Asia at Night
(via)

the worm and the meatball

a cute little history of the development of NASA's graphic image:

Up until that point, NASA had been primarily using an insignia adapted by James Modarelli, the head of NASA’s Lewis Research Center Reports Division. This logo, created in 1959 and affectionately dubbed “The Meatball,” relied heavily on multiple visual metaphors. According to NASA’s Web site, “the sphere represents a planet, the stars represent space, the red chevron is a wing representing aeronautics (the latest design in hypersonic wings at the time the logo was developed), and then there is an orbiting spacecraft going around the wing.” Although charming in its quirkiness, the meatball proved difficult to reproduce given the printing technology available at the time and the variety of applications it would need to adorn.

Enter Richard Danne and Bruce Blackburn. They were hired to create, in Danne’s words, “a more useful new Logotype.” In a recently completed, yet to be published memoir, Danne describes the streamlined new design as “clean, progressive, could be read from a mile away, and was easy to use in all mediums.” Danne and Blackburn replaced the complex meatball with a stripped-down, modernist interpretation where even the cross stroke of the A’s were removed. 

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Seventeen years later, despite its winning the prestigious “Award of Design Excellence” by The Presidential Design Awards, NASA scrapped the Danne and Blackburn design and re-instated “The Meatball.” Danne thinks this was at least partly due to how NASA chose to introduce the new logo to its various internal agencies in the first place. He says the redesign was kept secret until letters were set out to every center director … on their new stationery. Those loyal to the old design were offended, and a rivalry between “The Meatball” and the new design (unaffectionately dubbed “The Worm”) began. (via)

well. this is awkward.

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i'm glad i didn't care enough to set my alarm clock and wake up at 7.30am and go up on the roof to peep through my giant telescope, because what a horrible disappointment the NASA moon bombing turned out to be. all over the place, people were having viewing parties or making early morning treks to their nearest observatory to witness what was supposed to be a 6 mile plume of debris exploding off the moon's surface.

instead, not only could you not see anything from earth...you couldnt even see anything from the satellite that was following right behind the missile. thanks a lot, NASA. for nothing!

NASA's going to bomb the shit out of the moon!

for real!

did you see?

NASA showed us a hubble picture of what the stars really look like.

stupid NASA

if you want me to take you seriously, work on your graphics.

hubble repair photos

these are cool. thx dad.

we are not alone.

Mitchell, who was part of the 1971 Apollo 14 moon mission, asserted Monday that extraterrestrial life exists, and that the truth is being concealed by the U.S. and other governments. (cnn)

oops!

this reminds me of another poll...

(thx sj)