Twitpics from Space
ISS astronaut Soichi Noguchi gets quite a view! Lucky for us he’s tweeting much of it from onboard the ISS. Here is a small sample and all the links to get you going.
Tag Archives: Photos
Max Alexander Portraits
Just a short post to draw your attention to this really cool collection of portraits by photographer Max Alexander. A wide range of people – all astronomers – are shown in quirky these photo portraits that refer to their fields of research.
Great Shuttle Launch Photo
Found this image via Digg and it’s so cool I thought I’d share. One of those pictures where the the photographer captured something we’re all fairly used to seeing in a different way.
Don’t forget to Digg it…
Amazing Photosynth from NASA
If you haven’t heard of Photosynth, its an incredible idea from Microsoft’s labs (yes they do cool stuff too!). Basically the concept is that as more and more photos are taken of a particular object or location the better a computer could get at creating a sort of simulated view of it (a ’synth’) [...]
The 10 Strangest (Real) Things in Space
I recently saw a Digg article which linked to a space.com page about the 10 Strangest Things in Space. All but 2 of the items were not pictures at all but computer simulations, or artists impressions. So here to correct this injustice to phenomena everywhere I present the REAL 10 Strangest Things in Space – [...]
Fly Me to the Moon
I had my first day working for SETPOINT Wales yesterday in their mobile planetarium, the Stardome. I went to Crickhowell High School and had a great (if tiring day) giving a space talk and showing, what felt like hundreds of children, the constellations.
The reason I like talking about space is that I like to put [...]
Northern Lights from Above
Amazing picture here of the Northern Lights from space. Spotted on Digg (link here). The Aurorae are created by the interaction between outflows of energetic material from the Sun and the Earth’s ionosphere. I have never seen any, but very much would like to.
A Solar Eclipse From Above
This image appeared on APOD the other day. It shows a solar eclipse as viewed from space. Very cool.
This image was taken from the old MIR station during the August 11th 1999 eclipse which was, if you can remember, visible from the UK. In fact if you look very closely you might be able to [...]
Line Up
Here’s a great image of all the bodies in the Solar System in order of size. It only goes down to a diameter of 200 miles – otherwise it would get very silly indeed. Note that several planets fall after several moons in the rankings. also note the small collection of dwarf planets and transneptunian [...]
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