Twitpics from Space
Feb 24
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.
Max Alexander Portraits
Oct 12Just 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
Mar 13
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...
Amazing Photosynth from NASA
Aug 07
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') in which you can swing it about in 3D. Since millions of digital photos are taken each week and...
The 10 Strangest (Real) Things in Space
Jul 25
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 - or at least in my opinion. Feel free to suggest any others in the comments. V838...
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