it's all pretending. @itsallpretending - Tumblr Blog

‘Movie recording stopped automatically’

#casey neistat #anger management level fail #fixing your problems away with an axe

Comet Lovejoy (C/2014 Q2) Timelapse & 30+ Satellites

#comet #lovejoy #timelapse #argentina #chañarmuyo #astronomy #vimeo #southern hemisphere #northwest argentina #la rioja #c/2014 q2

spaceplasma

Pillars of Creation in Visible and in Near-Infrared Light

"Pillars of Creation" is a photograph taken by the Hubble Telescope of elephant trunks of interstellar gas and dust in the Eagle Nebula, some 7,000 light years from Earth. They are so named because the gas and dust are in the process of creating new stars, while also being eroded by photoevaporation from the ultraviolet light of relatively close and hot stars that have recently formed.

Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

#astronomy #universe #pillars of creation #hubble

Newspaper Blackouts by Austin Kleon

#sin vuelta atrás

goatsonthings

Goat on a cliff, staring at the moon. The goat knows that one day there will be a goat on the moon.

#YOLO

- Clara: I love him. - The Doctor: Yes, you're quite the mess of chemicals, aren't you?

#doctor who #clara oswald #danny #love #science #dark water #:(

clara-twelve-blog

They are all okay, and all those things could exist in the same woman. (x)

#the impossible girl

slaughteringbunnies

#contemporary philosophy

lhs3020b

Here’s a rather striking picture, from the Chinese Chang’e 5 probe.

When I first saw that picture, I thought it was Mercury in centre stage - then I noticed the somewhat-gibbous blue-white thing in the upper corner and thought, “Bwuh…?”

Then I realised this was actually a photo of the opposite hemisphere of the Moon - the one we never see from here on Earth, due to synchronous rotation. And that image is being photobombed by a terrestrial planet!

Here are a couple of links:

http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2014/10280900-change-5-t1-rounds-the-lunar.html

and, in Chinese,

http://news.xinhuanet.com/world/2014-10/28/c_1113016268.htm

#the other side

lizclimo

that’s a much better costume.

#cuteness overflow

historicaltimes

Johnny Cash, Los Angeles, June 1961 by Leigh Wiener.

#the man in black

daenystormborn-deactivated20141

Firefly Rewatch: 1.05 (Safe) - They weren’t cows inside

#it's not

therealuniverse

ART VS SCIENCE Believe it or not, but this image is actually made up of stars in the globular cluster NGC 288 (check it out here). When the Hubble Space Telescope produces a picture, it uses a fixed point in space to reference the focus of the image. This point is referred to as a ‘guide star’. Once Hubble “locks onto” the guide star, the instruments inside the telescope can calculate the drift and rotation the image frame will encounter throughout the exposure – just like star trails in long exposures on Earth. The telescope is fitted with gyroscopes and reaction wheels to correct for these movements. This is what happens when you lock onto a bad guide star (perhaps a binary system). The guide system makes mistakes in its calculations and you end up capturing this beautiful sequence of stellar trails. -CB Image: NASA, ESA, A. Sarajedini (University of Florida) and Judy Schmidt. Source

#long exposure gone wright