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Making Hubble images pop While preparing for tomorrow's Hangout On Air with +Hubble Space Telescope, Scott's been going through the Hubble gallery over at http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/entire/ With source material like Hubble, and the team that processes the images like +Zolt Levay, it's near impossible not to come up with a beautiful image of your own. Here he wanted to play with some filters and blurs to change the apparent "depth of field" of these beautiful objects.  There's the Sombrero Galaxy, Jet in Carina, and the galaxy NGC 4911. We'll be making more of these in weeks to come, but thought I'd give you a taste! Enjoy the Space Porn! :D

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Delayed Launch of OCO-2, Testing of NASA’s Flying Saucer and Cassini’s Grand Finale

Hello Space Fans! Buckle in for this week’s edition of Space Fan News!

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Newest episode is up! Come see what's happening with awesome spacecraft in this edition of spacefans! 

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On the day before vidconblr we had a Meetup with thebrainscoop at the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History!

Fans of The Brain Scoop met up with ehmeegee at the northern gates and shortly began our tour of the Dinosaur Hall by Dr. Michael Habib!

Was such an amazing time 

To view the entire gallery, head on over to knowthecosmos.com

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Some photos from our really stellar meetup at the Natural History Museum of L.A. County last Wednesday. Major thanks to Michael Habib for being a generous host, and Scott Lewis for helping to orchestrate the event. 

I truly love nothing better than to meet you all in the comforting halls of a natural history collection, and to share in a mutual joy and love of discovery and Pterosaurs with 30-foot wingspans. I mean, can you even imagine? 

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I’ve been meaning to upload my photos from this, but these are better than my crappy cellphone-pictures anyway. Behold, photos that are actually in focus! (Also, you can just barely see the back of my head in the last picture. I’m the frizzy braid on the far right.)

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I have MANY more photos from the event, and may have more with you in them. After I shoot and edit this week's episode of spacefans, I'll look through them for more frizzy braids. :D

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This Week In Science - 19 June 2014

I had an amazing time joining Dr. Kiki, Blair and Justin on TWIS, where we discussed color-blind crabs, sticky horny frogs, fish-eating spiders, Hubble, Gaia, Rosetta and COFFEE IN SPACE!! 

The full episode of the podcast is up on TWIS.org! 

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On the day before vidconblr we had a Meetup with thebrainscoop at the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History!

Fans of The Brain Scoop met up with ehmeegee at the northern gates and shortly began our tour of the Dinosaur Hall by Dr. Michael Habib!

Was such an amazing time 

To view the entire gallery, head on over to knowthecosmos.com

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Some photos from our really stellar meetup at the Natural History Museum of L.A. County last Wednesday. Major thanks to Michael Habib for being a generous host, and Scott Lewis for helping to orchestrate the event. 

I truly love nothing better than to meet you all in the comforting halls of a natural history collection, and to share in a mutual joy and love of discovery and Pterosaurs with 30-foot wingspans. I mean, can you even imagine? 

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It was my pleasure, Emily! Fans of The Brain Scoop are some of the best that I've come across in doing outreach! It was wonderful to meet them and to see you again in the name of science! :D

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On the day before vidconblr we had a Meetup with thebrainscoop at the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History!

Fans of The Brain Scoop met up with ehmeegee at the northern gates and shortly began our tour of the Dinosaur Hall by Dr. Michael Habib!

Was such an amazing time 

To view the entire gallery, head on over to knowthecosmos.com

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So Tony and I made a thing over at DeepAstronomy in February. I still really love it. Come see what Kepler's been able to do even though its extended mission got cut short.