Kosmonautica

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." --- Carl Sagan

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A colourful saturnian image that includes Mimas and Saturn's northern hemisphere. 

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The foothills of Mount Sharp on Mars

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Solar Total Eclipse

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Aurora over Norway

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View of the moon Phobos orbiting Mars from the Mars Orbiter Mission

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Crescent Rhea Occults Crescent Saturn

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The Earth, July 11, 1969

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James McDivitt, First US Spacewalk, Ed White’s EVA over New Mexico, Gemini 4, June 3, 1965

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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has revisited the famous Pillars of Creation, revealing a sharper and wider view of the structures in this visible-light image. The colors in the image highlight emission from several chemical elements. Oxygen emission is blue, sulfur is orange, and hydrogen and nitrogen are green.

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Looking nearly back toward the Sun, the robot Cassini spacecraft now orbiting Saturn captured crescent phases of Saturn and its moon Rhea in color a few years ago.

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Mysterious ‘magic island’ appears on Saturn’s moon In addition to revealing island-like icebergs of methane, scientists are hoping the summer solstice on Titan will stir up tropical cyclones for observation.

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If Andromeda were brighter, this is how it would look in our night sky. They’re all out there, we just can’t see them

Distance to Earth: 2,538,000 light years

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A few days ago NASA and the European Space Agency released the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF) 2014 - the latest in a series of deep space images (see the other three here) captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. This image is “among the most colorful deep space images ever captured”.

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The first time I saw the Hubble UDF image was the closest thing to a religious experience I’ve ever had.  Take a moment to realize what exactly you’re looking at.  This image captures nearly 10,000 galaxies, each containing millions to billions of stars in a section of sky roughly the size of a postage stamp held at arm’s length.  Scary to some, but I find solace in understanding my own insignificance.  

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Illuminated Code from Space - Macrocosm and Microcosm by Haari Tesla

An experiment with images of space with tilt shift which resulted in nebulae, galaxies, and supernovae transformed into microorganisms.

Macrocosm and microcosm is an ancient Greek Neo-Platonic schema of seeing the same patterns reproduced in all levels of the cosmos, from the largest all the way down to the smallest scale.

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Jupiter’s great red spot. A hurricane three times the size of our whole planet that’s been raging for centuries.

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