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Fit for a queen // Game of Thrones fare from the premiere last night. It was delicious.
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Each disk is ten times larger than the previous one. If the first disk you see is the size of the palm of your hand, then the second is the size of a coffee table, the third the size of a room. The seventh is the size of Belgium. The ninth is the size of the Earth. The 23rd is around the size of the galaxy, and less than 2 minutes into watching, the 28th is the size of the Universe. [code]
Leonard Nimoy on the set of Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979).
A beautiful hommage to the late Leonard Nimoy from NASA astronaut Terry W. Virts aboard the ISS. February 28, 2015.
Source: NASA/Terry W. Virts
Captain Janeway by GrayscaleArt.
Jupiter Triple-Moon Conjunction
This solar system’s ruling giant planet Jupiter and 3 of its 4 large Galilean moons are captured in this single Hubble snapshot. Crossing in front of Jupiter’s banded cloud tops Europa, Callisto, and Io are framed from lower left to upper right in a rare triple-moon conjunction [Ganymede is too far out]. Distinguishable by colors alone icy Europa is almost white, Callisto’s ancient cratered surface looks dark brown, and volcanic Io appears yellowish.
Laocoon and his Sons, Early First Century B.C., Attributed to Hagesandros, Athenedoros and Polydoros, Vatican Museums, Photo by Catherine Hadler
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If you are an adult, becoming an adult, about to become an adult, or are worried about becoming an adult. take the time to watch this
actually, I think everyone, everywhere would benefit from this. please take the time. life is hard. SIGNAL BOOST.
This is important. Imagine if all of Tumblr can see it. I don’t want notes I want for you to each have a better day then the last. boost. watch.
It’s Offical: We’re Going to Europa - The Most Likely Place for Life Beyond Earth
After decades of dreaming about Europa, it seems that we are finally going to get to see what all the fuss is about.
NASA is taking us to one of the most promising worlds for alien life… http://bit.ly/18LHvYS
Mostly Mute Monday: The Galactic Plane
Once thought to be its own, unique class of object, the Milky Way is today known to be simply a collection of hundreds of billions of stars, viewed from our vantage point within the galactic plane.
In the early 1600s, Galileo became the first to resolve much of the Milky Way into individual stars, not yet knowing that it was also full of dust, nebulae, and star-forming regions as well. Thanks to amazing projects such as ESO’s Gigagalaxy Zoom, we can view the entire galactic plane at once, at resolutions unimaginable centuries ago.
NASA Is Planning A Mission To Europa, One of the Best Candidates For Alien Life!
During a live stream earlier today, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden outlined the space agency’s healthy US$18.5 billion budget for the 2016 financial year - half a billion dollars more than expected.
But what was really exciting about the announcement was that Bolden also explained that US$100 million of that would go towards planning for a mission to Europa - Jupiter’s fourth largest moon.
"Looking to the future, we’re planning a mission to explore Jupiter’s fascinating moon Europa."-Bolden #StateOfNASApic.twitter.com/v9L46zn4Up
— NASA (@NASA) February 2, 2015
The long-awaited news was met with plenty of applause on Twitter, and for good reason - Europa is one of the Solar System’s prime candidates for harbouring extraterrestrial life. And yet, up until now, we’ve paid relatively little attention to the moon.
As one of Jupiter’s 63 known satellites, Europa is only a little bit smaller than our own Moon, with a diameter of 3,120 km. But what makes it really compelling to astrobiologists is that, beneath its icy surface lies a huge, liquid ocean, completely covering its rocky core.
As astronomer Phil Plait explained over at his Bad Astronomy blog on Slate in November last year, this water is estimated to be salty, and also around 100 km thick - up to 10 times deeper than Earth’s oceans. In fact, telescope observations and data on the moon, gathered by passing spacecraft, suggest that Europa may hold two to three times more liquid water than Earth.
And where there’s liquid water, there’s often life, which makes it a very tantalising place to explore.
The video below, produced by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory last year explains brilliantly just why the moon is such an exciting prospect.
As the narrator, astrobiologist Kevin Hand, explains, usually Europa’s distance from the Sun would mean that all its liquid would be frozen. But because Europa is orbitting Jupiter, it has a strong tidal tug, and all of that energy is converted into mechanical energy. That mechanical energy becomes friction and then heat, which allows the H2O on the moon to stay liquid - not just at the moment, but for much of the history of the Solar System, researchers estimate.
This tidal energy, excitingly, may also cause Europa’s ocean to interact with the rocks on the sea floor, astrobiologists predict, and may have triggered hydrothermal vents, which could not just provide the building blocks for life, but also the energy for life.
But until recently, we haven’t had the proven robotic technology needed to explore beneath the moon’s icy cap. Now, it seems, the time is finally right.
Of course, there’s no word yet on exactly what NASA’s mission will entail, and with only US$100 million allocated to the project, it seems as though the 2016 fiscal year won’t involve much more than planning. But it’s still hugely exciting news.
As Plait explained back in November (with freakish foresight):
"I will not be surprised in the least if, for the next fiscal year budget, NASA asks for a Europa mission, including something as dramatic and unprecedented and as some hardware that can penetrate the ice and take a peek into Europa’s dark, briny depths … This is something I think NASA should be doing: Pushing the frontier, doing what only a national space agency can do. This would be a huge undertaking, and one that would fire up the public imagination like nothing before it since Apollo."
You can see the full breakdown of NASA’s budget here
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You’re not the b u t t e r f l y I expected. And you are not the l i o n e s s .