thestarstuff

A collection of everything about the Cosmos. From the edge of the Universe down to the quantum foam of spacetime. Jenn/filipina/BS Physics/21

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down and up. low and high. ground and sky. leaves and clouds. red and blue. green and white. they hold both the important and unimportant memories of our lives. even beyond the sky, out there in space, we make memories and will continue to make new ones.

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Breathtaking Self-Portraits Under Finland’s Northern Lights

“I was so impressed with the loneliness, the air and the silence. Out there you feel so small because there is only cold and ice.” - Photographer Tiina Törmänen

my heart. it wants to go there and just stay there. the beauty. so dreamy.

[spaceplasma]

The upper atmosphere of the Sun is dominated by plasma filled magnetic loops (coronal loops) whose temperature and pressure vary over a wide range. The appearance of coronal loops follows the emergence of magnetic flux, which is generated by dynamo processes inside the Sun. Emerging flux regions (EFRs) appear when magnetic flux bundles emerge from the solar interior through the photosphere and into the upper atmosphere (chromosphere and the corona). The characteristic feature of EFR is the Ω-shaped loops (created by the magnetic buoyancy/Parker instability), they appear as developing bipolar sunspots in magnetograms, and as arch filament systems in Hα. EFRs interact with pre-existing magnetic fields in the corona and produce small flares (plasma heating) and collimated plasma jets. The GIFs above show multiple energetic jets in three different wavelengths. The light has been colorized in red, green and blue, corresponding to three coronal temperature regimes ranging from ~0.8Mk to 2MK. 

Image Credit: SDO/U. Aberystwyth

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Happy Mother’s Day (c) Google

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[lsaaaaaac]

[discoverynews]

Watching the Sunsets of Mars Through Robot Eyes

Watching a sunset on Earth can be a dazzling and beautiful natural wonder. But what about sunsets on other worlds?

Situated over 50 percent further away from the sun than Earth, there’s one planet that we’ve also had the fortune to see the sun drop below the horizon while standing on the surface – Mars. However, we have yet to experience this Martian perspective with our own eyes; instead we depend on images beamed to Earth after being witnessed by robotic lenses and CCDs from NASA’s landers and rovers. More photos

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The most amazing Hubble Space Telescope fly-through yet defies belief

“Ellie Arroway: Some celestial event. No - no words. No words to describe it. Poetry! They should've sent a poet. So beautiful. So beautiful... I had no idea.” (Contact by Carl Sagan)

WATCH THIS HERE.

Credit: NASA, ESA, G. Bacon, L. Frattare, Z. Levay, and F. Summers (Viz3D Team, STScI), and J. Anderson (STScI)

[child-of-thecosmos]

Episode 8: Sisters of the Sun, Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey

[ageofdestruction]

the sun, photographed by sdo, and solar corona, photographed by soho, 15th march 2015.

92 images in each gif, covering 24 hours. 

image credit: nasa/soho, nasa/sdo & aia/eve/hmi. animaton: ageofdestruction.

[astronomicalwonders]

A Martian Sunrise - Daybreak at Gale Crater

Gale Crater can be seen in the center of this image with its central mountain of Strata. This is the Crater where NASA landed the Curiosity Mars Rover and made history in 2012. Curiosity discovered that this crater was once at the bottom of a large freshwater lake. The water in this lake would have been drinkable by humans and hospitable to microbial life. After exploring the Crater, Curiosity proceeded to explore the nearby plains of Aeolis Palus in search of life. Curiosity continues its search today, 140,000,000 miles away from home on a planet inhabited entirely by robots. (Though this image is computer generated, all of the geological features are correct and realistic.) 

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Science Magazine

[teded]

The mathematician Archimedes once said, “Give me a place to stand, and I shall move the Earth.” As it turns out, he was describing the fundamental principle behind the lever.

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These hundred million of stars are JUST a part of Andromeday galaxy, and almost all of those stars have their own systems, their own orbiting planets. Now, imagine how many stars are there in one galaxy (approximately a hundred billion) then multiply it by the average number of planets a star has, let's say it's 5, then multiply it again by the number of galaxies in the known universe, which is approximately a hundred billion. That's hundred billion x hundred billion x 5. Then, tell me, is it impossible to have another life forms (simple or complex ones) outside our planet? Hmmmm.

Credit: NASA

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This image of the Earth, also known as the Pale Blue Dot, was taken when the Voyager 1 spacecraft reached the edge of the solar system on February 14, 1990. It has been 24 years!! HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY! <3 "On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam." - Carl Sagan. =)))

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Reblogging this just because. =)) The most humbling picture I’ve ever seen. 

[antiparallel]

the manuscripts of the masters: scientists

albert einstein, ph.d., physics marie curie, ph.d., physics, chemistry nikola tesla, electrical&mechanical engineering george washington carver, m.s., botany rosalind franklin, ph.d., biophysics charles darwin, evolutionary biology thomas edison, electrical&mechanical engineering

[nubbsgalore]

and those stars, once spent of their lighter elements, fell in on themselves, spewing forth into space their heavier ones, which, in time, would unite under their weight into a massive super heated rock that, powered by its own nuclear heart, would again spew forth those heavier elements through fissures and tears in and around its solid, however thin and brittle, crust. from one stellar engine of creation and destruction came a molten planet constantly in the process creating and destroying itself, until that inevitable day when its nuclear heart too gives out, and with it the conditions of life it made possible. 

photos from the halemaumau crater on kīlauea — a flat, broad shield volcano, encircled by a distant ring of fire, which has been spewing lava continuously for over thirty years — by (click pic) tom kualii, jason weingart, miles morgan, kenji yamamura, ted gore, chris galando, ed coykendall

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"THE EARTH IS ON FIRE"

In Jharia, India, the underground coal has been burning for more than 80 years – some say more than 100 years – and it is still burning. Actually, it has never been worse than now. The earth is literary on fire. Whole mountains are burning, houses disappear and people are dying. Thousands of people are living on land that is in danger of collapsing due to the fire. The fumes from the fires are also a huge health hazard to the inhabitants. Here a guard in a coalmine lights up a cigarette, while his surroundings are covered in fumes from burning coal. - Johnny Haglund

I feel sad for those people who live here and breathe the air there. It’s also sad that the government isn’t helping these people to relocate.