One Small Step

I LIKE SPAAAAAAAAACE!!! This is where I post cool photos/videos related to Space and Science.

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4K timelapse video of Earth by ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst aboard the International Space Station

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Milky way by ScenicMotion on Flickr.

[spaceexp]

Helix Nebula, taken from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and the Galaxy Evolution Explorer.

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untitled by Thorbjørn Riise Haagensen on Flickr.

[scanzen]

STS-1 - A timed exposure of the space shuttle Columbia at Launch Pad A, Complex 39, turns the space vehicle and support facilities into a night-time fantasy of light. Structures to the left of the shuttle are the fixed and the rotating service structure. 5 March 1981.

via Space Shuttle Program/Facebook

Seems that this is a slightly different version of this shot.

[spacettf]

The Bubble (NGC7635) and M52 in Cassiopeia by Oleg Bryzgalov on Flickr.

[nevver]

Space is the place, Heather Penn

[historicaltimes]

First selfie in space: Buzz Aldrin, Gemini 12, 1966.

[astronomicalwonders]

Westerlund 2 in X-ray

Westerlund 2 is a young massive obscured star cluster with an estimated age of about one or two million years. It contains some of the hottest, brightest, and most massive stars known. The cluster contains a dozen of O stars, of which at least three are eclipsing binaries. 

Credit: NASA/Chandra

[distant-traveller]

Cosmic Crab nebula

The Crab Pulsar, a city-sized, magnetized neutron star spinning 30 times a second, lies at the center of this tantalizing wide-field image of the Crab Nebula. A spectacular picture of one of our Milky Way’s supernova remnants, it combines optical survey data with X-ray data from the orbiting Chandra Observatory. The composite was created as part of a celebration of Chandra’s 15 year long exploration of the high energy cosmos. Like a cosmic dynamo the pulsar powers the X-ray and optical emission from the nebula, accelerating charged particles to extreme energies to produce the jets and rings glowing in X-rays. The innermost ring structure is about a light-year across. With more mass than the Sun and the density of an atomic nucleus, the spinning pulsar is the collapsed core of the massive star that exploded, while the nebula is the expanding remnant of the star’s outer layers. The supernova explosion was witnessed in the year 1054.

Image credit: NASA, Chandra X-ray Observatory, SAO, DSS

[spacewatching]

President Barack Obama meets with Apollo 11 astronauts Michael Collins, seated left, Buzz Aldrin, Carol Armstrong, widow of Apollo 11 commander, Neil Armstrong, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, and Patricia “Pat” Falcone, OSTP Associate Director for National Security and International Affairs, far right, Tuesday, July 22, 2014, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, during the 45th anniversary week of the Apollo 11 lunar landing.

[tmoagsspaceblog-blog]

you never get on her anymoreee :((( I misssss youuuuuu

I'll try to make it better for us :( I promos

[distant-traveller]

Inside the Eagle Nebula

From afar, the whole thing looks like an Eagle. A closer look at the Eagle Nebula, however, shows the bright region is actually a window into the center of a larger dark shell of dust. Through this window, a brightly-lit workshop appears where a whole open cluster of stars is being formed. In this cavity tall pillars and round globules of dark dust and cold molecular gas remain where stars are still forming. Already visible are several young bright blue stars whose light and winds are burning away and pushing back the remaining filaments and walls of gas and dust. The Eagle emission nebula, tagged M16, lies about 6500 light years away, spans about 20 light-years, and is visible with binoculars toward the constellation of the Serpent (Serpens). This picture combines three specific emitted colors and was taken with the 0.9-meter telescope on Kitt Peak, Arizona, USA.

Image credit & copyright: T. A. Rector & B. A. Wolpa, NOAO, AURA

[ageofdestruction]

about blue: Surface of the Sun, photographed 26 times by SDO, 2nd February 2014.

Covering 13 hours of real time. Imaged in 33.5nm UV light, associated with temperatures of 2.5 million kelvin in the active corona.

Fairly sure that the vertical and cross-shaped artifacts around the brightest parts of the image are from the CCD oversaturating, rather than being true lens flares.

Image credit: NASA/SDO and AIA/EVE/HMI teams. Animation: AgeOfDestruction.

[the-science-of-our-times]

My first piece of astrophotography worth noting. The Orion Nebula in all its glory.

10 second exposure

4000ISO

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International Space Station Assembly

Annotated animation detailing the assembly of the International Space Station, from the launch of the first segment in 1998 to today and beyond.

Credit: ReelNASA