Browsing the archives for the astronomy tag

Liquid Rivers Flow On Titan

26 Dec, 2012 in Coolest Shit Ever, Doodles by

Share Saturn’s Moon Has Rivers of Hydrocarbons From The Cassini Probe The European Space Agency has released some really cool pics of the surface of Saturn’s moon, Titan. That image is the first photo of a river system on another world. I love Cassini porn, as I’ve posted before, and I hope to live long [...]

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Photo Of Phobos From The Surface Of Mars. Thanks, Science!

26 Sep, 2012 in Doodles, fnord by

ShareA Crescent Moon, But Not Our Moon Curiosity Captures Phobos Looking Mighty Familiar Granted, it’s not a particularly striking photo. The moon is tiny, dim, and indistinct in the washed out image. What makes it cool is that it’s not our moon. It’s Phobos, taken from the surface of Mars by our little robot friend, [...]

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Best Photo Of The Transit Of Venus In Front Of The Sun

7 Jun, 2012 in Coolest Shit Ever, Doodles, fnord by

ShareThank You, NASA Holy Shit The Sun is inconceivably big, and unimaginably powerful. Venus is our sister planet (albeit hot enough to melt lead) and much more comprehensible. Nasa teamed up with Science and took pictures of Venus moving in front of the Sun (at least from the perspective of Earth). There’s a whole gallery [...]

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The Most Beautiful Photo Of Saturn I’ve Ever Seen

31 May, 2012 in Coolest Shit Ever, Doodles, fnord by

ShareSaturn With The Sun Behind More Cassini Porn It’s amazing how beautiful things can be when there’s infinity to play with. The Cassini probe, about which I have written before, and before, and before, took this amazing photo with the sun directly behind Saturn, lighting her up like a supermodel, and making her radiant. For [...]

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Image Shows The Expansion Of Human Radio Signals In The Milky Way Galaxy

27 Feb, 2012 in Coolest Shit Ever, fnord by

ShareWe’re Filling The Galaxy Every Expanding Bubble Of Us This has a long, and well documented provenance. I first saw this on the Daily Grail, who found it on the jackadamblog, who got the image from wikipedia. We’ve had radio transmissions for about 100 years, so there is an ever-expanding bubble of signals blooming outward [...]

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“White Arrow” Size Of Texas Seen On Titan (Saturn’s Moon).

16 Aug, 2011 in Doodles, fnord by

ShareWhat Does It All Mean, Basil? Which way is it pointing? I wish the picture had been taken from a better angle, but I see it. The Cassini Probe has given me many lovely picture posts, like this and this. This arrow shaped cloud is, alas, not directions to the party that the cool kids [...]

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Apollo 14 Astronaut Edgar Mitchell’s Badass Quote About Politicians, & What Really Matters.

1 Aug, 2011 in Doodles, fnord, wisdom by

ShareBring up all the fuckers and leave them Let them gasp out their last, loathsome lies into the vacuum Astronauts are badass. I mean real astronauts. The moon walkers. The Right Stuff folk. Buzz Aldrin is in his 80′s and he still kicks ass, when fucked with.

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Newly Discovered Planet Emits Strange Signal. Coolest SETI Win Ever?

12 Oct, 2010 in craziest shit ever, fnord, humor by
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Share Gliese is the Word Hail Ants I will keep this short, Youdopia. Apparently (above) received a signal from another planet.  Gliese 581g was recently discovered. The signal may be intelligent. Maybe not. If so, then refer to the picture below. Thank you. I , for one, welcome our alien overlords.

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The Earth and Moon As Seen From Mercury. Coolest Shit Ever.

23 Aug, 2010 in Coolest Shit Ever, Doodles, fnord by

ShareYoudopia, that little doodle is a sweet pic of our little Earth, and our companion moon. It was shot from the orbit of Mercury. There is something so adorable about this simple arrangements of dots. I never knew that I would derive such pleasure from our Messenger probe around Mercury.  I had another beautiful image [...]

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Craziest Shit Ever: Galileo’s Mummified Finger On Display In Florence Museum

13 Jun, 2010 in craziest shit ever, fnord by

Share As you know, Youdopia, Galileo was one of the great minds of the Renaissance. What you may not know, and what I certainly did not know, is that Galileo’s fingers, thumb, and a toot of his, are on display. They have been for hundreds of years. Galileo died in 1642, in relative disgrace. He [...]

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Coolest Shit Ever: The Known Universe In Six Minutes

19 Dec, 2009 in Coolest Shit Ever, fnord, wisdom by

Share Knock knock. Who’s There? Infinity. Infinity who? Infinity is pretty amazingly large. My dear Youdopia, one of the blogs I read daily, is The Daily Grail. This little video which is a zippity doo dah tour from Tibet to the edge of the cosmic horizon and back, was posted there. I just nicked it [...]

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