Frames and Flames

Jun 13

Enceladus is a dream world
Raw Image from Cassini Spacecraft

sent back to earth on June 12, 2013

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

(Source: fuckyeahsexyatheists, via invaderxan)

Looking along a Filament

SDO peered down the length of a long solar filament as it rotated over the Sun’s edge June 3 (at 3:00 UT) to June 4, 2013 (at 17:00 UT). The filament’s darker, cooler plasma of appeared to have a number of support struts below it as it snaked its way above the surface. In the background bright coils of magnetic field lines rose up above an active region. Images were taken in extreme ultraviolet light.

Credit: Solar Dynamics Observatory.

Jun 10

Saturn being all raw and pretty.
Image from Cassini spacecraft.

Jun 06

I hate you like I hate the bathroom when I’m drunk.

Jun 05

Crappy phone pic of the newly completed spire on the Freedom Tower with waxing crescent moon. May 16, 2013

May 27

My reaction to the Xbox one Reveal

I finally know who the bad robot is

Apr 11

colchrishadfield:

Morning in NYC. Downtown Manhattan casts quite a shadow.

(via abcstarstuff)

Apr 04

rhamphotheca:

Volcano Erupts on Jupiter’s Moon Io

This five-frame sequence of New Horizons images captures the giant plume from Io’s Tvashtar volcano. Snapped by the probe’s Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) as the spacecraft flew past Jupiter earlier this year, this first-ever “movie” of an Io plume clearly shows motion in the cloud of volcanic debris, which extends 330 kilometers (200 mi) above the moon’s surface. Only the upper part of the plume is visible from this vantage point — the plume’s source is 130 kilometers (80 mi) below the edge of Io’s disk, on the far side of the moon…

(read more: Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA)

(image: Johns Hopkins Univ./APL)

(via likeaphysicist)