Tag Archives: space
Well if you put it that way…
I feel like this sometimes.
Ceres, the Forgotten Planet
I knew that Ceres was a dwarf planet now, but I had no idea that it was officially a planet for over 50 years! Ceres, The Forgotten Planet Hubble Space Telescope image of Ceres Pluto is not the only celestial body … Continue reading
A Tale of Two Hemispheres
(click for full size) A Tale of Two Hemispheres Image Credit & Copyright: Tunç Tezel and Stéphane Guisard (TWAN) Explanation: A quest to find planet Earth’s darkest night skies led to this intriguing panorama. In projection, the mosaic view sandwiches the horizons visible in all-sky images taken from … Continue reading
Size of the Sun as seen from each planet
Staggering: The Sun as seen from other Planets From here: Burton MacKenzie SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2009 Posted by burton mackenzie at 11:27 PM If you were standing on another planet in our Solar System, the size of the Sun’s disk in … Continue reading
Space Article
Read this first: Most distant object ever seen…maybe And here’s my two cents: This article BLOWS MY MIND. That shit is FAR. And then I read the few paragraphs about how we’ll never find things much farther away than this … Continue reading
Flying Through Space Game
GAME! The object is to head through the center of the dots. The closer you get, the higher you score goes. For slightly different modes, click next in the top right corner. MUSIC. The first level is pretty sweet when … Continue reading
Amazing Astronomy Pictures
You HAVE to check out this guy’s photos. Check out the gallery for the large versions. They are simply astounding.
Hubble Telescope Wallpapers
Found this site on Reddit: hubblesite.org Amazing wallpapers. And one of the Ents on r/trees kindly downloaded all of them and zipped them into one convenient download for the rest of us lazy bums: ZIP! It was highly recommended on … Continue reading
Awesome Wallpaper Site
Here! My favourites: