Comparing nature-made and man-made satellite
The International Space Station is seen as a small object in the upper left of this photo of the Moon, in the skies over the Houston area. (Photo: Lauren Harnett / NASA via the Telegraph)
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Saturn’s moon Tethys orbits in front of the wide shadows cast by the rings onto the planet for this Cassini view.
Tethys (660 miles, 1062 kilometers across) appears just below the rings near the center of the image. This view looks toward the northern, sunlit side of the rings from less than one degree above the ring plane.
The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on Dec. 7, 2011 using a spectral filter sensitive to wavelengths of near-infrared light centered at 752 nanometers. The view was obtained at a distance of approximately 1.1 million miles (1.8 million kilometers) from Tethys. Image scale is 66 miles (107 kilometers) per pixel on Tethys.
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Kepler Orrery of exoplanets
All the multiple-planet systems discovered by Kepler, an exoplanet space mission of NASA, as of 2nd Feb. 2011; orbits go through the entire mission (3.5 years). Hot colors to Cool colors (Red to yellow to green to cyan to blue to gray) are Big planets to Smaller planets, relative to the other planets in the system.
Behind the scenes: Space Shuttle Launch
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Yet another beautiful picture series by The Big Picture.
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“FLY Everywhere I Go” Campaign
Pittsburgh based Frequently Fly Clothing just recently released photos from a campaign they’re launching called “FLY Everywhere I Go.” The photos were shot by Jordan Beckham. It’s primarily a guy walking around in a NASA spacesuit, the photos feature the astronaut in everyday life situations (i.e. - on a public bus, on a subway, at a Taco Bell, at a festival, etc.) You can check out more of the campaign at here.
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Kepler is now in this Delta 2 rocket. It is definitely going to find us the interesting extra-solar planets. What a triumph shall it be for a mankind!![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=9f810720-a697-4d7f-9458-a8f544a1a168)
An Astrophysicist looking at cool stars
